Augustine on the duty of pastors to strengthen weak Christians. The weak are those who want to live a good life but are unable to endure the sufferings that inevitably threaten. Some are so ill that they are like the paralytic who needed to be...
This excerpt from St. Augustine shows that, as early as the fourth century, Christians celebrated June 29th in honor of Peter and Paul, the two apostles and martyrs who laid down their lives for Christ in the Eternal City of Rome....
Augustine here explains the connection between the eighth day, baptism, circumcision, the resurrection as new creation & Sunday as the Christian day of Easter worship instead of Saturday, the Jewish Sabbath....
Augustine comments on the image of the shepherds of the Church as watchmen who are obligated to warn God's people when they are going astray. He also comments on the words of Jesus to his disciples that they are to do what the chief Priests...
Augustine explains that constant prayer does not mean non-stop church services or recitation of prayers, but a ceaseless desire of the heart for union with God in heaven. This constant desire for God, actually, is one of the three theological virtues, namely the virtue...
Writing to Proba regarding prayer, Augustine notes that the hope of happiness in heaven is so great and incapable of being expressed in words that the Spirit comes to help us in our weakness. [dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']T[/dropcaps]he person who asks for and seeks...
Augustine had sought God through an exotic Eastern cult and then through the best that Greco-Roman philosophy had to offer before he finally found Him through the Catholic Christianity that he had rejected as a teen. So he could proclaim from personal experience that Jesus...
Augustine here praises the Lord Jesus Christ as the one Mediator between God and Man, victor and victim, priest and sacrifice, in whom is hid all treasures of the wisdom and knowledge of God....
Augustine here addresses a problem we often face in seeking to do good - we are accused of evil that we do not do and are not given credit for the good we do. He reminds us of the words of both Paul and...
Augustine, in commenting on Jesus' proclamation in John 8:12 "I am the light of the world," connects it with the story in the very next chapter of the healing of the man born blind and with the biblical promise that one day we shall see...