Happy Feast Day, Again, St. Augustine

Happy those who feast on wisdom and savor her knowledge,
She will nourish and refresh them.”
 Hymn for the Office of Readings, 28th August.
Today is the Feast Day for St. Augustine, my favorite Doctor of the Church.     I’ve posted elsewhere on his remarkable thoughts, applicable to the science of today (Let’s Hear it for St. Augustine) , on his profound insights on God as greater than infinite (Mathematics, the handmaiden of theology) and on his sage advice for daily living (Good Advice from St. Augustine and More Good Advice) .   And most recently, on why he should be patron saint of  geeks.  I’d like to add three more from the daily readings (Augustine, Day by Day, John Rotelle O.S.A, compiler)

BAD TIMES, TROUBLESOME TIMES

“AND so, Brethren, we say, pray as much as you are able. Evils abound, and God has willed that evils should abound. Would that evil men did not abound, and then evils would not abound. Bad times! Troublesome times! This men are saying. Let our lives be good; and the times are good. We make our times; such as we are, such are the times. But what can we do? We cannot, it may be, convert the mass of men to a good life. But let the few who do give ear live well; let the few who live well endure the many who live ill.” Sermon 30.8 on Matt 17.19

LOVE (August 29th)

“Love is the only sign that distinguishes the children of God from the children of the devil.  To prove this, let them all sign themselves with the cross of Christ.  Let them all respond: Amen.    Let all sing: Alleluia.  Let all build the walls of churches.
There is still no way of discerning the children of God from the children of the devil except by love!” Sermon 1 John 5:7

THE INNER VOICE (August 26th)

“Consider this great mystery.  The sound of my words strikes the ears, and the Master is within!   Do not suppose that any human is the teacher of another.  We can admonish by the sound of our voice, but unless there is one Who teaches on the inside, the sound we make is futile.I, for my part, have spoken to all;  but those to whom the Annointing within does not speak, those whom the Holy Spirit within does not teach, go back untaught.” Sermon on 1 John 3:12

 

 

Happy feast day, all!

Bob K.

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Bob Kurland, Ph.D.

Retired, cranky, old physicist. Convert to Catholicism in 1995. Trying to show that there is no contradiction between what science tells us about the world and our Catholic faith. Intermittent blogs and adult education classes to achieve this end (see http://rationalcatholic.blogspot.com/ and http://home.ptd.net/~rkurland). Extraordinary Minister of Communion, volunteer to federal prison and hospital; lector, EOMC. Sometime player of bass clarinet, alto clarinet, clarinet, bass, tenor bowed psaltery for parish instrumental group and local folk group.

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