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lionofchaeronea · 1 month

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For there is still in human beings a measure of light: let them walk, let them walk, lest the darkness seize them. adhuc enim modicum lumen est in hominibus; ambulent, ambulent, ne tenebrae conprehendant. --Augustine of Hippo, Confessions X.xxiii.33

#quote #quotes #Augustine of Hippo #St. Augustine #Latin #Latin language #lingua latina #Confessions #translation #Latin translation

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catholic-zeldastrife · 6 months

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#catholic #christianity #st. augustine #saint augustine #coffee w/ saints #quotes

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apesoformythoughts · 5 months

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I tasted Thee, and now hunger and thirst for Thee: Thou didst touch me, and I have burned for Thy peace.

— St. Augustine’s Confessions (X, XXVII)

#st. augustine #the romance of orthodoxy

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windblownleaf · 28 days

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My heart will not rest until it rests in you.

St. Augustine

#quotes #st. augustine #sacred and terrible air

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gameraboy2 · 11 months

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Gatorland Alligator Farm, St. Augustine, Florida

#gatorland #st. augustine #florida #vintage #postcard #vintage postcard

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olicrosse · 2 years

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Our hearts are restless until they rest in You.

#catholic #catholicism #catholic aesthetic #christianity #christian #religion #roman catholic #religious #catholic art #monkposting #st. augustine

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mioritic · 1 year

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Fra Angelico (c. 1395-1455)

“The Conversion of Saint Augustine”, fragment of a predella from a larger altarpiece, ca. 1430-1435

Musée Thomas Henry

#fra angelico #st. augustine #1430

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haveyoubeentothiscity · 5 months

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Population: 14,329

#city poll #st augustine #st. augustine #florida #united states #north america #submitted

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momentsbeforemass · 5 months

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Idiot

(something I need to be reminded of)

There’s a part of each one of us that’s made for God. And God alone. A part of us that can only be at peace when it’s full of God.

This is hardly news. It’s just how we’re made.

It was old news when St. Augustine wrote about it in the 300’s. “You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they rest in you.”

It’s something that I’m acutely aware of.

To be honest, I’m usually acutely aware of it after the fact. After I’ve tried and failed (again) to find that peace. By trying to fill that part of me, with something that isn’t God.

Sort of my own personal version of the same dynamic we see played out on a large scale in today’s Gospel. With the moneychangers in the Temple.

The thing is, whether we play it out large scale or on a personal level. It doesn’t work. It never works.

You’d think that as many times as I have done this and it hasn’t worked, that I would have learned not to do it. That I would know better. That for once I would see it coming. And turn to God first.

Instead of turning to God, only after I’ve made a mess of things. By trying to fill myself with something that isn’t God. Again.

I wish.

There’s just something about me that falls for this one all too easily.

It’s why J.S. Park’s prayer hits home for me. Every time.

“Some days I pray, ‘Lord, have mercy on me, a sinner.’ Other days it’s ‘Lord, please slap me upside the head, for I am an idiot.’”

Today’s Readings

#Idiot #J.S. Park #Slap me upside the head #Mercy #God's Mercy #God #Jesus #Catholic #Christian #Church #St. Augustine #Restless #Moments Before Mass

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dramoor · 8 months

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“He, after all, is enough for you; apart from Him, nothing is enough for you.”

~St. Augustine

(Image via theosthinktank.co.uk)

#Saints #Christian #St. Augustine #God is enough #stained glass art

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eternal-echoes · 1 year

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“Man should think of God as often as he breathes, for as his being is continuous and immortal, he should continually return thanks to the Author of his being.”

- St. Augustine

#Catholic #Christianity #quotes #St. Augustine

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cryptid-quest · 1 year

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On This Day in Cryptid History

November 30th: In 1896, two boys bicycling on Anastasia Island discovered an enormous mass of flesh on the beach. They reported their discovery to a local physician, and soon the press got wind of the story, and called it the St. Augustine Monster.

#cryptids #Cryptid #cryptozoology #cryptid history #st. augustine #november 30

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cegodaltonico · 1 year

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"A morte não representa nenhum mal, se se sucede a vida santa; não pode ser mal, senão pelo acontecimento que a segue. Que importa, por conseguinte, a seres necessariamente votados à morte o acidente de que morrem? Importa, isso sim, o lugar para onde vão, depois da morte. Ora, os cristãos sabem que a morte do pobre bom entre os cães que lhe lambem as feridas é incomparavelmente melhor que a do rico que expira na púrpura e no linho. Pois bem, como poderiam essas mortes horrendas prejudicar os mortos, se viveram bem?"

Santo Agostinho

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apesoformythoughts · 1 year

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«The Scripture must be understood as it speaks. It has its own language; one who does not know this language is perplexed and says, "How did the Lord have brothers? For surely Mary did not give birth a second time?" Far from it! With her begins the dignity of virgins . . . How do we prove this? From Scripture itself. Lot is called Abraham's brother; he was his brother's son. Read, and you will find that Abraham was Lot's uncle on the father's side, and yet they are called brothers. Why, but because they were kinsmen? When you have known this rule, you will find that all the blood relations of Mary are the brothers of Christ.»

— St. Augustine: Tractates on the Gospel of John

#st. augustine #christianity #catholic #to be deep in history etc.

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rabbitcruiser · 21 days

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