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HOW AUGUSTINE BECAME A SAINT...HIS LIFE AND WORKS
St. Augustine wasn't born a Saint...
in fact he was a sinner, who, by the grace of God and the prayers of his Mother Monica, became a Saint .....and a doctor of the Church......read this facinating life .... The great St. Augustine's life is unfolded to us in documents of unrivaled richness, and of ...
"A MOTHER'S LOVE IS A BLESSING"
St. Monica, mother of Augustine, spent her life in prayerful intercesson for her wayward son Augustine, earning the comments of the local Bishop: "It is not possible that the son of such a Mother, given to so much prayer and tears should perish...." Read her wonderful ...
POPE BENEDICT: ON ST. MONICA
ANGELUS Castel Gandolfo Sunday, 27 August 2006
Dear Brothers and Sisters, Today, 27 August, we commemorate St Monica and tomorrow we will be commemorating St Augustine, her son: their witnesses can be of great comfort and help to so many families also in our ...
POPE BENEDICT ON ST. MONICA-CONTINUED
ANGELUS Courtyard of the Papal Summer Residence, Castel Gandolfo Sunday, 30 August 2009
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
Three days ago, on 27 August, we celebrated the liturgical Memorial of St Monica, Mother of St Augustine, considered the model and patroness of Christian ...
St. Ambrose, Mentor of St. Augustine
St. Ambrose of Milan was the instrument God used in the final conversion and baptism of Augustine during his tenure as Bishop of Milan where Augustine was an academic instructor. Read on.... St. Ambrose, Bishop of Milan from 374 to 397; born probably 340, at Trier, Arles, or Lyons, ...
POPE BENEDICT PRAISES ST. AUGUSTINE
Saint Augustine of Hippo (1)
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
After the great Christmas festivities, I would like to return to the meditations on the Fathers of the Church and speak today of the greatest Father of the Latin Church, St Augustine. This man of passion and faith, of the highest intelligence and tireless in his pastoral care, a great Saint and Doctor of the Church is often known, at least by hearsay, even by those who ignore Christianity or who are not familiar with it, because he left a very deep mark on the cultural life of the West and on the whole world. Because of his special importance St Augustine's influence was widespread. It could be said on the one hand that all the roads of Latin Christian literature led to Hippo (today Annaba, on the coast of Algeria), the place where he was Bishop from 395 to his death in 430, and, on the other, that from this city of Roman Africa, many other roads of later Christianity and of Western culture itself branched out.
POPE BENEDICT PRAISES THE GREAT ST. AUGUSTINE
Saint Augustine of Hippo (2)
Dear Brothers and Sisters, Today, like last Wednesday, I would like to talk about the great Bishop of Hippo, St Augustine. He chose to appoint his successor four years before he died. Thus, on 26 September 426, he gathered the people in the Basilica of Peace ...
POPE BENEDICT CONTINUES STUDY OF ST. AUGUSTINE
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
After the interruption for the Spiritual Exercises last week, today we return to the important figure of St Augustine, about whom I have repeatedly spoken at the Wednesday Catecheses. He is the Father of the Church who left us the greatest number of works and I intend to ...
POPE BENEDICT CONTINUES THE STUDY OF ST. AUGUSTINE (2)
Saint Augustine of Hippo
Dear Brothers and Sisters, With today's meeting I wish to conclude the presentation of the figure of St Augustine. After having dwelt on his life, works and some aspects of his thought, I would like today to return to his inner experience which made him one of ...
The love of God is acquired by the knowledge of the senses
"Not with uncertain, but with assured consciousness do I love Thee, O Lord. Thou hast stricken my heart with Thy word, and I loved Thee. And also the heaven, and earth, and all that is therein, behold, on every side; they ...
POPE VENERATES THE RELICS OF ST. AUGUSTINE
HOMILY OF HIS HOLINESS BENEDICT XVI Basilica of St Pietro in Ciel d'Oro, Pavia
Third Sunday of Easter, 22 April 2007
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
With this final event, my Visit to Pavia acquires the form of a pilgrimage. This is the form in which I had conceived of it from the outset, desiring to come here to venerate the mortal remains of St Augustine, to express both the homage of the whole Catholic Church to one of her greatest "fathers" and my personal devotion and gratitude to the one who played such an important part in my life as a theologian and a Pastor, but, I would say, even more as a man and a priest.
St. Augustine Basilica
POPE CONTRIBUTES TO RESTORATION OF THE BASILICA OF ST. AUGUSTINE IN ANNABA, ALGERIA Vatican City, 14 February 2012 (VIS)
- Benedict XVI is among those contributing to the restoration of the Basilica of St. Augustine in the Algerian town of Annaba, work on which began last year. The church stands ...
"WE SHALL BE LIKE HIM FOR WE SHALL SEE HIM AS HE IS."
ST. AUGUSTINE TEACHES ON "CONVERSION OF HEART"
St. Augustine teaches on CONVERSION of heart...
"A conversion experience is God's intervention into the heart of a sinner resulting in the sinner's return to a life of grace. Specifically, a conversion can only be accomplished when free will cooperates with grace." "I ...
CONVERSION #2: Inner Workings of Conversion
St. Augustine teaches:
"So today I desire we examine the inner workings of a conversion. No conversion takes place outside of the Divine Will or outside of free will. Since God's Will is always and eternally the ongoing conversion of every soul until it reaches salvation, you ...
CONVERSION #3: Conversion is God's Greatest Work
St. Augustine Teaches:
"Please understand that conversion of heart is God's greatest work. The converted heart is God's Mercy and Love alive in the soul. For this reason Satan vehemently opposes every conversion. This is why the newly converted soul must realize the ...
CONVERSION #4: Each Conversion Depends on Surrender to God's Love
St. Augustine teaches:
"Each one's conversion is dependent upon his surrender to Holy Love in the present moment. Outside of Holy Love there is no conversion. Allow Holy Love to consume your thoughts, words and actions. This is the path to living in God's Divine Will, for ...
CONVERSION #5: Only God grants the grace of conversion
St. Augustine teaches,
"I have come once again to speak to you about conversion. Only God can tender forth the grace of conversion. When you pray and sacrifice towards the conversion of a soul, it is so the soul will be open and accept the conversion God is offering. Many, ...
CONVERSION #6: Holds no memory of wrongs afflicted....
St. Augustine teaches,
"The most complete conversion holds no memory of wrongs afflicted upon self except to pray for the one guilty of wrong doing. Unforgiveness holds the soul at arm's length from the All-Merciful God. Such a one cannot fully imitate God's Mercy and Love and, ...
CONVERSION # 7: Cooperation of the soul in conversion
CONVERSION #7: "For conversion to be effectual, the soul must cooperate with the Eternal Divine Will in and through Holy Love. The deeper the love in the heart, the deeper the conversion of heart."
Conversion #8-Conversion of Government Leaders
St. Augustine says:
"Today I have come to ask you to pray for the conversion of all government leaders and religious leaders whose hearts have been won over by misguided self-love. When I say 'misguided', I refer to love which is not based upon the law of ...
Conversion #9-God's Grace and Will
St. Augustine says:
"It is true - there are many ominous signs and portends of God's Justice being at hand; but you must realize that God's Grace and His Will do not stop when the tribulation begins. Indeed, they are evermore present and apparent." ...
Conversion #10 -No conversion outside of the truth
St. Augustine says:
"The Lord has sent me to relay this message to all the world and, in particular, to all unbelievers. No one can be converted outside of the truth. Therefore, as Holy Love is the embodiment of truth, it follows that no one can be converted outside of Holy Love." ...
Conversion #11 St. Augustine speaks of the Father's Providing Grace
St. Augustine speaks of the Father's Providing Grace:
"It is true - there are many ominous signs and portends of God's Justice being at hand; but you must realize that God's Grace and His Will do not stop when the tribulation begins. Indeed, they are evermore present and ...
A Doctor of the Church
St. Augustine of Hippo (354-430) is "a philosophical and theological genius of the first order, dominating, like a pyramid, antiquity and the succeeding ages. Compared with the greatphilosophers of past centuries and modern times, he is the equal of them all; ...
Augustine on Doctrine of GRACE
His system of grace It is unquestionably in the great Doctor's solution of the eternal problem of freedom and grace — of the part taken by God and by man, in the affair of salvation — that his thought stands forth as most personal, ...
St. Augustine in History
Augustinism in history
The influence of the Doctor of Hippo has been so exceptional in the Church, that, after having indicated its general characteristics (see above), it is proper to indicate the principal phases of thehistorical development of his doctrine. The ...
THE PEDAGOGICAL VALUE OF CONFESSION
THE PEDAGOGICAL VALUE OF CONFESSION VATICAN CITY, 25 MAR 2011 (VIS) - This morning Benedict XVI received participants in an annual course on the "internal forum" organised by the Apostolic Penitentiary. The penitentiary is presided by Cardinal Fortunato Baldelli and its regent is ...
HOW TO PRAY by St. Augustine
HOW SHOULD A PERSON PRAY?
St. Augustine answers this question in this powerful lecture...to a noble Roman lady, Proba, wife of Probus, praetorian prefect and one-time Roman consul, who had fled to Carthage to escape the barbarian invasion of Rome.
SAINTLINESS IS THE MEASURE OF CHRISTIAN LIFE
SAINTLINESS IS THE MEASURE OF CHRISTIAN LIFE
VATICAN CITY, 13 APR 2011 (VIS) - During this Wednesday's general audiences, Benedict XVI concluded the cycle of catechesis he has dedicated over the course of two years to the many saints who "with their faith, with their charity and with their lives, have been beacons for many generations, and are thus also for us".
"Often we are led to believe that sainthood is reserved to a few chosen ones", the Pope said. Nonetheless, "saintliness, the fullness of Christian life, does not consist in the achievement of extraordinary feats, but in uniting oneself with Christ... in making His disposition ... His behaviour ... our own. ... The II Vatican Council, in the Constitution of the Church, speaks clearly of the universal call to sainthood, affirming that no-one is excluded".
However, a holy life, the Pope continued, "is not principally the result of our efforts, as it is God ... who renders us holy, and it is the action of his Spirit which animates us from within, the same life of Christ resurrected which is communicated to us and which transforms us ... Saintliness is therefore ultimately rooted in baptismal grace, in being introduced to the paschal mystery of Christ, by which His Spirit, His resurrected life, is communicated to us. ... But God always respects our freedom and asks us to accept this gift and to live with the demands it brings, asks that we may allow ourselves to be transformed by the action of the Holy Spirit, conforming our will to the will of God".
"How can it be that our way of thinking and our actions become the thought and action of Christ?" asked the Pope. "Once again, the II Vatican Council offers us clear guidance; it tells us that Christian holiness is none other than charity, fully experienced". However, in order that charity might, "like a good seed, grow in the soul and there bear fruit, the faithful must listen gladly to the Word of God and, by its grace, carry out His will through their works, participate frequently in the sacraments, above all the Eucharist and the Holy Liturgy; they must constantly apply themselves in prayer, in the abnegation of their selves, in the active service of their brothers and in the exercise of every virtue. ... For this reason the true disciple of Christ is characterised by his charity both toward God and toward his neighbour".
"The Church, during the Liturgical Year, invites us to commemorate an array of saints who have fully lived in charity, and have loved and followed Christ in their everyday lives. They show us that it is possible to follow this path. ... We are all called to saintliness: it is the very measure of Christian life".
Benedict XVI concluded by inviting us all to open ourselves "to the action of the Holy Spirit, which transforms our life, so that we too may become tesserae in the great mosaic of sainthood that God creates throughout history".
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POPE BENEDICT XVI ADDRESSES THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT IN WESTMINISTER HALL, LONDON
PROPER PLACE OF RELIGIOUS BELIEF IN THE POLITICAL PROCESS
VATICAN CITY, 17 SEP 2010 (VIS) - At 5.15 p.m. today the Holy Father met with representatives from British civil society, and from the worlds of culture, academe and business, as well as the diplomatic corps and religious leaders. ...
PAPAL VIST TO GERMANY
PAPAL VIST TO GERMANY VATICAN CITY,
22 SEP 2011 (VIS) - At 8.15 a.m. today the Holy Father departed from Ciampino airport in Rome. Following a two-hour flight, his place landed at Berlin-Tegel airport, thus beginning the twenty-first international apostolic trip of his pontificateand his first ...
GOD SPEAKS TO HEART OF THE WORLD
May 16, 2011 "I am your Jesus, born Incarnate."
"I must ask you to spread this Message as you do all the others - to all people - all nations. In your area of the world, you are experiencing record flooding. People scurry to protect their property, life and limb. Today, I tell you in all truth, that souls are in jeopardy to a far greater extent than properties and lives are here. You must shore up the righteousness of Holy Love in your hearts. Your prayers and sacrifices are the sandbags you need to stem the rising tide of justice."
"Do not be caught off guard by complacency, for I am here now telling you, solemnly, the dangers around you are on the increase. Pray for the heart of Noah which was sober and alert. Just as the Father warned him of impending danger, I am warning you. Noah responded despite opposition and ridicule. You must be the ones who listen today. Help Me to draw all people and all nations into the ark of My Mother's Heart which is Holy Love. It is through Holy Love - My Mother's Heart - you can be at peace."
"Let My words to you be a ray of light amidst the clouds of confusion."
"My brothers and sisters, claim your citizenship in My Mother's Immaculate Heart, which is your spiritual refuge. Give Her sovereignty over your thoughts, words and deeds. I tell you, this is My call to every heart, not just one heart. It is My call to the heart of the world."
"I'm blessing you with My Blessing of Divine Love."
Divine Mercy Sunday 2011
May 1, 2011 Divine Mercy Sunday - Midnight Service at the United Hearts Field
Jesus is here as He is in the Divine Mercy Image, and He has His Holiness Pope John Paul II with Him. The Pope says: "Praise be to Jesus."
Jesus says: "I am your Jesus, born Incarnate."
"My Mercy is from age to age - from generation to generation and reaches from horizon to horizon. It falls upon all people and all nations. It cannot be ruled against by man nor judged unworthy of belief, for its origin remains Divine. Please understand that this Mission of Holy Love is part of My Mercy."
"Where darkness pervades the world, it does so, for the darkness in hearts remains unchallenged by the Light of Truth. Here, at this site, I have come to invite all humanity into the Light of Truth. Here is the Truth. The key to peace, security and prosperity is Divine Love and Divine Mercy. But it is not enough for Me to tell you this, and for you to hear it and believe it. You must live it. Become mercy and love. Only then can you bring the Light of Truth into the world around you. Only then can the world be transformed into the New Jerusalem. This Light of Truth is the Kingdom to come - the Kingdom of My Father's Divine Will."
"All of the natural disasters and the man-made disasters such as corrupt leadership and economic crisis are present and dominate the world today, for the Light of Truth has not been accepted and acted upon. This is the action of free will choices, for mankind fails to see Satan's compromises or even his attacks."
"My brothers and sisters, please understand that My repeated apparitions to you here and Heaven's continual intervention are a sign of caring concern for the world situation and for each one of you. Your prayers are being heard. You do not see the subtle changes taking place in many hearts - changes which will bring stability where there has been chaos."
"My brothers and sisters, never side with power versus truth. Truth is the champion of the cause of the New Jerusalem - a goal I bid you work towards. You can and will live in the New Jerusalem if you always embrace the truth which is Holy Love."
"Tonight I desire that all people, and consequently all nations, turn with trust to My Merciful Heart. The more you trust, the more My Mercy and Love will overflow into your hearts. Desire this so that we can be united."
"My brothers and sisters, thank you for believing. Many spirits will be liberated tonight, and many will believe that did not believe before. I have come to pour My Merciful Love into the world. You must take it to others and be My Merciful Love to others."
"My Pope, John Paul II, is extending to you his Papal Blessing, and I am blessing you with My Blessing of Divine Love."
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Pope To Visit Milan For World Meeting Of Families
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