by Agustinos Recoletos | Dec 24, 2018
As the doctors, when they diagnose an illness and find it terminal, make a judgment: “He shall die with this; there is no escape;” similarly, when a man is born, one must diagnose: “There is no escape". Sermo 97,3
by Agustinos Recoletos | Dec 24, 2018
Man did not deteriorate or degenerate in such a way as to completely become nothing, rather when he turned toward the self, he became less than what he was when still united to the Supreme Being. Departing, therefore, from God and seeking to be entrenched in the self,...
by Agustinos Recoletos | Dec 24, 2018
Pleasure obscures the mind and prevents it to see the light and discern the self. Enarrationes in psalmos 18, S 1,14
by Agustinos Recoletos | Dec 24, 2018
Man, as such, is earthly and speaks of the things of earth; if he speaks of something divine, he is illumined by God. Not being so, earth would speak of the earthly. He speaks of human affairs, he understands human matters, he likes human things. As carnal, he makes...
by Agustinos Recoletos | Dec 24, 2018
Let Adam be recognized in babies born and unbaptized; let Christ be recognized in babies who are baptized, and therefore, reborn. Whoever does not recognize Adam in born babies, can neither recognize Christ in those reborn. Sermo 174,9
