by Agustinos Recoletos | Dec 24, 2018
In my twisted fashion I wanted to be like you, and I ended like a beast. Enarrationes in psalmos 70, S 2,7
by Agustinos Recoletos | Dec 24, 2018
The primal vice of the rational soul is the will to do what the highest and inmost truth forbids. De vera religione 38
by Agustinos Recoletos | Dec 24, 2018
The primal sin, that is, the first failure of freedom, consists in man glorying in himself at the taste of his own power.Epistula 118,15
by Agustinos Recoletos | Dec 24, 2018
The angel fell away; man’s soul fell away. They pointed out the abyss of all spiritual creation with its darksome depths, unless you had said from the beginning, “Be light made”, and light was made, and every obedient intelligence in your heavenly...
by Agustinos Recoletos | Dec 24, 2018
So great is His almighty goodness that even out of bad things He can draw good, by way of forgiveness, or healing, or adapting and turning things for the benefit of good people, or meting out well-deserved justice. For all these are benefits most in keeping with God,...
