by Agustinos Recoletos | Dec 24, 2018
When it is said of us that we have in our hearts the persons about we are thinking, it means that a kind of image of them is impressed upon our souls. Enarrationes in psalmos 139, 15.
by Agustinos Recoletos | Dec 24, 2018
You created human beings, gave them free will, established them in paradise, imposed a command on them, and threatened them with justly deserved death if they should violate it. There was nothing that you failed to do for them, no one can demand more of you. Yet they...
by Agustinos Recoletos | Dec 24, 2018
The earth is full of the misery of humankind, and the earth is even fuller of the mercy of the Lord. All things need the Lord, whether they are miserable or happy. Enarrationes in psalmos 32, S 2,4
by Agustinos Recoletos | Dec 24, 2018
Why, then, should God not have made man, even though He foreknew that he would sin, seeing that He was to crown him if he stood firm, make him conform to the divine order if he sinned, and help him if he repented, being Himself at all times and in all places glorious...
by Agustinos Recoletos | Dec 24, 2018
Among material beings, it occurs that those which are lesser become greater through participation in the higher order of things as, for example, when they are bathed in light or stimulated by warmth. Rational, incorporeal beings also become enhanced through their...
