by Agustinos Recoletos | Dec 24, 2018
A man fell into a well where the water was just enough for him to float without drowning, nor impeding him to talk. Another man came and seeing him said, “How did you fall here?” And the other replied, “Please, check if you can bring me out of here...
by Agustinos Recoletos | Dec 24, 2018
But those famous philosophers of the pagans – the Platonics– because they philosophize without the mediation of Christ, that is, without the man Christ, for not believing in the prophets, that he was to come, and in the apostles, that he already came,...
by Agustinos Recoletos | Dec 24, 2018
Do not lose heart because I said: I am who am. You, who witness the change of things and the various faces of human mortality, cannot arrive at what is immutable. But I descend for you because you cannot ascend to me. I am the God of Abraham, of Isaac and of Jacob....
by Agustinos Recoletos | Dec 24, 2018
For these two things, necessary in the world, namely, health and friend, the pilgrim wisdom came. He found the wicked men walking without direction, engrossed in superfluous things, loving the ephemeral and ignoring the eternal. Wisdom was not a friend of the wicked....
by Agustinos Recoletos | Dec 24, 2018
I am in this life and in this world; poor and pilgrim, groaning and without yet enjoying peace and I preach your peace. Enarrationes in psalmos 121,13