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Monday, October 28, 2024, 8:45 AM - 10:00 AMFr. John will be leading a discussion of Saint Augustine's Confessions, one of the most influential books in Christianity. The opening paragraph for The Confessions says this:
1. "Great are you, O Lord, and exceedingly worthy of praise; your power is immense, and your wisdom beyond reckoning. And so we humans, who are a due part of your creation, long to praise you—we who carry our mortality about with us, carry the evidence of our sin and with it the proof that you thwart the proud. Yet these humans, due part of your creation as they are, still do long to praise you. You stir us so that praising you may bring us joy, because you have made us and drawn us to yourself, and our heart is unquiet until it rests in you" - St. Augustine, The Confessions.
If you can, read the entirety of Saint Augustine's book. If you get behind, please try to read at least the first chapter and the last. The translation Father recommends is The Confessions by St. Augustine, Maria Boulding (Translator). You can also listen to it on audible.com also. Some of the essays in the back of the book are particularly helpful.