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A Sermon by St Augustine on St John’s Gospel: Behold, I shall save my people.
By
Deacon Keith Fournier
‘No-one can come to me unless the Father draws him.’ You must not imagine that you are being drawn against your will, for the mind can also be drawn by love. Nor should we be afraid of being taken to task by those who take words too literally and are quite unable to understand divine…
Saint Augustine on the Feast of Peter and Paul
By
Deacon Keith Fournier
The Martyrs Had Seen what they Proclaimed This day has been consecrated for us by the martyrdom of the blessed apostles Peter and Paul. It is not some obscure martyrs we are talking about. Their sound has gone out into all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world. These martyrs had…
All my hope lies in your great mercy: Saint Augustine, bishop
By
Deacon Keith Fournier
Where did I find you, that I came to know you? You were not within my memory before I learned of you. Where, then, did I find you before I came to know you, if not within yourself, far above me? We come to you and go from you, but no place is involved in…
On the First Letter of John by Saint Augustine, Bishop: Our Heart Longs for God
By
Deacon Keith Fournier
We have been promised that “we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is”. By these words, the tongue has done its best; now we must apply the meditation of the heart. Although they are the words of Saint John, what are they in comparison with the divine reality? And how…
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