I just love the anecdote of St. Augustine being perturbed by his friend wanting to go back to sleep when a question of truth was on the line. That’s just gold!
I am not really familiar of St Augustine struggles for conversion but hearing this story hits my heart cause now I can understand why I also struggled a lot with my own sins.. and St Augustine is right cause it did also happen to me....
At the times when we do not think are prayers are answered that understanding should come to us that that is the times when they are truely answered and are understanding should be the sharpest of all…St Monica Pray For Us🙏✝️🌹St Augustine Pray For Us🙏✝️🌹
I'm currently halfway through reading 'confessions' for the first time, my oh my, what a wonderful man. I just finished the chapter in which he had his spiritual breakthrough in the garden. What a profound passage of literature. St Augustine pray for us.
Father of the church fathers, doctor of theologians, doctor of grace, doctor of doctors. Holy Father St. Augustine and Holy Mother St. Monica, pray for us.
Please pray for son who has been taken over by evil forces of the new age thinking ... please help me pray for him to return to his authentic self and to his Baptized Catholic Faith ... I chose the name Monica as my confirmation name a few years ago because I had never been confirmed and to pray to St Monica for my my son Stephen As St Monica prayed for her son, St Augustine. It hurts my heart what he has done to himself. Thank you 🙏
Do not worry, with prayers filled with tears as Saint Monica prayed, I will add your son Stephen in my prayer and with the grace and will of God, Saint Monica , Saint Augustine and our beloved Mother Mary's intercession, I keep faith that your son will return in God's path. Let HIS will be done to your son. In the name of Jesus I will pray.
👍🏼 PS: 06:07 "... objectively superior state of celibacy..." ... 《 Once, while he was praying, Saint Macarius heard a voice: “Macarius, you have not yet attained such perfection in virtue as two women who live in the city.” The humble ascetic went to the city, found the house where the women lived, and knocked. The women received him with joy, and he said, “I have come from the desert seeking you in order to learn of your good deeds. Tell me about them, and conceal nothing.” The women answered with surprise, “We live with our husbands, and we have not such virtues.” But the saint continued to insist, and the women then told him, “We married two brothers. After living together in one house for fifteen years, we have not uttered a single malicious nor shameful word, and we never quarrel among ourselves. We asked our husbands to allow us to enter a women’s monastery, but they would not agree. We vowed not to utter a single worldly word until our death.” Saint Macarius glorified God and said, “In truth, the Lord seeks neither virgins nor married women, and neither monks nor laymen, but values a person’s free intent, accepting it as the deed itself. He grants to everyone’s free will the grace of the Holy Spirit, which operates in an individual and directs the life of all who yearn to be saved.” 》 www.oca.org/saints/lives/2020/01/19/100226-venerable-macarius-the-great-of-egypt .
Regarding the "... objectively superior state of celibacy...", in the sense of "undestracted" service to God, it is objectively superior. Macarius notes that it is not necessarily a superior calling in the sense that following God's will is the primary satisfaction of our lives. There is where personal holiness revolves. And, there is obviously no limit on that, as he learned. Butler's commentary is interesting: "God revealed to St. Macarius, that he had not attained the perfection of two married women, who lived in a certain town: he made them a visit, and learned the means by which they sanctified themselves. They were extremely careful never to speak any idle or rash words; they lived in the constant practice of humility, patience, meekness, charity, resignation, mortification of their own will, and conformity to the humours of their husbands and others, where the divine law did not interpose: in a spirit of recollection they sanctified all their actions by ardent ejaculations, by which they strove to praise God, and most fervently to consecrate to the divine glory all the powers of their soul and body." www.bartleby.com/210/1/162.html
People are not seeing how today’s children are being controlled by the sins of the flesh. Impurity is pushed on them but the government through ads and social media. St. Augustine pray for us!
Supernatural humility begins when the only spirit of the Truth help us realize that only God can save us, and the necessary graces made available through His church are given only if we are willing to bind with His covenant, viz Holy. All other reasonings are the works of one or more of the spirits of the lies for not letting us escape from their clutches (and from their permanent residence).
I don’t see how supernatural humility wouldn’t include gluttony. Pride has been equated the chief of the deadly sins because it is tied quite literally to our own will. Having an inordinate desire for food or flesh doesn’t act on its own, we have to have a ringleader. I can relate to a lot of Augustine’s story, but I am a woman so I won’t necessarily say I am called to contemplative life. I find that I really like writing and reading though, but I can’t stand political commentaries in newspapers. I really don’t want to do it, Lord willing.
@@cherylbogdan5044 My current view is that once devils see a weakness in food, he take control of it and so gluttony may be considered as a “possession“ and can have deliverance with prayers (and fasting!) or by other means.
They are not making the ads. U tube used to Not run ads religious and others who did not purposely accept to monetize. Now against the channels will, ads are put on …especially to conservative news & topic channels. These do not get money.
I think the Septuagint was in Greek. There was also a difference in numbering the Psalms. Psalm 9 in the Septuagint was split into Psalm 9 and 10 in the Hebrew version. Most Protestant denominations follow the 23rd psalm as “The Lord is my Shepherd...” while the Douey-Rheims Catholic Bible has it as the 22nd psalm because it follows the Septuagint. The 22nd psalm of Good Friday becomes the 21st. I have to look into what made the Septuagint different further because that is all I got.
#4 looks like the priest could be in error. There is something called baptism of desire. Feenyism where one believes one has to be baptized formally in the Catholic Church is the only way to be saved is an error.
All of us sinners can gain hope from St. Augustine-forgiveness is available for us all, if we ask.
St Augustine and St Monica, please pray 🙏 for us. Amen. +
Total 🔥! Thank you Father and God bless you. St Augustine and St Monica pray for us! God bless all who listen and believe!
Great Saint Augustine, pray for us that we may open ourselves to the conversion necessary for our souls, 🙏
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Amen!!!🙏✝️🌹
pray for us, St. Augustine!
Happy Feast day dear St Augustine!
I just love the anecdote of St. Augustine being perturbed by his friend wanting to go back to sleep when a question of truth was on the line. That’s just gold!
Praise be to God! Ave Maria!!
I am not really familiar of St Augustine struggles for conversion but hearing this story hits my heart cause now I can understand why I also struggled a lot with my own sins.. and St Augustine is right cause it did also happen to me....
St Augustine and St Monica pray for us🙏🙏
ST. Augustine and ST. Monica please pray for my intentions
At the times when we do not think are prayers are answered that understanding should come to us that that is the times when they are truely answered and are understanding should be the sharpest of all…St Monica Pray For Us🙏✝️🌹St Augustine Pray For Us🙏✝️🌹
Goodwill does not save; Grace saves. (St.Augustine)
I'm currently halfway through reading 'confessions' for the first time, my oh my, what a wonderful man. I just finished the chapter in which he had his spiritual breakthrough in the garden. What a profound passage of literature. St Augustine pray for us.
Very powerful homily
A lot to ponder on
Thank you padre
Viva christo Rey
Good and inspirational video. ! Thanks
Father of the church fathers, doctor of theologians, doctor of grace, doctor of doctors. Holy Father St. Augustine and Holy Mother St. Monica, pray for us.
This was excellent 👍🏻🙏🏻
St Augustine and st Monica pray for me 🙏💕
Please pray for son who has been taken over by evil forces of the new age thinking ... please help me pray for him to return to his authentic self and to his Baptized Catholic Faith ... I chose the name Monica as my confirmation name a few years ago because I had never been confirmed and to pray to St Monica for my my son Stephen As St Monica prayed for her son, St Augustine. It hurts my heart what he has done to himself. Thank you 🙏
Do not worry, with prayers filled with tears as Saint Monica prayed, I will add your son Stephen in my prayer and with the grace and will of God, Saint Monica , Saint Augustine and our beloved Mother Mary's intercession, I keep faith that your son will return in God's path.
Let HIS will be done to your son.
In the name of Jesus I will pray.
John chapter19 Verses 26 and 27 thank you 🙏
I will add your son to my prayers. Please pray for my Son as well!🙏
Mya thank you what is his name?
@@truthseekerlana9871 Taylor
What is your son's name?
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PS: 06:07 "... objectively superior state of celibacy..." ...
《 Once, while he was praying, Saint Macarius heard a voice: “Macarius, you have not yet attained such perfection in virtue as two women who live in the city.” The humble ascetic went to the city, found the house where the women lived, and knocked. The women received him with joy, and he said, “I have come from the desert seeking you in order to learn of your good deeds. Tell me about them, and conceal nothing.”
The women answered with surprise, “We live with our husbands, and we have not such virtues.” But the saint continued to insist, and the women then told him, “We married two brothers. After living together in one house for fifteen years, we have not uttered a single malicious nor shameful word, and we never quarrel among ourselves. We asked our husbands to allow us to enter a women’s monastery, but they would not agree. We vowed not to utter a single worldly word until our death.”
Saint Macarius glorified God and said, “In truth, the Lord seeks neither virgins nor married women, and neither monks nor laymen, but values a person’s free intent, accepting it as the deed itself. He grants to everyone’s free will the grace of the Holy Spirit, which operates in an individual and directs the life of all who yearn to be saved.” 》
www.oca.org/saints/lives/2020/01/19/100226-venerable-macarius-the-great-of-egypt
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Thank you for this
Regarding the "... objectively superior state of celibacy...", in the sense of "undestracted" service to God, it is objectively superior. Macarius notes that it is not necessarily a superior calling in the sense that following God's will is the primary satisfaction of our lives. There is where personal holiness revolves. And, there is obviously no limit on that, as he learned.
Butler's commentary is interesting: "God revealed to St. Macarius, that he had not attained the perfection of two married women, who lived in a certain town: he made them a visit, and learned the means by which they sanctified themselves. They were extremely careful never to speak any idle or rash words; they lived in the constant practice of humility, patience, meekness, charity, resignation, mortification of their own will, and conformity to the humours of their husbands and others, where the divine law did not interpose: in a spirit of recollection they sanctified all their actions by ardent ejaculations, by which they strove to praise God, and most fervently to consecrate to the divine glory all the powers of their soul and body."
www.bartleby.com/210/1/162.html
Praise be to God! What a revelation, in His timing!
Very good sermon!!
People are not seeing how today’s children are being controlled by the sins of the flesh. Impurity is pushed on them but the government through ads and social media. St. Augustine pray for us!
Amen!
You can't save yr soul while watching television.
Even so called good movies lack the mention of God and salvation.
God have mercy on us all.
Those who fall feel warm and shine bright like a meteorite crashing into the atmosphere!
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteorite
Supernatural humility begins when the only spirit of the Truth help us realize that only God can save us, and the necessary graces made available through His church are given only if we are willing to bind with His covenant, viz Holy. All other reasonings are the works of one or more of the spirits of the lies for not letting us escape from their clutches (and from their permanent residence).
Question does this include glutony?
I don’t see how supernatural humility wouldn’t include gluttony. Pride has been equated the chief of the deadly sins because it is tied quite literally to our own will. Having an inordinate desire for food or flesh doesn’t act on its own, we have to have a ringleader. I can relate to a lot of Augustine’s story, but I am a woman so I won’t necessarily say I am called to contemplative life. I find that I really like writing and reading though, but I can’t stand political commentaries in newspapers. I really don’t want to do it, Lord willing.
@@cherylbogdan5044 My current view is that once devils see a weakness in food, he take control of it and so gluttony may be considered as a “possession“ and can have deliverance with prayers (and fasting!) or by other means.
Thank you for the response. It was helpful. Blessings
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I need this sermon, reason equals error or so it seems.
Why so many ads?
No ads for me?
I don’t know what you guys are thinking interrupting sermons with ads. Can the ads not just be at the start and end?
We get this for free, those who make these sermons spend money to do it, the ads help us to see these sermons for free
They are not making the ads. U tube used to Not run ads religious and others who did not purposely accept to monetize. Now against the channels will, ads are put on …especially to conservative news & topic channels. These do not get money.
What are the differences between the Septuagint translation of the Bible and the Hebrew one?
Hebrew is the old testament. Not too sure what the other one is
I think the Septuagint was in Greek. There was also a difference in numbering the Psalms. Psalm 9 in the Septuagint was split into Psalm 9 and 10 in the Hebrew version. Most Protestant denominations follow the 23rd psalm as “The Lord is my Shepherd...” while the Douey-Rheims Catholic Bible has it as the 22nd psalm because it follows the Septuagint. The 22nd psalm of Good Friday becomes the 21st. I have to look into what made the Septuagint different further because that is all I got.
Augustine did for the church what Himmler did for the synagogue.
Great video but 2 Biden ads was too much
Chris - no ads for me?
Too many ads
M - no ads for me?
#4 looks like the priest could be in error. There is something called baptism of desire. Feenyism where one believes one has to be baptized formally in the Catholic Church is the only way to be saved is an error.
That’s not what he says. He is including baptism of desire implicitly in that comment.
@@thomasmichael6509 alright, if so, my apologies