Saint You Should Know: Augustine of Hippo
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- St. Augustine did not live the sort of life that you would expect from a saint and doctor of the Church. And yet, his life witnesses to the incredible power of God to convert our hearts and transform sinners into incredible disciples.
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Augustine is a n example of one who experienced God's mercy and a radical conversion to christ. He and Paul the apostle are examples that conversion is possible.
Augustine paved the way for what would be later known as protestant/reformed
Why convert if you are already Catholic? Renewal is obtuse. Evangelization isn't necessary.
I think you can go even earlier to St. Matthew.
He completely distorted the scriptures and embraced many to live in shame and guilt.
@@blackfalkon4189its not Augustine fault about called so Reformist wrongly interpretation and cherry picking argument.
Augustine taught us to submit to Rome, Roma locuta, causa finita est.
Saint Augustine is so amazing to me. His story is so inspiring because he shows us that we ALL have a chance to redeem ourselves and do great things for God!
*that we all have a chance to be redeemed by Christ
_"he shows us that we ALL have a chance to redeem ourselves"_
actually Augustine paved the way for what would be later known as protestant/reformed
Thank you so much you gave me an idea on my essay for saint Augustine 😂😂
@@Usual_flex4 same here😂😂
It really is. As I read confessions and saw "lord make me chast but not yet" I went.... oh my god that's me...
My kind of Saint. My favourite would be St.Thérèse of Lisieux, not so much for her holiness but for her humanity. She had doubts and many struggles and she felt she had nothing special to offer. Like many of us, she dreamed of doing great deeds but the reality of her daily life was quite mundane. She wasn't even great at praying; often falling asleep. She came to the Lord with empty hands but she learned from Him that there was one thing she could do; she could be a person of love. I have very many doubts but I always find encouragement and inspiration from St.Thérèse.
Thank you for recommending St. Therese of Lisieux. I often think that anyone who has no doubts has not really understood Christianity. God becoming human and sacrificing himself? That's quite much to accept. But that's why I think it has to be true. If men had invented it they would have invented something more logical and easy to accept.
Or how St. Augustine said it: If you understand it it's not God.
I’m so glad you said this, I’ve never heard about her in this sense and it is so inspiring in an odd way. God bless!
Augustine paved the way for what would be later known as protestant/reformed
“She wasn’t even good at praying” had me LOL
Oh i didnt know the doubts part of her. Thanks
Currently discerning a vocation with the Order of Saint Augustine. Pray for me!
May the Cincture of Our Lady of Consolation encircle you that you may offer yourself to God and to His church.
I think Agustinians are very underrepresented and after reading him for a couple of years I realized that, we as Catholics have not done enough preaching his teachings. I hope we can recover his legacy.
I too am discerning a vocation with the Order of Saint Augustine. My prayers go with you.
I hope everything went well!
As someone who struggles with sexual sin, this helps alot
I suffer from sexual sins too... The sin of mastubration... I hate this sin...
I recommend reading about Saint Mary of Egypt
Old habits must be replaced with new ones, if you can go a month with Jesus being your sole focus every time you get tempted, you can go the rest of your life with this sin defeated. Make a new habit, set a new record, avoid things that tempt you like the plague, protect your self like you would protect a child, set a new desire, a desire to be closer to God and have your heart set free. Life is all about overcoming struggles and persevere! For Jesus loves you and picks you up every time you fall. Keep running in faith. We are made new in Christ.
Amen.
Matthew Garnes look at homeopathic remedies. One called cantharis
More of Saints you should know please. Like a series on them. Thanks Padre Casey.
I will definitely start to include more of them.
@@BreakingInTheHabit can you please do Saint Patrick . Thanks Padre Casey.
I prefer Martin Luther
Just a joke cuz hes no saint
@@nathanrajoharimana1633 indeed! Folks you have to scroll down the comment to see what I'm saying indeed to.
@@BreakingInTheHabit Good video. I just started watching your videos not to long ago. Have you done one on the virgin mother yet? If not, why not?
I am Catholic and go to St. Augustine's Church.😊
Yo same 💒😎👌🏽
@@anapple8764 cool!😊😊
@@eddiejuarez2427 cool!😊
Happy feast
@@gfrankreddi3196 thanks.😊you, too!😊
He literally drove his Mother to Sainthood
Hmm.. some might say it’s the other way around.
@@xDELFYonceagain honestly? probably goes both ways.
Exactly.... All of you are right... Keep praying. Peace out!
My patron saint and someone who was crucial in me discovering the fullness of my faith and finding the Church! Never clicked on a video so fast.
Same! Reading the Confessions in my freshman year philosophy class in college changed my life
Right there with ya
He wasn't a saint....he was another catholic antichrist....who condoned that the church could kill Christian saints
@@aarond.1931Nice pfp
What I love about his story is his mother's sacrifice👌 I think he owes his vocation to his mother who can teach us mothers👵
He completely distorted the scriptures and embraced many to live in shame and guilt.
I'm reading "Confessions" for the first time, I didn't really know much about Augustine's life beforehand. So far the book has me enthralled with it's sheer honesty and relatability, was not expecting a fourth century Saint to have lived in many ways as I do, falling into worldly vices and straying from God. A wonderful piece of literature, for the mind and spirit. St Augustine, pray for us.
I recently became a Catholic, I’m 16 and my religious journey has been quite a long one, but in January this year I came to my local Catholic Church and eventually was baptised and confirmed and received the Eucharist on the easter vigil, I try to go to mass every day now and I actually miss going to mass during the day😂 I’m so glad I came to Catholicism
Approved by an Augustinian friar.
"Oh, plans, how God laughs at them."
How I even laugh about ending up a friar when I was only thinking of the priesthood XD
What I love about Augustine is he is so real, he is so approachable. His life and experiences are really not much different than our own - leaving home, studying, screwing around, ambitions. Very relatable.
Saint Augustine of Hippo amen🙏🙇♂🙏.
Saint Augustin is from North Africa Berber , Algeria modern day
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I'm from India and showing the subtitles helping me to understand your talk, better than before.
St. Augustine pray for us🙏🙏🙏
I'm from Annaba, modern Hippo and am really sad that we don't learn about St. Augustine in our history classes.
He tortured 1000's of your Christian Ancestors who wouldn't accept the Catholic Pagan Beliefs and Rituals. Nothing to be proud of.
@@adamdilem941 Shut up protestant.
My parish here in Rio de Janeiro belonfs tô Discalced Augustinians friars so we have lots of dear st Augustine and we love it! Pax et Bonum!
Hippo Rajeus, Annaba, Algeria🇩🇿, the city of Augustine and Monica
Saint Augustine, pray for us 🙏🏻
The beauty of St. Augustine is the realization that no matter how low we may have gone, there can ba Saint of God still residing in us.
See / listen to the hymn, "Little Jesu."
Praise the Lord Jesus Christ 🙏 Mother Mary Pray For Us 🙏Abba Father Bless us and we Adore You 🙏
St. Augustine is definitely one of my top relatable saints! Love his prayers and writings, to have only a fraction of his holiness would be a great blessing
St Augustine Pray for us. St Ambrose of Milan Pray for us.
I was secretly hoping you would make something about Augustine. Happy late feast of Augustine and of Monica! All the best from Chicago :)
I have. Read the confessions. It is a masterpiece. Because of its honesty. It is his story, and he told it bravely.
@@jamesmorrissey2297 I've been meaning to read the entire thing for some time along with City of God. That's why he is so great--we all see a little bit of ourselves in him, and we all know we can change for the better just like he did.
James Morrissey I'm reading it right now
Augustine paved the way for what would be later known as protestant/reformed
Thank you for bringing in my name saint, Monica, who wad not given the credit she deserved for patience, forbearance and never ending example that a strong mother of a miscreant son, never losing hope for his redemption. She followed Augustine through his debauchery (who is this illegitimate child?) until he overcame his wastrel ways & Monica must have been mightily relieved at his eventual! transformation. Yet, he STILL sanctified the concept of ORIGINAL SIN... to excuse himself from his decades of profligate ways? Sure, blame the woman, thereby cementing his own mother's blameless guilt: ORIGINAL SIN. blamelessness,
It was a greate video my father. I loved it. Can u make a video about St.Stephan of Hungary? Greetings from Hungary 🇭🇺
Orthodox here. St. Augustine is my patron saint. ☦️
I am Eastern Orthodox and he is my Patron Saint. St. Agustine, pray for us.
St.Augustine pray for us!
St. Augustine help my son change his behavior. Help him focus to good things, protect him from all evils 🙏🙏🙏
Thank you Padre. This was beautiful. Latinos we know the right pronunciation.
Jaja, verdad que si
Such a pride to me as a Tunisian to have saint Augustine as our historical figure ❤
Aunque su ciudad natal está en Argelia, realmente no era ni argelino ni tunecino, simplemente bereber.
@@jaimemartin222my dear, I'm Tunisian berber, at the time saint Augustine was alive the est of Algeria was a Tunisian land until the French colonization of Algeria. And Algeria itself wasn't a country. But thanks to France Algeria became a thing. And 67% of modern day Tunisians are berbers❤
@@sirine9785wtf?
Remember this my fellow Catholics and orthodox Christian siblings, even the worst of the worst IF that person repents truly and does their best to change he or she can be saved by the grace of our Lord. God bless you all.
St Augustine, pray for us!
I love this. I would love to know more of St. Augustine. I have to read his works.
St Augustine of Hippo 300AD Has a saintly mother who didn’t gave up to him incessantly and fervently praying and believing in his son that someday he will see the light and embrace the Catholic faith! Before he became Bishop of Hippo St Augustine is a wordly man tried everything the pleasure on this earth can offer and after his long sojourn of seeking peace and happiness he summarizes everything in this words Our hearts is restless until it rest to thee my God! K
I loved the video 😊 I've seen your videos for a long time, I'm from Mexico. I would love if you could subtitle them in Spanish. So I could understand more things. God bless you ❤
I LOVE AUGUSTINE ! MY CHOSEN CONFIRMATION PATRON !
I studied for 12 years in an Augustinian school. Once I moved to college, St. Augustine is still mentioned! Really a great role model especially for the youth of today!
Amen! God's amazing grace! 😇😇😇
Augustine is my guy 👏🏾 Currently reading his confessions.
Thanks
@@DarthVaderNGC936 Haha, funny guy.
You have Thomas Aquinas as your profile picture though! Haha. Also I’m reading Confessions as well!
@@williammagsambol2143 To understand Aquinas, we go through Augustine haha.
Augustine paved the way for what would be later known as protestant/reformed
God works in mysterious ways, but only by His grace and our willingness can He work miracles in us.
So needed this. Thank you and God Bless!! Please pray for me. Thanks.
Am a religious from order of At.Augustine..Kenya
Please pray for me in my philosophy journey
The Church is filled with Saints and sinners, and God can work through anyone. I've gotten jobs done with broken tools, so can God.
Beautiful!
Thank you F Casey for this video. I'm Tunisian and I'm proud to see the contribution of one of my countrymen to philosophy (okay okay I know that Hippo is in Algeria nowadays).
Even though I'm not a Christian, I wish Tunisians studied their Catholic history and got to know people like St. Augustine and St. Cyprian better.
@Lechat Sorcier No he is not, Algeria did not exist back then. He doesn't belong there neither since converting to Catholicism/Orthodoxy is forbidden.
@Lechat Sorcier
-says that Tunisia didn't exist back then.
-claims that Augustin is from Algeria, a country literally invented by France.
LOL.
@Lechat Sorcier "we wuz kangz and shiet".
Greatest Roman Catholic theologian of all time, by far.
Im still well into the 'not yet' phase. I'm not seeing an end to it in sight.
Thank you for sharing father, God bless you. From Sri Lanka 🙏🏻
God Bless father and thank you.
I love this Saint. I think he is a good role model for many young people today who struggle with sins of the flesh. Awesome conversion story!
Thank you !!!!!
Thank you from a Secular Augustinian Recollect! I've shared this to our Third Order's facebook group.
one of the greatest philosophers.
St. Augustine was a great Christian! May he intercede for us.
"Lord make me chaste, but not yet!" I spilled my coffee after hearing line
I love Saint Augustine
What a great Saint. Thanks Fr Casey🙏🙏
Good introduction. The Western world would benefit from some fundamental Augustinian teachings at the moment.
I am so glad you did this . Never too late to convert. Not every saint led a pious life , it was just a stepping stone to the religious life.
Thank God for the gift of St. Monica!
Excellent! Absolutely excellent!
Beautiful Franciscan friar speaks of Augustinian frair! "Our hearts are restless until they rest in UOU " St. Aug
Absolutely love your videos - very informative! Have you considered making a series on 'Saints you should know'?
Powerful lessons here! Thank you Fr C.
In some ways, I see a lot of myself in Saint Augustine. I can truly empathize and relate. I just purchased and am I about to read his “Confessions”. Also I will be purchasing his “City of God” On a side note, having been born in the month of August, makes me think I was destined to eventually come to know and love Saint Augustine. 🙂
San Diego CA has a HS named St. Augustine's * my son had a great education there btw
Thank you Fr. For making this beautiful imformation about Saint Augustin . My Parents place name San Augustin in Philippines. And my Husband take Saint Augustin as his patron when he was joined to Catholic Church 2019 Autumn time. Saint Augustin is our whole family patron.
Think we got another Fr. Mike Smidtz here!!
Brilliant. Love learning more about Catholics/Christians like this in history who we can all look to when we feel too imperfect for God. The church is made up of imperfect people (edit: who try earnestly to be better daily/christlike to be specific) always has been. That’s what makes it great.
Making him my Saint
I am re-reading The Confessions now ...
Nice 💖💖💖
That is such an amazing, "turn a defeat into a victory." type of story that it feels almost silly; and yet it's unbelievably relatable to far too many modern people; it's no surprise given societies' trends.
Lessons can be lost so easily, but they can always be re-learned.
I was just reading a section about St. Augustine in a book by Matthew Kelly
Love our berber saint agustine 🇩🇿
Awesome video!
What an interesting video, this should become a series! How funny, this video was posted just as I started reading his book ‘Confessions’ :)
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🙏🙏🙏😀 Happy Father’s Day! 🇦🇺
Beautiful. Thank you.
“He was too gifted not to get involve”
I'm here because I'm saying the St. Monica Novena this week. She was the mother of Augustine and prayed for 15 years that he would come to the Church!
He's a great saint
But Agustin is likely the spanish phonetic adopted. Florida, never say i didn't try it.
Agustin does sound better for a Spanish speaker. I did like the joke either way 😊
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Thankyou Father Casey, you are brilliant! 😃
The Vatican🇻🇦 , brought, me here!
Thank you, padre, for this concise and vivid summary. However, I missed one point - his doctrine of double predestination, which I consider crucial in theology because
1st it tries to solve the eternal question "Why, of God is good, does so much evil exist?",
2nd St. Augustine, next to St. Paul, was arguably the most important thinker of the church, at least during antiquity, and
3rd it was a reason for bitter controversy during the Western Schisma and is probably still the most fundamental difference between Catholics and Lutheran, Protestant, Reformed or Evangelical denominations: The question whether humans are able to contribute to their salvation by works of love or whether we are mere puppets led by God's strings whose fate had been decided before we were even born.
Father, I thought st Monica also played a important role in at Augustine life, didn't she?
Praise God. Yeah she did, but this is solely focused on st. Augustine. St. Monica has her own story, prob too big to focus on 2 saints. Praise God.
We are studying St. August. In this mo. If anyone here has the chance to read some of his Confessions. They r interesting. Take care, keep safe. God bless us all.
St Augustine my love ♥️
That end was awesome
Very well explained Brother. Thanks
Thanks. I will use this with my CCD class. Again, thank you.
terrific
Thank you for this! Nicely done. Love your outro there at the end! Ha ha
Thank you so much, Friar Casey! I'm particularly interested now in learning exactly which Neoplatonic ideas Augustine found so convincing. About time I read his Confessions.
- Perpetually Baffled Protestant
Darn, Clark. I'll be honest with you. Any explanation you get within a TH-cam comment will be incomplete, this is a massive topic.
Much of it comes from the fantastic Gospel of Saint John, especially the first chapter. By far my favorite part of the Bible.
In the original Greek, the word translated to English as "The Word" with upper case in this gospel is actually Logos. Which hints at the Evangelist's knowledge of Platonist philosophy, and with that in context you can tell the parallels and also how the author emphasizes _how_ Christianity _differs_ from Platonism.
It involves concepts of the One, its triple Natures, and so on. Actually, just go ahead and read Augustine himself. You won't be disappointed *I freaking guarantee it.*
Patron saint of beer that’s my boy! Also brewers and brewing, which includes tea ;) much love everyone
With his idea of the Original sin Augustine still remained manichean, as well as the whole Medieval Christianity. In the Greek church such questions were in general not even discussed.