Heartfelt thanks to Mike Aquilina, Robert Fernandez, and everyone in the production team. No wonder the Reformers went to Augustine, and turned the Church's biggest gun on the Church herself and her manifold sins. It is sad to see writers who fail to digest Augustine: the most recent example, Martin Hagglund's 'This Life - Why Mortality Makes Us Free'. Young readers will swallow Hagglund's atheism, but how many will read Augustine's Confessions, or The City of God?
I like the Ecstacy of St. Oceia. This is when the two souls rose into the presence of God. Very like Paul rising to the seventh heaven, 'whither in the body or out of the body, I know not.' The minds and soul rises beyond this world. Very truth.
You don't need a god to have a meaningful life... Live life to the fullest because, as far as we know, it is the only life you have. Live for your family or for your job or for humanity or for others. Life has meaning without a totalitarian system on top of you. If anyone tells you that you must get on your knees to repent for a crime you did not commit, tell then to f*** off and keep their delusions to themselves.
I pray that you will. The very fact that you you have thinking about it and the fact that you wrote down your thoughts and posted them on YT for all the world to see is a very strong indication that your spiritual journey will lead you to the foot of The Cross. "Seek and ye shall find." - Matthew 7:7-8
@@excelsior999 I don't understand this weird need people have to prise a symbol of torture... We can't even be completely sure that Jesus existed in the first place... Even if he did exist, how can we be certain that he was partly devine? These leaps of logic will not help anyone... Just concentrate on trying to make the world a better place instead of trying to threaten people to kneel to this being that you cannot begin to prove... Stop trying to scare people into submission. "But if it is preached that Christ has been raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? If there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised. And if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is useless and so is your faith. More than that, we are then found to be false witnesses about God, for we have testified about God that he raised Christ from the dead. But he did not raise him if in fact the dead are not raised. For if the dead are not raised, then Christ has not been raised either. And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins. Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ are lost. If only for this life we have hope in Christ, we are of all people most to be pitied." - Corinthians 15:12-20 New International Version
@@MaleINTP 3:49 4 Here is the context for those verses: 1 Cor. 15: 21-26: 20 But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. 21 For since death came through a man,the resurrection of the dead comes also through a man. 22 For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive. 23 But each in turn: Christ, the firstfruits; then, when He comes, those who belong to Him. 24 Then the end will come, when He hands over the kingdom to God the Father after He has destroyed all dominion, authority and power. 25 For He must reign until He has put all His enemies under His feet. 26 The last enemy to be destroyed is death.
@@tammyhughes7703 The lack of confidence that Christ was risen followed for the need to be confident that he did.. i know the text. Evidence would be good anytime soon. First of his existence followed by the evidence confirming his resurrection.
Agreed! ALMOST didn't want to watch, but, I feel now, that The Holy Ghost led me here!! Job well done on this gem... For God is the GOD of The Impossible!! He can do all things EXCEEDINGLY well!! PROOF?? he gave us JESUS!!!
I am very devoted to Saint Augustine. I fell in love with him and his books, thoughts and writings over 20 years ago! I am reading volume one of his letters, and I plan to read all of the 4 volumes! I love his books, and his letters are amazingly beautiful, I am learning so much about his time, his thoughts, the culture he lived in, his experiences in life, theology, scriptures, his ideas exchanged with all types of people and with people of all ranks in society: pagans, priests, Bishops, ordinary women who pagan or not, had questions about Christ, about Christendom, the Catholic Church or had questions about some pages of the scriptures; there are also letters exchanged between him and his friends and relatives, students, writers and of course, with other saints, like Saint Jerome... It is a plethora of interesting people.... I am so involved in reading his letters that I forget the time, I could never imagine his letters would be so amazing, sofull of wisdom and humbleness. His books are incredible and his letters opened a new chapter about his person to me. If you never read them, take some time to read his letters. He is one of the most interesting people of all history of mankind and a Doctor of the Church. If you read them, you will feel he is beside you, telling you a story. And I hope you also fall in love with him as I did. May God bless you all. Note: I always tell Jesus: "when I enter Heavens, the first person I want to meet is Saint Augustin! would you be jealous?". Yes. I am mad about this day! I can't wait to meet him face to face. ;)
St. Augustine of Hippo “We must hold to the Christian religion and to communication in her Church, which is catholic and which is called catholic not only by her own members but even by all her enemies. For when heretics or the adherents of schisms talk about her, not among themselves but with strangers, willy-nilly they call her nothing else but Catholic. For they will not be understood unless they distinguish her by this name which the whole world employs in her regard” (The True Religion 7:12 [A.D. 390]). “We believe in the holy Church, that is, the Catholic Church; for heretics and schismatics call their own congregations churches. But heretics violate the faith itself by a false opinion about God; schismatics, however, withdraw from fraternal love by hostile separations, although they believe the same things we do. Consequently, neither heretics nor schismatics belong to the Catholic Church; not heretics, because the Church loves God, and not schismatics, because the Church loves neighbor” (Faith and Creed 10:21 [A.D. 393]). “If you should find someone who does not yet believe in the gospel, what would you [Mani] answer him when he says, ‘I do not believe’? Indeed, I would not believe in the gospel myself if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so” (ibid., 5:6). “There are many other things which most properly can keep me in her [the Catholic Church’s] bosom. The unanimity of peoples and nations keeps me here. Her authority, inaugurated in miracles, nourished by hope, augmented by love, and confirmed by her age, keeps me here. The succession of priests, from the very see of the apostle Peter, to whom the Lord, after his resurrection, gave the charge of feeding his sheep [John 21:15-17], up to the present episcopate, keeps me here. And last, the very name Catholic, which, not without reason, belongs to this Church alone, in the face of so many heretics, so much so that, although all heretics want to be called ‘Catholic,’ when a stranger inquires where the Catholic Church meets, none of the heretics would dare to point out his own basilica or house” (Against the Letter of Mani Called “The Foundation” 4:5 [A.D. 397]).
Augustine is a sexual deviate of ill repute. His Gnostic, Stoic and Manichaeist doctrines are a complete reversal of his previous Catholic understanding. No church father before him expounded the non biblical ideas he lent to the church. Unfortunately, he argued against Pelagius ideas which modern Christianity holds to and affirms is biblical doctrine.
Great video production and narration. Background music should've been a little lower. Aquilina's comments were very heloful in understanding the times of the centuries.
St. Augustine said that the God created the world within six days and to prove that he claims that (according to Bertrand Russel) it is because the number six is a one which is easily factorable. I am in doubt of that. Can any one explain that?
I have personally prayed the prayers to St Kyprianou when I was living in Greece. The priest gave them to us to read for 40 days. I read the lengthy prayer, everyday, over a bowl of water, and afterward used a basil branch to bless the house. The last week, I started having dreams of snakes - first, a lot of black ones. Then there were just a few, and the night before the last day, I saw one large white snake, and I heard the voice of the Saint say, "God is protecting you." I had been attacked by Sorcerers just before moving there, when I was living in an old Native Pueblo, in New Mexico, where there is some serious witchcraft going on. When I got to Greece, I met a woman cursed by witches, who made her look 40 years older than her age - and she lost all of her business clients! When I met her, she asked me how old she looked, and she looked her age, and she said, "Oh good the prayers are working." My cousin was a witness to how she aged 40 years and was restored to normal through the 40 day reading of the St. Kyprainou prayers. She was the one who introduced me to the prayer. I had to go to Athens, to a small church in plaka where an old burly, spiritual sturdy priest read the prayers over people daily - who were possessed or sick from demons/witchcraft. St. Kyprianou helped A LOT of people at that church! The history here sounds correct, and the power of this saint is absolutely, legit! There is a Greek Priestmonk from Mount Athos named Phanourios, who reads a shortened version of the prayer over you, on youtube. He looks like a Holy Wizard, if wizards were holy, with a long white beard and a very Fatherly and wise mystical appearance. Maybe he can help you.
@@scottadkins9040 Don't say BS. This is the power of the Holy Spirit through prayer and intercession. And part of the mission of all priests, and the Saints of the past also did the same. If the prayers over a person have 00 results, why should you, a sinner and not a priest chosen by God, pray for your family, friends or the departed? If their prayers have no use, neither do yours! Stop being prejudicial and ignorant. And if you are not Catholic, I have a word for you: go to your sect and keep your opinions among your kind. Thank you very much. We have 2.000 years of History and Martyrdom. We are not from any sect made up by a sinner and possessed like Luther.
Really need to stop depicting Saint Augustine as Northwestern European. He was an African man from what is now called Algeria. He was also Berber. Whether he was Moorish Berber or Arabic, we do not know, but he was not a fair-haired Scandinavian. We must be able to let go of that
Augustine was a heretic. He had all five points of Calvinism long before John Calvin ever existed. Jesus is Lord God Almighty clothed in unsinful humanity and He is the author of eternal life to all who trust Him alone for salvation. This means that saving repentance is realizing that you are a sinner deserving of God's just punishment in Hell and turn (repent) from whatever you trusted in before, if indeed you trusted in anything; to trusting in the person and finished work of Christ "alone" for salvation.
@@coreymorgan2231 Pelagius held the biblical beliefs that the church holds today. If you study Augustine in a timeline from young to old, you see him vacillate in and finally out of Christianity. Augustine caused the church and mankind a whole lot of trouble. He truly became a heretic.
I am reading his Confessions for the first time, in my ‘Seventies; wish l had read them in my ‘Twenties.
Outwardly, my life is so different than Augustine in many ways, but I relate to all the events of his life. Beautifully shared story of his life.
St, AUGUSTINE PRAY FOR US
A very interesting story, excellent narration, may God bless you all!
Thanks for this presentation and I love God forever
Heartfelt thanks to Mike Aquilina, Robert Fernandez, and everyone in the production team.
No wonder the Reformers went to Augustine, and turned the Church's biggest gun on the Church herself and her manifold sins.
It is sad to see writers who fail to digest Augustine: the most recent example, Martin Hagglund's 'This Life - Why Mortality Makes Us Free'.
Young readers will swallow Hagglund's atheism, but how many will read Augustine's Confessions, or The City of God?
My favorite documentary of all time, I need audios of the score, Herald entertainment has incredible soundtracks.
Yes, very well done❤
Great documentary! very well put together
Well produced with tons of details that are relatable in the present. I now want to read the book "City of God" after watching the documentary.
I like the Ecstacy of St. Oceia. This is when the two souls rose into the presence of God.
Very like Paul rising to the seventh heaven, 'whither in the body or out of the body, I know not.'
The minds and soul rises beyond this world.
Very truth.
Very good
Enjoyed this awesome video about St. Augustine!
Great inspiration...thanks for this insightful story.
He really inspired me that maybe I'm not a total lost cause and may return to God just as he did...
You don't need a god to have a meaningful life... Live life to the fullest because, as far as we know, it is the only life you have. Live for your family or for your job or for humanity or for others. Life has meaning without a totalitarian system on top of you. If anyone tells you that you must get on your knees to repent for a crime you did not commit, tell then to f*** off and keep their delusions to themselves.
I pray that you will. The very fact that you you have thinking about it and the fact that you wrote down your thoughts and posted them on YT for all the world to see is a very strong indication that your spiritual journey will lead you to the foot of The Cross.
"Seek and ye shall find." -
Matthew 7:7-8
@@excelsior999 I don't understand this weird need people have to prise a symbol of torture... We can't even be completely sure that Jesus existed in the first place...
Even if he did exist, how can we be certain that he was partly devine? These leaps of logic will not help anyone... Just concentrate on trying to make the world a better place instead of trying to threaten people to kneel to this being that you cannot begin to prove... Stop trying to scare people into submission.
"But if it is preached that Christ has been raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? If there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised. And if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is useless and so is your faith. More than that, we are then found to be false witnesses about God, for we have testified about God that he raised Christ from the dead. But he did not raise him if in fact the dead are not raised. For if the dead are not raised, then Christ has not been raised either. And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins. Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ are lost. If only for this life we have hope in Christ, we are of all people most to be pitied."
- Corinthians 15:12-20
New International Version
@@MaleINTP 3:49 4
Here is the context for those verses:
1 Cor. 15: 21-26:
20 But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.
21 For since death came through a man,the resurrection of the dead comes also through a man.
22 For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive.
23 But each in turn: Christ, the firstfruits; then, when He comes, those who belong to Him.
24 Then the end will come, when
He hands over the kingdom to God the Father after He has destroyed all dominion, authority and power.
25 For He must reign until He has put all His enemies under His feet.
26 The last enemy to be destroyed is death.
@@tammyhughes7703 The lack of confidence that Christ was risen followed for the need to be confident that he did.. i know the text. Evidence would be good anytime soon. First of his existence followed by the evidence confirming his resurrection.
Inspired🙏🙏🙏🙌🤗🙏
Magnificent!
Agreed! ALMOST didn't want to watch, but, I feel now, that The Holy Ghost led me here!! Job well done on this gem... For God is the GOD of The Impossible!! He can do all things EXCEEDINGLY well!! PROOF?? he gave us JESUS!!!
I am very devoted to Saint Augustine. I fell in love with him and his books, thoughts and writings over 20 years ago! I am reading volume one of his letters, and I plan to read all of the 4 volumes! I love his books, and his letters are amazingly beautiful, I am learning so much about his time, his thoughts, the culture he lived in, his experiences in life, theology, scriptures, his ideas exchanged with all types of people and with people of all ranks in society: pagans, priests, Bishops, ordinary women who pagan or not, had questions about Christ, about Christendom, the Catholic Church or had questions about some pages of the scriptures; there are also letters exchanged between him and his friends and relatives, students, writers and of course, with other saints, like Saint Jerome... It is a plethora of interesting people.... I am so involved in reading his letters that I forget the time, I could never imagine his letters would be so amazing, sofull of wisdom and humbleness. His books are incredible and his letters opened a new chapter about his person to me. If you never read them, take some time to read his letters. He is one of the most interesting people of all history of mankind and a Doctor of the Church. If you read them, you will feel he is beside you, telling you a story. And I hope you also fall in love with him as I did. May God bless you all. Note: I always tell Jesus: "when I enter Heavens, the first person I want to meet is Saint Augustin! would you be jealous?". Yes. I am mad about this day! I can't wait to meet him face to face. ;)
St. Augustine of Hippo
“We must hold to the Christian religion and to communication in her Church, which is catholic and which is called catholic not only by her own members but even by all her enemies. For when heretics or the adherents of schisms talk about her, not among themselves but with strangers, willy-nilly they call her nothing else but Catholic. For they will not be understood unless they distinguish her by this name which the whole world employs in her regard” (The True Religion 7:12 [A.D. 390]).
“We believe in the holy Church, that is, the Catholic Church; for heretics and schismatics call their own congregations churches. But heretics violate the faith itself by a false opinion about God; schismatics, however, withdraw from fraternal love by hostile separations, although they believe the same things we do. Consequently, neither heretics nor schismatics belong to the Catholic Church; not heretics, because the Church loves God, and not schismatics, because the Church loves neighbor” (Faith and Creed 10:21 [A.D. 393]).
“If you should find someone who does not yet believe in the gospel, what would you [Mani] answer him when he says, ‘I do not believe’? Indeed, I would not believe in the gospel myself if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so” (ibid., 5:6).
“There are many other things which most properly can keep me in her [the Catholic Church’s] bosom. The unanimity of peoples and nations keeps me here. Her authority, inaugurated in miracles, nourished by hope, augmented by love, and confirmed by her age, keeps me here. The succession of priests, from the very see of the apostle Peter, to whom the Lord, after his resurrection, gave the charge of feeding his sheep [John 21:15-17], up to the present episcopate, keeps me here. And last, the very name Catholic, which, not without reason, belongs to this Church alone, in the face of so many heretics, so much so that, although all heretics want to be called ‘Catholic,’ when a stranger inquires where the Catholic Church meets, none of the heretics would dare to point out his own basilica or house” (Against the Letter of Mani Called “The Foundation” 4:5 [A.D. 397]).
Augustine is a sexual deviate of ill repute. His Gnostic, Stoic and Manichaeist doctrines are a complete reversal of his previous Catholic understanding. No church father before him expounded the non biblical ideas he lent to the church.
Unfortunately, he argued against Pelagius ideas which modern Christianity holds to and affirms is biblical doctrine.
St Augustine is truely the greatest of all time.
How arrogant to think you figured out Christianity and the first 150 years of Christianity got it completely wrong.
That's Augustine's legacy.
Great video production and narration. Background music should've been a little lower. Aquilina's comments were very heloful in understanding the times of the centuries.
You sure you couldn't squeeze in a few more ads?
LOL 😂
Very descriptive throughout.
Happy Feast St Augustine of Hippo Pray for us!!!!?
The musical background is loud, a bit destructing. The story is interesting.
The background music so really annoying I could not hear the narratives so I turn to other u tube video on the same topic regarding Augustine of Hippo
Augustine was one of the original reformers in the same vein as those that have become known as protestants
But he was always Catholic
St. Augustine said that the God created the world within six days and to prove that he claims that (according to Bertrand Russel) it is because the number six is a one which is easily factorable. I am in doubt of that. Can any one explain that?
The background music/dramatization is distracting and loud.
I have personally prayed the prayers to St Kyprianou when I was living in Greece. The priest gave them to us to read for 40 days. I read the lengthy prayer, everyday, over a bowl of water, and afterward used a basil branch to bless the house. The last week, I started having dreams of snakes - first, a lot of black ones. Then there were just a few, and the night before the last day, I saw one large white snake, and I heard the voice of the Saint say, "God is protecting you."
I had been attacked by Sorcerers just before moving there, when I was living in an old Native Pueblo, in New Mexico, where there is some serious witchcraft going on. When I got to Greece, I met a woman cursed by witches, who made her look 40 years older than her age - and she lost all of her business clients! When I met her, she asked me how old she looked, and she looked her age, and she said, "Oh good the prayers are working." My cousin was a witness to how she aged 40 years and was restored to normal through the 40 day reading of the St. Kyprainou prayers. She was the one who introduced me to the prayer. I had to go to Athens, to a small church in plaka where an old burly, spiritual sturdy priest read the prayers over people daily - who were possessed or sick from demons/witchcraft. St. Kyprianou helped A LOT of people at that church! The history here sounds correct, and the power of this saint is absolutely, legit! There is a Greek Priestmonk from Mount Athos named Phanourios, who reads a shortened version of the prayer over you, on youtube. He looks like a Holy Wizard, if wizards were holy, with a long white beard and a very Fatherly and wise mystical appearance. Maybe he can help you.
That sounds more like black magic than Christianity....furthermore, you might ought to read Matthew 6:7.
@@scottadkins9040 Don't say BS. This is the power of the Holy Spirit through prayer and intercession. And part of the mission of all priests, and the Saints of the past also did the same. If the prayers over a person have 00 results, why should you, a sinner and not a priest chosen by God, pray for your family, friends or the departed? If their prayers have no use, neither do yours! Stop being prejudicial and ignorant. And if you are not Catholic, I have a word for you: go to your sect and keep your opinions among your kind. Thank you very much. We have 2.000 years of History and Martyrdom. We are not from any sect made up by a sinner and possessed like Luther.
It doesn’t have an IMDb page.
☘️ Very 👍 interesting 🤔 🙄
🌱 story............;;;;;;) 🌹
Really need to stop depicting Saint Augustine as Northwestern European. He was an African man from what is now called Algeria. He was also Berber. Whether he was Moorish Berber or Arabic, we do not know, but he was not a fair-haired Scandinavian.
We must be able to let go of that
Is that Baldemort?
Augustine was a heretic.
He had all five points of Calvinism long before John Calvin ever existed.
Jesus is Lord God Almighty clothed in unsinful humanity and He is the author of eternal life to all who trust Him alone for salvation.
This means that saving repentance is realizing that you are a sinner deserving of God's just punishment in Hell and turn (repent) from whatever you trusted in before, if indeed you trusted in anything; to trusting in the person and finished work of Christ "alone" for salvation.
Pelagius?! That you?!?
@@coreymorgan2231 Whatever man!
@@coreymorgan2231 Pelagius held the biblical beliefs that the church holds today. If you study Augustine in a timeline from young to old, you see him vacillate in and finally out of Christianity. Augustine caused the church and mankind a whole lot of trouble. He truly became a heretic.
So he ruled that CORRUPT PRIESTS could serve?… FATHER OF HYPOCRISY