Not our brothers, you are to tell them: You are our brothers.Ĭonsider whom he intended by these words. Prophet refers to some men saying: When they say to you: You are Whether they like it or not, they are our brothers and they will only cease to be so when they no longer say our Father. My friends, we must grieve over these as over our brothers. Others are separated, insofar as they are joined with us in professing faith in Christ, our head, but are yet divided from the unity of his body. Of these some are still pagans, who have not yet made an act of faith in Christ. “We entreat you, brothers, as earnestly as we are able, to have charity, not only for one another, but also for those who are outside the Church. See in these words a true expression of the gift of prophecy, of theĬapacity to speak in the name of truth in the service of unity: Heart, and which he tried to share with those who listened to him. He speaks about the desire for unity that burned within his own Words, from a discourse on Psalm 32 (one of his favorites), in which Now I would like to share Augustine’s own It to say that the judge was moved by Augustine’s impassionedĭefense of the love and mercy of God, and sided with the Catholics. God is more brother thanĪny brother… He is more friend than any friend… More lover than Not even when we are in desperation,īitterness, darkness. Ambitious, lustful, narcissistic-I wasĪll these things, and still am, as we all are. God took him away from me to show me that he God gave me a son I started to believe that he God gave me a woman she showed me that loving means Mother she showed me that nothing in this material world is worthy Lustful, narcissistic-I was all of these things. Participate, yet from the moment that I became the topic ofĭiscussion, it is my duty to speak. The fact that he became a priest isĪugustine himself steps forward and says: “I have chosen not to This debate was toīe about truth, but that truth has been eclipsed by one man. Man of God consumed by lust, avarice, and ego-a narcissism thatĭrove him to worship no greater God than himself. That drove him to seek success through the skill of his rhetoric. We pulled back the veils that have hidden the truth of your belovedīishop, of a man who was driven to represent murderers and One side of the room and protestation on the other, then SidoniusĬontinues, “Have I not stayed silent long enough? It’s time that Greatest sinner of us all: Bishop Augustine.” There is applause on Scriptures, or the fractured history of our Catholic brothers ,īut today I want to speak of only one man, a priest, who has been the
Sidonius says: “I could talk about religion, sin, betraying the Which we disprove another person’s position not by showing theįaultiness of his reasoning or the weakness of his vision, but byĪttacking the person himself. In philosophy we call this kind of argument an ad hominem in Sidonius steps forward first and spends the entire timeĪttacking Augustine for his past sinful life, for his betrayals of Representative who will speak on their behalf before an “impartial” This debate, as portrayed by the movie, the two sides each have a
Of saints, of “the holy,” and not a community of sinners. Sacraments, and the Church itself as a whole must be a congregation They condemned Catholicsįor apparent laxity, whereas the Donatists themselves were rigorists,Ĭlaiming that the clergy, if they had fallen away from Christ (forĮxample in time of persecution), could not celebrate valid Refers in the quote that I will share below. Understand correctly, they are also those to whom Augustine also Much grief, as they rent the garment of the Church’s unity if I Portrays a debate between Augustine and a Donatist Bishop, Sidonius.ĭonatists were a heretical (or schismatic) sect that caused Augustine One that divides and condemns, and one that seeks to unity within Heart, which portrays well the difference between two attitudes:
#Augustine on unity quotes movie
Mention a scene from the recent movie on Saint Augustine, Restless The Catholic heart, in the heart that shares in the dispositions of Would like to share a long quote from Saint Augustine thatīeautifully expresses this ardent desire for unity that resides in
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