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Augustine: Major Writings (continued)

Augustine: Major Writings (continued)

Notes 4-175

taken from the Catholic Book Publishing Edition (New York, 1975). Translations are by the International Committee on English in the Liturgy. Vol. 1, p. 379.

3. Liturgy of the Hours, 1.527. 4. Augustine, Sermons for Christmas and Epiphany, trans. Thomas C. Lawler (Ancient Christian Writers; Westminster, Md.: Newman Press, 1952), 71-72. (Now Paulist Press, Ramsey, N.J.) 5. Liturgy of the Hours, 3.1813-15. 6. Clark, Augustine of Hippo, 199-201. 7. Bernard McGinn, The Foundations of Mysticism (New York: Crossroad, 1991), 249.

8. Ibid., 250. 9. Liturgy of the Hours, 2.366. 10. Ibid., 2.168-70. 11. Leon Bloy, The Pilgrim of the Absolute (New York: Pantheon Books, 1947), 275. 12. Liturgy of the Hours, 4.102. 13. Ibid., 2.920. 14. Ibid., 4. 534. 15. St. Augustine, Homily XLIII on the Gospel of St. John (A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, ed. P. Schaff; Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1956), 7. 241.

Chapter Four Augustine—The Mystic

1. Dom Cuthbert Butler, O.S.B., Western Mysticism (2d ed.; London: Constable Publishers, 1926), 20. The entire chapter should be read. I am indebted to Dom Cuthbert in these pages.

2. Bernard McGinn, The Foundations of Mysticism, 252f. This superb article should be read when you are ready. I also express my indebted¬ ness to Dr. McGinn.

3. Ibid., 252. 4. See introduction, n. 3. 5. Dom Cuthbert Butler, O.S.B., Western Mysticism (New York: Dutton, 1923), 21. 6. Cited from ibid., 21. 7. Ibid. 8. Ibid., 24-25. 9. Ibid., 21. 10. Ibid. 11. Ibid., 25. 12. Ibid., 22. 13. Benedict J. Groeschel, Spiritual Passages (New York, Crossroad, 1989), chaps. 6 and 7.

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