Love One Another, My Friends
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24. FRAGMENTS
I. Contra Maximinum Arianorum Episcopum, Il, 22, 3. p. 106 "And he bowed... " John 19:30.
"there came out..." John 19:34. 107 "God is spirit..." John 4:24. "the Word became... " John 1:14. "this he said... " John 7:39. "Iam one..." John 8:18. "he will bear..." John 15:26. "in the name..." Matt. 28:19.
II. De Sermone Domini in Monte, I, 22, 73-76. 108 "our Lord commands..." Matt. 5:44. "For the unbelieving .. . * 1 Cor. 7:14-15. "Father, forgive them..." Luke 23:34. *Saint Stephen in..." Acts 7:59 (60). 109 'Alexander the coppersmith ..." 2 Tim. 4:14-16. "in certain psalms..." Ps. 68=69, 108=109. "Bless and do..." Rom. 12:14. "Repay no one..." Rom. 12:17.
III. Liber de Corruptione et Gratia, 35. "Forgive us our..." Matt. 6:12. "the faith that . . . ? Gal. 5:6.
IV. Contra Maximinum Arianorum Episcopum, Il, 14, 3.
V. Collatio cum Maximino Arianorum Episcopo, 14.
VI. De Trinitate, I, 6, 9. "In the beginning .. . " John 1:1. "And the Word..." John 1:14. "he was in..." John 1:2-3. ros Ó —
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Throughout the homilies, Augustine's great desire ''to love and be loved" and to live eternally with God are eloquently expressed. Believing himself ignorant of Scripture, he had initially considered himself ill-prepared for the priesthood. Augustine's subsequent tireless studies unleashed a stream of biblical commentaries that led him to be ranked with Thomas Aquinas as one of the greatest teachers the Western Church has ever produced, and one of its greatest Fathers. His towering intellect molded the thought of Western Christianity, and his ideas dominated the thinking of the Western world for a thousand years after his death.
Augustine wrote profusely, explaining and defending the faith. Called Doctor of Grace, his best known works are his Confessions, one of the greatest spiritual classics of all time, and City of God, an exposition of a Christian philosophy of history.
John Leinenweber was educated at Yale and has been a Benedictine monk since 1957. He was the editor of Monastic Studies, volumes seven to twelve, and has contributed to several monastic journals.
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Augustine On Love
''Where there is envy there can't be any love of sister or brother. Dear friends, pay attention to this. Envy is incompatible with love. It's the devil's sin that is in the envious person, because it was by envy that the devil cast ahuman down. The devil fell and he envied the one who was still standing. It wasn't in order to stand himself that he wanted to cast the human down, but so that he wouldn't be alone in his fall.
"Keep firmly in your minds from this example that there can be no envy in love. You have it clearly stated when Paul is praising love: 'Love is not jealous! There was no love in Cain. And if there hadn't been love in Abel, God wouldn't have accepted his sacrifice. When both brought their offerings—one from the fruits of the earth and the other from the young of his flock—you aren't to think, my friends, that God despised one and prized the other. God wasn't watching their hands; rather he was looking into their hearts." —ST. AUGUSTINE, from ''The Law of Love"
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