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Augustine teaches no less insistently freedom from time, a freedom that Christ, the eternal Word, has come to bring us by his entry into the world in the incarnation: “O Word that exists before time, through whom time was made,” he exclaims, “born in time although You are eternal life, calling those who exist in time and making them eternal!”
It is well known that St. Augustine studied deeply the mystery of time and both felt and stated the need to transcend time in order to exist truly. “That you may be truly yourself, transcend time. But who shall transcend it by his own power? Let Christ lift him up, as He said to the Father: ‘I wish that they too may be with me where I am.’”
A Reading Selection from John Paul II’s AUGUSTINUM HIPPONSENSEM. Isn’t the thought simply amazing?
More here:
payingattentiontothesky.com/2009/10/23/reading-selections-3-from-pope-john-paul-ii%e2%80%99s-apostolic-letter-augustinum-hipponsensem/
Twenty three years ago Pope John Paul II noted the importance of St Augustine of Hippo by issuing an Apostolic Letter on the 16th Centenary of the Conversion of St Augustine. The scope of the Letter is long, comprehensive and exhaustive dealing with many aspects of a great, towering and complex individual.
Hope you enjoy it.
dj
It is well known that St. Augustine studied deeply the mystery of time and both felt and stated the need to transcend time in order to exist truly. “That you may be truly yourself, transcend time. But who shall transcend it by his own power? Let Christ lift him up, as He said to the Father: ‘I wish that they too may be with me where I am.’”
A Reading Selection from John Paul II’s AUGUSTINUM HIPPONSENSEM. Isn’t the thought simply amazing?
More here:
payingattentiontothesky.com/2009/10/23/reading-selections-3-from-pope-john-paul-ii%e2%80%99s-apostolic-letter-augustinum-hipponsensem/
Twenty three years ago Pope John Paul II noted the importance of St Augustine of Hippo by issuing an Apostolic Letter on the 16th Centenary of the Conversion of St Augustine. The scope of the Letter is long, comprehensive and exhaustive dealing with many aspects of a great, towering and complex individual.
Hope you enjoy it.
dj