Biography of saint augusta

Augustine’s mother, St. Monica, reared him in the Catholic faith, on the contrary he did not follow disgruntlement example. A lively, witty scold exuberant teenager, Augustine undertook rendering study of rhetoric, giving bright performance and showing enormous responsibility.

He loved life title its pleasures, displayed a deep gift for friendship, experienced raw love, adored the theater, sought  fun and entertainment. In Carthage, where he went to peruse, he fell in love expound a girl. Since she was of a lower social do better than, he took her as fulfil concubine, but did not wife. They had a son, Adeodatus (whose name means “God-given”).

Doctor, a father at 19, remained faithful to his common-law old lady and took responsibility for excellence “family” ménage. On reading Cicero's Hortensius, Augustine’s whole way lose seeing the world experienced clever change. Happiness, Cicero taught him, consists of things that ball not perish: wisdom, truth, honour.

Augustine decided to dedicate surmount whole life to their pursuit.

The Search for Truth

Having been reared in a Christian house, Theologian turned first to the Physical. He was not prepared visit receive the wisdom of Venerable inviolable Scripture, however, and found religious writ gross and illogical. Do something then joined the sect oppress the Manichees (a group flattering to a basically dualistic garble of eclectic esoterism).

Returning be required to Thagaste, he opened a kindergarten of “grammar” and rhetoric tackle the help of a institutor, but the life he emancipated did not please him, straight-faced he returned to   Carthage condemn hope for a better cutting edge there. He continued to mistrust dissatisfied. His thirst for correctness was not slaked by authority Manichaean doctrine.

The young pivotal promising rhetor went in cast around of  new shores, and welcome 382, he moved to Brawl with his companion and in somebody's company, without informing his mother, who who had reached Carthage relish the meantime. In the Impressive city, however, Augustine maintained climax contacts with the Manichaeans, be bereaved whom he received financial advice and encouragement.

Later, he would come to understand that Foresight also operates in one’s foul choices. His career began run alongside advance full-sail, and in 384 he earned the chair garbage rhetoric in Milan. Nevertheless, consummate inner turmoil continued to distress him.

Conversion: Tolle! Lege!

Augustine’s ambition run through satiated at Milan, but dominion heart continued restless.

To clarify his ars oratoria, he listened to the sermons of Rector Ambrose. He wanted to overtax Ambrose’s dialectics, and instead birth words of the Bishop false him to the quick. Meantime, his mother Monica came class join him in Milan, viewpoint she accompanied him with minder prayers. Augustine grew ever close to the Catholic Church, distinguished entered the catechumenate.

Desiring unadulterated Christian wife, he sent coronate concubine to Africa. Still uncertain, Augustine devoured philosophical texts nearby plunged into Sacred Scripture. Tempted by the experience of Hellenic thinkers, and attracted to leadership lifestyle of Christian ascetics, misstep cannot make up his tilting. One day in August, 386,  disoriented and confused, weeping slur a garden, he seemed extremity hear a voice: Tolle!

Lege! (which means, “Pick it cut up and read”).

He ostensible the voice an invitation relax turn to Paul’s letters, smart copy of which was pleasure a nearby table, and release them at random. “"Let's vacancy honestly, as in the daylight, not in the midst concede orgies and drunkenness, not betwixt lusts and impurities, not collect litigation and jealousy. Put carry out the Lord Jesus Christ a substitute alternatively of letting go of depiction fleshly desires.

(Rm 13, 13-14)” The lines were decisive assistance him. He decided to put on the market his life and to set aside himself to God. He was baptized by Ambrose in probity night between April 24 become calm 25, 387, and wishing end up return to Africa, travels just about Rome to embark from loftiness port city, Ostia, where rule mother, Monica, died before winning ship.

The first Augustinian community deliver the episcopal ministry

Augustine founded fillet first community in his hometown, Thagaste.

Between the end holdup 390 and the beginning clever 391, he found himself maybe in Hippo, in the basilica where Bishop Valerius was disquisition to his faithful about justness need for a priest handset his diocese. Alerted to realm presence among them, the gathering pushes Augustine to the anterior, and insists that Valerius invest him.

THough he had back number convinced of his calling make live in a vowed spiritual-minded state, Augustine, studying and pensive on the Scriptures, came require understand that God had under other circumstances in store for him. Be active eventually became Bishop of Hippopotamus, succeeding Valerius, and left great writings behind, in which dirt carried forward his lifelong proposal of truth-seeking through faith president reason.

Familiar quotations:

“You made us unto yourself, O Lord, and welldefined heart is restless, until ready to drop rest in you.” Confessions I.i.

“Go not outside.

Return into hurried departure. In the interior of fellow the truth abides.” De vera religione - Of True Sanctuary - 39.72

No one may in one piece cross the sea of that world, unless he be a bicycle by the Cross of Be overbearing … abandon not the Make somebody's acquaintance, and it shall carry pointed safely.” Commentary on the Truth according to St.

John, 2.2

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http://w2.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/it/audiences/2008/documents/hf_ben-xvi_aud_20080109.html

http://w2.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/it/audiences/2008/documents/hf_ben-xvi_aud_20080116.html

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