Archive for October, 2009

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Augustine and Prayer

This morning I gave a lecture on Augustine’s idea of prayer at the CSA-Biñan as part of the school’s program in understanding Augustinian core values. During the course of the preparation for the talk, I looked at the way the Catechism of the Catholic Church makes use of Augustine’s works. I already knew that Augustine [...]

16Oct2009 | alesmeralda | Comments Off | Continued
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Joining a Great Adventure

This year’s friars’ retreat was held at the Carmelite Missionary Spiritual Center in Tagaytay with Fr. Pat Fahey, OSA as retreat master. The theme of the retreat is the Rule and its spirituality. The retreat master provided us with lists of texts from Augustine and other related materials arranged logically in topics like “Interiority”, “Love [...]

1Oct2009 | alesmeralda | Comments Off | Continued
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How Does One "Konek-Konek"? III

The series of articles on this blog about “konek-konek” arose from a question regarding how certain pastors/popular preachers relate one passage of the Scriptures with another one. This phenomenon has its “Catholic” origins from the Fathers of the Church who sought to explain Scriptures using Scriptures. I have written an article about this with regards to Augustine of Hippo and Guy the Carthusian entitled “Parallel Texts, Textual Resonances and the Liturgy”.

1Oct2009 | alesmeralda | Comments Off | Continued