Journeying With The Saints

Welcome, Catholic Pilgrims. A bit of a shorter reading today. We are reading from Book Eight, Chapter Nine on page 172. This episode may not be suitable for young ears.  

Welcome, Catholic Pilgrims. Whew, boy, St. Augustine is struggling in our reading today. Struggling with a capital S. What you are going to hear is a true battle between the flesh and the soul.   Let's go ahead and open to page 170 and read from Book Eight, Chapter Eight.  

Hello, Catholic Pilgrims. Thank you for joining me today. I'm not positive, but I would say that we have nearly reached the climax of St. Augustine's conversion. He is going to express some hard truths today about how he saw himself as he hears Ponticianus talk about monks and how they renounced the world for the sake of God.   This is a very hard-hitting chapter, so let's open to Book Eight, Chap...

Welcome, Catholic Pilgrims. We have a long reading today, so let's waste no time.   We are reading from Book Eight, Chapter Six on page 166.

Welcome, Catholic Pilgrims. How's your day going? Good? I hope so.   St. Augustine is struggling. Struggling to give up the sin of lust. It's become such a habit now, he doesn't really know how to break the chains of the habit.   We will talk about that after our reading from Book Eight, Chapter Four on page 164.

Hello, Catholic Pilgrims. Welcome back.   Power has a way of keeping us from God, but why is that? We'll discuss on the other side. We are reading from Book Eight, Chapter Four on page 163.

Hello, Catholic Pilgrims. Thank you for joining me today. Our reading is all about the lost and the found and how God rejoices when a lost sheep comes back to the fold. We are reading from Book Eight, Chapter Three on page 161.  

Welcome, Catholic Pilgrims. We have a bit of a longer reading today, so I want to jump right in. We are reading from Book Eight, Chapter Two on page 159.

Welcome, Catholic Pilgrims, to Book Eight. This book has fewer chapters than most, so we will move through it pretty quickly.   Today, we are introduced to Simplicianus. He is going to be another spiritual mentor to St. Augustine and I find it interesting that we hear a lot about St. Ambrose helping to guide Augustine into the Church, but we don't really hear the name Simplicianus. He became Bisho...

Welcome, Catholic Pilgrims, to our last reading from Book Seven. St. Augustine starts to read the letters of St. Paul, so it will be interesting to hear what he thinks. We are reading from Book Seven, Chapter Twenty-One on page 155.  

Hello, Catholic Pilgrims. Only two more readings from Book Seven. As we round out this book, remember that St. Augustine is walking us through the slow, oftentimes painful, path of how he finally comes to the fullness of truth in the Catholic Church.   With that in mind, let's open to page 154 and read from Book Seven, Chapter Twenty.  

Welcome, Catholic Pilgrims, to another great day to read from St. Augustine. We have a lot to talk about so let's get started by opening to Book Seven, Chapter Nineteen on page 152.

Welcome, Catholic Pilgrims. Today's reading is just beautiful. I sat and tried and tried to think of how to reflect on it, but nothing was coming. I decided this meant that it needs no words from me.   Our reading today is all about Jesus and St. Augustine's discovery of Him. Let's just listen and let it sink in. We are reading from Book Seven, Chapter Eighteen on page 152.  

Welcome, Catholic Pilgrims. I'm glad to have you with me today.   Our reading can be found on page 151 from Book Seven, Chapter Seventeen.  

Welcome, Catholic Pilgrims. St. Augustine has been kind to you for the past few days in giving shorter readings. St. Augustine is still working out his new—correct—understanding of evil, so we will hear more about that today.   We are reading from Book Seven, Chapter Sixteen on page 150.

Hello, Catholic Pilgrims. Welcome back. Today is another short reading from Book Seven, Chapter Fifteen on page 150.  

Hello, Catholic Pilgrims. We have a very short reading today. We are reading from Book Seven, Chapter Fourteen on page 149.

Welcome, Catholic Pilgrims, to another day. Thank you for joining me in these, I would say, more difficult passages.   We are reading today from Book Seven, Chapter Thirteen on page 148.      

Welcome, Catholic Pilgrims. We have a dense reading today and to help us get our minds in the right place, I want to talk about it before we read it.   With that, let's read from Book Seven, Chapter Twelve on page 148.

Hello, Catholic Pilgrims. Today is a big day! This is the 100th episode for Season Six. Crazy that we are already at 100. So, congratulations for showing up everyday.   We have a very short reading today, so let's get started by opening to page 147 to read from Book Seven, Chapter Eleven  

Welcome, Catholic Pilgrims, to our reading today. Today's theme is all about light—specifically God as Light.   We are reading from Book Seven, Chapter 10 on page 146.

Welcome, Catholic Pilgrims. Today's reading is denser than others and I can see it being a hard one to get through if you don't know beforehand what you are reading. So, instead of my reflection at the end of the reading, I'll give it here to help you understand before we get started.   We will be reading from Book Seven, Chapter Nine on page 144.

Welcome, Catholic Pilgrims. After some longer readings, we get a super short one today. So, let's jump into Book Seven, Chapter Eight on page 144.

Welcome, Catholic Pilgrims. St. Augustine has dropped astrology, but he is still having a problem understanding the origin of evil.   Let's hear about this by reading from Book Seven, Chapter Seven on page 142.

Hello, Catholic Pilgrims. Welcome. If you have your book in front of you, you know that we have a long reading today. And I have found that with these types of books, long readings can make you zone out. With novels, we can read many, many pages, but with theological books, we struggle to keep our focus. Why is that? Well, because it's not riveting and there are no cliff hangers living you curious...