Have you ever been asked: “if you could have lunch or dinner with any saint, who would it be?”

Well today we are going to have a conversation of sorts with a great saint in our Church’s history, a renowned teacher and preacher.  St Augustine.  And we are going to interview St. Augustine by way of a conversation with a theologian and Augustine expert, Dr. John Cavadini. 

His knowledge of St. Augustine, the preacher, teacher, theologian Bishop and Doctor of the Church can give us an exacting insight into what advice St Augustine might give us preachers, teachers, and speakers today, lay and ordained alike.  

John C. Cavadini is a professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame, where he also serves as McGrath-Cavadini Director of the McGrath Institute for Church Life. A member of the Notre Dame faculty since 1990, Cavadini specializes in patristic theology, especially the theology of Augustine, patristic biblical exegesis, as well as the theology of miracles, of the Church, and of marriage, and theology of evangelization. 

In addition, my guest today also served as my academic advisor back in the early 2000s when I was working on a Masters in Theology from Notre Dame.  So, it was a great honor to catch up with him again after so many years.

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