Journeying With The Saints

Welcome, Catholic Pilgrims. Today in our reading, St. Augustine is going to let us in on the dialogue that went on in his head from age 19 to his present age of 30 here in Book Six. It's so interesting and I think you will find it very relatable. Just imagine Augustine with a cartoon angel on his right shoulder and a cartoon devil on his left.

We are reading from Book Six, Chapter Eleven on page 126.

Welcome, Catholic Pilgrims. Thank you again for joining me. I hope you all know how much I love reading these works for you and for myself. It's truly a delight for me and I'm just grateful that you are listening.

Integrity is the word of the day so keep that in mind as we read from Book Six, Chapter 10 on page 125.

Hello, Catholic Pilgrims. Welcome back. Today, we are going to hear more about Alypius' story. If you remember yesterday, St. Augustine was telling us about how Alypius went to Rome before Augustine and he got caught up in the bloody arena spectacles. Today, we will go back a little further in time to when Alypius was still in Carthage. He gets accused of a crime and St. Augustine tells us the story.

We are reading from Book Six, Chapter Nine on page 123.

Welcome, Catholic Pilgrims. We are going to hear more about Alypius today and his fall into grotesque entertainment. It can be tempting to listen to how he gets caught up in the bloody, immoral gladiator spectacles and think that we are safe from such debauchery. But…that's not true.

We will talk about this on the other side of our reading today from Book Six, Chapter Eight on page 121. Also, as a word of caution, today's reading is not appropriate for children.

Hello, Catholic Pilgrims. Welcome. Today, we hear the name of two friends of St. Augustine—Alypius and Nebridius. We will mostly hear about Alypius and how he became someone that St. Augustine wanted to rescue from a life of frivolous pursuits.

Let's hear about that in Book Six, Chapter Seven on page 120.

Welcome, Catholic Pilgrims. Thank you for joining me today.

God will often allow us to hit the bottom of the well before we can rise up out of it. That is exactly what you will hear about today in our reading. St. Augustine is at the bottom of the well, sunk in misery. He has chased all the things that he thought would make him happy and those things aren't working anymore.

Let's hear about this by turning to page 118, reading from Book Six, Chapter Six.

Welcome, Catholic Pilgrims. I hope the day is treating you well. Today, we hear from St. Augustine that he has come to prefer Catholic teaching. Yay! He's getting there. We hear about the conclusions he makes.

We are reading from Book Six, Chapter Five on page 116.

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Welcome, Catholic Pilgrims. I hope all is well where you are. Today, we are going to hear about how St. Augustine had a lot of hang ups with Scripture because he thought all of it had to be taken literally. A lot of people believe this and it creates a lot of problems. So, that is what we will discuss on the other side.

Our reading today is found on page 115 and is from Book Six, Chapter Four.

Hello, Catholic Pilgrims. Welcome back. Today, St. Augustine shares with us about how he was just looking for some time to spend one-on-one with St. Ambrose. Ambrose is a busy man, always reading, always receiving visitors, teaching, and preaching, and so, it's hard to find time to get an audience with him.

But, St. Augustine wants to and he goes and listens to his preaching and he finds that the Catholic Faith isn't what he had imagined in his head.

We are reading from Book Six, Chapter Three on page 113.

Welcome, Catholic Pilgrims, to another great day. Today, we are going to hear about how St. Monica was told by St. Ambrose, who was bishop, to stop practicing a certain custom and she is obedient.

There's something really important about obedience that I want to talk about on the other side of our reading. We will be reading from Book Six, Chapter Two on 112.