From: truecatholicstaff@truecarpentry.org   
      
   Your an ass hole.   For what you write, is not at all what Saint   
   Augustine had said of.  Do you WANT to see what he had said in 4;15   
      
   This is what he had said....   
      
   CHAP. 15.--THEY ARE PROUD WHO THINK THEY ARE ABLE, BY THEIR OWN   
   RIGHTEOUSNESS, TO BE CLEANSED SO AS TO SEE GOD.   
      
      
      
        20. There are, however, some who think themselves capable of being   
   cleansed by their own righteousness, so as to contemplate God, and to   
   dwell in God; whom their very pride itself stains above all others. For   
   there is no sin to which the divine law is more opposed, and over which   
   that proudest of spirits, who is a mediator to things below, but a   
   barrier against things above, receives a greater right of mastery:   
   unless either his secret snares be avoided by going another way, or if   
   he rage openly by means of a sinful people (which Amalek, being   
   interpreted, means), and forbid by fighting the passage to the land of   
   promise, he be overcome by the cross of the Lord, which is prefigured by   
   the holding out of the hands of Moses.(1) For these persons promise   
   themselves cleansing by their own righteousness for this reason, because   
   some of them have been able to penetrate with the eye of the mind beyond   
   the whole creature, and to touch, though it be in ever so small a part,   
   the light of the unchangeable truth; a thing which they deride many   
   Christians for being not yet able to do, who, in the meantime, live by   
   faith alone. But of what use is it for the proud man, who on that   
   account is ashamed to embark upon the ship of wood,(2) to behold from   
   afar his country beyond the sea? Or how can it hurt the humble man not   
   to behold it from so great a distance, when he is actually coming to it   
   by that wood upon which the other disdains to be borne?   
      
     Pride is a mortal sin, and you Rich, ARE A BIG TIME SNOB CARRIER OF IT.   
      
   On 1/6/2019 10:52 PM, Rich scribbled:   
   > Not on Your Own   
   >   
   >     "There are some people who consider themselves able to refine   
   > themselves on their own, in order to contemplate and remain in God.   
   >     Accordingly, they look down upon the mass of Christians who live   
   >   on faith alone as not being able to do as they do."   
   > --St. Augustine--The Trinity 4, 15   
   >   
   > Prayer: Give me strength to seek you, Lord, for you have already   
   > enabled me to find you and have given me hope of finding you   
   > ever more fully.   
   > --St. Augustine--The Trinity 15, 51   
   >   
   > <<>><<>><<>>   
   > January 7th - St. Raymund of Peñafort   
   > Dominican, Archbishop (1175-1275)   
   >   
   > THE family of Peñafort claimed descent from the counts of Barcelona,   
   > and was allied to the kings of Aragon. Feast Day formally January   
   > 23rd. Raymund was born in 1175, at Peñafort in Catalonia, and made   
   > such rapid progress in his studies that at the age of 20 he taught   
   > philosophy at Barcelona. This he did gratis, and with great   
   > reputation. When he was about thirty he went to Bologna to perfect   
   > himself in Canon and civil law. He took the degree of doctor, and   
   > taught with the same disinterestedness and charity as he had done in   
   > his own country. In 1219 Berengarius, Bishop of Barcelona, made   
   > Raymund his archdeacon and “official”. He was a perfect model to the   
   > clergy by his zeal, devotion and boundless liberalities to the poor.   
   > In 1222 he assumed the habit of St. Dominic at Barcelona, 8 months   
   > after the death of the holy founder, and in the 47th year of his age.   
   > No one of the young novices was more humble, obedient or fervent than   
   > he. He begged of his superiors that they would enjoin him some severe   
   > penance to expiate the complacency which he said he had sometimes   
   > taken in his teaching. They, indeed, imposed on him a penance, but not   
   > quite such as he expected. It was to write a collection of cases of   
   > conscience for the convenience of confessors and moralists, This led   
   > to the compilation of the Summa de casibus poenitentialibus and the   
   > first work of its kind.   
   >   
   > Raymund joined to the exercises of his solitude an apostolic life by   
   > labouring without intermission in preaching, instructing, hearing   
   > confessions, and converting heretics, Jews and Moors; and he was   
   > commissioned to preach the war of the Spaniards against the   
   > last-named. He acquitted himself of his new duties with much prudence,   
   > zeal and charity, and in this indirect manner paved the way for the   
   > ultimate overthrow of the infidel in Spain. His labours were no less   
   > successful in the reformation of the morals of the Christians detained   
   > in servitude under the Moors, which had been corrupted by their long   
   > slavery and intercourse with these infidels. Raymund showed them that   
   > to triumph over their political foes they must first conquer their   
   > spiritual enemies, and subdue sin in themselves. Inculcating these and   
   > the like spiritual lessons, he journeyed through Catalonia, Aragon,   
   > Castile and other countries. So general a change was wrought hereby in   
   > the manners of the people that it seemed incredible to all but those   
   > who were witnesses of it....   
   >   
   > Pope Gregory IX, having called St. Raymund to Rome in 1230, nominated   
   > him to various offices and took him likewise for his confessor, in   
   > which capacity Raymund enjoined the pope, for a penance, to receive,   
   > hear and expedite immediately all petitions presented by the poor.   
   > Gregory also ordered the saint to gather into one body all the   
   > scattered decrees of popes and councils since the collection made by   
   > Gratian in 1150. In 3 years Raymund completed his task, and the five   
   > books of the “Decretals” were confirmed by the same Pope Gregory in   
   > 1234. Down to the publication of the new Codex Juris Canonici in 1917   
   > this compilation of St. Raymund was looked upon as the best arranged   
   > part of the body of canon law, on which account the canonists usually   
   > chose it for the text of their commentaries. In 1235 the pope named   
   > St. Raymund to the archbishopric of Tarragona, the capital of Aragon:   
   > the humble religious was not able to avert the blow, as he called it,   
   > by tears and entreaties; but the anxiety brought on a serious illness.   
   > To restore him to health his Holiness was obliged to consent to excuse   
   > him, but required that he should recommend a proper person.   
   >   
   > For the recovery of his health St. Raymund returned to his native   
   > country, was received with as much joy as if the safety of the kingdom   
   > depended on his presence. Being restored again to his dear solitude at   
   > Barcelona be continued his former contemplation, preaching and work in   
      
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