Audience with Pope Francis and Participants in the General Chapter of the Order of St. Augustine
On Sept. 13 at 10:20 am in the Clementine Hall of the Apostolic Palace, the Holy Father Francis received in an Audience the Participants in the General Chapter of the Order of St. Augustine.
Twenty-Fourth Sunday of Ordinary Time – Year C
One of the greatest challenges many of us face in striving to live out our Christian vocation in the real world, it seems to me, has to do with the issue of forgiveness. If the people we often see on newscasts – people who have been aggrieved, against whom some crime or injury has been committed – if such people are at all representative of the population at large, justice rather than mercy often seems to be the prevailing force that moves us.
Augustine For Today
SEPTEMBER 13 – SAINT JOHN CHRYSOSTOM
“The love of spiritual beauty can be of such a nature that in it I do not envy others. Rather, I wish to multiply its lovers so that they may aspire to it with me, search for it with me, possess it with me and enjoy it with me. They will be so much the more friends for me insofar as our beloved is more fully shared by all of us.”
Soliloquies 1, 13, 22
This Day in Province History: September 13, 1899
Augustinian Academy opened its doors to 13 boys, the first enrollments of the new school established at Austin Place, Staten Island, in the building that had formerly belong to the Visitation Nuns.
