Fifth Sunday of Lent • Year A
In his Confessions, Augustine shares several key details of his life that had kept him in a state of death: the famous incident when he and his friends steal the neighbor’s pears from his tree, his fixation on bodily pleasure and lust, his wayward beliefs during his forays with the Manichees. Augustine found himself in this state of death, with no power of his own to overcome it. It wasn’t until his moment of conversion, when he found himself able to rise from such a state of spiritual death