INTERIORITY MOMENT

Prayer to the Holy Spirit (St. Augustine)

Breathe in me, O Holy Spirit, that my thoughts may all be holy.
Act in me, O Holy Spirit, that my work, too, may be holy.
Draw my heart, O Holy Spirit, that I love but what is holy.
Strengthen me, O Holy Spirit, to defend all that is holy.
Guard me, then, O Holy Spirit, that I always may be holy.
Amen.

With one mind and one heart.

Intent upon God.

St. Augustine…Pray for us.

Genie U. Pedrosa
Program Head, REED Dept.
 The Life and Teachings
of St. Augustine

Genie U. Pedrosa
Program Head, REED Dept.
 LEARNING OBJECTIVES
At the end of the lesson the students will be able to:
Doctrine:
1. discuss the life and teachings of St. Augustine;
2. identify salient persons, events and places related to
the life of St. Augustine;
Moral:
1. value and practice the teachings and virtues of
St. Augustine through concrete actions;

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Program Head, REED Dept.
 Worship:
1. develop the life of interiority through silence and
prayer.

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Program Head, REED Dept.
Bill Gates

Mother Teresa

Can you name some influential

people who made an impact in
our society today?
Larry Page and Sergey Brin
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Program Head, REED Dept.
 St. Augustine of Hippo

St. Augustine of Hippo

St. Augustine of Hippo

Mother: St. Monica

Father: Patricius My heart is restless until it finds rest in You My God.

Hippo Regius, Anaba, Algeria

 • What do I know about our great
father St. Augustine?

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Program Head, REED Dept.
 St. Augustine of Hippo
Christian bishop and theologian

Latin name: Aurelius Augustinus

Birthdate: November 13, 354
Birthplace: Tagaste, Numidia,
Proconsularis, North Africa (now Souk
Ahras, Algeria)

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Program Head, REED Dept.
• 387: Baptism in the Cathedral of Milan, by
Bishop Ambrose
:death of St. Monica (Ostia)

• 388: He founded a monastery in his

hometown in Tagaste

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Program Head, REED Dept.
• 391: He was ordained as
priest by Bishop Valerius
and founded a monastery in
Hippo

• 395: He was ordained as

bishop and founded a
monastery for clerics

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Program Head, REED Dept.
 430 August 28: St. Augustine’s death
at the age of 76 in Hippo Regius
(now Annaba, Algeria)

Feast day: August 28

Bishop of Hippo from 396 to 430

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Program Head, REED Dept.
• In Roman Catholicism
he is formally recognized
as a Doctor of the
Church.

• Doctor of Grace

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Program Head, REED Dept.
Significant
Persons in the
Life of St.
Augustine

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• Patricius: His father,
an official of the town
and a pagan, but later
converted to
Christianity
• Monica: His mother, a
devout and faithful
Catholic from her
childhood, prayed for
the conversion of her
son and husband to the
Christian faith

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Program Head, REED Dept.
 • Navigius: His brother

• Perpetua: His sister, who

became a nun

• Adeodatus: His “God-given”

son; born out of wedlock from
his mistress

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Program Head, REED Dept.
 St. Alypius: His other half and the
brother of his heart, his town mate and
friend who later became the bishop of
Tagaste; his companion to Carthage,
Rome and Milan

St. Ambrose: The bishop of

Milan who was a very
influential person in the
conversion of St. Augustine

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Program Head, REED Dept.
 St. Jerome: A great biblical
scholar who became
Augustine’s consultant in
biblical matters

Romanianus: A wealthy man in

Tagaste who supported
Augustine’s rhetoric education in
Carthage
*Rhetoric – the art of effective or
persuasive speaking or writing
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Program Head, REED Dept.
 Salient Features
in the Life
of St. Augustine

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Program Head, REED Dept.
 • Augustine received a Christian education.
His mother had him signed with a cross and
enrolled among the catechumens. One when he
was very ill, he asked for baptism. But all
danger being soon passed, he deferred
receiving the sacrament, thus yielding to a
deplorable custom of the times. For nine years,
he was a member of Manichaeism.

• His twofold conversion (intellect and will)

was influenced by the following:
• Reading of Cicero’s Hortensius
• His meeting with St. Ambrose
• His reading of the Bible (particularly Rom.
13:13-14)

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Program Head, REED Dept.
The famous conversion of
St. Augustine in the Garden
of Milan: He heard a voice
telling him: “tolle
lege…tolle lege…(take and
read).

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Program Head, REED Dept.
St. Augustine took in his hand the
Sacred Scripture and uncovered the
text which led him to conversion.
“Let us conduct ourselves properly as
in the day, not in orgies and
drunkenness, not in promiscuity and
licentiousness, not in rivalry and
jealousy. But put on the Lord Jesus
Christ, and make no provision for the
desires of the flesh.” Rom. 13:13-14

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Program Head, REED Dept.
• After months of prayer and
reflection, Augustine, Adeodatus
and Alypius were baptized by St.
Ambrose in the Cathedral of Milan
on Easter Vigil, April 24/25 387.

• “Late have I loved You, beauty

so old and so new, late have I
loved You.”
-St. Augustine, Confessions

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Program Head, REED Dept.
 Once converted, Augustine and his
mother decided to return home to
Tagaste (Thagaste), but Monica would
never complete the trip. She fell ill
and died in Ostia, a city just outside of
Rome.
While Augustine and Monica were at Ostia, they talked one day about eternal life, and
together they experienced a vision of that joy.
While Augustine and Monica w
ere at Ostia, they talked one
day about eternal life, and
together they experienced a
vision of that joy.
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Program Head, REED Dept.
 St. Augustine,
a Great
Thinker and
Prolific Writer

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Program Head, REED Dept.
 Three Great Books:

• City of God – his masterpiece

in Philosophy and History
• Confessions – his
autobiographical work which
includes his threefold
confessions of his sins, faith and
praises of God
• De Trinitate – discusses the
Trinity in the context of the logos

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Program Head, REED Dept.
He was a courageous defender of faith and spiritual
leader. He defended the Church against paganism and
heresies:
•Manichaeism – founded by Mane which
teaches that man’s spirit is
from God and his body is from evil
•Pelagianism – founded by Pelagius which
teaches that man’s freewill to do good is
enough to achieve salvation without God’s
grace
•Donatism – founded by Donatus, believed
that the validity of the sacraments depends
on the worthiness of the minister
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 Restless is My Heart

You have made me for

Yourself, for You
alone My God; and
restless is my heart, ‘til it
Rests in You.

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PERSONAL REFLECTION: MS Teams

What is the significance of knowing St.

Augustine?
What can I learn from the life and examples of
St. Augustine?
How can I apply these learning with regards to my
own relationship with God?

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Program Head, REED Dept.
While Augustine and Monica were
at Ostia, they talked one day about eternal
life, and together they experienced a vision
of that joy.

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Program Head, REED Dept.
 INTERIORITY MOMENT

Prayer by Saint Augustine

I beg of You, my God, let me know You and

love You so that I may be happy in You. And
though I cannot do this fully in this life, yet let
me improve from day to day till I may do so to
the full. Let me know You more and more in
this life, that I may know You perfectly in
heaven.
Let me know You more and more here, so
that I may love you perfectly there, so that
my joy may be great in itself here, and
complete in heaven with You.
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 O Truthful God, let me receive the
happiness of heaven which You promise
so that my joy may be full. In the
meantime, let my mind think of it, let my
tongue talk of it, let my heart long for it,
let my mouth speak of it, let my soul
hunger after it, let my flesh thirst after it,
let my whole being desire it, until such
time as I may enter through death into
the joy of my Lord, there to continue
forever, world without end. Amen.

With one mind and one heart…intent

upon God.
Genie U. Pedrosa
Program Head, REED Dept.