October 12

Living the Common Life

Here in Hippo the clerics have decided with God's favor to follow the community form of life. Anyone who in the future is found to have his own possessions will not be allowed to dispose of them, and I will remove his name from the list of clerics.

I trust in God that as these men have accepted my arrangement with joy, so too they will keep it with purity and fideltity.

-- Sermon 356, 14

Prayer. Lord, I am poor and needy, and you are generous to all who appeal to you.

-- Confessions 11, 2

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Tradition Day By Day The Augustinians - St. Thomas of Villanova Province


From John E. Rotelle, O.S.A., Augustine Day by Day: Minute Meditations for Every Day Taken from the Writings of Saint Augustine. Catholic Book Publishing Co. New York, 1986.


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