St. Augustine, How Does Temptation Relate to Prayer?
Question 034. Christ says, Watch and pray, that you do not fall into temptation. What is the relation between prayer and temptation? What is to enter into temptation but to fail in faith? Temptation advances as faith lets up. And temptation yields as faith advances… He who fights prays, and would not he who is in danger pray? from St. Augustine Answers 101 Questions on Prayer by Fr. Ermatinger. Just as entering into faith [...]
St. Augustine, Is Faith More Than the Source of Prayer?
Question 033. So faith is merely the source of prayer? For St. Augustine, faith is more than prayer’s source. It is certainly more than trusting that his prayers are heard… God alone knows the things of God in their fullness… But he does communicate something of himself to man, and that is precisely the content of Augustine’s faith…Although we are deprived of the vision of God, giving our mortal state, we do attain it to [...]
St. Augustine, How Does Faith Relate to Prayer?
Question 032. What is the relation between faith and prayer? If faith lacks, prayer dies. For who prays for that which he does not believe?... So that we might pray, let us believe. And that this faith by which we pray not fail, let us pray. Faith pours out prayer and the pouring out of prayer, in turn, obtains the strengthening of faith. from St. Augustine Answers 101 Questions on Prayer by Fr. Ermatinger. [...]
A Message From Diadochus of Photike
Note: Diadochus of Photike does not mean 'Sing happy music to make the blues go away.' He means that in melancholy/discouragement, turn to the Pslams, which contain lamentations that look forward in hope. By joining one's personal distresses in with the distresses of the Pslams, the hope of the Psalms will become one's own personal joys. -- PPP