Saint Anthony of Padua Feast Day: June 13‚ 1231 A.D. I learned that St. Anthony helps people find their lost or stolen items through praying for his guidance or by saying a short verse “Saint Anthony‚ Saint Anthony please come around. Something is lost and cannot be found.” I have prayed numerous times to Saint Anthony‚ and he has never let me down. I’ve chosen Saint Anthony to be my lifelong mentor because something tells me that he will always guide me into the right directions in my future
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St. Francis and Clare March 11th‚ 2013 Francis Bernardone was born in Assisi during the middle ages. His dream as a child was to become a knight. However‚ once he began to fulfill his dream‚ he realized that God was calling him to do something else so he returned home. He began to pray and read the Gospel. Later in the movie‚ St. Francis started visiting the lepers outside of the city. People started to worry about St. Francis because he was spending more time with the lepers than he spent working
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Augustine (354–430) handout #1 – On Free Choice of Will‚ Book 1 Phil 201 – Dr. Tobias Hoffmann Augustine‚ On Free Choice of the Will‚ trans. Th. Williams‚ Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company‚ 1993. Q. Is God the cause of evil? (Books 1–3‚ pp. 1ff.) A. God does no [moral] evil‚ but he punishes the wicked and thus causes the evil of punishment. When people do evil‚ they are the cause of their own evildoing (1.1‚ p. 1). Q. Did we learn how to sin (i. e. to do evil)? (1.1‚ p. 1) A. Learning
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1. Why does Augustine draw upon the stories of Cain and Abel‚ Romelus and Remus‚ and Ishmael and Isaac? Essentially and importantly‚ during the period of Augustine there was turmoil and upset due to the fall of the Roman Empire. Along with the fall of the Roman Empire‚ many criticised the worship of Christianity over the old Roman Gods. This led to Augustine writing the ’City Of God’. Augustine was very much in support for Christianity and defended the Roman Empires official religion‚ as can be
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De Optimo Reipublicae Statu deque Nova Insula Utopia (translated On the Best State of a Republic and on the New Island of Utopia) or more simply Utopia is a 1516 book by Sir (Saint) Thomas More. The book‚ written in Classical Latin‚ is a frame narrative primarily depicting a fictional island society and its religious‚ social and political customs. The name of the place is derived from the Greek words οὐ ou ("not") and τόπος tópos ("place")‚ with the topographical
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Plato vs. Augustine on Memory Assignment: Plato and Augustine use memory in ways that are comparable and incomparable. What is the role or function of memory in their respective psychological writings? What are their differences? If they disagree‚ indicate how they would criticize each other’s work. Augustine begins describing memory as that of a house. He describes it as being a place where images‚ ideas and memories are kept. They can be accesses and stored‚ re-used and deposited as needed
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his sinning in that period by stating the he "can recall not a single trace." Saint Augustine continues his book by discussing his disappointment in the fancy reading and writings that he learned in school for the purpose of gaining honors and future wealth. He blamed his teachers for their misguided curriculums in the remaining portion of this book‚ and thanks them only for teaching him literacy. Saint Augustine finishes the book one by listing his sins in that era‚ but also lists what was good
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that of Augustine. One of the main arguments used by non-believers against the existence of God is the presence of evil and suffering in the world. The term ‘evil’ is often used to describe something that is morally wrong. Philosophers make a distinction between moral evil and natural evil. Moral evil results from human actions that are morally reproachable‚ and Natural evil results from the malfunctioning of the natural world‚ which produces entities such as disease and famine. St Augustine
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What we call evil is actually just a corruption of good. God created everything with a good intention‚ so everything God created is actually good. Augustine approaches the idea of evil by saying that‚ “evil had no being on its own but is only an absence of good” (44). Augustine explains this reasoning with the example of him stealing the pears. When Augustine stole the pears‚ he did not actually need them. He already had plenty of pears‚ so he did not steal them for nourishment. Also‚ the pears that
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faith and unbelief. These two powers are inevitably intermingled on this earth and will remain so until the end of time‚ which according to Augustine is when the second coming of Christ transpires. Augustine was certain that all of humanity belongs to one of these contradictory cities. An individual lives according to man‚ or lives according to God‚ as Augustine wrote “one is predestined to reign eternally with God‚ and the other to suffer eternal punishment with the devil.” (XV.1) Thus‚ these two
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