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Love, Addiction, and Self-Reliance in The Confessions of St. Augustine | Sr. Jane Dominic Laurel, OP

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Augustine's Confession of Reason

Rome is upset but okay Rome's upset and not only the upset but on a practical level do because there's gonna be a ton of people here for his funeral our place is a mess. Five million people actually came to his funeral five million people the best the most well attended funeral in the history of humankind right it was God's dream that he not only become pope but he won of the most beloved popes that ever lived so this is like you know our wisdom human wisdom compared to God's wisdom  Augustine says Confessio is to surrender to yield our wisdom to his wisdom not because his wisdom is irrational it's super rational it's beyond our reason It's when you lose

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