Through the Church Fathers: Octob...

Through the Church Fathers: October 5

Through the Church Fathers por C. Michael Patton
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5 oct 2026
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Notas del episodio

No one hates his own flesh—not even the man who starves it. Augustine says the war is not against the body, but against a habit that has grown into it; the spirit wants a better peace, not a missing limb. Then he turns from the body to the morning sky. Dawn is present. Sunrise is not. We do not see future things. We see what already is, and from those signs we speak of what is not yet.

### Today’s Readings:

Augustine of Hippo — On Christian Doctrine, Book 1, Chapters 24–25 (Sections 24–26)

Augustine of Hippo — The Confessions, Book 11, Chapter 18 (Section 24)

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