St. Augustine, What is “Our Daily Bread”?
Question 58 What does “give us this day our daily bread” mean? When we pray, Give us this day our daily bread, the word this day, means this present time, in which we ask for all that makes up temporal blessings…and bread, means the sacrament of believers, which in this present time is necessary in order to obtain this felicity – not in the present time – but in eternity. from St. Augustine Answers 101 Questions on Prayer by [...]
Twelfth Sunday After Pentecost — Homily by Fr. Ermatinger
Allegory of Religion, Pompeo Girolamo Batoni, 1763-4 Transcription of Audio Translation of a Lesson from the Second Letter of St. Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians for the Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost. Brethren: And such confidence we have, through Christ, towards God. Not that we are sufficient to think any thing of ourselves, as of ourselves: but our sufficiency is from God. Who also hath made us fit ministers of the new testament, [...]