Announcing Season 2 of Catholic Classics

Catholic Classics

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🗓️ 2 August 2023

⏱️ 3 minutes

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A new season of Catholic Classics is starting this fall! We are so excited to announce that for this season of Catholic Classics, we will be reading The Confessions of St. Augustine. You can download the reading plan and order your copy of The Confessions of St. Augustine at ascensionpress.com/catholicclassics.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Father Gregory Pine.
0:05.0	And I'm Father Jacob Bertrand Jansik.
0:08.0	And we're the hosts of Catholic Classics.
0:11.0	We have an exciting announcement.
0:12.0	Season 2 of Catholic Classics is coming out this fall. Classics. We have an exciting announcement.
0:12.5	Season 2 of Cathar Classics is coming out this fall.
0:15.5	And season 2 will be reading and explaining confessions by St. Augustine.
0:19.5	In the pursuit of holiness, it can be easy to believe that
0:22.2	Saint Hood cannot be obtained
0:23.7	due to our own weakness and our own sin. But one saint in particular shows us
0:29.2	with bold vulnerability that our weakness is not a barrier to the holy life, but rather an invitation, an opportunity
0:36.5	to enter into our Lord's mercy and His grace.
0:40.3	You've probably, at the very least, of the confessions of St. Augustine.
0:43.5	Maybe you've picked it up and given it a go.
0:45.7	Perhaps you've already read through the entirety of it, but the thing with a spiritual classic
0:49.6	is that we can always profit from it by engaging with the saint, with his struggle for sanctity,
0:56.1	with his relationship with the Lord.
0:57.6	And certainly in the case of St. Augustine, he's really keen or he's really attentive
1:01.6	to all of the dynamics that go into that relationship.
1:04.8	And so as he recounts his own motivations, as he recounts his own thoughts on the matter,
1:09.6	we ourselves receive an invitation to go deep with him and our own relationship with the Lord and to model our own lives off the honesty of the sincerity of his conversion.
1:20.4	When we hear of St. Augustine or think of picking up his confessions, it might be an intimidating
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