Day 24: Astrology and Permitting Evil (The Confessions of St. Augustine)

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🗓️ 25 October 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

If God is all-powerful and loving, why does he permit evil? This is what St. Augustine wonders as he ponders astrology and its allures. He recognizes the dangers in ascribing to astrology. Fr. Gregory Pine and Fr. Jacob-Bertrand Janczyk explain that this is also a common enticement for modern people. They remind us that if we abandon ourselves to Divine Providence, we can be confident that God will care for us. Today's readings are Book 7, Chapters 5-7.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Father Gregory Pine.
0:06.0	And I'm Father Jacob Bertram Jansik.
0:08.0	And you're listening to the Catholic Classics podcast
0:11.0	where we seek to grow our interior lives by learning from the church's greatest
0:14.9	Saints and teachers. Each season will read through a great work, explain its spiritual
0:19.3	principles, and help you apply its timeless wisdom to your life.
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0:27.0	This season we are reading Ascension's edition of Confessions by St. Augustine.
0:31.0	A few reminders before we get started. To download the reading plan for
0:34.1	Confessions, visit ascension press.com slash Catholic Classics or text Confessions
0:39.2	to three three seven seven. Click follow or subscribe in your podcast app for daily notifications.
0:46.0	This is day 24.
0:48.0	Today we will be reading Book 7,
0:50.0	Chapter 5 through 7 in the Ascension Edition of the book.
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0:56.4	follow up with us and three of our brother priests on the podcast God's Blaining.
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1:15.8	Before we get into the reading, a quick look at what we're covering today.
1:20.0	So as we're carrying on in Book 7, we're going to take up some of the same questions, the same themes that Augustine has been looking at so far. We're going to continue with the
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