Day 47: Measuring the Present (The Confessions of St. Augustine).

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🗓️ 17 November 2023

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Summary

How do we measure the present? As St. Augustine continues his examination of time, he focuses specifically on the passing of time in the present and the struggle of measuring it. This question points to his desire to understand our relationship with God who is the eternal present. Fr. Jacob Bertrand Janczyk and Fr. Gregory Pine reflect on the significance of time for understanding our human experience. Today’s readings are Book 11, Chapters 21-26.

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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.
0:23.0	The Catholic Classics Podcast is brought to you by Ascension.
0:27.0	This season we are reading Ascension's edition of Confessions by St. Augustine.
0:30.0	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 to
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0:46.9	This is day 47.
0:48.4	Today we will be reading Book 11 chapters 21 through 26 in the Ascension Edition of the Book.
0:54.0	We wanted to take this opportunity to thank everyone who has helped support this
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1:07.7	Before we get into the reading, a quick look at what we're covering today.
1:11.0	So as we're working through book 11, as you well know if you've
1:14.8	tuned into the last couple episodes, Santa Guston is wondering, questioning,
1:19.7	thinking about time. He's going to continue that today and he's going to focus on the question of how do we measure time? So essentially how does time pass and how are we experiencing the passing of time? In the previous chapters he agrees that time exists
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