Day 49: Genesis (The Confessions of St. Augustine)

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🗓️ 19 November 2023

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Summary

What does the creation account in Genesis reveal? St. Augustine begins his examination of Scripture by reflecting on the creation of heaven and earth with a sense of awe and wonder. Fr. Jacob Bertrand Janczyk and Fr. Gregory Pine explain that St. Augustine’s reflection is an attempt to intellectually grasp the reality of creation rather than merely imagine it in his mind. Today’s readings are Book 12, Chapters 1-10.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Father Gregory Pine.
0:06.0	And I'm Father Jacob Bertrand Jansick.
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 principles,
0:20.0	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
0:39.2	to three three seven seven. Click follow or subscribe in your podcast app for daily notifications.
0:47.0	This is day 49.
0:48.0	Today we'll be reading Book 12, chapters 1 through 10 in the Ascension Edition of the book.
0:53.4	We wanted to take this opportunity to thank everyone who has helped support this
0:56.8	podcast financially.
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1:09.6	Before we get into the reading, a quick look at what we're covering today. So as we made
1:13.3	mention in the bonus introductory episode for book 12 here in this book we're
1:18.0	going to be working on the first chapter of Genesis still, specifically verse 2, but St. Augustine still in conversation
1:24.8	with some insights that he got from verse one, so he's kind of, you know, going
1:29.2	back and forth between the two verses and trying to draw out the conclusions or draw out the consequences of that type of reasoning.
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