The importance of St. Augustine between parents and doctors of the Church is comparable to that of St Paul among the apostles. As a writer, was prolific, convincing and a brilliant stylist. His best known work is his autobiography, Confessions (398-400). [1] When Augustine wrote the Confessions, between 398-400 years, his focus had changed dramatically. On the one hand, was a distance of more than thirty years of most of the facts and events mentioned in them; secondly, its moral and psychological state had changed completely.
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The Confessions were written about fifteen years after the ecstasy of Ostia, which gives us a rough idea of perfection and holiness that it has left us Holy reflected in the book X affecting them. [2] Problem Central and development. "That dispute was not in my heart rather than the fight for myself, against myself." [3]
It is difficult to assume that a Saint has not been perfect, worthy of replication and full of virtue throughout his life, St. Augustine not only rebels in Confessions its virtues, its perfections Beatitudes and religious, instead looking to do that every reader to identify with him, and it is true that not all men enjoy those virtues of which requires a saint, by contrast, men are full of sins and difficulties in their lives, and it is here, where Saint Augustine seeks to tell her story No more of this if not a projection for all to read. Augustine invited the Christian conversion, rather than a literal manner, without putting himself as an example, one more case to recount.
"It begins speaking of sin in children, and is not so certain that children are sinful if not that this gives the tone at the beginning of a life fallible, at this stage is also where education is given to us as a necessity and his time as a punishment for so-called because the punishment was not only type of school if not physical, is significant as Augustine (not yet recognized as a saint, canonically) fervently asked God not to punish, not suppress it, and is that mortals in general tend to pray to God in cases of pain, suffering and despair and above all forget who is everything when things go as they should, fear God invites us once again and security for anything else "[4].
The importance that I find in this book more than the life of a great man as St. Augustine, is the fascination and love that reflects his work to God, and it is the latter who lives by the truth and happiness. There is no need to behave as if they believe, but if you really cree and behavior is pure and virtuous then find beyond what seems only a set of laws, the truth of religion and also of happiness. This search is arduous, difficult and impertinent. "That dispute was not in my heart rather than the fight for myself, against myself," says the saint. This is for me the central problem of "Confessions", this man's struggle with itself, with its space, with its history, with his God and against their own gods, that fight does not end until the full and complete reconciliation with all things and consequently reconciliation with one that is full reconciliation and only way to reconcile at a time.
"And seeks Alabart man, small part of your creation ?..., ... You Excite him to do so, making them delight in Alabart, because we've done for you and our hearts are restless until they rest in ti. " [5]
It is not by the mere fact that this phrase is the first that presents us with St. Augustine to start its "Confessions", that I have from the start. I think this idea summed up quite appropriate Augustinian this work. From the deepest of their hearts, Augustine recognizes unworthy together with all mankind to praise the man who created and has done everything. But it is interesting to see how the Holy is not limited to feelings of indignation, but goes one step beyond, and dares, so to speak, and sing praise to the wonders of those who redeemed him and rescued him. "Certainly, praise the Lord those who seek it, because you are looking for him and that he found him praise." [6]
All work is a glorification and exaltation, to God, "creator of the body of souls," that does not stop at what a superfluous praise, but springs from the depths of the soul. It is an acclamation so simple, so humble, so transparent, so human, that is able to exclaim: Thank you Lord, because I Alejo you, so then your atrajeses me harder towards you! [7]
We also see throughout this book as the saint is touring his previous life of sin (in fact there are some things that really are not) from his childhood up to what he considers to have fully rested in the arms of the Lord . Draws attention sincerity, clarity, objectivity, with which St. Augustine, tells their falls, without falling at any time in morbidity, or dark and grotesque descriptions. What makes a simple but poetic way, but sublime at once daily, with an almost mystical language, while understandable and accessible to anyone who at least has an interest in reading. Nor are incurred at any time in a vain glory where someone has their deeds after the expiry, where someone has succeeded because it enhances what others do not. On the contrary, Augustine is often humiliates, is recognized as a creature of God, in sinful and worthy of God's mercy.
"And seeks Alabart man, small part of your creation? [8] Augustine, presents small, humble, in deserving and not worthy of the man who is approaching any mercy, but outside of that same mercy that radiates God. Ay, ay me, (the holy tells us) why grades went down to the depths of the abyss, full of fatigue and devoured by the lack of truth! [9] The same lack of truth that many times we have, truth itself, affluent and available to our whims and cravings, that truth which is nothing but a fallacy created in a circus newly assembled.
This play by Augustine, is not simply a text framed in his time and frozen in it, a work is not limited to his time and space like so many others. On the contrary, is a work that transcends, walking, moving and penetrating, until the deepest individual's current, modern and contemporary. And do not say this because so many other authors say that about confessions, I say this because in my case, has been the case. ... You Excite him to do so. [10] Particularly I very much agree with this approach. It is always the same God, who moved to the search for him, although of course, be somewhat contradictory and confusing when we ask ourselves, how then God has preferences in your calls? Did more forceful call to San Francisco, St. Augustine or any other, that our appeal? I consider that there is no so-called preferential important or less important, I think there are more or less profound answers, searching more passionate or less passionate, we take risks or armchairs in which we lie. Looking at the way we spoke of the saint, in his previous life of sin, as well called him, there is no conformist passivity, there is an individual who in the depths of his being, looking call, plays doors, falls and with the help of high returns and rises. But the search is arduous, difficult and sometimes heavy, doubts lead us with every step to agnosticism, to pessimism, a momentary atheism but tiresome, to despair, spiritual crises, but in the end, lead us to rest on the Father's hands. "… Making them delight in Alabart, because we've done for you." [11] St. Augustine more than once raised his fear of suffering, abandonment, or to say that, obviously fear that later achieved completely overcome. But the fact is, fear that after the man who is pure love, which require far, the only thing it does is approaching us at love for us to be happy. That same happiness and fullness of love that succeeded the holy experiment after conversion process. Well, as he himself says, since he lived and what you saw, "beams that our heart will delight in Alabart because we've done for you." [12]
"… And our heart is restless until it rests in you." [13] Finally, after a long journey search of unsuccessful attempts, forced encounters, situations sins and humiliation. Augustine of Hippo, be fully achieved with his God. A meeting, which involves a reconciliation with all that exists. A reconciliation with itself, with its past marked largely by his passions and blunders, a reconciliation with their society, with all those who introduced him by false and wrong paths. In the background, while at first, a reconciliation with his God, his creator, accepted the creature as small, humble and small, unworthy dessert in the eyes of its creator but always knowing thank him for everything that has happened , For his mother who never gave up on launch on track, and by the same God who always sought and never left.
We all have a rebellious heart, restless, insatiable, eager to test and experiment with new situations and experiences that fill this vacuum inexhaustible that always makes us look more and more, it has no substance. The Holy of Hippo, has given us their testimony through their words, which have remained for centuries. The answer is simple yet hard to put into fullness. This is where God rest our storm water, our desires and passions, our lust for glory and welfare, our desires to love and not being able to do so.
What we do not have to say as Augustine one day, "… then you loved". Because we do not know and unfortunately the day or the hour of the end of our opportunities and it is likely that for us there is no "then you loved" because the future do not know anyone. Let's start now without waiting for tomorrow, a post at a later, to rest and fully our hearts restless, as it did one day Augustine, in the beauty always old and always new, that is God.
Bibliography
[1] ANOZ, Joseph. Thinking with St. Augustine. Madrid: Spanish Augustinian Federation, 1996. [2] Library Authors Christians. Works of Saint Augustine, Confessions II, pp. 32 [3] St. Augustine, Confessions. [4] ANOZ, Joseph. Thinking with St. Augustine. Madrid: Spanish Augustinian Federation, 1996. [5] Library Authors Christians. Works of Saint Augustine, Confessions II, Pg. 73 [6] Ibid. Pp. 458 [7] Ibid. Pp. 369 [8] Ibid. Pp. 73 [9] Ibid. Pp. 141 [10] Ibid. [11] Ibid. [12] Ibid. [13] Ibid.
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