Augustinian Call What does being an Augustinian mean to you? I think the most beautiful thing I cherish most is that I can share my life journey and pastoral work in the Church with my friends…not alone! The Augustinian Charism in today’s world I believe that the greatest service we can offer as Augustinians, is to be builders of communities…and to walk with every person…also in their questions. We should […]
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“Augustine Deformed: Love, Sin and Freedom in the Western Moral Tradition” huwa ktieb tal-professur John M. Rist, ippublikat fis-sena 2014 mill-Cambridge University Press. Kif nafu, Wistin stabbilixxa qafas morali li ddominat l-kultura tal-Punent għal aktar minn elf sena. Fil-preżentazzjoni tiegħu, xi drabi parzjali, ta’ xi wħud mill-kunċetti ewlenin tal-morali (l-imħabba, ir-rieda u l-libertà), madankollu, xi ħassieba sussegwenti f’tentattivi biex issir tiswija ta’ dan il-qafas, u fl-isforzi tagħhom, ta’ spiss aggrava
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Ġesù wkoll jagħmel survey żgħir …jistaqsi lil ta’ madwaru x’jaħsbu n-nies fuqu…u d-dixxipli jsibuha faċli u jgħidulu. Imma Ġesù jdawwar d-domanda għal fuqhom personali. “Intom min tgħidu li jien? Mhux x’nagħmel, imma min jien għalikom?..Hija domanda għalihom, għalik u għalija.. Domanda diretta. Min hu Ġesù għalija konkretament f’ħajti? Mistoqsija qawwija – li ġieli nsaqsu f’relazzjonijiet – għaliex tħobbni lili? X’infisser għalik? X’inhu l-iskop vera ta’ ħajti? Għalfejn għażilt din it-tip
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Who is he? When were you born and where did you live? I was born in June 1975 at Fgura. Where did you receive your primary; secondary and post-secondary education? At the local primary school and at the Lyceum Mikiel Anton Vassalli, Tal Handaq. I did my Sixth Form at Msida. When did you feel the call for a vocation with the Augustinians and what brought this about? Over many
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Water Is Thicker Than Blood, an Augustinian Theology of Marriage and Singleness, ktieb ta’ Jana Marguerite Bennett, ippublikat mill-Oxford University Press fl-2008. Mit-titlu wieħed igħid – imma b’mod xjentifiku d-demm huma aktar oħxon mill-ilma, u allura għaliex dan it-titlu? Dan il-ktieb jikkunsidra kif id-djar, l-familji u l-ħajja domestika huma relatati mal-Knisja. F’teoloġiji bikrija kienet iktar iglorifikata l-ħajja monastika bħala triq aktar diretta għall-ġid sopranaturali, filwaqt li ħassieba kontemporanji jaraw li
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L-imħabba ta’ Kristu li toħroġ mid-definitions tagħna/mill-kaxxi tagħna – Kristu ma jitkellimx “għax hekk suppost, għax dejjem hekk sar, għax hekk hemm miktub…” il-Mulej ma jitkellimx mir-riġidità tal-liġi imma mil-liġi tal-imħabba. L-imħabba tal-Mulej tħawwad lil kulħadd – minflok keċċa lil midinba, laqagħha u aċċettaha flimkien mal-ġesti li bdiet tagħmel, ma bediex jiddubita minnha. Aħna fil-ħajja tagħna kif qegħdin nakkumpanjaw lil dawn il-persuni li forsi qegħdin fid-dnub? Qegħdin niġġuddikawhom, nitkażaw bihom
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