{"id":27676,"date":"2013-04-24T07:04:04","date_gmt":"2013-04-24T11:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/04\/remembering-saint-augustines-c\/"},"modified":"2013-09-25T12:23:41","modified_gmt":"2013-09-25T16:23:41","slug":"remembering-saint-augustines-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/04\/remembering-saint-augustines-c\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Saint Augustine&#8217;s conversion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/tolle%20lege.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" alt=\"tolle lege.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2013\/04\/tolle lege-thumb-250x202-14259.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"202\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #323333;\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px;\">You may remember reading this phrase in the <i>Confessions<\/i>, &#8220;Tolle lege<i>.<\/i>&#8221; It means &#8220;take up and read.&#8221; As is well known that &#8220;while he was under conviction of sin, Augustine heard some children singing this phrase as they played &#8212; and he concluded that God was telling him to &#8220;take up and read&#8221; the Scriptures. And the rest is history&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #323333;\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px;\">The practice of Lectio Divina is essential for knowing the beauty of the faith.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #323333;\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px;\">Today, the Norbertine liturgical calendar celebrates the conversion of Saint Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, and their holy patron. Let&#8217;s pray for the canons of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daylesford.org\">Daylesford Abbey<\/a><\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may remember reading this phrase in the Confessions, &#8220;Tolle lege.&#8221; It means &#8220;take up and read.&#8221; As is well known that &#8220;while he was under conviction of sin, Augustine heard some children singing this phrase as they played &#8212; and he concluded that God was telling him to &#8220;take up and read&#8221; the Scriptures. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/04\/remembering-saint-augustines-c\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Remembering Saint Augustine&#8217;s conversion<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2571,2103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27676"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27676"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28543,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27676\/revisions\/28543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}