It is a miracle…that a man should have risen again in the flesh and ascended into heaven with his flesh; but it is a greater miracle that the whole world should have believed something so unbelievable.
– Augustine, sermon 272A— Eric Dirksen (@EricJDirksen) May 19, 2021
The Lord Christ humbled himself, so that we might know how to be humble. Though containing all things he was conceived; though giving birth to all things he was born; though giving life to all things he died…
– Augustine, sermon 272A— Eric Dirksen (@EricJDirksen) May 19, 2021
Pentecost Lectionary:
Valley of Dry Bones
Sending of the Spirit
Psalm of Creation
Groaning of the Spirit
Jesus on why he must leaveThe lectionary is your friend.
Use it!— Eric Dirksen (@EricJDirksen) May 19, 2021
Augustine, to a newly baptized group, about to take the Eucharist for the first time: pic.twitter.com/APecCyqow6
— Eric Dirksen (@EricJDirksen) May 18, 2021
That gust was purging their hearts of worldly chaff; that fire consuming the straw of ancient lusts; those tongues they were speaking in, filled by the Holy Spirit, were prefiguring the Church of the future through the languages of all nations. – Augustine, sermon 271#pentecost
— Eric Dirksen (@EricJDirksen) May 18, 2021
What the soul is the body, the Holy Spirit is to the body of Christ. – Augustine, sermon 267.4#Pentecost
— Eric Dirksen (@EricJDirksen) May 18, 2021
They were new wineskins, the new wine was expected from heaven; and it came. That great bunch of grapes, after all, had already been trodden and glorified. – Augustine, sermon 267.1#Pentecost
— Eric Dirksen (@EricJDirksen) May 18, 2021
The Spirit is given to us so that God’s work may be done through us. – NT Wright in a sermon for Pentecost (May 23) 2010#Pentecost
— Eric Dirksen (@EricJDirksen) May 19, 2021
A regular feature of Augustine's Pentecost sermons is his suggestion that the Church itself is a miracle on par with the resurrection.
— Eric Dirksen (@EricJDirksen) May 19, 2021
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