ST AUGUSTINE ON THE ONLY WAY TO CONTROL THE SEXUAL APPETITE

[Michie]

In 8 years time, 1,600 years will have passed since St Augustine died on August 28th, in the year 430. Augustine's influence still looms large over us today, and while he lived a long time ago, human nature never changes and his advice on controlling the carnal is as instructive now as it was then. Augustine was hostage to his own fleshly desires, and he lamented, "the habit of satisfying an insatiable appetite grievously tormented me, its captive". His sainted mother, Monica orchestrated for him to be married so that he could have relations within marriage which would thereby not be sinful. Augustine, however, did not want to marry, in fact, he was the opposite of those of us who feel we were made for marriage and he admitted, "I was not so much a lover of marriage as a slave to lust".



While he waited for his fiancée to come of age, his mistress (the mother of his son) left him for good because she was going to be ditched anyway in favor of a wife and her leaving caused Augustine heartbreak, "My heart still clung to her: it was pierced and wounded within me, and the wound drew blood from it." Nonetheless instead of waiting to get married, Augustine took a second mistress, and he later wrote, "By her my soul's disease would be fostered...not yet healed within me was that wound which had been made by the cutting away of my former companion."

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ST AUGUSTINE ON THE ONLY WAY TO CONTROL THE SEXUAL APPETITE

 

[eastcoast_bsc]

It’s comforting to know that St. Augustine was once an absolute slob like me. Lol

 

[WarriorAngel]

It’s comforting to know that St. Augustine was once an absolute slob like me. Lol

According to his confessions... he had quite the past.