{"id":566,"date":"2026-05-27T12:06:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T10:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agustinosconelpapa.com\/noticias\/what-characterizes-augustinian-spirituality\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T16:48:22","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T14:48:22","slug":"what-characterizes-augustinian-spirituality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agustinosconelpapa.com\/en\/news\/what-characterizes-augustinian-spirituality\/","title":{"rendered":"What characterizes Augustinian Spirituality?"},"content":{"rendered":"

What is needed, then, is a risky work of synthesis, almost a telegraphic exercise, to highlight the axes that drive the Augustinian vision of God and of the human person. These are the two great themes that alternate in his thought. As he says in the Expositions on the Psalms, we are a coin that bears God\u2019s stamp on one side and our own image on the other (Expositions on the Psalms<\/em> 66,4). Affirming transcendence does not mean giving up or diminishing what is human; on the contrary, it opens up an immense continent to be discovered.<\/p>\n

Around a few basic affirmations that give shape to Saint Augustine\u2019s spirituality there is a whole list of key themes: happiness, love, community, truth, friendship, the way of beauty, the desire for fullness and for searching, peace, prayer, the permanent and unfinished sense of conversion, solidarity, the Eucharist, humility, and the figure of Mary, model of the Church and of the believer<\/strong>\u2026<\/p>\n

Among the emphases that define Saint Augustine\u2019s spirituality, we could mention:<\/p>\n

The Bible, wellspring of spirituality<\/h3>\n

Saint Augustine was a reader and commentator of the Bible. To read it is to come into contact with Jesus Christ, in whom the whole revealed word finds its deep unity. Many quotations illustrate this idea: \u201cThe Old Testament is the New veiled, and the New is the Old unveiled\u2026 The veil is removed so that what was obscure may be understood. The Old Testament was closed because the key of the cross had not yet come\u201d (Sermon<\/em> 300, 3).<\/p>\n

The Word of God, as deep as it is fascinating (cf. Confessions<\/em><\/a> 12, 14,17), is spiritual food and good news proclaimed that lays the foundations of the Kingdom of God in history. What God communicates through the Word is not his mystery: in revealing himself, he offers his communion and his life. The Bible \u201cexhorts us to live well\u201d (Expositions on the Psalms<\/em> 90, 2, 1).<\/p>\n

The centrality of the person of Jesus Christ<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Christian spirituality and holiness spring from the person of Jesus Christ. In one of his famous sermons Saint Augustine says: \u201cChrist heals, Christ purifies, Christ justifies\u201d (Sermon<\/em> 292, 6).<\/p>\n

In the Confessions<\/em>, Saint Augustine presents Christ as the mediator between God and humanity, the way, the truth and the life (7, 18, 24). And in The City of God<\/em> he says: <\/em> \u201cThere is only one sure way against all errors: that the same one be both God and man; God, where we are going; man, the way by which we go\u201d (The City of God<\/em> XI, 2).<\/p>\n

Christ is the one true teacher (cf. Sermon<\/em> 134,1; The Teacher<\/em> 14,46), the truth that dwells in the inner self (Expositions on the Psalms<\/em> 109,36), the Lord of history (cf. The City of God<\/em> 8), the physician able to heal the sickness of sin (cf. Sermon<\/em> 63 A, 2), food in the Word and in the Eucharist (cf. Sermon<\/em> 56,10; Sermon 227,1).<\/p>\n

We are all one in Christ, \u201cmany Christians and one Christ\u201d (cf. Expositions on the Psalms<\/em> 126, 3), and we are called to be Christ himself (cf. Tractates on the Gospel of John<\/em> 21, 8). The motto on Leo XIV\u2019s coat of arms, \u201cIn the One (Christ) we are one\u201d, takes up the words Saint Augustine uses in the Exposition on Psalm <\/em>127,3 to explain that, although we Christians are many, in the one Christ we are one.<\/p>\n

The whole Christ, foundation of unity and mercy<\/strong><\/h3>\n

\"\"The union between the members and the Head makes us all one in Christ. This idea appears in many of Saint Augustine\u2019s texts, such as Expositions on the Psalms<\/em> 126, 3 or Sermon<\/em> 341.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat is the head and what are the members? Christ and the Church,\u201d we read in the Tractates on the Gospel of John<\/em> (21, 8). Paul\u2019s text in 1 Corinthians 12:12-27 supports his reflection on the whole Christ<\/em>. The image of the human body is very vivid, because everyone knows how the members and functions of their own body relate to each other.<\/p>\n

God is served in the human person, particularly in the disadvantaged: \u201cChrist is still in need here; he is still a pilgrim in this world, he falls ill and is imprisoned\u201d (Expositions on the Psalms<\/em> 86,5).<\/p>\n

This Augustinian vision of the whole Christ<\/em> is the deepest reason for caring for the fragile of the earth. Jesus\u2019 humanity becomes present wherever there is human breath: \u201cDo not complain, much less grumble, because you were born in these times when you cannot see the Lord in the flesh. You can; for he said: whatever you do to one of these little ones of mine, you do to me\u201d (Sermon<\/em> 103, 1, 2).<\/p>\n

Charity, the soul of spirituality<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Love and charity are terms Saint Augustine uses interchangeably, though sometimes with different nuances. Love, for example, can be disordered. He wisely warns: \u201cOrder your love. Look within, lest you love what you should not, or fail to love what you should. Order your love! Lest you love more what you should love less, or love less what you should love more\u201d (On Christian Doctrine<\/em> 1, 27,28).<\/p>\n

Charity, by contrast, is \u201cthe movement of the soul towards enjoying God for his own sake, and oneself and one\u2019s neighbour for God\u2019s sake\u201d (On Christian Doctrine<\/em> 3, 10,16).<\/p>\n

Saint Augustine looks over his personal history and the society around him and discovers that love is the driving force of life: \u201cEach one lives according to what he loves\u201d (The Trinity <\/em>XIII, 20,26).<\/p>\n

\u201cPeoples too are defined by their loves. To see what a people is like, you must examine what it loves\u201d (The City of God<\/em> XIX, 24). If love withers, life is paralysed (cf. Expositions on the Psalms<\/em> 85,24).<\/p>\n

The fervour of his conversion did not lead Saint Augustine to live love in a purely vertical direction. \u201cTo love and to be loved\u201d (Confessions <\/em>3, 1,1) was the task of all his days.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnly a good love makes a life good,\u201d he writes in Sermon 311,11. \u201cWhat consolation is left to us in a human society like this, full of errors and hardships, but the unfeigned loyalty and mutual affection of good and true friends?\u201d (The City of God<\/em> XIX, 8).<\/p>\n

Interiority and communion: places of great encounters<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Interiority and communion are basic realities in the Augustinian narrative. Whoever is poured out and scattered among external things finds it hard to enter within (On Order <\/em>2, 11,30) and lives as an exile.<\/p>\n

Only when a person enters within himself (On True Religion<\/em> 39, 72,73), steps back from the life of the senses (On Order<\/em> 1, 1,3) and returns to his heart (Tractates on the Gospel of John<\/em> 18,10) is he able to know himself.<\/p>\n

A person without interiority is a stranger to himself (Confessions<\/em> 10,8), an anonymous being, without mystery, without curiosity. Interiority is the place of great encounters, of the deepest questions and the firmest certainties. \u201cReturn to your heart, and from there rise up to your God. If you return to your heart, you return to God from a place close by. If all these things trouble you, it is because you have gone out of yourself; you are an exile from your own heart. You are moved by the things outside and you lose yourself\u201d (Sermon<\/em> 311, 14,13).<\/p>\n

Interiority is the root of one\u2019s own life, the home of truth (cf. The Teacher<\/em> 11,38), the place for listening to the inner Teacher<\/em> and recognizing the truth that the human being carries imprinted within (cf. Letter <\/em>19,1). Saint Augustine discovers God as one more intimate to him than his own inmost self (Confessions <\/em>3, 6,11).<\/p>\n

Sense of the Church<\/strong><\/h3>\n

It is one of the unmistakable traits of Augustinian spirituality: \u201cLove the Church, which has begotten you for eternal life\u201d (Sermon <\/em>244, 1).<\/p>\n

The passing of the centuries and so many human traces have clouded the purest image of the Church. \u201cWe have often said, and we will say it as often again, that the Church has chaff and wheat. Let no one try to remove all the chaff before the time of winnowing comes\u201d (Expositions on the Psalms<\/em> 25, 2,5). Saint Augustine accepts and loves the Church of his time above all human weaknesses and the poor example of some of its members. \u201cLove the Church, for she has begotten you to eternal life\u201d (Sermon<\/em> 344,2).<\/p>\n

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At the service of evangelization<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Evangelization is \u201ca duty of love\u201d, he says in the Tractates on the Gospel of John<\/em> (123, 5). \u201cIf I do not share the Word of God, if I keep the treasure to myself, the Gospel terrifies me,\u201d he says in one of his sermons (Sermon<\/em> 339,4).<\/p>\n

The old dilemma between action and contemplation finds a harmonious solution in Saint Augustine. The mystical dimension, or interiority, flows into evangelizing action: \u201cI must have the greatest care for the Church entrusted to me. I am at the service of whatever may be useful to her; I wish not so much to preside over her as to be of use to her\u201d (Letter<\/em> 134,1).<\/p>\n

In an almost excessive pastoral zeal, Saint Augustine exclaims: \u201cI do not want to be saved without you\u201d (Sermon<\/em> 17,2). The house of God is the whole earth, and it is built up by reading his word, by love and by preaching the Gospel, he writes in the Exposition on Psalm<\/em> 95.<\/p>\n

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