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Sin as Self-Sabotage: Saint Augustine on Ravishing One's Own Ruin

Apr 14, 2016
Swift Hall, Common Room
1025 E 58th St,
Chicago, IL 60637
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When St. Augustine innocuously yet infamously stole some pears in his youth, he confessed that he did it simply because he was in love with his own ruin.  Have you ever looked at your sins as the way you destroy that which you do not like about yourself?  Fr. Meconi’s talk will draw from this Augustinian insight that sin is really a form of self-sabotage, a way of keeping ourselves away from an intimacy and a love we all know we in no way deserve.