merits and be aided by their prayers. But it is done in such a way that our altars
are not set up to any one of the martyrs, – although in their memory, – but to God
Himself, the God of those martyrs...That worship, which the Greeks call Latria and
for which there is in Latin no single term, and which is expressive of the subjection
owed to Divinity alone, we neither accord nor teach that it should be accorded to
any save to the one God.”
On the Good of Marriage (401 AD):
24
“These are the goods because of which marriages are considered good: children,
fidelity, and sacrament...The good of marriage among all nations and among all
men consists in the cause of generation and the fidelity of chastity. When there is
question of the people of God, however, another good can also be found: the
sanctity or sacredness of the sacrament.”
Letter to Boniface, A Bishop (408 AD):
98, 9
“Was not Christ immolated only once in His very Person? In the Sacrament,
nevertheless, He is immolated for the people not only on every Easter Solemnity
but on every day; and a man would not be lying if, when asked, he were to reply
that Christ is being immolated. For if the Sacraments had not a likeness to those
things of which they are Sacraments, they would not be Sacraments at all; and they
generally take the names of those same things by reason of this likeness.”
To Proba (412 AD):
Ep. 130, 12
“The Lord’s Prayer is the most perfect of prayers, because if we pray aright we
can say naught else save what is set down in that Prayer. For Prayer is in some
sort the expression before God of our desires; consequently we can only rightly ask
in our prayers for what we can rightly desire. Now in the Lord’s Prayer we not
only find all the petitions that we can rightly desire to make, but they are set down
in the very order in which we ought to desire them, so that this Prayer not only
teaches us how to ask but serves as a guide to all our desires.”
Nature and Grace (415 AD):
36, 42
“With the exception therefore of the Holy Virgin Mary, in whose case, out of
respect for the Lord, I do not wish there to be any further question as far as sin is
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