St. Augustine, How Are We To Be Delivered From Evil?
Question 61 Part I
What does “but deliver us from evil” mean?
When we pray, Deliver us from evil, we tell ourselves to consider that we do not yet enjoy the good estate in which we experience no evil. And this petition, which comes last in the Lord’s Prayer, is so comprehensive that a Christian, regardless of the trial he finds himself in, […]
St. Augustine, Does God Lead Us Into Temptation?
Question 60
What does “lead us not into temptation” mean?
Temptation comes about like a sort of inquiry in which man discovers who he is, for previously, he was hidden from himself, but not so hidden from his Maker.
from St. Augustine Answers 101 Questions on Prayer by Fr. Ermatinger
There is a complexity […]