ENDNOTES

(1)John Paul II, Augustinum Hipponensem: Apostolic Letter on the Occasion of the 16th Centennial of Augustine's Conversion in L'Osservatore Romano 15 Sept. 1986 5. Emphasis, mine.

(2)Gilson, Etienne, The Christian Philosophy of St. Augustine, (New York: Octagon Books) 1983 (reprint), p. 136

(3)Tarcisius van Bavel. "Christians in the World: Introduction to the Spirituality of St. Augustine" in John Rotelle OSA (ed.) Spirituality for Today vol. II. Catholic Book Publishing Company: NY 1980, p. 60

(4)John Paul II, Sollecitudine Rei Socialis, n. 38. CCC n. 1939 vaguely identifies it as 'friendship' or 'social charity'.

(5)Cf. Serm Guelferb., XIX, 2 in Miscellanea Agostiniana, I. Rome: 1930, p. 503. Compare with Gaudium et Spes 88.

(6)cf. Esmeralda OSA, "Being Church in an Academic Setting I" in Communitas, Jan-Mar 1996, p. 7

(7)cf. Rule for Augustinian Seculars, op. cit. n. 31 where the word "inwardness" is used. The term "interiority" is the Anglicization of "interioridad" (Spanish) and "interiorità (Italian)."

(8) Augustine has not left us a definition of humility. The following definition, though coming from a contemporary author, has some 'Augustinian' ring to it: "Humility is the moral virtue by which the human will accepts readily the fact that all a person's good -- nature and grace, being and action --is a gift of God's creative and salvific love, and by which one wants consequently to 'unself' the self radically in thought, word and deed, in order to be true to his (natural and supernatural) being." G. Gilleman, "Humility" in The New Catholic Encyclopedia, vol. VII, p. 235. In Michele Cardinal Pellegrino. Spiritual Journey: Augustine's Reflection on the Christian Life. Augustinian Press: 1996, pp. 35-65 one finds an ample treatment of 'humility'.

(9)Letter 118, 22

(10)John Paul II, Fides et Ratio. (http://www.vatican.va), n. 33

(11)Ibid. n. 34

(12)Gandolfo, Emilio. L'esperienza umana alla luce della Bibbia (Istituto Propaganda Libreria), p. 50.

(13)Liber tibi sit pagina divina, ut haec audias; liber tibi sit orbis terrarum, ut haec videas (In ps. 44, 7)

(14)Gandolfo, op. cit. pp. 50-51

(15)Esmeralda OSA, "Augustinian or Agustin yan?" in Communitas, June - July 1995, p. 4, col. 1

(16)Etienne Gilson, op. cit., p. 151. Emphasis mine.

(17)Joseph M. Colleran, CSSR (trans.) "Augustine's The Teacher" in Ancient Christian Writers vol. 9, (The Newman Press: Maryland), 1964, p. 186

(18)Cf. Martin Nolan OSA. "Education Inside Out: St. Augustine and the Interior Master" in A Tribute to St. Augustine compiled by Dr. Felicisma Campos, pp. 71-84. The article is a presentation of Augustine's philosophy of education for non-specialists.

(19)The description of the CCC continues thus: "Human freedom is a force for growth and maturity in truth and goodness; it attains its perfection when directed toward God, our beatitude." (cf. 1731) The italicized phrase gives the description its Christian orientation. (Catechism of the Catholic Church. ECCCE/Word and Life Publications: Manila) 1994.

(20)This Augustine called "lesser freedom." 'Lesser freedom' is freedom that is merely external and coincides with an interior slavery to moral negativities (=sin) which in turn impedes the full development of the person." Autores varios Valores Augustinianos Pensando en Educacion, Publicaciones F.A.E. p. 20

(21)John Paul II, Augustinum Hipponensem.

(22)Tract. In Io. 7:8