ENDNOTES

(23)Esmeralda, "Being Church in an Academic Setting II", Communitas, July-Sept. 1996. p. 7.

(24)Cf. Augustine's Commentary on Psalm 131,5.

(25)"In Deum" literally means "unto God." The Latin "in" with the accussative is dynamic and implies directionality, intentionality. The phrase is also translated as "on the way to God" in view of Augustine's image of the People of God in pilgrimage.

(26)Brian Stock. Augustine the Reader: Meditation, Self-knowledge and the Ethics of Interpretation. Belknap Press (Harvard): Cambridge and London. 1996, p. 131.

(27)CCC, n. 1906

(28)RAS, nn. 21-22

(29)RAS, nn. 19-20.

(30)Canning, Raymond OSA (Trans.) Tarcisius van Bavel OSA's The Rule of Saint Augustine: With Introduction and Commentary. (DLT: London), 1984. pp. 90 - 91

(31)Cf. McNamara, Marie Aquinas. Friends and Friendship in St. Augustine

(32)As in Cicero's definition of friendship: ""The agreement on things human and divine accompanied by good-will and mutual love."

(33)Cf.Pellegrino, op. cit.. Pp. 185-208 is dedicated to the question of Prayer and Grace.

(34)Martin Nolan, OSA A Cry from the Heart: Conversion and Prayer Today Rome:1987, p. 10

(35) In ps. 37:14; PL 36,404

(36)Ep. 130, 15, 28; PL 33, 505-06

(37)Serm. 34, 2; PL 38, 210

(38)Agostino Trape, OSA "The Search for God in Contemplation" in Searching for God, 18.