Friday, June 03, 2011

The festival without which there would be no festivals

Ascension Day... "that festival which confirms the grace of all the festivals together, without which the profitableness of every festival would have perished. For unless the Saviour had ascended into heaven, his nativity would have come to nothing ... and his passion would have borne no fruit for us, and his most holy resurrection would have been useless."
 Attributed to St Augustine - bonus points to anyone who has a citation
HT: Philip Robertson on The Face Book
Posted by Marc Lloyd at 9:57 am
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2 comments:

Thomas Renz said...

J.G. Davies, He Ascended Into Heaven: A Study in the History of Doctrine (Bampton Lectures 1958) which can be read online at http://www.archive.org/details/heascendedintohe013115mbp offers the following as the source on page 170:

Sermo 53.4 (Cott. Sekc. SS. Ecclesiae Patnm, ed. D. A. B. Caillau, 1318, 1842, p. 278).

Alas, I could not find it at http://www.augustinus.it/links/inglese/index.htm.

10:50 pm
Marc Lloyd said...

Oh, Dr Renz a gold star to you! Yes, I ought to have Googled it!

5:32 am

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