Augustine

This is my second draft. If you guys are willing to read the whole thing, let me know where I can improve this. Thanks, Ryan. It is hours before sunrise on Wednesday morning and I am awakened by two raccoons crawling all over me. I rip my sleeping bag off my shivering body, bolt out of my [...]

Palencia Open House Today Saturday March 8, 2008 1-3pm Resale homes will be open for Buyer viewing.  Stop by the Gate to Receive the Map and List of Open Houses. Details about Palencia in St. Augustine FL Master plan community of 1,450 ...

There is a lot to do in St. Augustine. St. Augustine is America’s oldest city and you won’t be disappointed with a visit to the nations oldest city. The town is chock full of history. It has some great restaurants and places to shop. What you might not know is that St. Augustine has a large art community. If you find yourself there on the first Friday of the month you should check out the St. Augustine Artwalk. This is starting on December 7th and 8th and will be continued each first Friday of the month thereafter. Whether you are a well seasoned art patron or are a novice looking to learn more I think you will find this to be a good time. Tours begin at Rembrandtz Fine Gifts for Fun People and will start at 5:00 and stop at 9:00. Best of all this is totally free. How can you turn down an opportunity like that? I have been to St. Augustine and it is a great town but it is on the pricey side. This is something you can do with your entire family and it won’

Calling all art and music lovers. In the oldest city in America at St. Augustine, Florida, art galleries in the area will sponsor free self-guided monthly Artwalk on Friday and Saturday December 7 and 8 and every first weekend thereafter of each month. The St. Augustine Artwalk will showcase the eclectic collection of art in North Florida at its finest. And it's not only art,painting and photography, music will also be a part of it.A weekend in this awesome place will surely be a feast for the ears and one's eyes. It's considered as one of the most popular cultural events on this side of Florida. For people outside of Florida, why not make it a weekend get-away? Being able to immerse oneself in the culture will help one appreciate the art and architecture in this lovely place. The city's brick lined streets, horse carriages, fort and grand hotels are also added attractions. Not to forget the famous beaches too. You'll probably make that weekend get-away a full week holiday because

I love artwork and exhibits. In fact, I‘ve been planning to visit the St. Augustine Artwalk just for the fun of it. I’m sure they’re going to be a lot of fun. St. Augustine, Florida is America’s oldest city and is home to many artists and art lovers. This First Friday Weekend Art Walk in St. Augustine is happening on Friday and Saturday, December 7th and 8th along with the first weekend of each month thereafter. At St. Augustine, the city comes alive with music and art exhibits. So whether you’re an art lovers, painting, photography, music or architecture, then I’m sure you’re going to enjoy this event. Well, I’m interested in painting and photography myself. The art galleries of St. Augustine sponsor free, self guided monthly Artwalks featuring the finest collection of eclectic art in North Florida. There is a free parking and free sightseeing train and trolley tours are also available. You can explore whatever type of art tickles your fancy from painting to p

Protestant apologists, especially of the Reformed/Calvinistic variety, love to claim Augustine as an early Church Father who professed their unique beliefs on grace, predestination, authority, and many other topics. I personally think such an exercise is an ahistorical grasping at straws and a false reading of a very Catholic man.Dave Armstrong recently made a post on his blog that goes a long way towards proving that point. On all of the following doctrines, Dave has provided quotes from the works of Augustine that show the Catholicity of his thinking:Apostolic successionBaptism"Catholic" ChurchChurch authorityContraceptionDeuterocanonical booksEternal securityEucharistic adorationReal Presence in the EucharistFaith AloneIrresistible graceMary: Mother of God, perpetual virgin, sinlessSacrifice of the MassMeritMortal and venial sinThe papacy and the Roman SeePenancePrimacy and preeminence of PeterPrayers for the deadPurgatoryRelicsInvocation/intercession/veneration of the saintsScriptu

So how about this? A fun event held in America’s oldest city, St. Augustine, Florida! Just visit Events in St. Augustine to find out more details, but in essence this is a fun event held every month on the last Saturday night of the month. There are all sorts of music events, art galleries and exhibits, book signings and lots of exciting food vendors. All the shops down San Marco Avenue between Ripley’s Museum and The Mission of Nombre de Dios are open for this monthly event. Nombre de Dios even offers FREE PARKING!! Beginning at 5pm and going til 9pm, this sounds like a perfectly charming way to spend a Saturday evening. Even though it’s been yeeears ago, I have been to St. Augustine and still fondly recall how quaint a town it is. The area is just gorgeous! The next event is coming up November 24th and then again on December 29th. Go to the website and you can also see all the dates planned for next year! I’d love to be able to do this myself. And wh

I was talking to my cousin in Florida few minutes ago and she did mention about the St. Augustine shopping, the Uptown Saturday Night in St. Augustine, Florida. It is a festive atmosphere filled with hospitality and special deals. This event will occur on the last Saturdays in October and November which focus is on the incredible antique shopping opportunities available in the Nation’s Oldest City. On that evening, the antique district concentrated along San Marco Avenue comes to life with lively street music and endless opportunities to shop for antiques, rare books and even authentic Spanish treasure. I’m sure there’s going be a lot of fun especially to those antique collectors out there. I wish I can go there but it’s too far. During this monthly event, participating antique dealers provide great workshops covering a variety of antique related topics, book stores provide readings and book signings by local authors, and art galleries feature exhibit openings of some of th

When the Ol’ Man and I visit St. Augustine, we try to be aware of the local rules, even the ones that seem to have been written when the rule-makers were sipping a little too much somethin-somethin’ from the legendary Fountain of Youth.Not everybody is as attentive as we are, I reckon. We watched countless doodleheads walk by the sign in this photograph, and not one of them stopped to buss anybody. That's surprising for such a popular honeymoon destination.Maybe the sign confuses people, which is understandable. The top section grants permission for some healthy, non-idle, public lip-lock. But the bottom part isn't as open-minded as the upper, advising bussers of a 10-minute time limit and, even more puzzling, a stern warning of “no parking.”My sisters used to tell me that parking and bussing often naturally occur at the same time, in the same spot. So the restrictions on these complementary activities do seem a bit baffling, don’t you think?Oh well. Me and the Ol’ Man we

If you're planning a vacation to Florida, you definitely need to check out St. Augustine events like the Uptown Saturday Night which takes place from 5pm to 9pm the last Saturday of every month in the Uptown San Marco Shopping District, St. Augustine.Galleries, antique stores and unique shops between Ripley's Museum and the Mission of Nobre de Dios remain open during this special time. I've never heard of anything like this, but it sounds really fun! I've been to art showings, and book signings, but Uptown Saturday Night is a mix of all of these! I definitely love art, and also history, so it would be cool to visit the Nations oldest city during a night like this!Learn more about Florida Getaways by visiting the web site!Here you'll be able to meet the artists, attend book signings, listen to live music, and sample refreshments and other events that contribute to the party-like atmosphere. There's also FREE PARKING for Uptown Saturday Night.If you're into Antique Shopping, or

Pelagius (considered heretical): Everyone is born neither a sinner nor a saint. We become sinners through our own choices, but we could have chosen otherwise. Adam was just a single man and his sin did not affect anyone but himself. Just as Adam decided to be a sinner, so can we. When we are born we are just like Adam was before the sin of the fall. Everyone has the ability to either do good or to do bad. The reason why most people choose to be bad is because of the abundance of bad examples. This free will is God’s gift of grace to us.  Therefore, we can be perfect and without sin if we simply choose to. Further, man is able to find his own salvation. B.B. Warfield summarizing the view: “Man was thus a machine, which, just because it was well made, needed no Divine interference for its right working.”1 In short: denied original sin. Augustine: We are not only unwilling to do good, but also unable. Only Adam was born perfect, but as the result of his sin the f

recordado por la composición de la canción patriótica Rule Britannia incluida dentro de su ópera Alfred Thomas Augustine Arne (1710-1778)Uno de los mayores operistas ingleses y bregó por la constitución de una verdadera ópera nacional. Probablemente hoy sea recordado por la composición de la canción patriótica Rule Britannia incluida dentro de su ópera Alfred (1740, 2da. Vers. 1745). En su momento, varias de sus más de cincuenta óperas y masques[viii], entretuvieron al público inglés. Tuvo dos éxitos bastante cercanos con el estreno de la ópera cómica Thomas and Sally, or The Sailor’s Return (1760) y de Artaxerxes (1762), presentadas ambas en el Covent Garden. Esta última fue favorita del público durante mucho tiempo y subió a escena en numerosas oportunidades a lo largo del Siglo XIX. El motete, "Libera me Domine", fué compuesto en 1770 para un oficio fúnebre. Cuando esta obra fué cantada por el Coro de Radiotelefonía y propalada en 1928, se anunció que,

John Piper reads quotes of St. Augustine’s confessions and makes the correlation to the temptations that Augustine faced, with the temptations that men face in this “advanced” modern society which promotes the disease of pornography as if it were a tasty fruit. *NOTE: The reader is not Catholic, but he is reading the words of St. [...]

Awhile ago we took a long weekend and went to St. Augustine.  I love a good ghost story so we planned on doing a ghost tour while there.  St. Augustine is the oldest continuously occupied city in the continental United Sates. A city with that much history is bound to have its share of ghost stories. Mrs. Mai Tai looked through the available ghost tours and there are quite a few to choose from.  She chose the Haunted Pub Tour.  Awesome. You get to listen to ghost stories and you get to drink as it is essentially a pub crawl to allegedly haunted bars. We visited four different bars or it might have been three.  I don’t remember the evening got a little fuzzy.  I had my digital camera with me and the guide will tell you where to snap some pictures.  We walked past an old cemetery and the guide said take a few shots and see if any ghost orbs show up. I snapped a few and there was a white ball in the photo. It could be a ghost orb or it could be dust or particulates in the ai

"O Lord, do I love Thee? Thou didst strike on my heart with Thy word and I loved Thee .... But what do I love when I love Thee?Not the beauty of bodies nor the loveliness of seasons, nor the radiance of the light around us - so gladsome to our eyes, nor the sweet melodies of songs of every kind, nor the fragrance of flowers and ointments and spices, nor manna and honey, nor limbs delectable for fleshly embraces. I do not love these things when I love my God.And yet I love a light and a voice and a fragrance and a food and an embrace when I love my God, who is a light, a voice, a fragrance, a food, and an embrace to my inner man ... This it is that I love when I love my God ...That same voice speaks indeed to all men, but only they understand it who join that voice, heard from outside, to the truth that is within them. And the truth says to me: "Neither heaven nor earth nor any body is thy God." Their own nature says the same.They see that the substance of a part is less than that of th

I've been very busy today, and now I'm about to pass out b/c I'm so tired. But, I wanted to at least post something for today, the feast of St. Augustine. So, here's a link to an entry on St. Augustine that I made for the Catholic Defense Directory. It's a pretty good collection of articles on his life and thought. I hope you find it beneficial.Pax Christi,phatcatholic

It has been years since I have had a good Sticky Toffee Pudding. Honestly I have only had it 3 times prior– once in Ireland, once in Scotland, once in New York City. Do you know how hard it is to find it in America? Yes, yes you can get it in a can from Heinz, but is that good sticky toffee pudding? I don’t know, I don’t think I have ever had it, unless it was served to me in one of these places. God forbid. But in just those three occasions it has become my favorite dessert. I don’t like toffee in general, so I probably never would have had it if I ordered it from a menu. But once, I was in a restaurant and I saw a server walk by with this beautiful shining pudding, plated on top of a pile of silken vanilla custard the smell was out of this world! I decided right then and there I wanted it! Sticky Toffee Pudding despite its name does not taste like toffee. It tastes almost like a spice cake, and since that first time I have been hooked. As I have a sixth sense for finding

You know the saying “Ask and you shall receive”? Well I asked for good Cuban Food and St. Augustine, Florida delivered big time! I had a great foodie experience in St. Augustine enjoying Cuban food and all of my favorites, in one day! It was a big challenge, but I was totally up for it! In one day I managed to consume that wonderful Cubano Sandwich I had been craving, delicious Sangria, decent Gelato, the best Fish n’ Chips I have had in a long time AND the crowing glory, Sticky Toffee Pudding! Let me first say that St. Augustine is a wonderful place with so much to do. It is charming, full of unique and fun shops to window shop and just steeped in history. If you love interesting architecture, there is so much for the eye to enjoy. It is the oldest city in North America, it is where Ponce de Leon sought the Fountain of Youth and it houses the oldest restaurant in North America, which is where I was to find a great example of the Cubano Sandwich. Want a little history with your

Christians often use the term "The Fall" to describe the disobedience of Adam and Eve in the garden and their subsequent punishment. Not only does this punishment effect Adam and Eve but all of humanity. Augustine and subsequently Calvin (Protestants) viewed this state of fallenness as total depravity. Aquinas (Roman Catholic) was not as severe. For Aquinas, the image of God in humanity was tarnished but not shattered.For both Catholics and Protestants, a great deal of theological weight is placed on this little narrative in Genesis chapters 2 and 3. But when we simply read the narrative without Augustine's theology imprinted upon it, it really says nothing about a "Fall," certainly not to the extent that the church has emphasized it.The RC church (officially) still reads this narrative as historical. Conservative protestants do likewise. Liberal protestants have read this as mythical but containing psychological truth about the state of estrangement between humanity and Go