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Catholic Classics: The Confessions of St. Augustine Podcast
Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P. and Fr. Jacob Bertrand Janczyk, O.P. read through Augustine's Confessions book by book — 77 episodes tracing one of the most extraordinary spiritual journeys in human history.
Written in 397 AD not as a memoir but as a prayer, the Confessions follows Augustine across thirty years of restless searching — through philosophy, ambition, and grief — to the grace that finally caught him. Brilliant and radically honest, it remains one of the most widely read books in the Western world.
THE CONFESSIONS
Catholic Classics: The Confessions of St. Augustine - The Confessions
Augustine wrote the Confessions not as a memoir for readers, but as a prayer to God. Everything in it — the ambition, the wandering, the years spent searching in the wrong places — is addressed directly to the One he finally found.
For 1,600 years, readers have recognized themselves in Augustine. His restlessness is ours. His questions are ours. And so, in the end, is his answer.
THE JOURNEY
Catholic Classics: The Confessions of St. Augustine - The Journey
Augustine was one of the most brilliant men of his age — and one of the most unsatisfied. He pursued truth through Manichaean mysticism, through Neo-Platonism, through the rhetorical heights of Milan. None of it was enough.
The Confessions traces that search from his boyhood in North Africa to a garden in Milan where everything changed. It is not simply a conversion story. It is the story of what conversion costs.
THE PODCAST
Catholic Classics: The Confessions of St. Augustine The Podcast
The Confessions is dense, layered, and immensely rewarding — best read with guides who know it well. Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P. and Fr. Jacob Bertrand Janczyk, O.P. move through the text book by book, illuminating Augustine's philosophical and theological world without losing sight of the man underneath.
Seventy-seven episodes. One of the most extraordinary spiritual journeys in human history.
