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FRANCIS PAROCHIAL SCHOOL

Talisay, Camarines Norte

MODULE IN GR. 12
AUGUSTINIAN SPIRITUALITY

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Topic : Lesson 7 – AUGUSTINIAN SPIRITUALITY (Search for Truth Interiority)

I. Introduction:

The two fundamentals principle of Augustinian Spirituality are community and mutual
love because must be considered as expressions or more strictly speaking – as
realizations of love of God.

II. Competency/ies:

Love our neighbor means to serve our communities so that we are giving back what
we received, some of the ways we can truly love our neighbor. Be generous; Be ethical; Be
fair; Be kind; and Be peaceful.

III. Specific Objectives:

 To identify the elements of Augustinian Spirituality.

 To grow in the practice of the love of God as a way of life.
 To pray for a grace to receive and to fulfill the call to love your neighbor as yourself.

IV. Pre assessment:

A. How is your spiritual life before you enter in Augustinian school?

B. How the Augustinian School help to develop your Spirituality?

C. What are the ways/ activities of the Augustinian school that help
to shape and grow the spiritual life of every student?

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V. Lesson Inputs: Week 7

 AUGUSTINE’S SEARCH FOR GOD – FOR MEANING AND HAPPINESS

 What is spirituality and why is it important?
 There is an increased interest in spirituality because it deals with the
important questions: What is the meaning of life – if there is one?
 How should I live my life? What is true, what should I love and why?
 These are pressing questions today: are we happier? Life is externalized,
cultural relativism, no absolutes; define your own meaning, loneliness,
aggression, indifference. Lot of mental health problems.
 Christian spirituality: truth and love of God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
 Many different windows on Christianity – many ways of living Christ’s
teaching because the bible is too rich for us to live in its fullness: we have
limited capacity, have to make a choice of what we focus on. We are all
different – so will be attracted by different aspects of the Christian life:
action, contemplation, intellectual, social etc.
 Augustinian spirituality: the way he followed Christ, the focus he chose is an
attractive model for many people. What is that way?

Augustinian Spirituality

1. Augustine’s Spirituality developed as a religious life – He proceeded from

EXTERIOR to INTERIOR – from INTERIOR to SUPERIOR.
2. Augustine’s Spirituality is a spiritual conversion. It can never be understood apart
from his CONFESSIONS (Adam, David, Prodigal Son, St. Paul).
3. Augustinian Spirituality is the LIVING EXPERIENCE of a relationship with GOD and
with His PEOPLE. God is a personal-relating GOD. Our response of FAITH to a
relationship is spirituality.
4. Augustine’s Spirituality is rooted in the LIFE of the MIND and grows by the LOVE
of the HEART.
5. Augustinian Spirituality is that kind of personal life with GOD which Augustine had
so abundantly shared through his writings.
6. Augustinian Spirituality is the IDEAL of Christian life. The dominant
characteristics of Augustinian Spirituality are:
a. thirst for GOD
b. delight in searching for HIM
c. JOY in the TRUTH
d. willing submission to GOD’s sovereignty
e. commitment to contemplation
f. responsiveness to neighbor’s needs
g. UNITY with all in CHARITY

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 7. Augustinian Spirituality is interior and social, involving the individual and society.
Like the Trinity, man’s life with God - is interior while being wholly relational.
8. Augustine developed his spirituality in an age of rapid change and his spirituality
is all the more viable today.
9. Hallmark of Augustinian Spirituality is centered on the Trinitarian God and
experienced in human existence.
10. Augustinian Spirituality is properly called Scriptural Spirituality because
a) it is centered on Christ who is encountered in Scripture
b) it is not an emphasis upon one aspect of Christianity
c) it is a participation in the Trinitarian life.

VI. Learning activities:

1. Do you think we have something to learn from Augustine’s teaching on Spirituality?

2. “Let the root of love be in you: nothing can spring from it but good.” Does this mean that if
you have good intentions you can do no wrong? If so, do you agree? If not, what does it
mean?

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VII. Assessment:

Make a Reflection in this Lesson

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 Work Sheet
(lesson 7)

Name: __________________________________ Score ____________

Grade& Section:___________________________ Date : ____________

Explain the following based on your learnings, observation, and experience

in the past year you stayed in the Augustinian School.

A. How this following will reflects on you as a student of Augustinian school.

a. thirst for GOD

b. delight in searching for HIM
c. JOY in the TRUTH
d. willing submission to GOD’s sovereignty
e. commitment to contemplation
f. responsiveness to neighbor’s needs
g. UNITY with all in CHARITY

B. “Let the root of love be in you: nothing can spring from it but good.” Does this mean that
if you have good intentions you can do no wrong? If so, do you agree? If not, what does
it mean?

C. “Love, then, is God.” What does this mean?

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