Sunday, April 13, 2014

Augustine

Norman Augustine, former Lockheed Martin chairman, and chairman of a working team of independent engineering and development industry experts appointed by Montgomery County Executive Isiah Leggett to advise him on repairs to the yet-to-be-opened, severely flawed Silver Street Transit Center.

St. Augustine, educator, author, philosopher, theologian
“Augustine is considered an influential figure in the history of education. … Augustine's understanding of the search for understanding/meaning/truth as a restless journey leaves room for doubt, development and change.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustine_of_Hippo

Archbishop Carroll High School, 4300 Harewood Road, NE Washington, DC
“Our school's founders intended it to be a model of academic excellence. To do so they asked the Augustinian fathers to run the school, which they did until 1989. St. Augustine remains our patron saint and a reminder of the erudition to which each of our students is called. His own life as a leading intellect in Roman North Africa lacked fulfillment until he united his learning with faith in God. He founded a monastery in which monks' treatment of each other was to reflect the love God had for each of them. So it is with Augustine as our inspiration that Carroll students are asked to take on a rigorous college preparatory academic program; to use what they learn to make the world around them a better place; and to learn every day how to reflect God's love for each of them in their kindness to each other.”
http://www.archbishopcarroll.org/historywe-are-carroll

Villanova University, Villanova PA
“The Augustinian Order has always been aware of the enormous influence that Saint Augustine’s legacy has exercised on its apostolate of higher education. This legacy is not so much a philosophical or theological system of thought as it is a dynamic vision of people living in community united in "mind and heart" in the ardent search of Wisdom. For Augustine this Wisdom is the Divine Truth itself, revealed in Jesus Christ, for which every heart is restless. As universal Wisdom, it is pursued in common with all humanity and is achieved by open, intelligent, responsible, and mutually respectful interaction of points of view. From its inception, the Order contributed to this search through its educational apostolate, motivated by Augustine’s own vision that "God would like to sow in every soul the seeds of intelligence and wisdom."
http://www1.villanova.edu/villanova/mission/heritage/tradition.html

John 8:32
“… and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” 


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