{"id":8585,"date":"2003-02-21T14:32:19","date_gmt":"2003-02-21T19:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2003\/02\/21\/a-strict-account\/"},"modified":"2003-02-21T14:32:19","modified_gmt":"2003-02-21T19:32:19","slug":"a-strict-account","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2003\/02\/a-strict-account\/","title":{"rendered":"A strict account"},"content":{"rendered":"

St. Augustine (354-430), one of the greatest theological
\nwriters in Church history, was also a superb preacher. Huge crowds came to hear
\nhim, and he went on, as he admitted often, at great length in his sermons. <\/p>\n

Sometimes, after a long discourse, he paused so his hearers could go out to
\neat; then, right after eating, they would come back for another long discourse.
\nWhen he sent them out for food, it was not that they looked tired. <\/font> <\/p>\n

"Go out and take some refreshment, not for your
\nspirits-for your spirits are, I notice, indefatigable; but go out and give some
\nlittle refreshment to your bodies, the servants of your souls, so that they
\nmay continue to minister to you; and when you are refreshed, then come back
\nto your real food.” (Ennar 1,20 on Ps.88, cited in “St. Augustine
\nof Hippo”, by Hugh Pope-p162).<\/font><\/p>\n

In accordance with a permitted custom at the time, people
\noften applauded him enthusiastically in church while he was preaching. This
\nmade him afraid. “Do you not realize that I…indeed, all of us,…will
\nhave to render a strict account to God for your applause? You surely do not
\nimagine that such praise does any honor to me?<\/font><\/p>\n

It is a burden, not an honor. A very strict account indeed
\nwill have to be rendered for it. For I am afraid lest when Christ comes to judge,
\nHe may say: ’You wicked servants! Gladly did you accept the praises of
\nmy people, while holding your tongues about things that meant death to them.’
\n" (PL 46,874-81-St.Augustine of Hippo)<\/font> [Full
\narticle by Fr. Robert D. Smith<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Last Sunday Fr. Bryce Sibley of Saintly
\nSalmagundi<\/a> posted this<\/a>
\nabout receiving applause after a homily. I wouldn’t be surprised to find out
\nthat Fr. Sibley felt the same way as St. Augustine did about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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