Saturday, October 2, 2021

Augustine not Functioning as if the Bible is Formally Sufficient

 

 

We read in the books of the Maccabees that sacrifice is offered for the dead. Yet, even if it were read nowhere in the Old Testament, the authority of the universal Church which clearly favors this practice is of great weight, where in the prayers of the priest which are poured forth to the Lord God at His altar the commemoration of the dead has its place. (“The Care to be Taken for the Dead,” chapter 1, 3 , translated by John A. Lacy, in Treatises on Marriage and Other Subjects [The Fathers of the Church 27; Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 1955, 1985], 353)