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Absolutely! St. Augustine is right, as usual.

He also said:

"Christ is both the Priest, offering Himself, and Himself the Victim. He willed that the sacramental sign of this should be the daily Sacrifice of the Church, who, since the Church is His body and He the Head, learns to offer herself through Him." (City of God 10:20)

"What you see is the bread and the chalice; that is what your own eyes report to you. But what your faith obliges you to accept is that the bread is the Body of Christ and the chalice [the wine] the Blood of Christ." (Sermons 272)

"Nor can it be denied that the souls of the dead find relief through the piety of their friends and relatives who are still alive, when the Sacrifice of the Mediator is offered for them, or when alms are given in the church." (Ench Faith, Hope, Love 29:110)

That prayerful, meditative, genius of a man had a thoroughly Roman Catholic interpretation of Holy Scripture.

That prayerful, meditative, genius of a man had a thoroughly Roman Catholic interpretation of Holy Scripture.

So the fact he contradicts himself means nothing to you?

JH :)

"Christ is both the Priest, offering Himself, and Himself the Victim. He willed that the sacramental sign of this should be the daily Sacrifice of the Church, who, since the Church is His body and He the Head, learns to offer herself through Him." (City of God 10:20) "What you see is the bread and the chalice; that is what your own eyes report to you. But what your faith obliges you to accept is that the bread is the Body of Christ and the chalice [the wine] the Blood of Christ." (Sermons 272)

"Nor can it be denied that the souls of the dead find relief through the piety of their friends and relatives who are still alive, when the Sacrifice of the Mediator is offered for them, or when alms are given in the church." (Ench Faith, Hope, Love 29:110)

Wow I hadn't realized that Augustine was so er, ah, um eh ... Catholic back then. Now I realize why Jerome didn't care for him. Lol

JH :)