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St. Augustine: The First Catechetical Instruction is unavailable, but you can change that!

Written about the year AD 405, embodies both a manual for the catechist and a catechesis for the prospective catechumen.

certain look, all who see him understand that he is angry. But again, it is not in our power to bring forth those imprints which intellectual apprehension stamps upon the memory and, as it were, submit them by the sound of our voice to the perception of those listening, in any way parallel to the open and evident expression of the face. For the former are within, in the mind; but the latter is without, in the body. And, therefore, we may infer how much the sound of our voice differs from that instantaneous
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