How are we saved? What do we need saving from, exactly? And what, if any, is our role in the process of salvation? In this FRESHImage Presents, Tony takes Fr. Teilhard de Chardin’s poem, “Patient Trust,” as a point of departure in order to discuss how our very existence speaks to a desire for salvation. Then, drawing from the thoughts of St. Augustine of Hippo and St. Maximus the Confessor, Tony explains how it is precisely by sharing in the Paschal Mystery of Christ that our life this side of eternity becomes a pilgrimage of deification.
Music Written and Performed by Stephanie Wise
Works Cited
Fr. Teilhard de Chardin, “Patient Trust.”
Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC), 384.
St. Augustine of Hippo, The Trinity.
St. Maximus the Confessor, Ad Thalassium 21.
CCC, 399, 402-406.
St. Augustine of Hippo, Marriage and Desire.
St. Maximus the Confessor, Ad Thalassium 42.
Exodus 2:23
Isaiah 52:3-4
St. Maximus the Confessor, Ad Thalassium 61.
St. Maximus the Confessor, Ad Thalassium 22.
St. Augustine of Hippo, s. 293.7.
St. Maximus the Confessor, Ad Thalassium 64.
Tony Crescio is the founder of FRESHImage Ministries. He holds an MTS from the University of Notre Dame and is currently a PhD candidate in Christian Theology at Saint Louis University. His research focuses on the intersection between moral and sacramental theology. His dissertation is entitled, Presencing the Divine: Augustine, the Eucharist and the Ethics of Exemplarity.
Tony’s academic publications can be found here.