Shirota Letter

Saint Augustine 9-Month Reading Tracker

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Month 1: Confessions (Books 1–4)

Week	Reading	Completed	Notes
1	Book 1 – Childhood	[ ]
2	Book 2 – Adolescence/Sin	[ ]
3	Book 3 – Student Years	[ ]
4	Book 4 – Love & Loss	[ ]

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Month 2: Confessions (Books 5–9)

Week	Reading	Completed	Notes
1	Book 5 – Meeting Ambrose	[ ]
2	Book 6 – Growing Inner Conflict	[ ]
3	Book 7 – Philosophy & Platonism	[ ]
4	Book 8–9 – Conversion & Monica	[ ]

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Month 3: Confessions (Books 10–13)

Week	Reading	Completed	Notes
1	Book 10 – Memory & Self-Knowledge	[ ]
2	Book 11 – Time and Creation	[ ]
3	Book 12 – Interpretation of Genesis	[ ]
4	Book 13 – Spiritual Meaning of Genesis	[ ]

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Month 4: On Christian Doctrine + Sermons

Week	Reading	Completed	Notes
1	Book I – Love of God and Neighbor	[ ]
2	Books II–III – Scripture and Interpretation	[ ]
3	Book IV – Teaching and Preaching	[ ]
4	Sermons – Choose 3–5 (e.g., Sermon 43, 272, Ps 95)	[ ]

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Month 5: City of God (Books 1–4)

Week	Reading	Completed	Notes
1	Book 1 – Fall of Rome and Christian Response	[ ]
2	Book 2 – Roman Morality and Pagan Gods	[ ]
3	Book 3 – Disasters of Rome and Pagan Worship	[ ]
4	Book 4 – One God vs. Many Gods	[ ]

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Month 6: City of God (Books 5–7)

Week	Reading	Completed	Notes
1	Book 5 – Providence and Free Will	[ ]
2	Book 6 – Pagan Gods and Eternal Life	[ ]
3	Book 7 – Gods and the One True God	[ ]
4	Review or catch-up	[ ]

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Month 7: City of God (Books 8–10)

Week	Reading	Completed	Notes
1	Book 8 – Philosophers and Knowledge of God	[ ]
2	Book 9 – Angels and Demons	[ ]
3	Book 10 – Worship of God Alone	[ ]
4	Review or journaling	[ ]

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Month 8: City of God (Books 11–14)

Week	Reading	Completed	Notes
1	Book 11 – Origins of the Two Cities	[ ]
2	Book 12 – Nature of Angels and Evil	[ ]
3	Book 13 – Death as a Result of Sin	[ ]
4	Book 14 – Lust and the Fall of Humanity	[ ]

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Month 9: City of God (Book 19), Soliloquies, and Integration

Week	Reading / Activity	Completed	Notes
1	Book 19 – True Peace and the City of God	[ ]
2	Soliloquies, Part 1	[ ]
3	Soliloquies, Part 2	[ ]
4	Final Reflection / Summary	[ ]

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