St Augustine in his Confessions famously said, “You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it rests in you.”
There is another side to this which is not so often quoted and familiar. St Augustine also said that the devil, the prince of the world, is the author of constant change. When people get tired of unending change, they turn to the unchanging God, and find Him in His Church which, like Him, is unchanging.
St Augustine also is known for defining peace as “The tranquility of order”. He also defined the boundary of the Church as “peace”.
Taking these together, one can see that, at least from an
Augustinian perspective, Order is an attribute of the Church, while Disorder is
not. Thus, it stands to reason that to promote disorder is not an act of the Church,
but of churchmen who stand outside the Church’s boundaries, and attempts to
change the Order established by God represent not the unchanging God, but the
prince of this world.
