27/08/2023
Today we celebrate st. Monica the mother of Saint Augustine.
“She had been the wife of one man, had requited her parents, had guided her house piously, was well-reported of, for good works, had brought up children, as often travailing in birth of them (cf. Galatians 4:19) as she saw them swerving from You. Lastly, to all of us, O Lord (since of Your favour Thou sufferest Your servants to speak), who, before her sleeping in You, (cf. 1 Thessalonians 4:14) lived associated together, having received the grace of Your baptism, did she devote, care such as she might if she had been mother of us all; served us as if she had been child of all.”
(Confessions IX, 9)
Happy feast day
Join us for the feast of St Augustine tomorrow. Mass at 10 am.
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