Hello. I hope you week is going well.
Yesterday, we remembered St. Monica and today we comminate he son St. Augustine, Bishop and Doctor of the Church.
Augustine was one of those success stories in the history of the Church. It was through the prayers and tears of his mother Monica that brought Augustine to become a Christian.
Augustine, like some other saints, led a rather “foot lose and fancy-free” life. But it was through his mother’s example, that he gave in to the promptings of the Holy Spirit and converted to the faith. He is seen as one of the Doctors of the Church and has left us a great number of works on Christianity. One of his better-known writings called “Confessions” which is an autobiographical work of his conversion to the faith.
Augustine’s words to us today should give us much to ponder, “To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him the greatest human achievement.”
What I have said before and I say again, the words of Oscar Wilde, ring so true about Augustine, “Every saint has a past, every sinner a future.”
Peace and All Good,
Fr. Vinnie, fcm and the
Bros and Srs of the
Franciscan House of Prayer.
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