Feast Day: May 4th
The Life of Saint Monica: Saint Monica must have felt disheartened and disappointed, but she never gave up on him. She even tried to enlist the help of a Bishop who had once been a Manichean himself, but he would not dispute with Augustine. He said he couldn’t reason with the young man, because he was still attracted by the novelty of the heresy. He did reassure her saying, “Go on your way, and God bless you, for it is not possible that the son of these tears should be lost.”…
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Saint Monica Pray to God for us
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A Bishop told Saint Monica… “The only thing that we can do for the young man, for the time being, is to entreat God for his Salvation; so calm down and have confidence in Divine aid, for it is impossible for the Father of Mercy and Compassions to leave in perdition a son who is mourned with so many tears.”
Saint Augustine wrote: “And now Thou didst ‘stretch forth Thy hand from above’ and didst draw up my Soul out of that profound darkness [of Manicheism] because my mother, Thy faithful one, wept to Thee on my behalf more than mothers are accustomed to weep for the bodily deaths of their children. For by the light of the faith and spirit which she received from Thee, she saw that I was dead. And Thou didst hear her, O Lord, Thou didst hear her and despised not her tears when, pouring down, they watered the Earth under her eyes in every place where she Prayed. Thou didst truly hear her.”
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