August 27
Remember Monica, My mother
ay Monica, my
mother, rest in peace with her husband, before whom and after whom she
was given in marriage to no man. She dutifully served him, bringing
forth fruit to you with much patience, that she might also win him
to you. Inspire, O Lord my God, inspire your servants my brethren, your
children my master, whom I serve with my voice, my heart, and my writings,
that as many of them as read these words may remember at your altar your
handmaid, Monica, together with Patricius, formerly her husband, by whose
flesh you brought me into this life, how I know not. May they with a pious
affection remember them who were my parents in this transitory light, my
brethren under you, our Father in our Catholic mother, and my fellow citizens
in the eternal Jerusalem, for which your pilgrim people here below continually
sigh from their setting out until their return, so that my mother's last
request of me may be more abundantly granted by her through the prayers
of many, occasioned by my confessions, rather than through my own prayers.
From John E. Rotelle, O.S.A., Tradition Day by Day: Readings from
Church Writers. Augustinian Press. Villanova, PA, 1994.
HTML text prepared by David P. Steelman
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