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Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Dedicated to 5 Special Mothers

Feastday: August 27 Patron of Wives and Abuse Victims Died: 387

St. Monica was married by arrangement to a pagan official in North Africa, who was much older than she, and although generous, was also violent tempered. His mother Lived with them and was equally difficult, which proved a constant challenge to St. Monica. She had three children; Augustine, Navigius, and Perpetua. Through her patience and prayers, she was able to convert her husband and his mother to the Catholic faith in 370. He died a year later. Perpetua and Navigius entered the religious Life. St. Augustine was much more difficult, as she had to pray for him for 17 years, begging the prayers of priests who, for a while, tried to avoid her because of her persistence at this seemingly hopeless endeavor. One priest did console her by saying, "it is not possible that the son of so many tears should perish." This thought, coupled with a vision that she had received strengthened her. St. Augustine was baptized by St. Ambrose in 387. St. Monica died later that same year, on the way back to Africa from Rome in the Italian town of Ostia.

Source: http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=1

John 19 When Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple whom he loved standing near, he said to his mother, "Woman, behold, your son!" 27 Then he said to the disciple, "Behold, your mother!" And from that hour the disciple took her to his own home.
Our Mom
Requiescat In Pace Marie September 8, 1923-Tuesday, June 23, 2009.
YOUR Mother
“Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God commanded you"

No thanks to Kathleen Sebelius(head of HHS in the Obama administration)we had good news today.

Congratualations to Janet Murnaghan,a mother who never gave up. From NBC news online:

An 11-year-old Pennsylvania girl who received two double-lung transplants after her parents challenged the nation's organ allocation system is back at home, more than two months after the life-saving operations. Sarah Murnaghan left Children's Hospital of Philadelphia for the first time since February on Tuesday morning.

Prayer to St. Monica

Exemplary Mother of the great Augustine,

you perseveringly pursued your wayward son

not with wild threats

but with prayerful cries to heaven.

Intercede for all mothers in our day

so that they may learn to draw their children to God.

Teach them how to remain close to their children,

even the prodigal sons and daughters

who have sadly gone astray.


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