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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - St Monica
DESCRIPTION:RECOLLECTIONS OF HIS MOTHER \nBy St Augustine1 \n◊◊◊ \nWhen I was still a boy\, I had heard about eternal life promised to us \nthrough the humility of our Lord God\, coming down to our pride\, and I was \nalready signed with the sign of the cross and seasoned with salt from the time I \ncame from my mother’s womb. She greatly put her trust in you. You say\, Lord\, \nhow one day\, when I was still a small boy\, pressure on the chest suddenly made \nme hot with fever and almost at death’s door. You say\, my God\, because you \nwere already my guardian\, with what fervour of mind and with what faith I than \nbegged for the baptism of your Christ\, my God and Lord\, urging it on the \ndevotion of my mother and of the mother of us all\, your Church. \nMy physical mother was distraught. With a pure heart and faith in you \nshe even more lovingly travailed in labour for my eternal salvation. She hastily \nmade arrangements for me to be initiated and washed in the sacraments of \nsalvation\, confessing you\, Lord Jesus\, for the remission of sins. But suddenly I \nrecovered. My cleansing was deferred on the assumption that\, if I lived\, I would \nbe sure to soil myself; and that after that solemn washing the guilt would be \ngreater and more dangerous if I then defiled myself with sins. \nSo\, I was already a believer\, as were my mother and the entire household \nexcept for my father alone. Though he had not yet come to faith\, he did not \nobstruct my right to follow my mother’s devotion. so as to prevent me believing \nin Christ. She anxiously laboured to convince me that you\, my God\, were my \nfather rather than he\, and in this endeavour you helped her to gain victory over \nher husband. His moral superior\, she rendered obedient service to him\, for in \nthis matter she was being obedient to your authority….6 \nAt the end when her husband had reached the end of his life in time\, she \nsucceeded in gaining him for you. After he was a baptized believer\, she had no \ncause to complain of behaviour which she had tolerated in one not yet a believer. \nShe was also a servant of your servants: any of them who knew her found much \nto praise in her\, held her in honour and loved her; for they felt your presence in \nher heart\, witnessed by the fruits of her holy way of life. She had been the wife \nof one husband. She repaid the mutual debt to her parents; she had governed \nher house in a spirit of devotion. She had testimony to her good works. she had \nbrought up her children\, enduring travail as often as she saw them wandering \naway from you. \nLastly\, Lord — by your gift you allow me to speak for your servants\, for \nbefore her falling asleep we were bound together in community in you after \nreceiving the grace of baptism — she exercised care for everybody as if they were \nall her own children. She served us as if she was a daughter to all of us.
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