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Peace be with you. Thank you for joining us in praying the St. Monica novena.

Throughout this novena, let's be inspired by the example of St. Monica's persistent prayers.

When St. Monica was praying for her son's conversion, and she prayed for more than 15 years for that.

She prayed, fasted, and even asked clergy to talk with him, to argue with him, but they assured her it was

useless after so many years. It turns out though that they were wrong and that nothing was

impossible with God.

St. Monica's prayers made a difference and eventually her son, Saint Augustine, converted. Her husband and mother-in-law who were both pagan, also converted because of her prayers and example.

Today we would like to start this novena by praying for something we need to persistently

pray for, for peace. Let's pray that peace will reign. Here are the prayers for today.

Day 1. In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, Amen.

Dear St. Monica, you were once the mournful mother of a prodigal son.

Your faithfulness to prayer brought you and your son so close to God that you are now with him an eternity.

By your intercession and God's grace, your son, Saint Augustine, became a great and venerable saint of the church.

Please take my request to God with the same fervor and persistence with which you prayed for

your own son. Mention your intentions here.

With your needs, worries and anxieties, you through yourself on the mercy and providence of God.

Through sorrow and pain you constantly devoted yourself to God.

Pray for me that I may join you in such a deep faith in God's

goodness and mercy. Above all, dear St. Monica, pray for me that I may, like your son, turn for my sin and become a great saint for the glory of

God.

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