Day 34: St. Monica’s Life (The Confessions of St. Augustine)

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🗓️ 4 November 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

In the lead-up to St. Monica’s death, St. Augustine reflects on her life. He shares stories from her early childhood and the hardships she endured in her marriage. Fr. Gregory Pine and Fr. Jacob-Bertrand Janczyk shed light on the significance of enduring suffering for the sanctification of others while commending Monica for her charity, maternal love, and unwavering faith. Today’s readings are Book 9, Chapters 8-10.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Father Gregory Pine.
0:06.0	And I'm Father Jacob Bertram Jansik.
0:08.0	And you're listening to the Catholic Classics podcast
0:11.0	where we seek to grow our interior lives by learning from the church's greatest
0:14.9	Saints and teachers. Each season will read through a great work, explain its spiritual
0:19.3	principles, and help you apply its timeless wisdom to your life.
0:23.0	The Catholic Classics Podcast is brought to you by Ascension.
0:27.0	This season we are reading Ascension's edition of Confessions by St. Augustine.
0:30.0	A few reminders before we get started. To download the reading plan for
0:34.1	Confessions, visit ascension press.com slash Catholic Classics or text Confessions
0:39.2	to 33, 777. Click follow or subscribe in your podcast app for daily notifications.
0:46.8	This is day 34.
0:48.1	Today we'll be reading Book 9, chapters 8 through 10 in the Ascension Edition of the book.
0:53.2	If you'd like to hear some of our conversations on other subjects, follow up with us and three of
0:57.8	our brother priests on the podcast God's Plaining.
1:00.6	They'll you'll find weekly episodes on a variety of Catholic themes with occasional guests,
1:04.8	scriptural meditations, and special series. You can find God's blending with any podcast app on
1:09.7	YouTube and at God'splaining.org.
1:12.1	Before we get into the reading, a quick look at what YouTube and at God's planning.org.
1:13.0	Before we get into the reading, a quick look at what we're covering today.
1:16.0	In these chapters, we begin to move into one of the most difficult moments and experiences of St. Augustine's life,
1:22.0	the death of his mother, St. Monica.
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