Day 35: St. Monica’s Death (The Confessions of St. Augustine)

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🗓️ 5 November 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Having completed her earthly mission, St. Monica passes from this life to the next. Facing grief and mourning, St. Augustine pursues truth to elevate the pain of loss. He gives thanks to the Lord for his mother and God’s gifts present in her. Fr. Gregory Pine and Fr. Jacob-Bertrand Janczyk remind us that even the saints mourn. They explain that when we prepare for our death and look forward to eternity, worldly concerns vanish. Today’s readings are Book 9, Chapters 11-13.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Father Gregory Pine.
0:06.0	And I'm Father Jacob Bertrand Jansick.
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 three three seven seven. Click follow or subscribe in your podcast app for daily notifications.
0:47.0	This is day 35.
0:48.0	Today we will be reading Book 9, Chapter 11 through 13 in the Ascension Edition of the book.
0:54.0	We wanted to take this opportunity to thank everyone who has helped support this
0:57.2	podcast financially.
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1:08.0	Before we get into the reading, a quick look at what we're covering today.
1:10.8	So these last chapters of book 9 tell us of St. Monica's death and
1:14.6	Austria and St. Augustine's grief and mourning of his mother. If you remember yesterday's chapters in episode, St. Augustine gave us a sort of biography of
1:25.5	Monica's life and today her life comes to an end. So before we get into the reading
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