St. Monica was the mother of St. Augustine. It is impossible to think seriously of Christianity as we know it today without dealing with Augustine's influence. But once he was no Christian at all, just a man, and a man particularly given to the pleasures of the flesh. His father was a difficult husband, at times violent.
But his mother was Monica, a woman of virtue who prayed readily for her husband and child.
"... a man particularly given to the pleasures of the flesh."
ReplyDeleteThus his famous prayer of "God, grant me chastity and continence, but not quite yet."