PRAYERS TO OUR LADY

Novena to St. Monica

Event Details

Time: April 25, 2014 at 6pm to May 3, 2014 at 7pm
Location: world wide
Event Type: for, all, intentions
Organized By: Cathleen
Latest Activity: Mar 30, 2022

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Event Description

For the conversion of all Crusader Members family who are in need of conversion.

Offering this novena for the intentions of Crusaders:

Maria Edwarda Acosta

Robert Hope Sanchez

Jo-Anne Stark

Veronica Mowery

For Father Jose Mota

O exemplary mother of the great St. Augustine, you perseveringly pursued your wayward son, not with wild threats but with prayerful cries to Heaven. Intercede for all mothers today, that they may learn to draw their children to God. Teach them to remain close to their children, even the prodigal sons and daughters who have sadly gone astray.

Dear St. Monica, troubled wife and mother, many sorrows pierced your heart during your lifetime, yet you never despaired or lost faith. With confidence, persistence and profound faith, you obtained the conversions of your beloved husband Patricius and your beloved son, Augustine.

Grant me that same fortitude, patience and trust in the Lord. Intercede for me, dear St. Monica, that God may favorably hear my plea for:

(state your petition here)

And grant me the grace to accept God's Will in all things.

Through Jesus Christ, Our Lord, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, One God forever and ever.

+Amen+

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Comment by Flavia Talladen Schott on August 21, 2021 at 6:45pm: Amen.

Comment by Flavia Talladen Schott on August 20, 2021 at 1:39pm: Amen.

Comment by Charles Opara on August 21, 2020 at 3:28pm: Oh St Monica, pray for me and for my family that we may be strong in our faith.

Comment by Flavia Talladen Schott on August 27, 2019 at 10:09pm: Amen.

Comment by Dawn Marie on May 4, 2014 at 7:15pm: Saint Monica

Widow
(332-388)

Saint Monica

Saint Monica, the mother of Saint Augustine, was born in 332 of a Christian family of the ancient city of Tagasta in northern Africa. After a girlhood of singular innocence and piety, she was given in marriage to Patricius, a pagan. She at once devoted herself to his conversion, praying for him always and winning his reverence and love by the holiness of her life and her affectionate forbearance. She was rewarded by seeing him baptized a year before his death.

When her son Augustine went astray in faith and habits, her prayers and tears were incessant. She once begged a learned bishop that he would talk to her son, in order to bring him to a better disposition, but he declined, despairing of success with a young man at once so gifted and so headstrong. At the sight of her prayers and tears, he nonetheless bade her be of good courage, for it could not happen that the child of those tears should perish.

Augustine, by going to Italy, was able for a time to free himself from his mother's importunities, but he could not escape from her prayers, which encompassed him like the providence of God. She followed him to Italy; and there, by his marvelous conversion, her sorrow was turned into joy.

At Ostia, shortly before they were to re-embark for Africa, Augustine and his mother sat at a window conversing on the life of the blessed. She turned to him and said, My son, there is nothing now I care for in this life. What I shall now do, or why I remain on this earth, I know not. The one reason I had for wishing to linger in this life a little longer was that I might see you a Catholic Christian before I died. This grace God has granted me superabundantly, seeing you reject earthly happiness to become His servant. A few days afterwards she had an attack of fever and died at the age of fifty-six, in the year 388.

Comment by Alley on May 4, 2014 at 12:08am: With love!

Comment by 10cgscdq36agm on May 4, 2014 at 12:07am: +Saint Monica, pray for conversions for us and for our families! Amen! (for yesterday, too. I forgot to post)

Comment by AnnaMaria on May 3, 2014 at 7:20pm: Amen

Comment by Michael on May 3, 2014 at 12:46pm: Amen.

Comment by Gloria on May 3, 2014 at 10:42am: St. Monica, grant me the grace to accept God's Will in all things.

Through Jesus Christ, Our Lord, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, One God forever and ever. Amen+