27th August, 2013 – Remembering St. Monica
Not to please humans
but God, invites St. Paul today in the first reading. Our spirituality can
reach its dreary bottom if we are constantly moved by our intention to please
those around and live up to their praises and affirmation. An externally
illustrious life, with a painful emptiness within, cannot endure in its glitter
for long. On the contrary, a life that might look apparently uninteresting
could inspire and change people and history for ever, if it is build on a spiritual depth. St. Monica, a simple
mother with her perseverance in prayer and firmness in her hope, believed that
her son will one day turn to the inner richness that God alone could give and
she saw her belief come true! Maybe, the saint of today inspires us to thank
God for our mothers who are our first catechists!
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