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« on: May 04, 2011, 10:37:14 AM »
Son, nothing in this world now affords me delight. I do not know what there is now for me to do or why I am still here, all my hopes in this world being now fulfilled.

St. Monica, about the conversion of Augustine
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'Flores apparuerunt in terra nostra. . . Fulcite me floribus. (The flowers appear on the earth. . . stay me up with flowers. Sg 2:12,5)
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« Reply #1 on: May 04, 2011, 03:48:15 PM »
Today being the traditional feast day of St. Monica, reading some of St. Augustine's writings on her life is a good idea.

Book 9 of his confessions has some details. Cheesy
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