On the day of 27 August
The commemoration of Saint Monica, who, given in marriage to Patricius when still a young girl, bore children among whom was Augustine for the sake of whose conversion she shed many tears and besought God with many prayers, and, having set out for Africa, departed this life from Ostia on the Tiber with an exceedingly great desire for the things of heaven
**Saint/Feast of the day segment copied from the USCCB page.
Wow. I really needed to read this. Paul has a great way of just making sense. His problem, though, was that he wanted everyone to work as hard as he did, physically and spiritually. But he was a saint, and most of us are not. That doesn't necessarily mean that God doesn't want us all to try.
Wait, I'm starting to get it. The scribes and the Pharisees were hypocrites, right? This is drummed into us all this week, well, throughout the entire set of gospels, I guess. Why this same theme over and over and over? Is it so that we recognize that hypocrisy is something that all Christians will have to fight for our entire time on earth? Are we to be ever watchful of this in our own leaders? Or is it just that the authors of the gospels were so overwhelmed by the obviousness of the Pharisees, and their blatant phony sanctimoniousness that they can't help talking and writing about it over and over?
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