{"id":144939,"date":"2026-05-04T06:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T10:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=144939"},"modified":"2026-05-04T05:35:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T09:35:33","slug":"a-prayer-for-the-feast-day-of-saint-monnica-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=144939","title":{"rendered":"A Prayer for the Feast Day of Saint Monnica"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>O Lord, who through spiritual discipline didst strengthen thy servant Monnica to persevere in offering her love and prayers and tears for the conversion of her husband and of Augustine their son: Deepen our devotion, we beseech thee, and use us in accordance with thy will to bring others, even our own kindred, to acknowledge Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord; who with thee and the Holy Spirit liveth and reigneth, one God, for ever and ever.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Feast of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Saint?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Saint<\/a> Monica (\u2020387), widow, mother of St Augustine, who by her tears &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/prayers?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#prayers<\/a> converted her son <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/craMpcRoNf\">pic.twitter.com\/craMpcRoNf<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Silverstream Priory (@cenacleosb) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cenacleosb\/status\/727777499334234112?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 4, 2016<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O Lord, who through spiritual discipline didst strengthen thy servant Monnica to persevere in offering her love and prayers and tears for the conversion of her husband and of Augustine their son: Deepen our devotion, we beseech thee, and use<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=144939\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186,98,188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-history","category-marriage-family","category-spiritualityprayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=144939"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144941,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144939\/revisions\/144941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}