28 AUGUST 2023 BUTLER'S LIFE of SAINT AUGUSTINE of HIPPO & MASS READINGS for TODAY REFLECTION MAT 23

Janet Walmsley-Heron@janetwalmsley-heron@ YouTube.com./@janetwalmsley-heron.com. MONDAY 28 AUGUST 2023 WEEK 21 in YEAR 1 LITURGICAL READINGS and BUTLER'S the LIVES of the SAINTS. The LIFE of SAINT AUGUSTINE of HIPPO BISHOP and DOCTOR of the CHURCH FIRST READING A READING from the FIRST LETTER of SAINT PAUL to the THESSALONIANS 1: 1-5, 8- 10 THEME: YOU BROKE with IDOLATRY when YOU were CONVERTED to GOD and YOU are WAITING for HIS SON, WHOM HE RAISED from the DEAD PSALM 149 RESPONSE The LORD TAKES DELIGHT in HIS PEOPLE. GOSPEL ACCLAMATION ALLELUIA, ALLELUIA, YOUR WORD is TRUTH, O LORD CONNSECRATE us in the TRUTH. ALLELUIA! Or ALLELUIA, ALLELUIA! The SHEEP that BELONG to ME LISTEN to MY VOICE says the LORD, I KNOW THEM and they FOLLOW ME. ALLELUIA! A READING from the HOLY GOSPEL ACCORDING to MATTHEW 23: 13-22 THEME ALAS FOR YOU BLIND GUIDES!!! BUTLER's THE LIVES of the SAINTS 28 AUGUSTINE BISHOP of HIPPO, DOCTOR of the CHURCH A..D. 430 SAINT AUGUSTINE, who used commonly to be CALLED AUSTIN in ENGLISH was BORN on 13 NOVEMBER in the YEAR 354 at TAGASTE, a SMALL TOWN of NUMIDIA in NORTH AFRICA, not far from HIPPO, but at some DISTANCE from the SEA which he had never seen until he was grown up. His parents were of a good position, but not rich: HIS FATHER, PATRICIUS was an IDOLATER and of a VIOLENT disposition: the through the example and prudent conduct of SAINT MONICA, HIS WIFE HE wasBAPTISED a LITTLE before HIS DEATH. SHE BORE him several children. I LOVE SAINT AUGUSTINE as one of my Favourite SAINTS and HIS LIFE is FASCINATING.