Morning Prayer - SUNDAY, 28 Aug 2022

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - August 28, 2022 | Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time

"Take my yoke upon you, says the Lord, and learn from me, for I am meek and humble of heart." - Mt 11:29ab

The Memorial of St. Augustine, which is ordinarily celebrated today, is superseded by the Sunday liturgy.

Augustine was born in Thagaste in Africa of a Berber family. He was brought up a Christian but left the Church early and spent a great deal of time seriously seeking the truth, first in the Manichaean heresy, which he abandoned on seeing how nonsensical it was, and then in Neoplatonism, until at length, through the prayers of his mother and the teaching of St Ambrose of Milan, he was converted back to Christianity and baptized in 387, shortly before his mother’s death.

Augustine had a brilliant legal and academic career, but after his conversion he returned home to Africa and led an ascetic life. He was elected Bishop of Hippo and spent 34 years looking after his flock, teaching them, strengthening them in the faith and protecting them strenuously against the errors of the time. He wrote an enormous amount and left a permanent mark on both philosophy and theology. His Confessions, as dazzling in style as they are deep in content, are a landmark of world literature. He was declared a Doctor of the Church by Pope Boniface VIII in 1308.

St. Augustine, pray for us!

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