Goodness Leads Us Home

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

Merciful Father, you sustained St. Monica through years of prayer for those she loved. Through her intercession, give me patience when change is slow, wisdom in my words, and hope when someone seems far from you. Receive every tear I cannot explain, and draw my family more deeply into the life of Christ. Amen.

Let us pause in silence, and bring to mind the intention you are praying for.

In the app, your own saved intention rests here during the silence. The narration stays the same for everyone.

Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?

Augustine's return was the work of grace moving through truth, friendship, disappointment, Scripture, and the patient goodness of God. Monica could pray and witness, but she could not manufacture conversion. This frees us to love faithfully while trusting God to reach places in another heart that we cannot enter.

Patient God, let your goodness lead the person I love toward truth and repentance. Remove the obstacles that keep them from receiving grace. Through St. Monica's intercession, help me witness with humility and trust your action more than my own pressure. Amen.

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us, and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen.

Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee, blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

St. Monica, faithful mother and patient intercessor, carry my intention before God. Pray for every family divided by unbelief, resentment, addiction, or distance. Teach me to love without controlling, to speak truth with gentleness, and to persevere without despair, trusting the mercy that led Augustine to baptism and sustained your family. Amen.

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.