{"id":5648,"date":"2020-08-27T07:14:41","date_gmt":"2020-08-27T07:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/?p=5648"},"modified":"2020-08-27T07:14:41","modified_gmt":"2020-08-27T07:14:41","slug":"st-monica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/2020\/08\/27\/st-monica\/","title":{"rendered":"St Monica"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-5649\" src=\"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/118653374_3203003163129918_3949863449995560981_o.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"388\" height=\"500\" \/>Today, the day before St Augustine&#8217;s day, the Church honours his mother St Monica &#8211; they are shown together in this modern painting. In his &#8216;Confessions&#8217;, the account of his religious conversion, Augustine gives a vivid picture of his mother&#8217;s prayers and encouragement which helped him to become a Christian; it also captures their deep love. Recently a number of works of fiction have explored the women in Augustine&#8217;s life, including Monica, so it&#8217;s good to honour her today; we also often forget that she was a Berber from Algeria and had to endure an adulterous husband.<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">God bless and take care<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>Fr Ashley<\/em><\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/St-Edmunds-Church-Beckenham-773012899462302\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5308 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/OIP.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"254\" height=\"83\" \/><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, the day before St Augustine&#8217;s day, the Church honours his mother St Monica &#8211; they are shown together in this modern painting. In his &#8216;Confessions&#8217;, the account of his religious conversion, Augustine gives a vivid picture of his mother&#8217;s prayers and encouragement which helped him to become a Christian; it also captures their deep love. Recently a number of works of fiction have explored the women in Augustine&#8217;s life, including Monica, so it&#8217;s good to honour her today; we also often forget that she was a Berber from Algeria and had to endure an adulterous husband. God bless and take care Fr Ashley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5648"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5655,"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5648\/revisions\/5655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}