Augustine Praying for Monica at the Altar

Timothy Stanley: There's a kind of beautiful series of inversions here. He says, well, he addresses his readers to pray for his mother at the altar. Of course, we don't have to pray for her now because she's canonized. And we know she's in heaven. She prays for us. Which is so striking. Her devotion to daily Mass. It is really moving. But Augustine did too good of a job. Based almost exclusively on the witness of St. Augustine in the Confessions, the church is recognized, Monica as a saint.