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No guarantees: Why parents must pray like St. Monica →

August 30, 2019 Scott P. Richert

We can learn from the example of St. Monica and pray — not just that a child may come back to the Faith, but that he or she may never lose her love for the gift she has been given.

In Our Sunday Visitor, All Things New Tags faith, Saint Monica, Saint Augustine, original sin, baptism, John Lukacs, ritual
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