Twenty-first Week of Ordinary Time · 2026
Today the Church keeps Monica of Hippo — Memorial.
Memorial of Monica of Hippo
Today the Church keeps Monica of Hippo — memorial.
Monica was a North African Christian whose patient, persistent prayer for her wayward son Augustine lasted decades. By tradition she wept and prayed for his conversion for seventeen years. Augustine was baptized in 387; Monica died shortly
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Ordinary Time
We are in the Twenty-first Week of Ordinary Time — the Church wears green.
The long, green stretch between the great seasons — the everyday of faith, where most of the Christian life is actually lived. Today, though, the Church sets that aside and wears white — for the memorial of Monica of Hippo.
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