St. Augustine’s mother, St. Monica, on her death-bed said to him: “This one
request I make of you, that, wherever you be, you remember me at the Lord’s
altar.”
Explanation of the Psalms (C. 392-418 AD):
33, 1
“‘And he was carried in his own hands.’ But, brethren, how is it possible for a
man to do this? Who can understand it? Who is it that is carried in his own hands?
A man can be carried in the hands of another; but no one can be carried in his own
hands. How this should be understood literally of David, we cannot discover; but
we can discover how it is meant of Christ. For Christ was carried in His own
hands, when, referring to His own Body, He said: ‘This is My Body’ for He carried
that Body in His hands.”
98, 9
“He took flesh from the flesh of Mary. He walked here in the same flesh, and gave
us the same flesh to be eaten unto salvation. But no one eats that flesh unless first
he adores it…and not only do we not sin by adoring, we do sin by not adoring.”
120, 4
“It is no great thing to believe that Christ died. This the pagans, Jews, and all the
wicked believe; in a word, all believe that Christ died. But that He rose from the
dead is the belief of Christians. To believe that He rose again, this we deem of
great moment.”
Letter to Januarius (C. 400 AD):
54, 1, 1
“But in regard to those observances which we carefully attend and which the
whole world keeps, and which derive not from Scripture but from Tradition, we are
given to understand that they are recommended and ordained to be kept, either by
the Apostles themselves or by plenary councils, the authority of which is quite vital
in the Church.”
Against Faustus the Manichean (C. 400 AD):
20, 21
“A Christian people celebrates together in religious solemnity the memorials of the
martyrs, both to encourage their being imitated and so that it can share in their
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