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jon2456
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Hi all!
I’m hoping I post this thread in the right place.
I’m a new convert to Catholicism. (Well, sort of, since I’m about to start RCIA.) In a spirit of charity for my mother, since my family’s life has been very complicated and rather far from the Church in some ways – my older brother and my father are both agnostic, my older sister is of dubious spirituality – I was planning to get her a biography of St. Monica for Christmas. (I’m hoping as well that this will sow the seeds for her eventual conversion!) I’ve basically narrowed it down to between two books:
St. Monica and the Power of Persistent Prayer
by Mike Aquilina
or
Saint Monica: The Power of a Mother’s Love
by Giovanni Falbo, trans. Matthew Sherry
If any of you have read either of these books or possibly both of them I would be delighted to hear what you thought and about their possible strengths or maybe even weaknesses.
Thanks so much!
~Jonathan
I’m hoping I post this thread in the right place.
I’m a new convert to Catholicism. (Well, sort of, since I’m about to start RCIA.) In a spirit of charity for my mother, since my family’s life has been very complicated and rather far from the Church in some ways – my older brother and my father are both agnostic, my older sister is of dubious spirituality – I was planning to get her a biography of St. Monica for Christmas. (I’m hoping as well that this will sow the seeds for her eventual conversion!) I’ve basically narrowed it down to between two books:
St. Monica and the Power of Persistent Prayer
by Mike Aquilina
or
Saint Monica: The Power of a Mother’s Love
by Giovanni Falbo, trans. Matthew Sherry
If any of you have read either of these books or possibly both of them I would be delighted to hear what you thought and about their possible strengths or maybe even weaknesses.
Thanks so much!
~Jonathan