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August 15
Mary and the Church
Augustine Day by Day
Mary gave birth to your Head, and the Church gave birth to you. For the Church also is both mother and virgin. She is mother by her entrails of charity, and virgin
by the integrity of faith and piety.
She gives birth to many, but they are all members of one whose Body and spouse she herself is. In this she is like Mary, because in many she is the
mother of unity. (Sermon 192, 2)
Prayer: Come let us adore Him whom the Virgin conceived without concupiscence, to whom she gave birth as a virgin and remained thereafter a virgin. (Sermon 231, 2)
From John E. Rotelle, O.S.A., Augustine Day by Day: Minute Meditations for Every Day Taken from the Writings of Saint Augustine. Catholic
Book Publishing Co. New York, 1986.
