St. Paul sets forth a basic goal for each of us in that we
should live, “not as trying to please men, but
rather God, who judges our hearts.”
St.
Monica did this well, especially with her son Augustine. While Augustine lived a life of
debauchery and jumped from one foreign philosophy to the next, Monica pleased
God by continuing to pray for him.
She lived out St. Paul’s tender analogy: “Rather, we were gentle among you, as a nursing mother cares for her
children.”
Each
of us knows someone who is not walking in the fullness of the faith. Whether it is a child, friend, coworker
or loved one, St. Monica is the one for us to ask for prayers. She lived many decades yearning with
all her heart for her son to meet Jesus.
And thanks in part to her prayers, he did.
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