St. Monica, A Woman of Prayer

St. Augustine said that when we pray, we are beggars before GOD. He knew too well how his mother, St. Monica, daily begged GOD for his conversion. St. Monica followed him around and admonished him to give up his worldly life. She tearfully asked priests to pray for St. Augustine, to the point that a priest commented that a son of so many tears cannot be lost.

After his conversion, St. Augustine one day begged his former companion for alms for the poor. Having known his former ways as a womanizer and a drunkard, and believing he would squander the alms, his companion slapped him. “That was for me. Now where is for the poor?” St. Augustine said.

Any mother, or parent, can imitate St. Monica. Let us be faithful in prayer, bow to the will of GOD, and unceasingly pray for our children who are all saints-to-be.