Wednesday, August 18, 2021

Friday 21st Week of Ordinary Time


St. Monica

Monica of Hippo by Gozzoli.jpg

St. Monica had a wayward child, named Augustine. 

He left the church in which he was baptized 

And went off to a life of pleasure

Following one cult after another. 


And what did she do?

She did not preach or scold or admonish her son. 


Rather she wept tears for him. 

Tears that God saw. 


And through those tears

Her son came back to the Church and became St. Augustine. 

Perhaps the greatest theologian in the history of the Church. 


So never underestimate the power of tears. 

For there is a power in tears. 

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