MOTHER'S TAKE HEART -- ST. MONICA

Attention all mothers -- have you every thrown up your hands and looked at your child and thought "who is this alien and what have you done with my child?" Or perhaps, "where did we go wrong?"  If you have, then St. Monica is the one you should call on.  St. Monica son while quite good academically, liked to drink too much, party too long and is said to have fathered at least one child out of wedlock.  Monica prayed and prayed, and spoke to her priest,(St.Ambrose), he told her that he would talk to her son if he came to him.  Well after many discussions at home,you know the ones I mean, her son agreed. He went and listened to St. Ambrose preach---and much to every one's surprise, including himself, he turned is life around.  St. Ambrose would go on to baptize him, today we honor Monica's son, St. Augustine, as a Doctor of our Church.