Her prayer perseverance, her fidelity to her family, husband and children, no matter how difficult they were, is what worked the Mighty Miracle of LOVE: Love in their hearts.
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Prayer: Saint Monica, you were just an ordinary woman.
No miracles, no extraordinary events filled your life.
Instead, your cup was filled to overflowing with suffering and tears
as your loved ones broke your heart many times over.
Yet you never gave up on them, nor on God’s love for them.
Your extraordinary love of your husband and children
wove the fraying threads of your family always more closely together.
You trusted in the power of your motherly prayer to move God’s heart,
and your wayward son didn’t just convert but became a great saint of the Church.
No miracles, no extraordinary events filled your life.
Instead, your cup was filled to overflowing with suffering and tears
as your loved ones broke your heart many times over.
Yet you never gave up on them, nor on God’s love for them.
Your extraordinary love of your husband and children
wove the fraying threads of your family always more closely together.
You trusted in the power of your motherly prayer to move God’s heart,
and your wayward son didn’t just convert but became a great saint of the Church.
In times of grief and suffering, when I mourn for my loved ones,
give me that same confidence in God’s love.
May the ordinary sufferings of my life also become extraordinary
through the power of God’s love
working in me and through me.
Amen.
Site Ref: From Saints Alive: The Faith Proclaimed by Sr Marie Paul Curley, FSP and Sr Mary Lea Hill, FSP.
