Have you got problems with your teenage children? Do you wonder what you have done wrong or what you can do to bring your children back to the path of goodness? There must be many of us who at some time feel like this and ask ourselves these questions. One mother, called  Monica, was deeply upset by her son's behaviour. He had  abandoned  his faith, taken up gambling  and  casual  sex  and  seemed  a completely lost cause. His mother never stopped praying for him, despite the heartache. Her tears shed for her son watered the ground wherever she prayed. Seventeen years she prayed constantly for him and not  long  before  her  death  she  had  the  great  joy  of  seeing  him  return  to  his  faith, a much wiser man. Her son was  St. Augustine, who has been a great leader in the church for sixteen hundred years. His famous prayer is : You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our hearts shall find no rest until they rest in Thee. We have just celebrated the feasts of this great mother and son on August 27^th & 28^th. In distress, St.Monica is the patron saint of mothers.

Kate Heywood