Tag: Tears

  • No More Tears to Cry

    At church recently, a young missionary spoke about a woman whose life had been marked by tragedy. Hardship in a third-world country had been followed by years of further suffering—the deaths of her husband and son among them. The woman stoically told the missionary, I have no more tears to

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  • St. Monica of Hippo: Mother of Tears

    Early in the Confessions, Augustine regretfully recalls how he dismissed his mother’s pleas for chastity as mere woman’s talk, instead opting for a promiscuous path of torturous suffering. Watching this, Monica stood by helpless and unheeded. And yet, as the Confessions unfolds, we are presented with a conversion narrative that

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