Hey Spouts, during the months of June and July, we will not be having new content here on the Catholic Sprouts podcast.

Instead, we will be revisiting some of my favorite weeks of content.

And here is one of those weeks.

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Today is Monday, August 27, 2018. It is also the feast day of St. Monica.

This week on the Catholic Sprouts podcast, we are tackling the topic of prayer.

The reason why we're talking about prayer this week is because of some of the great saints that we will be celebrating, including St. Monica today. St. Monica was the mother of

St. Augustine, whose feast day is tomorrow. Now, St. Augustine did not have the greatest youth.

St. Augustine was a known sinner and did all sorts of horrible things before he converted to Christianity,

eventually became a priest, and then a bishop, and wrote so many amazing spiritual works that we still

used today. But what happened? How did he give up this life of sin and become a great priest and

bishop? While he credited his conversion to the prayers of his mother, St. Monica.

St. Monica never gave up on her son.

She petitioned heaven every day asking that her son's heart might be softened and he might come to love Jesus.

And in the end, after years of prayer, God heard her, and St. Augustine came into the

faith. But prayer is not something that only saints do. We are all called to pray every single day.

When I was young, I remember not really knowing what prayer is. It's a little hard

to understand because it's something quiet that happens in the secrets of our hearts. So,

I want to help you try to understand what prayer actually is. First of all, prayer is actually very simple,

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