MONICA
monica@pc-west.org

Hi everyone!! My name is Monica and I have lived in the Cincinnati area my entire life. I graduated from Thomas More College in 2009 with a degree in Business Administration. I also played on the tennis team. Since I graduated, I have been substitute teaching and working with the elderly as a home health assistant.

I was introduced to Theology of the Body in high school and have been intrigued with it since. Pope John Paul II's teachings (on sex, love, and God's plans for our bodies) are something our culture is in desperate need of hearing and I can't wait to help get that message out! It has impacted so many aspects of my life--especially my relationships. I am so excited to be on board as a chastity educator at Pregnancy Center West--what better way to live the message out in your day to day life?!

God is good! My Catholic upbringing, nurtured by the Sacraments and my loving parents, has been a rock and fount of grace throughout my life. They were constants as my family moved from city to city and I attended school after school. While I was at Xavier University studying for my degree in business administration, God deemed it necessary for me to meet the righteous men and women of Life After Sunday. Through their example I have learned to openly accept God's will in my life. By His grace I have matured from passive reception of modernity's expectation of the sexual experience into an ardent believer in God's divine plan for the entire human person.

I graduated in May 2009 and headed home to Omaha, Nebraska. After a year of working for US Bank I have returned to Cincinnati to teach His message of chastity through the "In Control" program. The path may be long, and we may be unsure of the way...but we can always be consoled because:

"He has granted to us His precious and magnificent promises, in order that by them you might become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world by lust." 2 Peter 1:4