Mothers Day - 8 May
8th May 2022
8 May - Mother's Day 🤰💖🤱🌟👩👧👦💐
A reflection on Mothers by the Venerable Archbishop Fulton J Sheen
"In a mother two of the great spiritual laws are united into one: love of neighbour and cooperation with God’s grace. For love of neighbour...a mother’s neighbour during pregnancy is one with herself, yet to be loved differently from the self. The sacrifice sometimes involved in neighbourly love now takes place within her flesh: the agent and the object of her sacrifice are both contained within her. And the cooperation with grace in a mother, although it may be unconscious on her part, yet makes her a partner of Divinity: every human mother is, in a sense, 'overshadowed by the Holy Spirit.' Not a priest, and yet endowed with a kind of priestly power, she, too, brings God to man, and man to God. She brings God to man by accepting her mother’s role, thus permitting God to infuse a new soul into her body for it to bear. She brings man to God in childbirth itself, when she allows herself to be used as an instrument by which another child of God is born into the world…We must see the human woman cooperating with her husband, the father of the human baby, and with God, the Father of a soul that is eternal, indestructible and unlike any other ever formed throughout the history of the world. Thus every human motherhood involves a partnership with the Divine." (Way to Happiness)
Prayer for Mothers
Almighty and loving God, we give you thanks for our mothers. Through the intercession of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary, our Mother in Christ Jesus, we pray for all mothers. Those who have loved us and helped shape us with motherly care and compassion. We remember mothers, grandmothers, and godmothers who are no longer with us, but whose love is in our memory forever. Amen. 🙏💖💐