“The loveliest masterpiece of the heart of God is the heart of a mother.”
ST. THERESE OF LISIEUX
To the mothers in every season:
The joyful ones, the tired ones, the ones with babies in arms & the ones with babies in heaven. The mothers by birth, adoption, & spiritual motherhood.
You are living a vocation that mirrors God’s love.
Beautiful, generous & endearing.
Happy Mother’s Day!
hugs n’ blessings for all mothers – thanking them for their love, and their sacrifice!
Mary’s role in the Church is inseparable from her union with Christ and flows directly from it. “This union of the mother with the Son in the work of salvation is made manifest from the time of Christ’s virginal conception up to his death”; it is made manifest above all at the hour of his Passion:
Thus the Blessed Virgin advanced in her pilgrimage of faith, and faithfully persevered in her union with her Son unto the cross. There she stood, in keeping with the divine plan, enduring with her only begotten Son the intensity of his suffering, joining herself with his sacrifice in her mother’s heart, and lovingly consenting to the immolation of this victim, born of her: to be given, by the same Christ Jesus dying on the cross, as a mother to his disciple, with these words: “Woman, behold your son.”
After her Son’s Ascension, Mary “aided the beginnings of the Church by her prayers.” In her association with the apostles and several women, “we also see Mary by her prayers imploring the gift of the Spirit, who had already overshadowed her in the Annunciation.”
964-965 Catechism of the Catholic Church
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“May the Star of Bethlehem, which shone down from above, keep shining in your heart and in the hearts of those you love.”
Helen Steiner Rice
Mary has her baby.
Born of God and Mary, he is Emmanuel, “God with us.” Immediately, God begins to reveal the Son who is destined to become king, a ruler to shepherd God’s people.
First the Shepherds, tending to their sheep, come and watch over him. Then, overjoyed, the wise men find him in Bethlehem and kneel before the baby.
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