Deacon Thomas A. Moses: Blessed Mothers: From Generation to Generation

In Catholic culture, we have a number of images symbolically associated with mothers and motherhood. Eve is called the mother of all the living; Mary is called the Mother of God; and the Church, through Baptism, is the mother of all Christians.

In a natural sense, we all experience, through our own birth, our mother’s motherhood. As a man, I will never experience another kind of motherhood so intimately; except now, I am blessed to observe in awe my wife each day. Every day, I watch her nurture and form my daughter into what we hope will be a mature, independent, happy, holy human being. My daughter may go on herself to become a mother. She will be called to the same beautiful and sacred vocation for her own children. From generation to generation, mothers bless children, in their image and likeness, with their love, devotion and sacrifice. ….

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