Holy Ghost PNCC » Mother’s Day http://www.holyghostpncc.org One, Holy, Catholic, Apostolic, and Democratic - 28 N. Chestnut St., Shenandoah, PA | 570-874-1960 Sun, 29 Jan 2012 03:11:41 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Happy Mother’s Day! http://www.holyghostpncc.org/2011/05/07/happy-mothers-day/ http://www.holyghostpncc.org/2011/05/07/happy-mothers-day/#comments Sun, 08 May 2011 00:40:33 +0000 admin http://www.holyghostpncc.org/?p=1174 Mothers: be assured, you are made every bit in God’s image, and perhaps even more so than us who mirror only the fatherhood of God. God is love, the Gospel says, and mothers are the highest created implementation of that love. You reflect the motherhood of God. It is fitting that on Mothers’ Day we reflect on the social application of motherhood – peace. Mothers’ Day, contrary to popular wisdom, was not invented by the Florists’ Association; nor by the telephone company. Mothers’ Day was invented by a mother protesting the killing of World War I. She got other mothers to protest, too, and pretty soon Congress got in the act. Finally, President Woodrow Wilson pronounced the second Sunday in May as Mothers’ Day, a day dedicated not to honoring mothers, but to honoring their wishes – that the killing be stopped. This aspect of Mothers’ Day is too often ignored, even by the church. It should not be. It is central to the whole idea of motherhood, including the motherhood of God.

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For all the things you’ve been to me,
My guardian and my guide;
For truths you have so gently taught
And all the tears you’ve dried;
For faith and understanding
When I faltered on my way,
I owe you more thanks, Mother,
Than words can ever say.

So on this day that’s set aside
Especially for you,
I send a wish for happiness
In everything you do.
May each hour bring you pleasure
Every day of every year –
For all things you’ve been to me,
I love you, Mother dear.

–Author unknown

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