Mother's Day

Another year has gone by and we are celebrating Mother's Day, 2010. In this past year, motherhood is still disparaged throughout our society, and many news outlets are calling new pro-life measures in some states harmful to women. And with divorce and absent fathers, many women are trying to raise children on thier own and they are not getting much help. Even in the families where the fathers are present, many mothers are frustrated and exhausted.

God's original plan for motherhood was not to be this way. A mother is to be united with her husband the two shall become one flesh. Fathers are called to be a support for their wives, who are the mothers of their children. And mothers are, in the words of Pope John Paul II, the heart of the home.

The dignity and respect that we owe all women is immeasurable, especially in light of salvation history, when God, in the fullness of time, sent his Son, born of a woman. With Mary as the model for all mothers, we can see that society has fallen a long way away from the dignity of womankind.

During this month of May, let us turn to the Blessed Mother, and ask her for her intercession for an increase in respect for women and an increase in a culture of life where women will not turn to abortion but have loving fathers who are willing to be there for the children that are conceived. Mothers are a precious gift, for it is thorugh a mother that she becomes a co-creator with God, knitting a child in her womb and carrying her child for nine months, so that with each child born, our world is changed.

Let also pray for all mothers, both living and deceased on this Mother's Day.