Dear friends,
A POTPOURRI OF MOTHER’S DAY QUOTES
“No man is poor who has had a godly mother.”
- A. Lincoln
“The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.”
- Balzac
“Youth fades; love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; a mother’s secret hope outlives them all.”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Motherhood brings as much joy as ever, but it still brings boredom, exhaustion, and sorrow too. Nothing else ever will make you as happy or as sad, as proud or as tired, for nothing is quite as hard as helping a person develop his own individuality especially while you struggle to keep your own.”
- Marguerite Kelly and Elia Parsons
“A mother understands what a child does not say.”
- Jewish Proverb
“The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother’s side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.”
- Erich Fromm
“A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.”
- Cardinal Mermillod
“Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother.”
- Lin Yu-tang
“The mother is the most precious possession of the nation, so precious that society advances its highest well-being when it protects the functions of the mother.”
- Ellen Kay
“Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes, by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, sunsets, rainbows, brothers and sisters, aunts and cousins, but only one mother in the whole world.”
- Kate Douglas Wiggin.
“If you bungle raising your children, I don’t think whatever else you do well matters very much.”
- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
I thought this year I would give some different perspectives on this very special day today. No matter which of the thoughts expressed above most suites your feelings today, it is more than just a Hallmark moment, it is a moment to remember a special person with a special place in the making of who we are. Take the time today, in person (or the modern equivalent thereof), or in your heart and memory to say thank you. Happy Mother’s Day to all our mothers. God bless you in your motherhood.
God Bless,
Fr. Ron
