It’s Mother’s Day here in the USA. Why should we bother to continue this day of remembrance?

Well for one thing, we all have mothers. Mothers are indispensable, a necessity whether they are our biological, adopted, or spiritual mothers. Mother’s care, or at least they should. A mother who abandons her children, we recognize as ill, or abnormal. Why, because mother’s are supposed to be the ones, when everyone else forgets, stops caring, or loving, continues despite all odds.

They love us even when we are angry at them, spiteful, mean, hateful. Their hearts can take a licking and still keep loving. Teens in particular, know how to aim for and hit the mark of their mother’s hearts to inflict the most damage. This is usually due to hurting pretty badly themselves. They test us to see if they are still lovable. Mom’s come through despite these potentially mortal wounds. A mother’s heart is nearly indestructible.

Mothers who have suffered infertility and the death of a child are some of the strongest women I know. The pain of loosing or never knowing a child is the deepest kind of pain. Even children who wander off, are never forgotten and always prayed for and welcomed home.

God knew what He was doing when he created a mother’s heart. He had a pretty special model to create a mold from- The Blessed Virgin Mary. Now there was heart that loved without limit, suffered the extremes of humanity offerings. Divinity knew what would be required of her heart both her time on the earth, and for eternity.

Mother Mary, pray for all mothers. Those who kill their unborn, hurt, or abandon their children. Help those whose hearts are so broken in all the suffering a mother has to undergo. Fill us with abundant grace so that we, like you, may love harder through the most extreme situations. In imitation of you, let us run to the source which is Love Itself, there we can find infinite, unfathomable love.

For women yearning to be called mom.

For the mothers of sick children.

For mothers whose children are starving.

For mothers of lost, addicted, and broken children.

For mothers whose children have forgotten, abandoned, or ignored them.

For the mothers who can’t or won’t forgive.

For the old moms so desperate to see their children again, to hold and forgive them.

For the tired, sick, dying mothers all alone and despairing.

Mother Mary, Mother of us all, Queen of Heaven and Earth- wrap your mantel around all mothers. Through your grace and intercession, may we seek to be a model of your own motherhood.

Amen