This Sunday, as we gather for the Sixth Sunday of Easter, we also give thanks for the gift of mothers. Mother’s Day offers our parish a beautiful opportunity to honor the women who have welcomed life, nurtured faith, carried burdens quietly, and reflected God’s tenderness in countless hidden ways. Whether through biological motherhood, adoption, foster care, spiritual motherhood, grandparenting, teaching, caregiving, or simple daily generosity, so many women in the Church reveal a love that is patient, steadfast, and life-giving.
It is especially fitting that this celebration comes during the month of May, a month long dedicated in a special way to the Blessed Virgin Mary. In Mary, we see the fullness of maternal love shaped by faith. She received God’s word with trust, carried Christ within her, stood by him in suffering, and remained with the Church in prayer. She is both Mother of the Lord and Mother of the Church, and she continues to lead us to her Son with gentleness and fidelity.
Every Christian mother, in her own vocation, reflects something of Mary’s quiet strength. The sacrifices, prayers, worries, encouragement, and hope of mothers often go unnoticed by the world, but never by God. A mother’s love so often teaches children their first lessons about trust, compassion, forgiveness, and faithfulness. In this way, mothers help build not only families, but the very life of the Church.
On this Mother’s Day, we give thanks for mothers who are with us, we pray for mothers who have gone before us into eternal life, and we remember with tenderness those for whom this day brings grief, longing, or loss. May our parish be a place of gratitude, healing, and love for all.
Through the intercession of Our Lady, Queen of May, may God bless all mothers and all women who share in the Church’s maternal care, and may their witness continue to strengthen our homes, our parish, and our faith.
