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Celebrating Mothers

Photo: Sergiu Vălenaș on Unsplash
Photo: Sergiu Vălenaș on Unsplash

By Leela Ramdeen, Chair, CCSJ & Director, CREDI

“A world that looks to the future without a mother’s gaze is shortsighted…In today’s fragmented world, where we risk losing our bearings, a Mother’s embrace is essential” (Pope Francis).

Today, Sunday, May 9, we celebrate, honour, and affirm mothers. Let our outpouring of love continue throughout the year.

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See Christ in the face of each mother

Let us remember and reach out to those mothers who are struggling to make ends meet; those mothers whose children have moved away and who hardly visit them or communicate with them; those mothers for whom loneliness is their only companion.
Let us remember and reach out to those mothers who are struggling to make ends meet; those mothers whose children have moved away and who hardly visit them or communicate with them; those mothers for whom loneliness is their only companion.

By Leela Ramdeen, Chair, CCSJ & Director, CREDI

“Her children stand up and proclaim her blessed. Her husband, too, sings her praises” Proverbs 31:28

Today is Mother’s Day. Thank God for mothers! Amidst the joy, laughter and love that will be shared today, I want to share an uncomfortable perspective with you to raise awareness of some of the social ills that beset some mothers in our communities/world and which we need to address if we are to build a just society/world.

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