Living Our Faith: Mother's Day

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A woman looks at a painting during a Dec. 3 press preview tour of the 2014 "Picturing Mary: Woman, Mother, Idea" exhibit featured at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington. The Bible contains accounts of heroic mothers whose virtuous actions paved the way for the fulfillment of God's plan of salvation. (CNS photo/Bob Roller)
A woman looks at a painting during a Dec. 3 press preview tour of the 2014 “Picturing Mary: Woman, Mother, Idea” exhibit featured at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington. The Bible contains accounts of heroic mothers whose virtuous actions paved the way for the fulfillment of God’s plan of salvation. (CNS photo/Bob Roller)

Motherhood extends and enlarges the love that is revealed in the vocation of marriage.
Our vocation as we grow older is to pray, to be supportive, to rejoice in our children and grandchildren, to credit ourselves for success and forgive ourselves for expectations never met.
Mothers depicted in biblical accounts show the heroic virtue required to meet the challenges of motherhood.

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