Who could ask for a greater Mother?
You chose to have your Son, to keep Him and raise Him
Even in the midst of poverty and confusion.
You loved Him and cared for Him
Through all the difficulties of childhood.
You sheltered Him from all those who wished Him harm
You were faithful to His Father and to your husband
Despite being dedicated to a life of virgin piety.
You watched as He grew into a man
You taught Him all that you knew
How to live and how to love
According to the ways of God and man.
O Mother, how your love spreads to all
Shining out, encompassing everyone in its light
Piercing through our faults and failures
Without diminishing or corrupting.
You forever hold us as we weep
Under the weight of this valley of tears;
To lift us up as we fall;
To show us the way to your Son
Even in this most bitter exile.
Turn your most precious gaze ever towards us, O Mother of Mercy
Queen of grace and hope
Our eternal Star.
Even as we see your eyes
The eyes of a woman, a human
We see the eyes from which
The very eyes of Our Lord were made.
O Mother, I love you so dearly
Even in the pain and hardship of our lives
The strain between mothers and children
Wives and husbands,
You remain, O Favored One
An image of splendor undimmed and unbroken
To remind us of the love of a mother
More beautiful than all treasures
The gift to all women
For the healing of the world.
God bless all women, all mothers, all widows, and all girls
Protect them from all the evils of this world
In its unfailing assault against motherhood and marriage;
Show them all the beauty and honor of motherhood
And fill them with the same grace and love
That you gave to your own Mother, O Lord my God
So we may feel firsthand that love
Your own Mother has shown to You.
Thank you for this most gracious gift of mothers and of all women, my God.
We are all truly blessed.
Happy Mother's Day and very blessed Month of Mary!
God bless
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