Pierced with a sword

“I could not imagine the unequalled heroic role of a mother. She always thinks of her child. No thought of having to rest even at midnight.”

This is realization comes from a religious brother after immersing himself with the less fortunate in their charitable reach out. As a celibate, denouncing marriage for the sake of the kingdom, he saw the tedious and irreplaceable role of a mother.

Without forgetting the role of fathers, in this time of graduations and ending of school year, mothers must be so happy to see their child succeed after their sacrifices. From the pains of child birth to first days of classes, from the anxiety brought about by their growing child to adulthood and marriage, from seeing their grandchildren till their old age — all of these carry within them the difficult challenge of bringing up one’s beloved child.

Mothers — working or jobless, single or married, loved or abused — need to have recourse to Mama Mary who knows what it means to be a mother. She always intercedes for us whose heart was pierced with a sword.