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Happy Mother's Day

5/10/2014

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My heavenly Mother. Isn't she beautiful?
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My earthly mother. Isn't she beautiful?
          In Australia we are holding this Sunday Mother’s Day. Well, it’s hard to miss it as the shops and commercials have kept reminding us about the day. So if you cannot remember to acknowledge it today you have no excuse. However the big question is how you are to acknowledge it. I believe that the first thing is to thank God for giving us to our mums as their children. My thoughts go this day to Good Friday when Jesus gave John and all of us to his mother – Mary. My thoughts go also to that day when my mum learned that she was carrying a baby under heart, it was me. I thank God for Our Lady who accepted John the Apostle as her child and all of us as her children. I thank God for my mum who accepted that little baby – me, years ago. As Catholics we are blessed to have two mothers. One of them we share with Jesus – Our Blessed Mother. I just want to see the moment in heaven when Mary hearing from Jesus and me calling her: “Mother “will turn with her smile to both of us. It will be such an awesome moment.
          I can also envisage this situation in heaven when calling for my mum I will have both of them coming to me: my Heavenly Mother Mary and my earthly Mother Teresa. How awesome it is going to be. Do I still need to have more reasons to call Mother’s Day a Day of Great Thanksgiving?

As a priest I would like to send my blessing not only to my mum but to all women who are mothers. That’s my prayer and blessing for you - holy mothers of this planet:

Loving God, as a mother gives life and nourishment to her children, so you watch over your Church. Bless these women, that they may be strengthened as Christian mothers. Let the example of their faith and love shine forth. Grant that we, their sons and daughters, may honour them always with a spirit of profound respect. Grant this through Christ our Lord. Amen.

May almighty God bless you all, the Father, and the Son, + and the Holy Spirit. Amen.

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My taste of heaven - Lourdes. My two mothers in the same place.
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Lourdes. Walking with my mum Teresa to my mum Mary.
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This is your son. This is your mother. The scene of the Crucifixion form my home church in Poland.
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