{"id":6843,"date":"2020-05-08T09:49:36","date_gmt":"2020-05-08T14:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.holytrinityweb.com\/weekly\/?p=6843"},"modified":"2020-05-08T09:50:59","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T14:50:59","slug":"momma-mia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.holytrinityweb.com\/weekly\/momma-mia\/","title":{"rendered":"Momma Mia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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This Sunday of course is Mother\u2019s Day.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My mother, Rosemary, has been gone now for\neight years (?). (I\u2019ve lost track of the time.) She\nand my father brought three children into the\nworld. Dad wanted more but mom said, \u201cthis is\nenough\u201d.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve mentioned in the past that mom was a bit different in her \u201cmothering\u201d style. She wasn\u2019t known for her time spent in the kitchen (though when the pressure was on she did quite well). She wasn\u2019t a hand holder or a big kisser, but she was quick to apply the band aid or administer the calamine lotion as needed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What mother was wonderful at was conversation.
It was fun to talk with her. She\u2019d ask the best questions to start you thinking and then she\u2019d listen carefully to your thoughts. She could read people and know what they were trying to say. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Please don\u2019t be shocked by this but I\u2019m seeing now\nhow, later on, I related to mom more like my\n\u201csister\u201d. There\u2019s not this \u201clean\u201d toward her as \u201clife\ngiver\u201d and \u201cnourisher\u201d. Rather she became a\n\u201cfellow traveler\u201d, an \u201cobserver of life\u201d.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She had a fierce loyalty to her husband Phil. I re-\nmember her tapping my hand as I grabbed for the\nbiggest pork chop on the platter. \u201cThat one is for\nyour father.\u201d\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And your mother? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Isn\u2019t it wonderful that we all have one? And a father too. It unites us all . . . as children! You and I know what it is to know nothing; to be totally de- pendent on the safety and love and direction provided by our parents. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Women. You have this amazing thing in you. I write\nthis as a man, in an age where it\u2019s discouraged to\nmake \u201cgeneral\u201d statements about any group of per-\nsons. I don\u2019t care. Women. You have this amazing\nthing in you. What tenderness, compassion, and\nundying hope exists in this world – – – comes mostly\nfrom two sources – – Jesus and women.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Women have civilized this world. Not only did you\ngive us arms and legs and eyes to see . . . you saw\nto it that we grew strong; and you loved us into real\npersons. You worried and prayed about us in ways\nwe\u2019ll never know. You just have (it\u2019s hard to find the\nwords) a gravity to you that keeps us in proper or-\nbit. You are our home.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yeah that\u2019s it, you are \u201chome\u201d. And it\u2019s quite a wonderful one (not perfect of course!) until we all meet up in Our Eternal Home. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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One other thought about Mary, The Blessed Mother. May is the month we remember her is a special way. Remember Jesus on the cross just before he died? \u201cWhen Jesus saw his mother and his disciple there (John) he said to his mother \u2018woman, behold your son \u2019 To his disciple he said \u2018behold your mother\u2019\u201d. John 19: 26, 27<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jesus gave us a spiritual mother in Mary. She gave\nbirth to us in the waters of baptism. We became a\nchild of God, with the life of her firstborn, Jesus,\npoured into our souls.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Each of us is left to \u201cfind Mary\u201d in our own way guided by God\u2019s grace. For me I talk to Mary as I would with my mother on our screened in porch so many years ago. It\u2019s a little different with Mary however . . . there\u2019s no cigarette and martini. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Happy Mother\u2019s Day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fr. Tim <\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"linkedin\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This Sunday of course is Mother\u2019s Day. My mother, Rosemary, has been gone now for eight years (?). (I\u2019ve lost track of the time.) She and my father brought three children into the world. Dad wanted more but mom said, \u201cthis is enough\u201d. I\u2019ve mentioned in the past that mom was a bit different in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-column"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holytrinityweb.com\/weekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holytrinityweb.com\/weekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holytrinityweb.com\/weekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holytrinityweb.com\/weekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holytrinityweb.com\/weekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6843"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.holytrinityweb.com\/weekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6846,"href":"https:\/\/www.holytrinityweb.com\/weekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6843\/revisions\/6846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holytrinityweb.com\/weekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holytrinityweb.com\/weekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holytrinityweb.com\/weekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}