Happy Mother’s Day to you Mum, from both of us!

The girls gave me a lovely home-made card this morning, plus a bought one, and some little pressies that Clare purchased from the Mother’s Day Stall at school.  My husband gave me a beautiful card, in which he’d written these words:

The most important person on earth is a mother: She cannot claim the honour of having built Notre Dame Cathedral.  She need not.  She has built something more magnificent than any cathedral, a dwelling for an immortal soul, the tiny perfection of her baby’s body.

The angels have not been blessed with such a grace.  They cannot share in God’s creative miracle to bring new saints to heaven.  Only a human mother can.  Mothers are closer to God, the Creator, than any other creature.  God joins forces with mothers in performing the act of creation.  What on God’s earth is more glorious than this:  To be a Mother?*

Happy Mother’s Day to all who are or have been mothers, and to all who have or have had mothers.

* My husband was given a small card with these words on it one day months ago when he and Clare were in the city and popped in to visit St Paul’s Cathedral.  He is not a religious man but these words obviously touched him and he saved the card to write it down for Mother’s Day.  What a beautiful gift.