Along with other women religious and their friends, Sister Jabro pulled off a grand party at the Cobina migrant shelter in Mexicali: live music, piñatas, ice cream, dancing with the sisters, manicures and face masks, which some of the women delighted in, sunburnt after days of walking in the desert.
Standing before an image of the Virgin Mary, Wojtlya’s father told him, “From today on, she will be your mother.”
“I’m not sure she remembers my name, but she knows this man across the table holding her hand loves her.”
Sister Constance is considered a spiritual mother by many of the residents, who said they will honor her on Mother’s Day.
We can honor special women in our lives, even those not gifted with the physical role of motherhood.
Just in time for Mother’s Day, a handful of bishops shared memories of their moms on a recent podcast by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
The moms’ group at St. Boniface Parish in Cold Spring decided to make Mother’s Day about helping other mothers this year.
Motherhood is lifelong and deeply heartfelt commitment can only be called a vocation — is that, even as we hold our children to our hearts, we prepare them for independence, for “their going.”
