WRITTEN BY LADY NGOZI NWANOSIKE
Members of the Roman Catholic Church all over the world are celebrating mothers today.

The celebration of the mothering Sunday for the Catholics stems from the motherhood of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the mother of our Lord Jesus Christ, who humbly received the good news of being blessed among women, and honoured as the mother of our savior.
The Catholic Church, thus, takes her celebration of the motherhood of the Blessed Virgin Mary from the feast of the Annunciation which falls on the 25th of March. The Sunday nearest to the 25th of March is taken as the mothering Sunday.
However, Lenten season, which is when the church is engrossed in fasting and penitence, tends to influence the date for this all important celebration.  In this year, 2018, the mothering Sunday falls on April eighth, being the Sunday immediately after the Easter Sunday. The celebration is always characterized by thanksgiving, worship, songs and dances by women in all the parishes.
The theme chosen for this year is: “Catholic Women: Carriers of Living Water to a World That Thirsts for Peace”. This theme, no doubt, is timely, considering the intense challenge to global peace in general and the threat to peaceful co-existence among the various ethnic and religious groups in Nigeria. The catholic women are, in this regard, enjoined to be instruments of peace in their families, churches, communities, states and in the nation at large.
Evidently, when women, as care givers, entrench psychological security in the home and establish new values to the sacredness of the human life through their God-given power, courage, strength and love; evil will be overcome with good, falsehood will give way to truth and hatred will be overshadowed with love.  The world that thirsts for peace can only be watered when women will begin to soften the masculine force by their feminine qualities of love, service and moral power.
Therefore, as the Catholic Church celebrates her women today, the catholic mothers are honoured and appreciated by their husbands and children for their inestimable roles in their lives. The women in turn go out of their way to put smiles on the faces of their husbands, children and others in motherless babies’ homes, the prisons, and old people’s homes, schools and hospitals.
Beyond the social aspect of the mothering Sunday celebration, the event provides a platform for women to be reminded of their roles as co-creators with God. In the face of the numerous challenges in our world today, it is obvious that women can help to entrench peace in the world.
Again, the world will be peaceful if every woman can sue for peace and champion the course of peace at every level of our existence because it is only when there is peace that the world can move on to other positive ventures that will benefit humanity.
As women, let us heal our world and entrench peace everywhere we are.

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