Today across Roman Catholic Church is Mothering Sunday.
The day, celebrated on fourth Sunday of Lent around the world, typically involves lavishing mums with gifts and attention and celebrating them for their nursing care.
Today, Catholic Churches around the world will be sharing their own traditions, celebrating and giving thanks to the huge impact mothers play in peoples’ lives.
Speaking on the significance of the day, the Director, Catholic Women’s Organization, CWO, Awka Diocese, Lady Sabina Ndigwe, encouraged women to bring up morally sound and balanced children to protect the dignity of women in the society.
Lady Sabina, who delve into the origin of Mothering Sunday, linked it to the feast of Annunciation, which occurs on twenty-fifth March every year and celebrates the motherhood of Mary, who with humble obedience, accepted the message of Angel Gabriel to be the mother of Jesus Christ, but because twenty-fifth March 2023, fell on a Saturday, the Mother’s Day celebration was shifted to today, Sunday, March twenty-six.
On the theme of the celebration, “Protection of the Family: The dignity of the woman in the society” , Lady Sabina, who frowned at the huge challenges faced in the country today, including the economic downturn, social vices, insecurity, rape, violence against women among numerous others, noted that they have taken a serious toll on the family.
With the maxim that ‘when the going gets tough, the tough gets going’, Lady Sabina urged mothers to rise up to the challenges of the present time and go back to Holy Mother of God, asking for her intercession in their various families and nations.
family, Lady Sabina also advised them to make out time for their children, and bemoaned how some mothers have left the upbringing of their children in the hands of maids and teachers, whereas some others concentrate on the education and material wellbeing leaving out the spiritual life.
Lady Sabina congratulated catholic mothers and their proactiveness in all activities lined up for the celebration and defined motherhood as a divine gift from God.
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