IT IS NECESSARY TO GROW THE SEED

Only God knows the influence that the holiness of a mother has on the soul of her children. Almost all the great saints have had very pious mothers. The first grace a man is given is to have a mother according to the heart of God.

Dear mothers, your motherhood ends until you have formed Jesus Christ in the hearts of your children. Baptism is only a seed and the baptized is only a newborn. After planting the seed, you need to grow it. That is your mission, and you cannot fulfill it unless you are holy yourself.

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Motherhood

"Now, a woman's function, a woman’s way, a woman’s natural bent is motherhood. Every woman is called to be a mother: mother in the physical sense, or in a more spiritual and more exalted, yet real none the les.”

-H.H. Pius XII, excerpts from “Questa grande”, dated October 21, 1945. Address to the Delegates of the Catholic Women's Associations of Italy.

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