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Appreciating Our Vocation as Mothers
"God does not issue two lists of professions: on the one side, those that are conducive to holiness; on the other, those that are not. Unless the work attempts to oppose faith or morals, it may be assumed to be a work that is capable of promoting sanctity.... The first necessity is to find in your soul a respect for your vocation. Once you have this sense of mission, this sense of dedication to a cause more worthwhile than any purely personal claim, the rest can follow."
Dom Hubert Van Zellar, 'Holiness for Housewives (and other working women)', NH: Sophia Institute Press, 1997, pp 15, 19.
posted by Holly at 9:30 AM
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I know I grew up with a hidden disrespect for motherhood - I listened too much to forces within society that told me it was unimportant. When we don't really think something is worthwhile, we tend to do it half-heartedly, if we pay much attention at all.
The only solution I can see to the anti-family, anti-mothering trend in our culture is to discover that meaning ourselves, as Christian mothers, and to live it to the full - with joy, intensity, meaning, commitment, a zealous sense of mission and purpose.
Three things will happen: we will become witnesses; we will become holy ourselves; and we'll inject a type of 'spiritual antibiotic' into a world which is in desperate need of renewal.
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