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The surprising history of Mother’s Day!

Mother’s Day began as a protest against violence. View this brief video reflection on Mothers Day presented by Worship House Media Mothers Day Central offers the following background.. History of American Celebration When the first English settlers came to America, they discontinued the tradition of Mothering Day. While the British holiday would live on, the American [...]

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Virtual Mother’s Day Retreat

Virtual Mother’s Day Retreat – Busted Halo  offers “A retreat for young adults and their mothers to celebrate the relationship that continues to nurture us.” Mother’s Day — a day dedicated to honoring our mothers. As we become “adults” our relationships with our mothers evolve and our perspectives shift. We might feel distanced from our [...]

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Mother’s Day: St. Elizabeth Ann Seton

View or download VinFormation’s new presentation: How St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Embodied Motherhood.

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In case you missed “Unoticed Moms”

For the past week the featured video in the right margin of famvin page tells a very powerful story of things we don’t notice about Moms and therefore never think to say thank you for. On the home page scroll down until you see the image of the video. Related FAMVIN Posts:The surprising history of Mother’s [...]

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Mothers Day as top nonreligious holiday

LifeWay Research shows that other than Easter and Christmas, Mother’s Day may be the most likely day people will attend church. In the survey of 1,000 protestant pastors, Mother’s Day (59 percent) ranked third behind the standard religious powerhouse holidays of Easter (93 percent) and Christmas (84 percent). The commentary offers some insights as to [...]

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Elizabeth Bayley Seton was first and always a mother

Sr. Regina Bechtle offers this reflections for Mothers Day… Today’s readings picture a God who shows no partiality, a God who remembers kindness and faithfulness toward us, a God whose truest name is Love – abundant, unconditional, unearned. What a perfect description of a mother’s love!  Through times of trouble and confusion this love remains [...]

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Understanding homeless Moms

 InvisiblePeople.tv: Changing the story of homelessness. ** Mother’s Day is this Sunday. Support Moms who are homeless and everything they go through for their families, by sharing these stories.      and forward to a friend for Mother’s Day. Jean and her five children live in a motel. Every day, even in the Missouri rain, she rides a bicycle to her minimum wage [...]

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