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May 12, 2002--Seventh Sunday of Easter
"I glorified you on earth by accomplishing the work that you gave me to do." John 17: 1-11
A mother's love
In a remote section of the Andes, a highland tribe attacked a lowland tribe. The highlanders kidnapped a lowland baby girl and took her back to their mountain stronghold. Though the lowland tribe knew nothing of the mountains nor how to climb them, they immediately sent an armed band of their most powerful men to rescue the kidnapped child.
But the rescue attempt was failed. For several days, they tried every route they could find but always ran up against walls of sheer rock they could not scale. Finally they had to admit defeat and began packing their gear to return to the village below. As they began their return to the lowland, they saw coming on the heights above them the figure of the mother of the stolen infant, carrying the precious child she had lost--and coming down the mountain they had been unable to climb!
They asked in amazement, "How were you able to climb these impenetrable mountains, let alone get back your child, when our rescue effort failed?"
She smiled and said simply, "It wasn't your daughter."
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CONNECTION: The vocation of motherhood mirrors the demanding love of Christ--love that is total and selfless, love that has neither limits nor conditions, love that is given freely without any expectation of return. Mothers are models for us of what it means to be authentic disciples of Jesus. As we honor our mothers today, let us embrace the spirit of hard, demanding, suffering love that is a mother's gift to her children, the spirit of love that enables us to take on the work of the Risen Lord. u
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