Word in the Hand

Mother and child - St Julian's  Church, Norwich It’s Mother’s Day today in the States. Mother's Day here happens in Lent which probably tells us a great deal a lot about our attitude to motherhood. In fact, that Sunday is to honour the Church as mother  - human mothers  don't get a day except by association.  If it wasn't Sunday it would be the feastday of Our Lady of Fatima.  Mary would say that she has no right to be honoured except by association to her son - she certainly knows what motherhood is about. There is very little about Mary in the Gospels; there are some who believe that her only duty was to be the human ‘incubator’ - the Ark of the Covenant as we said during her Litany today - and there is nothing else to thank her for. If this is the case, Jesus may as well have sprung fully formed, like Venus, from the sea. There is a lot more to motherhood than incubation! We have come to understand about the courage that Mary needed to say that f...