Card Mindszenty on mothers

The Most Important Person on earth is a mother. She cannot claim the honour of having built Notre Dame Cathedral. She need not. She has built something more magnificent than any cathedral—a dwelling for an immortal soul, the tiny perfection of her baby’s body… The angels have not been blessed with such a grace. They cannot share in God’s creative miracle to bring new saints to Heaven. Only a human mother can. Mothers are closer to God the Creator than any other creature; God joins forces with mothers in performing this act of creation… What on God’s good earth is more glorious than this: to be a mother?

• Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty

A blessed Mother’s Day to my mama and all mothers (and also the spiritual ones).

da mihi, domine, scire et intellegere utrum sit prius invocare te an laudare te, et scire te prius sit an invocare te.

Grant me, O Lord, to believe and to understand which is first, whether it be to call upon thee or to praise thee, and to know thee or to call upon thee.

-The Confessions of St Augustine, Book 1