{"id":16286,"date":"2015-07-27T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2015-07-27T06:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/?p=16286"},"modified":"2015-07-08T05:08:21","modified_gmt":"2015-07-08T10:08:21","slug":"the-gift-of-being-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/2015\/07\/27\/the-gift-of-being-mother\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gift  of Being Mother"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"notranslate\">Being a mother is a gift from God, who gives himself to another in a gratuitous love without expecting retribution.<\/span> <span class=\"notranslate\"> Mother generates life and gives life to the children, being responsible for their growth.<\/span> <span class=\"notranslate\"> It is a free commitment to serve all the time and is always attentive to your every need.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"notranslate\"> Motherhood and fatherhood are also spiritual gifts from God, who calls us to bear children for the Kingdom of Heaven.<\/span> <span class=\"notranslate\"> We must be like Mary, who assumed the disciples so that they could continue on the path of the Lord.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"notranslate\"> <em>&#8220;Jesus, seeing his mother, and beside her the disciple he loved, he saith to his mother: &#8216;Woman, behold your son!&#8217;<\/em><\/span> <span class=\"notranslate\"> <em>Then he said to the disciple, &#8216;Behold your mother!&#8217; &#8220;(John<\/em> 19.26 to 27).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"notranslate\"> Let us ask the Lord for the grace to be reflections of His love, like the Virgin Mary, being strong, dignified, simple, cheerful, dedicated and always doing good to all.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"notranslate\"> <strong>Jesus, I trust in You!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Luzia Santiago<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/luziasantiago.cancaonova.com\/mensagem\/dom-de-ser-mae\/\">Portuguese Version<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being a mother is a gift from God, who gives himself to another in a gratuitous love without expecting retribution. Mother generates life and gives life to the children, being responsible for their growth. It is a free commitment to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1121,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10351],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16286"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1121"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16287,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16286\/revisions\/16287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}