Happy Mother's Day to all the Moms today! John Paul 2 certainlly had something to say about Motherhood. I wanted to share a few snipits from John Paul 2 which were published in an earlier translation of TOB, Human Love in the Divine Plan. Below are his words.
"Motherhood is the fruit of the marriage union of a man and woman, of the biblical "knowledge" which corresponds to the union of the two in one flesh."
"According to the bible, the conception and birth of a new human being are accompanied by the following words of the woman: "I have brought forth a man into being with the help of the Lord" Gn 4:1. This exclamation of Eve, the mother of all the living is repeated every time a new human being comes into the world. It expresses the woman's joy and awareness that she is sharing in the great mystery of eternal generation. The spouses share in the creative power of God!
"The Creator grants the parents the gift of a child. On the woman's part, this fact is linked in a special way to a sincere gift of self. Mary's words at the Annunciation-"Let it be according to your word"
"The man, even with all his sharing in parenthood always remains on outside the process of pregnancy and the baby's birth; in many ways he has to learn his own fatherhood from the mother.
"The history of every human being passes through the threshold of a woman's motherhood"
"Parenthood-even though it belongs to both-is realized much more fully in the woman, especially in the prenatal period. It is the woman who pays directly for this shared generation, which literally absorbs the energies of her body and soul. It is therefore necessary that the man be fully aware that in their shared parenthood he owes a special debt to the woman. No program of equal rights between women and men is valid unless it takes this fact fully into account."
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