Mother’s Day at Holy Rosary Catholic School

We will celebrate Mother’s Day on Sunday the 12th May. We are encouraged to think more seriously about the importance of women in our families.

Mother’s Day began with a simple domestic gesture that caught on. People were encouraged to give a present to their mothers to acknowledge their love and their service to their family.

Mother’s Day reminds us of the importance for any society of mothering – of giving priority and time to raising children and making a home in which all are valued, and all are listened to compassionately.

In modern societies in which mothers are also engaged in demanding work the gifts and the time involved in these forms of nurturing cannot be left to women who have borne children but must be encouraged and developed in men, women and children.

Mothering also crosses generations. Grandmothers are an integral part of the life of most families. They are honoured not simply because of their past role as mothers but for the way in which they continue to nurture people in the present.

If mothering is necessary in society, too, we must look at how we support mothers. Many women in the most important work for society such as working in nursing homes are kept in precarious and poorly remunerated work. Our society can be better than that in its treatment of all women including mothers.

Our Holy Rosary Students have been busily involved with preparing thoughtful and creative gifts for the mothers and grandmothers in their lives. 

We especially thank the members of our school community who prepared and volunteered their skills and time to create an amazing Mother’s Day stall for our very enthusiastic and excited buyers looking for an authentic and thoughtful gift for their much-loved mothers and grandmothers. Thank you.