| Show 1 sg Sermon for or i ee t. t By Re Rev Thomas J. J Kaiser I V Sv f Assistant sant Pastor Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church his tois is the season of new life Once more God redecorates arth arch with His ills many shades of green reen Once more God fills e th youth giving givin joy to our hearts with the budding forth of multicolored and blossoms Once more the spring flowers lowers burst forth from their winter shelters r K peal peak most eloquently of the greatness of or the God who v ho gave gaffe life In the midst of all these glories of or spring we set seta seta a a a day in honor of a lady the lady the first lady of or our hearts our hearts our mother the one who once gave us life who now fills our souls with joy oY and who will al always al p ways speak with 1 ready tongue to o us of the magnificence of oC God 1 r Many have h catalogued all 81 the things that find Imd us indebted s ed to our mother Man Many have haves f echoed her praises without tt ar ceasing Many 1 have cast a new newlight newlight Li t 4 light on this mother of ours 1 9 and her love lo of us Today r this mother love is still one of oC r our most treasured possessions 1 Today in this mother love w we e er t r J Jt find an example of or what true truelove at love lo is Today y as always if we pause one moment and 8 1 t ponder this mother love we find the solution to all the diC difficulties and trials that beset beet beset be be- set et us on our journey toward tow Our Fathers Father's mansion ti 11 We Ve r c should stop then today today 10 to to- day da- and sit down at our mothers mother's feet for she is the teacher not degreed decreed 1 great b t with a masters master's or a doctors doctor's II I not schooled where the great t glean out a pittance of or knowledge knowl knowl- knowledge edge not skilled with any art artof of or p picturesque expression but butt it t 1 t only by the great vocation that is hers that of being alI ere er There sitting humbly beside her w we e learn what hat s pit love ova ove is t first she would tell us in her own words that her whole as as an an endeavor to bring peace to us because she knows gs love aye ve gives birth to peace So it was when she first took look y in her arms and pressed us close to her bosom It was wass s s. she she he first gave us the peace of security And when we j i 1 attention or food or just a mothers mother's kiss she ran to ct t s is s at rest to assure us that th someone cared to give us the thet t Hof attention As we grew and the world about us grew j ry fines imes frightening us by its grotesque figures she was there L. L e a the peace of or explanation And always this peace came e a heart full of or love She was Gods God's instrument I of peace pi iq se first she loved Love Demands Renunciation of or Self hen with an air of tranquillity she would tell us that love a complete renunciation of self Even en as the rose ds s of its fragrance love lo must bloom forth with self r II t full of or true love lo looks at the loved one and seeks not notI I lotion lation lion but seeks to console To console the tired body mind the torn heart is the work of love Not but but only to understand nd is s loves love's oca vocation ion and curt curl word is understood the impatient gesture is under- under nt rn the complete misunderstanding is also understood beit beit be be- i it it t is the task of love to understand t Fin Finally lna all she would tell us that the art of or love is an art of or nl 9 jg g. g And completely must time and nd energy be given The n 11 a heart must be offered in m the wake of or love with no petty ments to worldly things to the trivial things that fill our ourt ourThe t J The whole mind with all its secrets all its profound bis must be given to the loved one Nothing can be re- re r. r d for keeping something for ones one's self stifles love e This m pie pie of giving opens the heart to let the love within flow out bus pus at mothers mother's knee we learn the outward signs of that inward virtue that all mothers seem to know There we r 4 that love lose in order to be true Jove must give birth to for the loved one must find its joy in sacrificing self for t loved oyed one must find its contentment in giving oneself to Fps ved oved one We must then write deeply this lesson in our ourI I i I t We must never let ourselves be unmindful of it for out ve are great things born out of or love are great Christian s it constructed a Learn the Art of Li in Living With Hh God t r rut ut lut why did the Creator kindle this love spark in mothers irl did He make the mother the custodian of love Just so e might learn the art of living with God This art of ii means love and in proportion as we love God we will J U how w best to love and live with ourselves our intimates 1 neighbors our nation and all nations 1 jf I t hus US we can learn at our mothers mother's knee this art which is it ai the art of loving and find in its fulfillment solutions to problems of war sin sm and greed for an answer to each is i love For war love exchanges peace For sin which itt i love offers self For greed love tells J Jl be e steeped in the Christian principle of giving All our ems will resolve themselves into the problem of or developing 1 JJr i minds hearts and souls that which each mother knows true true Christian love the answer as it has always f t aC i ig g to t a man mans man's s mammoth h problems i i ence as we wrap the gift which is the outward expression i irn f e ae a love we have for mother as we take the token of or our to her and as we present presen it to her with with all our heart aN f infill ill l be he mindful that she has the secret she has the key sh she she shei i e a answer for those who would rob us of our treasures of ofa a berty liberty and happiness This secret this key this answer li 3 f jt re We will thank our mother then for teaching us the true s-Je s rl ire f of oC love for from it springs the joy of God God fearing fearing people |
