Mother's Day and Feast Day of Julian of Norwich

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History of Mother's Day

Your mother is always with you...

She's the whisper of the leaves
as you walk down the street.

She's the smell of bleach in
your freshly laundered socks.

She's the cool hand on your
brow when you're not well.

Your mother lives inside
your laughter. She's crystallized
in every tear drop...

She's the place you came from,
your first home.. She's the map you
follow with every step that you take.

She's your first love and your first heart
break....and nothing on earth can separate you.

Not time, Not space...
Not even death....
will ever separate you
from your mother....

You carry her inside of you....

- Author Unknown 

This poem and many others about mothers can be found here:  http://www.mothers.net/motherspoems.htm

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Father Nathanael, Icon of Julian of Norwich

Source

November 8, 1342 – c. 1416 A.D.

Thus our mother, Christ, in whom our parts are kept unseparated, works in us in various ways. For in our mother, Christ, we profit and increase, and in mercy he reforms and restores us, and by virtue of his passion, death, and resurrection joins us to our substance. This is how our mother, Christ, works in mercy in all his beloved children who are submissive and obedient to him….

                                                            - Julian of Norwich

Reference Links:

Luminarium

The Order of Julian of Norwich - An Episcopalian Contemplative Order of Nuns and Monks