Some days as a work at home mother, keeping the correct emphasis on the mother part requires a lot of discipline. These words of Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty help me keep my priorities focused:
The most important person on earth is a mother. She cannot claim the honor of having built Notre Dame Cathedral. She need not. She has built something more magnificent than any cathedral — a dwelling for an immortal soul, the tiny perfection of her baby’s body.
The angels have not been blessed with such a grace. They cannot share in God’s creative miracle to bring new saints to heaven. Only a human mother can. Mothers are closer to God the Creator than any other creature. God joins forces with mothers in performing this act of creation …
What on God’s good earth is more glorious than this: to be a mother?
— Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty
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