Mons. del Río also highlighted that on Mother’s Day “that feeling of gratitude is renewed towards the woman who conceived us, carried us in her womb throughout the nine months of gestation, gave us the first care in childhood. and with whom from the beginning of our lives we established a unique and unrepeatable relationship.”
“We give thanks, then, to the mothers who gave birth to us and also to those who perhaps did not conceive us but who, for various reasons, have taken their place and assumed the maternal role that is so necessary for the proper maturation of the children. children”.
The Archbishop also highlighted that “the mother is the first person with whom the child experiences the gratuitousness of love. It is also the one who introduces him to the world of human relationships and the process of integration into the family and society, and who, with her feminine genius as Saint John Paul II called it, influences in a peculiar way the development of his self-esteem and the formation of one’s personality.