Students of St Joseph’s Convent, San Fernando, perform a creative movement for the offertory at a Mass in celebration of the school’s 130^th anniversary. Archbishop Joseph Harris presided at last Tuesday’s Mass at the Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Help. Report in next week’s issue. Photo: Raymond Syms

Gran Couva/Tabaquite Parish priests – Fr Matthew d’Hereaux and his mother Margaret and Fr Steve Ransome with his mother Rosetta. Occasion was last Sunday’s parish harvest at St Bartholomew’s, Flanagin Town.

Whenever we feature women in Ruth, it is often an intense story about someone’s faith journey; we celebrate their highs and their lows and everything that makes them a woman of faith. Today we celebrate a different faith journey – the journey of motherhood, which is in fact an act of faith. Today we celebrate the thousands of Catholic mothers in our archdiocese, especially those avid readers of Ruth.

We are fortunate that our Catholic Faith solemnly recognises the value and importance of motherhood in our faith journey. When we meditate on Mary we see a mother who was there with her son throughout every moment of his life. His pain was her pain. Deacon Keith Fournier’s in his reflection of Mary as the Mother of the Redeemer says, “Mary was there at the Incarnation, Birth, Crucifixion, and Resurrection of God Incarnate. She was there throughout the often called ‘hidden years’ in Nazareth.