The Need for Spiritual Motherhood in the Church

In last Friday's Gospel, Luke gives us an important detail about the number of women disciples of Jesus and how they provide for the Lord and the twelve apostles. This glimpse into the life of the early Church gathered around Jesus reminds us that women have an essential role to play that is different from the men. And it is the same today! We need spiritual fathers in the Church to lead and pastor us, but we also need spiritual mothers -- i.e. consecrated religious women -- to support God's family with their attentive love. Just like every family needs a father and a mother to flourish, so too the Church! Let us pray that God call and bring back many consecrated women religious to our parishes so that we can have the spiritual mothers we all need! Homily from our school Mass.