P. A. Chacko SJ
Today, on Mother’s Day, we salute our mothers who brought us into this world with hope and joy.
We wish those, who have departed from this world, happy reunion with the Eternal.
We wish those here with us peace and joy, fulfilment of their hopes and aspirations.
On this day we sympathise with the mothers who are denied love, concern and protection from their sons and daughters.
We condole with the mothers on the sad occasion of 16 of their children mowed down by the Indian Railways at Aurangabad while they were returning home after migrant labour. Also with all other mothers who lost their children in tragic circumstances.
We share the sadness of the mothers, the world over, who lost their children to coronavirus.
We reach out to those mothers who, steeped in poverty and neglect, are unable to feed their malnourished children.
We remember those mothers living in sheds or slums or on railway platforms, begging for a pittance to feed their children.
We grieve with the mothers who are dumped into ‘Care Homes’ by uncaring and comfort-seeking sons and daughters.
We reach out to those mothers who are waiting to receive their sons or daughters returning from migrant labour.
We beg the Almighty Power to dispel the darkness in the lives of all suffering and grieving mothers and to enable them to see rays of light at the end of the tunnel.