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Poem★★★★The literature of all ages has paid tribute to mother, and the chronicles of all nations acknowledge their debt to her. The Sacred Word is full of the highest homage to mothers. ““The Lord could not be everywhere, so He made mothers,” said a Jewish rabbi. “Mother in Israel” has be- come a term of the highest regard.
‘The Fourth Command- ment, and the first with promise, says, “Honor thy mother.” But it is in the New Testament that we find the culmination of the exaltation of motherhood in the life of Mary, the mother of Christ.
From the time the angel announced to her, “Blessed art thou among women,” un- til the day that Jesus said from the cross to His beloved disciple, “Behold thy mother,” she was ever the highest type of motherhood.
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A tribute to motherhood throughout history and Scripture, culminating in Mary as the ultimate example of motherhood in bearing Christ.