Mother's Day 2010

In celebration to the Assumption of Mother Marry today, the St. John Church had also given an honor to the celebration of the Mothers' Day.

Before the Sunday Mass had began today, Fr. Dominico, the Parish priest at St. John Church, had a small and secret talk to all the English-speaking Filipino children after their catechism session and had given them some instructions what to do before and after the mass celebration.

Though the parents was just nearby, they don't really understood what was the purpose of the secret talk. They only had realized it after the whole activity.

So, as instructed, all the said children had seated in the first row in front of the altar in preparation to the special thing that they are going to do later, immediately right after the Holy Mass.

When the Holy Mass had ended, before the priest had given his final blessing, he once again reminded all the parishioners the significance and importance of the celebration.

To honor Mother Marry, and to celebrate the Mother's Day, all mothers were honored by giving them flowers.

It was their children handing them the beautiful, red, white and pink flower roses.

Two members of our Church choir had rendered a very beautiful, mixed English-Filipino song very fitting to the occasion, sang beautifully while the children are giving flowers to the mothers.

After the giving of flowers to their own mothers, the children were instructed to give flowers also to those mothers whose children were not with them at the moment.

I have seen how the spirits of the mothers were lighted up due to this very simple, and yet a very memorable experience for them.

In like manner, the children were also very happy seeing their mothers happily and thankfully receiving the flowers.

This time, I had realized what was the purpose of the secret talk earlier. It's all about honoring all mothers, and of course reminding everyone the importance of Mother Mary in our life, and doing it in surprised manner, especially for those who are not familiar to this kind of event.