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• 22 Feb 08
  

  Elena LaVictoire

  life had been so busy raising a family that shescarcely ever had aprivate minute for herself, was more contemplative than he was.

  Catholic VVG lent motherhood prayer

  • life had been so busy raising a family that she scarcely ever had a
    private minute for herself, was more contemplative than he was.
  • t. The lesson was rather that there was
    something wonderfully right about what his mother was doing all these
    years as she lived the interrupted life amid the noise and incessant
    demands of small children. He had been in a monastery, but so had
    she.
  • For example, the mother who stays home with small children
    experiences a very real withdrawal from the world. Her existence is
    definitely monastic. Her tasks and preoccupations remove her from the
    centers of power and social importance. And she feels it.
    
    Moreover, the demands of young children also provide her with what
    St. Bernard, one of the great architects of monasticism, called
    the "monastic bell".
  • 
    Hence, a mother rearing children, perhaps in a more privileged way
    even than a professional contemplative is forced, almost against her
    will, to constantly stretch her heart.

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