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I’ve been meaning to start this thread for sometime. My mom passed away shortly after Easter of this year after a short battle with pancreatic cancer. I remember this time last year my most fervent prayer would be that I would get to go to midnight mass with her (we did).
Mom came home to the Catholic Church on Ash Wednesday (her birthday) the year after I was confirmed in 2003. It’s been an interesting 16 years having a Catholic mom all of the sudden. One of the first things she did was buy us a nativity set. The first Christmas she gave us all the essentials and as the years passed she would send shepherds or wise men, etc. It became a perennial ritual to let her know what we were lacking, “We still need an angel, mom{,or 'we can always use more sheep”.
As is our custom, we broke out the nativity set last Sunday. It’s nice and full.
I’ve just begun to feel like my normal self. It was a horrible year watching the cancer take her away like that, but now I’m starting to shake off the grunge and while I’m still sad, setting up mother’s nativity set made me happy.
I’ve been wondering how well I’m going to deal with the Advent/Christmas season. So far, it hasn’t been so bad. A few things set me back but generally I’m more joyful that I had a mom that loved me than I am sad that I lost her,
More later.
Mom came home to the Catholic Church on Ash Wednesday (her birthday) the year after I was confirmed in 2003. It’s been an interesting 16 years having a Catholic mom all of the sudden. One of the first things she did was buy us a nativity set. The first Christmas she gave us all the essentials and as the years passed she would send shepherds or wise men, etc. It became a perennial ritual to let her know what we were lacking, “We still need an angel, mom{,or 'we can always use more sheep”.
As is our custom, we broke out the nativity set last Sunday. It’s nice and full.
I’ve just begun to feel like my normal self. It was a horrible year watching the cancer take her away like that, but now I’m starting to shake off the grunge and while I’m still sad, setting up mother’s nativity set made me happy.
I’ve been wondering how well I’m going to deal with the Advent/Christmas season. So far, it hasn’t been so bad. A few things set me back but generally I’m more joyful that I had a mom that loved me than I am sad that I lost her,
More later.