A Prayer and a Blessing for Mothering Sunday

Let us pray.

God,

we thank you that you call each one of us to a unique vocation.

No one else can be the Christian you call each one of us to be.

We thank you today for the unique vocation of motherhood,

and for all mothers, all who bear and raise children.

Be with all mothers.

Be with

• all who are struggling to become mothers;
• all who bear disappointment because they cannot be mothers;
• all who mourn a mother who has died;
• all who have known too little of motherly love.

Give them strength and consolation.

Be with all whose creativity takes another form.

May your Church get it right,

when it comes to knowing and saying what families are and are not,

and how nuclear families fit in to the wider Church community.

Bless now these flowers

in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

that all who look upon them

and enjoy their scent

will come to trust more firmly

that you are our good Creator

who loves us and calls us

to our own unique creative and nurturing vocation.

Amen.