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ST. MARY'S BROTHERHOOD SALUTES MOTHERS Minister Leads Men In Serving |
| Publishing date: 19.05.2006 10:17 |
Churches and community organisations throughout Anguilla joined their colleagues in other parts of the world in observing Mother’s Day on May 8.
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The head table with Bishop Brooks (second from right)
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It will be a memorable occasion in the minds of many women at St. Mary’s Anglican Church in The Valley where the men folk, grouped in an organisation called “St. Mary’s Brotherhood,” with branches at St. Augustine’s, East End and St. Andrew’s, Island Harbour, entertained a large number of mothers.
The programme was under the chairmanship of Marcel Fahie who said it was an honour for the men of the church to serve the ladies who play an important role in family life and the society.
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Minister Evans Rogers serving Reverend and Mrs. Fahie
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Leading the men in serving some of the tables was the Minister of Social Development, Evans Rogers, who was given a rousing welcome at the function in the downstairs section of the Scouts and Guides Ruthwill Auditorium.
The Mother’s Day brunch, as the dining function was called, was blessed by Bishop Errol Brooks. Earlier at the nearby Church he delivered a sermon in which he paid special tribute to mothers.
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The men serving food
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“I saluted them for their tenacious love,” he told The Anguillian. “It is their love that goes all out. Irrespective of the situation, mothers are always there. Secondly, I saluted them for the impact that they have on the lives of their children. If there is anybody else, apart from God, who really influences, it is our mothers.
“Fathers are there, yes, but we fathers think differently. When a child is sick, for example and crying all night, it is the mother who stays up most of the time because the father thinks he has to get some rest. How often you hear someone saying ‘my mother always used to say…’? You are always quoting your mom. There is a close bonding there.
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One of the tables
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“Thirdly, wherever mother is, there is home and that shows you how important mothers are in the lives of their children.”
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Another of the tables
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Mother’s Day was founded by American Anna Jarvis. She first organised a Mother’s Day programme at St. Andrew’s Methodist Episcopal Church in Crafton, Taylor County, West Virginia, on May 10. 1908. The honoured mother had laid the foundation for such a day in the last fifty years of her life. She was the daughter of Methodist Minister Revered Josiah W. Reeves. In 1850, at the age of seventeen, she married Granville E. Jarvis, a Baptist Minister. She was the mother of twelve children, but only four lived to adulthood.
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