Classic! We like to celebrate mothers in the Church and we like to ignore fatherhood. It just screamed, whoops, we forgot to order flowers in time and ran out to walmart last night and bought up whatever womanly thing we could find. Regular G.A.S. By All Latter-day Saint Youth Need to Hear Ready to Rise, Popular Rapper Says He Wants to Be Baptized into The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, FREE I Can Do All Things Through Christ Sheet Music + Music Video, Latter-day Saint Missionaries Perform Is There Room, Official 2023 Youth Theme Music Video: I Can Do All Things Through Christ, Popular Rapper Says He Wants to Be Baptized into The Church. This is something better done away with. Plus, I thought it was extra cool that the Bish consulted the RS pres. You can also subscribe without commenting. Mothers Day is celebrated, and increasingly commercialized, but my impression of the local situation is that ones obligation to honor ones mother is largely discharged at home. #46 That is an awesome idea for your talk. In the UK, my experience has been that sacrament has at least one talk and often a few. I would be totally okay if they did nothing for Mothers Day at church. Latter-day Saints in a contemporary congregation partake of the sacrament. Intent matters, and I dont believe the idealism we are fed is meant to hurt, but rather to uplift. A year later he died in a car accident, and the children went back to mom, whose life was now very different. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Your email address will not be published. #16 They asked him to speak again?! I was asked to speak 3 times on MD during my infertility phase. I think it turned out great. His explanation was not to offend any sister. Sacrament meetings include music, talks, testimonies and prayers. A cookie in a baggie? So, yeah, how irritated the host is with the comments is pretty much it. at all.. The first speaker was a single father, then the bishop spoke, then the stake president spoke. I am a single (divorced) old man with no children. What does this mean about women? It is also a reminder that through His mercy and grace, all people will be resurrected and given the opportunity for eternal life with God. It is not that women want to be from Venus, but they want to be from Venus five universes beyond our own. I choose to stay away for most MDs and all FD. Listen to her. In return, the Lord renews the promised remission of sin and enables Church members to always have his Spirit to be with them (Doctrine and Covenants 20:77). each year when I plan the Mother's Day sacrament meeting I feel an extra bit of pressure to make it special for our wives and mothers. Worst Moms Day talk ever: when we (and most of our friends) were newlyweds, one of our friends (a guy) was asked to give the big glory of motherhood talk. He chose to base his talk on To The Mothers In Zion, and used it to essentially chastise and condemn working women, and it sent half the ward fuming into the bishops office. I remember my dad saying it was one of the most powerful and real talks hed ever heard in a Mormon church meeting. Because I know the real story so it is distracting from the fake one that they are giving. I agree with the chocolate, lack of talks, and the third hour refreshments! I struggled with infertility for nearly a decade. She used several stories from the NT about Christ & his mother Mary to illustrate principles that we can all use to improve our relationships with others. I was honored to have known her, and to have been able to claim her as my own. I pray the Spirit will be with me today as I give this talk. I do look forward to handing the kids over to my husband for the day, but Ill take a pass on sacrament meeting. The Barker Brothers' Projects These videos were created for Latter-day Saint parents and allies to voice their love for their LGBT brothers and sisters, sons and daughters. *As I type this, I know for a fact that someone out there is going to respond that their ward gives men plants for Fathers Day every year. to hear my little kids sing and for my older kids to pass out a flower. We are an outlandishly weird, mixed up bunch of folk. I give, is it supposed to be about mothers or not? This ordinance is an essential part of worship and spiritual development. With that in mind, there are great ideas in this discussion thread of ways to do exactly that. Index to the Triple Combination, Sacrament, Jesus Christ Teaches about the Sacrament and Prayer, AaronL. 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I went to Sac. It might be that it was a holiday originally conceived by the US Socialist Party and propagated by the Soviets. Should we have days for every type of individual? Modal title . Im asking this out of genuine curiosity/responsibility for handing stuff out. My favorite Mothers Day talk was my own talk. I get really tired of hearing the stripling warrior passages on Mother's Day. This cup is the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you (Luke 22:1920). me) before deciding on these speakers. You dont come, you dont get one. I do think it is easy to understand my point and I appreciate it when others understand my position. It isnt uncommon for LDS women to be dealing with some combination of the following factors: a difficult marriage, no marriage, no children, difficult children, health problems, loss of faith. It demands that the single day of the year that Mother's are celebrated to a holiday that is solely for adult females and no one else. Aleah Ingram May 3, 2021 Entertainment. Glad as I can be Show me a sinless mother and she can be my ideal too. I plan to skip church on Mothers Day morning to visit my mother in the home and I will receive my Masters Degree that afternoon! And out the door I flee. Have a young child, a teenager, husband and elderly father take you through the different phases of motherhood in their own point of view. They seemed to love the tradition and I never received negative feedback. I'd suggest that women at various stages in their lives speaking about what the joy in womanhood, being a divine daughter of God means to them in different stages of life, would at least eliminate all that talk and honor of mothers who have lots of children and do everything right that cause so much pain to women everywhere. It hurts. Inevitably they would be instructed that the gifts were for all women, so theyd try hard to give me one. We speak about it nearly every Sunday. And this is all in addition to the everyday problems like getting the bills paid and the laundry done. I have attended other Christian churches enough to realize why it is much less likely that they have painful mothers day talks. It worked well in my ward, I think. I love this. I have not attending other churches that have mothers day services aimed at mothers. In Bishopric meeting this year, I quoted your little sister regarding plants. If So, Should We Pray Out Loud? I dont mean to be rude, but I know I will have anxiety over killing it and then I *will* kill it and then I will have to look at its dead body. Yes. When we speak of mothers as people who are incapable of gross sin, they know we are lying. Let us take as self-evident that, in reality, not all women are naturally pure or spiritual. My own plan of attack: 1) lay some knowledge on people (see above), 2) talk about our own mothers and that they are real people who faced real struggles, 3) the Plan of Happiness (is that what were calling it now?) Actually..mother's day should be everyday. Over the years, Ive heard some very good Mothers Day talks, but I have also heard some that were cringe-worthy. Sharon if that is our Sharon, please PM me. kc I love me some Pres. Identifying ideals is somehow so treacherous for the psyches of women that that must never be mentioned? In the same way, when we make a dramatic production of Mothers Day, I fear that we are sometimestrying to compensate for the way we devalue the real and important work they do on the other 364 days of the year. And I did use some of the suggestions here. No love in mortality comes closer to approximating the pure love of Jesus Christ than the selfless love a devoted mother has for her child.. At the end of the survey there was a comments box where individuals could leave specific feedback to bishoprics that organize Mothers Day. This talk teaches us how rearing up children in righteousness can help keep them safe in an increasingly wicked world and how what happens in the home can benefit communities and nations. Get plenty HPs and Elders. I just dont like when they push the plant on me after Ive politely declined it. But alas, Mother's Day 11 years ago will forever be known as the day I landed face down on the floor of the chapel, on top of my 3-year-old, in the middle of sacrament meeting, with my skirt flung over my head. http://mormonartist.net/2012/02/day-three-jeanna-stay/. But shes never experienced the horrors I have where the local ward nut case talks about how his wife isnt putting out thanks to menopause. If you take one thing away from this not-so-scientific survey, it is, when in doubt, go with chocolate. So I will be going to church on Sunday, even though I never go to church, so I can remember my mother, who was never a Mormon. I think mixing it up, at least every other year, from Mother I Love You, is nice as a mom. I was dreading it, but I was rescued by my sister coming to town for the next 3 days yayyyy. Although I have the suspicion that he had an ulterior motive of hoping never to be asked to speak again. Those who are solely focused on their own selfish desires? Thats the last thing a mother needs, responsibility for yet another living thing. Enter your email address to follow BCC and receive new posts by email. If you want to hear about angel mothers and perfect people, remain in the chapel. So He can be ideal AND real. We should not celebrate anything unless it is universally acknowledged around the world. I asked a mother and daughter to sing the main lines, and then I had the . Im amazed that we arent using the most recent conference materials . Mtg. Ours, like most, has its strengths and its weaknesses. I did live in one ward where the mothers always got plants but the fathers always got cookies. Alma 56:47-48. He invites mothers to count the debits and credits in your role as a mother. President Hinckley then goes through a number of important gospel teachings mothers should focus on. Now they never had fought, yet they did not fear death; and they did think more upon the liberty of their fathers than they did upon their . They can eat whatever they want, in fact. Diabetic others, for example. Somehow those who are not mothers are incapable of celebrating motherhood and thus it is painful for them and thus no one should celebrate motherhood as a church. Available Now: 2023 Temple Calendar. And, as your mother, I will miss the delicious pie during a relaxing third hour of church. That cost a war pension. So our ward did 3 talks on Christ with each one saying one sentence of gratitude about their individual moms right before bearing their testimony. Through this ordinance, Church members renew the covenants they made with God when they were baptized. There was nothing you could do that would ever make you feel like she didnt love you, but she always told you the truth about your behavior and was not afraid to be entirely real with you even when you wanted to lie to yourself. Im also a High Councilor, who always tries very much not to speak in rose-colored platitudes that, sadly, you associate with High Council speakers. first adult speaker: Motherhood is like a roller coaster: there are lots of ups and downs, and sometimes you just have to close your eyes and scream., second adult speaker, quoting a Native American proverb: The soul would have no rainbow if the eyes had no tears., benediction, by a former Bishop: Heavenly Father, we speak with thee every day, and we look forward to the day when we can renew our relationship with Heavenly Mother.. This post should be required reading for all Mothers Day speakers. How about honoring our mothers by not just focusing on what they do or have done for us (guilt trip for those that feel they never do enough) but focus on ways the members can help their mothers throughout each stage of their life. Well at least I know what not to talk about. April 24, 2015 in General Discussions. Local leaders are ministering to them at this time," Church spokesman Eric Hawkins said. "We express our love to those in this congregation and our prayers for the victims and their families. The hard part for me is when I hear talks about angel mothers where I actually know whom they are talking about. I too am irritated by mother-worshipping in MD talks, but at the same time, I think many Mormon women identify so strongly with being a mother and so many have sacrificed just about everything to focus on that specific role, that they really appreciate a little validation, a little boost of confidence that what theyre doing is significant and has meaning. (i.e. And dont even get me started on the Are We Not All Mothers tripe. I spoke one Mothers Day about Eve and Mary, and thought it was a good talk and well-received. They are there, you just have to do a little digging. We teach that you are basically good or even great (gods in embryo), that you are responsible for your actions and that you can actually make other people do what is right through prayer and works especially your children, that the sins you accumulate both those of commission and omission are entirely your fault, that Christ is not really in the middle of the picture until you really screw up and commit something unforgiveable like adultery and that you need to try harder to keep every one of those commandments or you are going to lose your reward of having a planet & of having eternal sex , and the celestial DFAC will snatch your children from you and destroy your perfect family sprouting from the buried nuts of polygamy where mother valently hoisted the impossible burdens. In the garden He said, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death (Matthew 26:38). The first speaker was my favorite. It was an emotional rollercoaster of raised hopes and disappointments. Alece 100 it is a bit rich for you to interpret that your comment and that quote by Lewis mean the same thing. Oh, great. Just to be clear - I meant 'written/given' by women (aka musical number "O My Father" written by Eliza R Snow, conf talk by Reeve/Oscarson/Okazaki). I also really like Kristenes suggestion and everything like unto it as EOR suggested. Ere the sun goes down. Although the later version of Mothers Day in the US was to honor mothers, it retained its association with peace as carnations were given out as a symbol of peace (white if ones mother was dead, pink if alive). We were each handed full size chocolate bars that had been wrapped at the end of Sac Mtng.