"For All Our Faithful Mothers"

"For All Our Faithful Mothers"

(Tune: The Church’s One Foundation”)

For all our faithful mothers 

Who reared us in the faith 

Of Jesus as our Savior – 

To You, our voices raise. 

We give You thanks, O Father 

For all our mothers dear 

Who birthed and then cared for us 

And loved us, far and near.

 When Adam named creation

No help-mate he could find;

So woman You created

With rib from Adam’s side.

"The Mother of All Living"* 

So Adam named his wife 

Thus promising to women 

God's gift of newborn life. 

Eve literally means "Mother of all living things"

 Eve and all her descendants 

Waited for Promised Seed. 

From age to age You promised 

The sinners' cries to heed. 

When fullness of the time came 

Then Jesus You did give 

By birth to Virgin Mary 

He, as her Son, to live.

To Father, Son, and Spirit 

All thanks and praises be. 

You made, and saved, and blessed us 

Almighty Trinity! 

You give us gifts of mothers; 

Help us this gift to love, 

To honor, and to cherish 

This gift, from You above. Amen.

 

© Rev. Jonathan F. Meyer, Mother’s Day, 2002

In honor of my mother, Janet Meyer; and my mother-in law, Mae Dinan.