Mothers present their children to God, for everyone to pray for them with the priest, just before the final blessing at a Mass was celebrated October 4, 2013, in Luanda, Angola. The large open area where they gathered is called San Francisco Kimbo, at Palanca Bairro. (Franciscan Sr. Maria Amelia, a Franciscan Hospitaller Sister of the I. Conception, from Portugal, India and California)
by GSR Staff
March 1, 2016
"The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men — from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms."
- Oliver Wendall Holmes, Sr., from "The Professor at the Breakfast Table," in The Atlantic Monthly, May 1859, p. 618.