All Women Are Mothers. Here's How (feat. Lisa Cotter)

[@BaileyConnell]

As a single 35 yr old still trying to date/get married and have children, i needed this today!! I have 24 nieces and nephews i can still be a great aunt and role model to them, and a good friend, daughter and sister. Thanks.

[@FlyingGospel]

I'll pray for you to find what you seek. Blessings!

[@christinebutler7630]

Even single women can foster to adopt through child protective services. A friend of mine realized she was a "loser magnet" and every man she dated was a dead end. She fostered and then adopted a sibling group of five kids whom nobody else would take without splitting them up.

[@christopherdominicpaul4763]

Amen ! Being single can be difficult, but its a season of waiting that brings us closer to the Lord and allows the Holy Spirit to mold us into what we should become. God's delay is not God's denial.

[@jenniferwinston7842]

It is difficult in this secular world. Go to church and get involved in the church activities with young people. Maybe it's a ministry. Find a man that loves God more. Try taking classes at a catholic college. Pray to St Ann. Praying for you. Learn to keep your mystery and make yourself happy. You'll attract your man imho. Woman have so much power that we don't understand anymore

[@ccbarr58]

There may be neighborhood kids with no parent present(work) or abusive. They need a kind voice, a kind person. I was missing my grandma when the neighbor lady took the place in my mind. Mom&Dads friends were like Aunt &Uncle to us.(military fam)

[@froggalb1000]

I wish I had known about spiritual motherhood 25 years ago when I was told I would not be able to have children. I was devastated! For 25 years I have thought I wasn’t really a woman because I could not have a child. I have a very special closeness to my niece and nephew but did not know that was spiritual motherhood. While watching this, I actually felt like I wasn’t the failure I have believed myself to be. I know God led me to watch your video today. God bless you both for this message!!!❤

[@veiledcatholicflower5283]

I work in a nursing home, specifically with memory care patients and one day a coworker told me Happy Mother's Day, I said thank you but I'm not a mother. She said "You're a mother to them." And I had never considered that. Even though I'm 29 and these patients are 60+ I have had to cultivate a lot of patience, compassion and kindness to meet them where they are at. Not everyone can handle Alzheimer's patients. It's the most fulfilling and joy-filled job I've ever had, even the difficult moments. I pray for a spouse and children and I hope my experience in memory has helped prepare me for physical motherhood. Thank you for this video

[@limepiper3650]

This is beautiful, I am the mother of a healthy girl but wasn't able to have more children. Now I can see that I am a mother not only to my child. Thank you 💕

[@jamesp.8064]

Thanks

[@seans.131]

3:47 “Advancing the growth of others, helping them to become who they were made to be.” I purchased Lisa's book before I realized it was written for women, and I still enjoyed it. “I really feel in it an invitation as a nun to offer my heart as a spiritual mother as a place where people can come both to receive divine life as well as to receive a place of rest. I'm asked to bring them into myself and to bring them forth.” ~Mother Gabriella, 'Spiritual Motherhood'

[@mazikode]

Thank you Jackie and Lisa.

[@janelee1948]

I have just finished the book. I loved it. Thank you for writing it. Gave me lots of things to contemplate as a women. ❤️

[@wheatstonebridge]

Thank you so much, I needed this. I always felt like maybe I couldn't be a Christian because I'm not a physical mother and couldn't have children myself. I stay away from sin and always believed but I struggled with this confusion. I needed to hear this video.

[@jonatikaWwe]

Beautiful beyond words 🥹Hopefully you’ll expand on this theme in more videos 🙏💙

[@metildajoseph5265]

Greetings Mrs.Angel & Mrs.Cotter, Thoughts :- - Message reflects with Distinguishing aspects of "Physical Motherhood" and "Spiritual Motherhood ". - Thanks for The Valuable and Thoughtful Message on 'Saintly Motherhood'. Special Thoughts :- During Brief Illness, Staying in Penentience Rosary Prayers helps to Calm Anxious thoughts with Recuperation for missing Our Lady of Lourdes Feast Novena Prayers & also Personal Tasks. With Prayers, RanjithJoseph (R.J)

[@Dan-pt2tn]

Great message, even though people are having trouble defining what a woman is in 2023.

[@phillippucher7840]

True Christian and Catholic Bible believing women and men know what a woman is and what a man is and their purpose in being instruments of God to make new human beings.

[@ethanwork764]

Someone who is more likely to bear children than to impregnate someone

[@allamericanwiseass]

99.8% of people can, our society simply chooses to enable the rest.

[@MySchoolProject15]

​@@raven5875 And yet we are not just that. Women are first and foremost people, made in the image of God, just as men are. Failing to acknowledge the fundamental personhood of women and viewing us merely in terms of what we can do for men is the root of many evils.

[@sharonlojun]

The church so often forgets women who are not physical mothers. As well, do the nephews and nieces and children of friends forget women who are not their physical mothers except for presents. We try, but we are forgotten.

[@dearbrave4183]

I think this negative sentiment is also reflected in the workforce. Lots of studies have revealed that both genders preferred a male boss over a female boss because they felt with a male bosses the workforce was professional, with female bosses things got unnecessarily personal with a lot of micro management as well. Luckily, the Bible shows us great mothers who allowed those who inquired from them to thrive and spoke wisdom whenever they communicated. Like Esther, Deborah, etc. Or the proverbs 31 woman whose personality her children liked, and who also seemed to have a good relationship with her workers. I think there's a lot to learn from them on how to use mothering in a way that allows others to thrive. Interesting topic for a discussion.

[@dsc4178]

Facts are great, aren't they!

[@dawnlapka3782]

All women are mothers. Even if they are nuns. But don't forget the moms that actually " bore" the children, right? For real! I have three adult children their spouses, three grandchildren and one grandchild on the way, and an oops. She's a beautiful foster daughter to someone else. That's all that matters.

[@csongorarpad4670]

A necessary and crucial distinction that has to be made is that femininity is not the same as womanhood. Using the two terms interchangeably is just causing confusion and a neglection of nuance. Everything a woman does, for example, is not something that then corresponds to some degree of femininity. A woman can have masculine features, just like how a man can have feminine features. Losing this detail will just cause confusion and harm, in my estimation, since there is a clear way for a woman to be feminine and the model for that is, obviously, the Queen of the Holy Rosary and Our Mother, Mary.

[@simonslater9024]

Watch The Passion of the Christ starring Jim Caveziel. God bless. Praise Jesus and Mary always!!!

[@hglundahl]

Jackie Angel - are you related to Brenda Weltner?

[@davidcole333]

This topic should have been covered by a woman who has experienced the pain of not being able to have children. You lack that perspective.

[@Jess_ica2927]

Absolutely agree. I find it so patronizing when women who have easily conceived children talk about how "we're all mothers".

[@Micah-NOT-TOAST]

Wish I was infertile

[@jojomcelwee1380]

❤️

[@Naomi-bw5qs]

Yeah I hate being a mother.

[@Theunspokentruth77]

Are nuns who do not marry mothers too?

[@csongorarpad4670]

They're spiritual mothers, yes.

[@wheatstonebridge]

Yes!! Spiritually

[@crohunter100]

what about women on drugs?

[@tanyatspence]

How disrespectful and belittling to Mothers. All mothers are females. All females are most certainly NOT mothers. Spiritual gifts are earned through showing wisdom and teaching TRUTH one of the most basics of which is that until you have a child you’re not a mother. What drugs are you on? Caffeine is a drug: talk about that - actual spiritual useful truth. SMH

[@MP-ob9bw]

Spiritual motherhood is a calling for all women, all women are called to make themselves available to be charitable to children, hold babies in a hospital, baby sit, teach catechism, adopt, lend wisdom to other young women, become God mothers.. etc… obviously not all women are allied to do every single one of those things and maybe not all at the same time but able bodied women are called to discern and make themselves available to children and younger women.

[@know_not_wickedness]

You use the word "stereotype" several times in your video. Guess how many unflattering stereotypes the two of you fulfill?