Moederdag
Vandaag is het Moederdag. Is dat nu een leuke traditie of een commercieel feest? Ik denk beiden. Het vereren van moeders is een veel oudere traditie dan de moderne Moederdag. Bij de oude Grieken behoorde het vereren van de moedergod Rhea tot de lenteriten. De katholieke Kerk kent een lange traditie van verering van Maria, de moeder van Jezus. In Nederland werd Moederdag geïntroduceerd in 1925. Volgens mij is het tamelijk onschuldig om vandaag op een feestelijke manier aandacht te besteden aan het moederschap. Dit jaar doe ik in ieder geval mee.
Mothers Day Proclamation – 1870
Arise then…women of this day!
Arise, all women who have hearts!
Whether your baptism be of water or of tears!
Say firmly:
“We will not have questions answered by irrelevant agencies,
Our husbands will not come to us, reeking with carnage,
For caresses and applause.
Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn
All that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience.
We, the women of one country,
Will be too tender of those of another country
To allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs.”
From the voice of a devastated Earth a voice goes up with
Our own. It says: “Disarm! Disarm!
The sword of murder is not the balance of justice.”
Blood does not wipe our dishonor,
Nor violence indicate possession.
As men have often forsaken the plough and the anvil
At the summons of war,
Let women now leave all that may be left of home
For a great and earnest day of counsel.
Let them meet first, as women, to bewail and commemorate the dead.
Let them solemnly take counsel with each other as to the means
Whereby the great human family can live in peace…
Each bearing after his own time the sacred impress, not of Caesar,
But of God –
In the name of womanhood and humanity, I earnestly ask
That a general congress of women without limit of nationality,
May be appointed and held at someplace deemed most convenient
And the earliest period consistent with its objects,
To promote the alliance of the different nationalities,
The amicable settlement of international questions,
The great and general interests of peace.
Bron: http://www.911truth.org/
Reactie door Joop — zondag 10 mei 2009 @ 22:20
Goed gevonden Joop en bedankt: ik heb dit heel
mooie gedicht elke afgelopen werkdag gelezen!
Wat moeders voor typisch eigen opdracht kunnen
hebben is hen nog lang niet voldoende bewust gemaakt.
Motherly feelings are various and different
from others but they have tot exist for allways
for now and fore-ever ! Let it be so!
Reactie door Madelief — vrijdag 15 mei 2009 @ 09:21