Mama Margaret: A Saint before the Son #Don Bosco#

“Without a mother, life has no meaning”. This was a phrase scratched with a nail on the wall of a juvenile prison by a young lad. Today’s theme is Mama Margaret: A Saint before the Son.

Don Bosco lost his father when he was just two and it was his mother Margaret who helped him to look ahead to the future with much hope and love. Without the love of a mother a boy seems abandoned and if he does not have enough courage, he will never make any head way.

Mama Margaret knew how to combine fatherliness and motherhood, kindness and firmness, vigilance and trust, familiarity and dialogue, bringing up her children with disinterested love, both patient and demanding. Attentive to their own experience, she trusted both in human means and divine assistance. She brought up three children with very different temperaments, using the same criteria with different methods. She taught them the catechism and prepared them for their First Communion.

Don Bosco confesses that ‘even though we had little there was much sharing and my mother taught me that in spite of our poverty there was always a place for someone in need.