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They want to give a message of comfort and support to other parents who are navigating the difficult conflicts that can arise in families around this issue. So be kind to her. Watching the Primary children singing to their mothers in Sacrament meeting was the hardest. Diversity and Unity in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Environmental Stewardship and Conservation, Joseph Smiths Teachings about Priesthood, Temple, and Women, Peace and Violence among 19th-Century Latter-day Saints, The Manifesto and the End of Plural Marriage, Translation and Historicity of the Book of Abraham. I totally agree. Best Mother's Day Topics, Scriptures, Conference Talks, Etc. Nice meeting. I dont like the sappy talks about the perfect mothers. lesson about prayer. This was very informative and interesting. Regarding the giveaways: in my ward for the last several years, all of the women have been given chocolates on Mothers Day (very nice ones). In partaking of the sacrament and making these commitments, Church members renew the covenant they made at baptism (see Mosiah 18:810; Doctrine and Covenants 20:37). The perfect sacrament meeting talk? What do you think should be handed out for Mothers Day? Does this mean that finally..a talk could be about our Heavenly Mothers? We know very little about HM and HF really. EOR, I would venture to say, even with being fairly new to BCC that few here mean to give offense. Topical Guide, Assembly for Worship, Index to the Triple Combination, Assemble, Meetings in the Church, Handbook 2, 18, Speaking in Sacrament Meeting? youth.ChurchofJesusChrist.org, Is Sacrament Meeting a Top-of-the-Mountain Experience for You? 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We also have free LDS program covers and printable LDS program covers you can print off at home. But I love my mother, and I miss her, so Im hopeful that the experience will be a good one. I was asked to speak 3 times on MD during my infertility phase. Ive never objected to any Mothers Day program, and in my ward, all women get a gift, married, single, divorced, widowed, with or without children. You wouldnt give a talk in a single adult ward about the joys of scouting. She only did half the things a good mother would have done. Heres my updated version: Im so glad when Daddy comes home, Products; . I recommend it highly: This! (http://dandelionmama.wordpress.com/2012/05/08/this-this-is-what-i-believe/). Doesn't it seem strange in a religion that supposedly is so family focused that we have people who ignore the cries of many of the women in church who want to be mothers and can't be or who sorrow over children who are not making good eternal choices? MD is a day I prefer to play hookey, especially now that my mother is currently lost in alzheimers disease. How cool someone reading my rambling! Kind of it takes a village/ward to raise a child philosophy. No fuss, no muss. Last time I spoke on Mother's Day I was texting during my talk. Keep in mind, this is from a male perspective, andmy opinions might be worth exactly what you paid for them. I exchanged the word "guidance " for the word " mothers " in this verse to help it go with the Mother's Day theme. They cannot eat it, and in fact just having the stuff around is a serious temptation to do so. Although with good intentions, speakers usually put mothers and motherhood on a pedestal ("Mothers are loving and caring and naturally nurturing", "A mother's love is the closest thing to Christlike love on earth", "No mother is perfect, except my mom, who is literally an . Well, counselor x/counselor y is in charge of May, I dont know what hes doing for sure . My kids are too old for primary and dont go to church anyway (and my mother died when my youngest was 2 yrs old), so I have no reason to go and hear all about how perfect someone else is, or that I should have been perfect, or the lie that all of us mothers are perfect. Although Mothers Day is not fraught for me the way it is for so many, I will be watching with interest next Sunday to see which way our meeitng falls. Cannot load blog information at this time. Evry cry of pity heeding, Dont take us out of Primary to go eat Treats! We should not celebrate anything unless it is universally acknowledged around the world. This blog post is the result of my musing. Being Mother's Day, that meant the soft seats up front were filled with grandmothers and other maternal figures visiting for the weekend, which meant latecomers like the Lemons got metal seats in the back this week. Pres Hinckley and apparently Mark has it right. Deep gratitde is owed to our Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ for the Atonement which allows us each to recover from any missteps, no matter how far off the path one may stray. Be patient with her imperfections, for she has them. At a certain point, their best has to be enough. They really did. I get fed up listening every year to only men saying how wonderful their wives and mothers are. An ideal is fine to have in your own life, but imo it is dangerous to attempt to have one for a worldwide religious organization. It isn't in every country so I don't know why it has to be in just a few. I wonder if this phenomenon is uniquely Mormon. However, I am concerned about the implications of a people where the female population dislikes the concept of motherhood or at least dislikes it enough that they do not want to celebrate Mother's Day. People seemed to feel good about it but Mark is right about it being a fraught day. Thanks for the reminder. Dont twist the knife; let them come to you if they want it. Mothers Day is celebrated, and increasingly commercialized, but my impression of the local situation is that ones obligation to honor ones mother is largely discharged at home. The first one we did was a modified version of "Teacher Do You Love Me". While it addresses questions about how to raise a girl, the talk also discusses the nobility of fatherhood, the influence fathers have on children, how to cherish your wife, and why virtue is so important. Weve gathered this collection to help you study, write talks, and share powerful LDS quotes about mothers. Have a variety of ages speak on ideas or what they've done to help their mothers and ways they've stayed close to their mothers. In the UK, my experience has been that sacrament has at least one talk and often a few. Maybe the Hallmark channel should use some of his conference clips as fillers when movies end early. I remember my dad saying it was one of the most powerful and real talks hed ever heard in a Mormon church meeting. Why Women, Especially Mothers, Working Outside the Home is an Abomination Unto the Lord. Make it a FUN day!!! Just after she became a beehive, her mother had an affair. There are wrongs that need redressing That being said, my ward will be nice and quiet next Sunday, one of the joys of the YSA wards. My mother was an ideal, and she is schizophrenic, couldnt cook water without burning the pan, never cleaned a thing in the house while we were children, had rebellious to some degree or another, etc. I only wish my daughter could come in for graduation I am sure we would skip church together that morning! One of my talks I focused on Moses and the 5 women at the beginning of his life and the different roles they played: Shiphrah & Puah, the midwives who saved his and countless other Hebrew boys lives, Jochebed his birthmother and what it must have taken to put him in the basket and shut the lid (shes a stronger woman than I am! 2. What are we trying to create? Its never the men. How about we don't celebrate either at church, but celebrate it in our homes with our mothers and fathers? Not a perfect example but I was striving for some other options besides stripling warriors moms. It very gently re-addressed several of the points that were flying in the newspapers and throughout the church in the Mothers Who Know backlash. This ordinance is an essential part of worship and spiritual development. Then the clincher, it is only for women to celebrate and they need to be left alone to celebrate it as they demand and see fit. Nothing, wakes people up in sacrament meeting like talking about chimpanzees dismembering each other. Well, you dear women, I say thanks to you. The story of Martha and Mary each bringing important and valuable things, even though they were very different. I cant remember the last time I heard a bad sacrament meeting talk, period. I do think it is easy to understand my point and I appreciate it when others understand my position. We've gathered five inspiring gifts for Latter-day Saint women to help them feel cherished and celebrated. What is the trigger to close the thread? It appears that this phenomenon is growing and becoming even more common everywhere in the US church. His topic? Why shouldn't women be those who teach about the glory of god that is woman? rockpond #93 Ruth I too am irritated by mother-worshipping in MD talks, but at the same time, I think many Mormon women identify so strongly with being a mother and so many have sacrificed just about everything to focus on that specific role, that they really appreciate a little validation, a little boost of confidence that what theyre doing is significant and has meaning. Sometime in the mid-1990s, I went to the ward library after sacrament meeting to obtain materials for teaching a lesson. Don't subscribe I'd suggest that women at various stages in their lives speaking about what the joy in womanhood, being a divine daughter of God means to them in different stages of life, would at least eliminate all that talk and honor of mothers who have lots of children and do everything right that cause so much pain to women everywhere. Loverboy was gone, she was outside of the church, and she had no means of support. I am on the Speakers Bureau for the Rape Abuse and Incest National Network (RAINN) and we would welcome the donations too. Ere the sun goes down. Our ward always does flowers, right after Sacrament meeting, and this is a real problem for me because of my allergies. I pray the Spirit will be with me today as I give this talk. Last year we did two songs for the Mother's Day sacrament meeting, and they turned out beautifully, so I thought I would share them with you. The best MD talk I ever heard was given by my neighbor. It might be that it was a holiday originally conceived by the US Socialist Party and propagated by the Soviets. Never heard it, but I would love somethingalong the lines ofwhat we can learn from Christ and his time with women. I would be totally okay if they did nothing for Mothers Day at church. I know they happened fairly regularly in my own adolesence and early adulthood, but I cant remember one Ive heard personally in quite a while. Aleah is a graduate of Southern Virginia University, where she studied English, Creative Writing, and Dance. I spoke about her one year. Thanks for all your thoughts. This reflects a very different image than the one we portray to the world about our values and what we say means the most to us. The Barker Brothers' Projects These videos were created for Latter-day Saint parents and allies to voice their love for their LGBT brothers and sisters, sons and daughters. Nourishing their souls instead of feeding their bodies? Yes. They do not need to be perfect in order to partake of the sacrament, but they should have a spirit of humility and repentance in their hearts. Most threads die a natural death. I had assumed it was a greeting card holiday of commercial origins, but it is actually (like Christmas) based on Roman pagan traditions. My mother died just a little less than a year ago, and I find that I never appreciated Mothers Day at all until now that my mother is gone. This has been a great reminder to be sensitive to all in the congregation with the Holy Ghost as a guide. My own plan of attack: 1) lay some knowledge on people (see above), 2) talk about our own mothers and that they are real people who faced real struggles, 3) the Plan of Happiness (is that what were calling it now?) The Mothers Day talks in my singles wards have been quite sensitive to childless women, but still pretty women-on-pedestalsy. Could someone remind of what the day is for after all? Print out the short questionnaires included in the printable and distribute them to the mothers in your ward a few weeks before Mother's Day. In return, the Lord renews the promised remission of sin and enables Church members to always have his Spirit to be with them (Doctrine and Covenants 20:77). Too much idealism masks reality and can quickly become propaganda and lies. What would happen, if, at the start of sacrament meeting on Mothers Day, the bishop announced that there would be two separate meetings. Further, that it wasnt the wards responsibility to celebrate the day. Geesh! No one tries to probe for subliminal meaning in the choice of Fat Boys. We got there at about 7:30 AM and one of my Aunts had already been there and left flowers for her. She worked during the day and took classes at night, and created a home for her children where they knew love. You can guess how well that went over. We once had a bishop hand out frozen TV dinners! As for me, I will be sitting this Mothers day out. I am aware of a seminary/institute teacher who is apparently of the firm and unshakeable belief that a pile of pizza must be provided each week without fail. In Bishopric meeting this year, I quoted your little sister regarding plants. Mtg. My worst MD talk came in the Fast and Testimony meeting the week before in which my father, who was visiting since he no longer lived in our ward, decided to give some incredibly intimate details about his divorce and why he blamed it on several of his children, but not others. And, invariably, as soon as I would send one on his way, Im not a mother, thank you, another would pop up at my elbow, dutifully, kindly twisting the knife. Gospel Q&A: My Children Have Left the Church & I Worry for Their Souls. For example, look at how Mothers Day and Mothering Day each have a religious as well as a secular component to them, and have even merged: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother's_Day, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mothering_Sunday. (Although I love the song idea for the Primary #65) Marys life is always appropriate, Lucy Mack Smith, Hannah & Samuel, etc. from Pres. This morning I decided to Google search Mothers Day LDS talks and came upon this article. Being there with my son was very nice. I have been given mostly free reign on my message. This past Mother's Day we arrived late to sacrament meeting due to a cobbling mishap in the morning. More often than not, his assumption is correct. Inevitably they would be instructed that the gifts were for all women, so theyd try hard to give me one. I dont want to hear Sister Becks controversial mothers who know talk, or president bensons talk come home talk. I don't understand it, but it is your logic. It was so honest and hopeful all at once. You dont come, you dont get one. Sabbath Day Scriptures Scripture References Doctrine and Covenants 59:9-12 Scripture Study Resources Topical Guide, "Assembly for Worship" However, Uchtdorf also gets women and articulates that better than most. "The ordinance of the sacrament," taught then Elder Dallin H. Oaks in 2008, "makes the sacrament meeting the most sacred and important meeting in the Church." 21 Accordingly, in 2015, Church leaders called for a renewed emphasis on Sabbath worship centered on partaking of the sacrament of the Lord's Supper. And chocolate. The best MD talk was from a woman who gave a list of all the things she wished she had known when she was 18. It is even worse when women are so enthused with Father's Day that they want to ignore it completely - as in absolutely not mention it. How did your Mother's Day Sacrament meeting turnout, Rockpond? Today the sacrament is an ordinance in which Church members partake of bread and water in remembrance of Jesus Christ's atoning sacrifice. President Hinckley directly addresses mothers in this talk, commending them for the wonderful thing they have done by becoming mothers, but offering insights on their greatest challenge: to be able to answer the question How well have my children done? with happiness. There are diabetic men, arent there? Or the best of both worldssend all women to RS and have the chocolate there so you get the women to walk through the door instead of to their cars, and so the kids arent begging for it? We changed the lines to "Mother Do You Love Me". What does that say about the role of motherhood? I just pray that the spirit can convey the message that seems so exciting in my heart. And yeah, audience is important. Not necessarily mothersjust women. I have been avoiding the mother's day sacrament meeting for the last couple of years. Mother's Day Last year I used the last verse of "Teach Me to Walk in the Light" and the song "Teacher/Mother Do You Love Me" for the Mother's Day Primary songs in sacrament meeting. All Your ward contains women at various stages of their lives, including some who dont have children and never will. Our current ward celebrates Mothers Day with the obligatory talks. Sometimes its good, sometimes its bad. to hear my little kids sing and for my older kids to pass out a flower. What do you think should be handed out for Mothers Day? At the end theyll get a rose with some message tied onto the stem with ribbon about how Jesus loves all women. Identifying ideals is somehow so treacherous for the psyches of women that that must never be mentioned? Like many others, my wife and her mother have both always struggled with hearing sacrament meeting talks on Mothers Day. We go to church to grow closer to the Savior, not to get treats or recognition. Young Latter-day Saint priesthood . To be fair, diabetics can eat chocolate. A BIGTHANK YOU to Heather Mecham for compiling all the results from this survey. Father's Day Talk in Sacrament Meeting June 21, 2009. When I was bishop, my bishopric would always serve pie during the third hour and Id invite my mom to attend. Especially since whoever asked him to speak didnt learn their lesson and he said the exact same talk a year later. It is the essence of who we are as women. Im the counselor in charge of calling speakers for Mothers Day. http://www.lds.org/general-conference/2008/04/daughters-of-god?lang=eng, Ray (#58) Steve Ps post is evidence that a talk from 2007 which has been essentially corrected is still being recycled today. To all of you giving talks, good luck on navigating the mine fields! So far, so good. My preference is for a talk focusing on women of the scriptures. I want to hear about the mother who lost all her children, because she made a lot of mistakes. At first I was wishing that I wasnt, but after thinking and praying about it for a few weeks and speaking with friends and family, Im rather excited about it. I remember being confused by a few Mothers Day talks growing up. Sorry I missed that. April 24, 2016 in General Discussions.