Mothers and Grandmothers, Without Fear!

This coming Sunday we will celebrate another Mother’s Day in our country. It will be a very special Sunday for the vast majority of Venezuelan mothers and grandmothers, whose hearts in recent years and months have grown enormous from so much praying, fighting, suffering, weeping and Loving…

Those hearts, inflamed with pain and indignation at so many injustices committed against thousands of young people who are, or could be, their children or grandchildren, are hearts full of Love, hearts with no room for fear, because fear paralyzes, and thousands of mothers and grandmothers will not be paralyzed, because they know that if they are, they could become parasites: parasites without dreams, without hope, without Life…

This Sunday these fighting mothers and grandmothers, without fear!, will raise a toast (even if only with lemonade) with their children and grandchildren… And in those Venezuelan homes the pain of those who have lost a son or grandson to crime in recent years, and in recent months to the repression of protests, will be present. Also very present will be those mothers who have a son unjustly imprisoned.

We know being a mother in this country is not at all easy. Today you could say that being a mother in Venezuela is like being a mother in a war. It is when you experience firsthand injustice, oppression, anarchy, state totalitarianism and so on that you feel the most strength to keep praying and fighting for the country where you were born.

Many mothers and grandmothers are very clear that they are not leaving. That they will fight to the end for a better future for their children and for all of Venezuela’s children. Now a new battle is at hand: not allowing the ideological indoctrination of children and young people in schools through Resolution 058. These women of integrity, honest through and through, will fight to the bone to defend the Truth.

Here there are plenty of mothers and grandmothers who are afraid of nothing and no one!, because their conscience and their life are clean before God. And they know that whoever lives to defend the Truth cannot be afraid of anything. Here there are plenty of women without fear! who, above all else, love their country and all the children and grandchildren of Venezuela madly.

They say that to Love you have to suffer. Well, there has been much suffering, and that suffering has become an immense love. And it is vital, essential!, that not even the smallest crack of hatred or resentment enter that heart, enlarged by so much pain at the injustices committed by a few. The only thing that can save our beloved Venezuela from so much corruption and evil will be Justice and Love!

Perhaps this Sunday many mothers and grandmothers won’t have the ingredients they want to cook what their children and grandchildren like. And perhaps many children and grandchildren won’t be able to spoil their mothers or grandmothers as they would like. But that doesn’t matter, because Venezuelan mothers have learned very well that there is also joy in giving up almost everything for others, joy in wringing yourself out and spending yourself for those you love most.

Thank you to so many mothers and grandmothers who have given and spent themselves in this country at war! Thank you for so much Love! That love of mothers and grandmothers is the greatest thing we can give to these children and young people who today, more than ever, need us strong, steadfast and full of hope!, because we cannot leave alone a generation of children and young people that is unique! in our history. A unique! generation, the product of the situation we are living and also of the work of so many grandmothers, mothers, fathers, teachers and others who have set an example of prayer, values, work, honesty, integrity and immense love for our homeland.

It is a joy to live in a country with a generation that loves its homeland and wants to win it back, whatever the cost. It is a joy to live in a country with so many honest and exemplary fighting mothers, without fear!, ready to give their utmost for their country’s future. And it is an honor to see and hear those wonderful grandmothers who are here praying, fighting and encouraging their children and grandchildren. Every time they say “I will die here,” they give us more strength to keep going in this homeland where God willed us to be born and to live at this time in history.

May God and the Blessed Virgin of Coromoto fill with abundant graces and blessings all the mothers and grandmothers of Venezuela who live with integrity and fight for a better future for the homeland where they, their children and their grandchildren were born.