Christian Mothers & Ladies’ Aide Society
The Confraternity of Christian Mothers has been in existence at St. Mary of Czestochowa parish since the 1940's to meet the special needs of the parish and its educational efforts.
Meetings: Second Tuesday of the month, 6:00 p.m., in Friendship Hall at St. Mary of Czestochowa Parish.
For more information or to join, please contact Charlotte Polak through the parish office at 724-335-9877.
President: Charlotte Polak
Vice-President: Diane Rupert
Treasurer: Margie Rawlinson
Recording Secretary:
Correspondence Secretary:
National Director: Father Lester Knoll, OFM Cap.
History of the Confraternity of Christian Mothers
The Confraternity of Christian Mothers has for its object the Christian home education of children by truly Christian mothers. It plans to unite by the observance of its rules and regulations all Christian ladies, married or widowed, who are willing to assist one another to attain this noble purpose. Under the special patronage of the "Mother of Sorrows" the members are encouraged joyously and hopefully to undertake the important task of training and sanctifying the young souls entrusted to their care. They are schooled to edify one another by word and deed, to support one another by fervent prayers and thus become the mainstay of spiritual life within their own family, and a fruitful source of blessings to the community in which they live.
What is the goal of the Confraternity of Christian Mothers?
The goal of this Confraternity is not simply to unite mothers in prayer, but also to instruct, educate and inspire mothers in performing their duties and in practicing virtue. By Catholic instruction at regular meetings, it strives to encourage and impress on them the importance of motherhood and to inflame them with ardent zeal. Its aim is to show them the way of attaining their own sanctification and that of their families and to induce them to bring up their children as useful members of society ensuring their temporal and especially their eternal welfare.