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- Since the first centuries of Christianity, the Church customarily has regarded the Blessed Virgin Mary to be the Mother of God for a simple, logical reason: By the power of the Holy Spirit, she conceived Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
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Jul 23, 2020 · The fundamental difference between my Lord and the Lord is Mary's knowledge of the Resurrection which affected her belief in the identity of Jesus: He is "the" [universal] Lord. "My" Lord could refer to anyone Mary called "Lord" regardless of whether they were dead or alive.
For more information on why Jesus call Mary “woman” in John 2, see our Catholic Answer on this subject. And note also that when Elizabeth refers to Mary as the “mother of my Lord” (Luke 2:43), Mary doesn’t correct her for obvious reasons.
To understand the title, “Mother of God,” we must first clearly understand Mary’s role as mother of our Savior, Jesus Christ. As Catholics, we firmly believe in the incarnation of our Lord: Mary conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit. (Confer Luke 1:26-38 and Matthew 1:18-25.)
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Though we don’t have the words “Mother of God” as such in Scripture, we do have something very close in Luke 1:43, when Mary’s cousin (or relative) Elizabeth greets Mary shortly after she has conceived our Lord: And why is this granted me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me? Mother of the Lord means Mother of God, right? Isn’t Jesus our L...
First, when Elizabeth “exclaimed with a loud cry… why is this granted me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me” (Luke 1:42-43), Mary was revealed to be the New Testament Ark of the Lord. Elizabeth’s words make this clear as they hearken back to a text from II Samuel 6:9 wherein David exclaims concerning the Old Covenant “ark of the Lord:” A...
The second and most important reason we know Luke 1:43 is referring to Mary as the Mother of God is summed up nicely in the Catechism of the Catholic Church, paragraph 495: Called in the Gospels “the mother of Jesus,” Mary is acclaimed by Elizabeth, at the prompting of the Spirit and even before the birth of her son, as “the mother of my Lord.” In ...
Another common objection to Mary, Mother of God, goes something like this: “If God is Trinity, and Mary is the Mother of God, would that not mean Mary is the Mother of the Trinity?” Actually, it does not. Paragraph 495 of the Catechism, quoted above, was very clear that Mary is the mother of the second personof the Blessed Trinity because neither t...
Dec 31, 2014 · The Council of Ephesus, held in A.D. 431 confirmed the dogma on the Mother of God, stating: “The One whom [Mary] conceived as man by the Holy Spirit, who truly became her Son according to the flesh, was none other than the Father’s eternal Son, the second person of the Holy Trinity.
Feb 9, 2017 · The reason why Catholics call Mary the Mother of God is because that is what she is. Mary is the Theotokos or God bearer. This was pronounced in 431 at the Council of Ephesus in opposition to Nestorianism. The two natures of Jesus, human and divine, are inseparable from the person of Jesus.
Dec 22, 2021 · Mary, the mother of Jesus, is unquestionably the senior saint within the Christian tradition. Yet we know remarkably little about her.
