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highest courage is to dare to be yourself in the face of adversity,
choosing right over wrong, ethics over convenience, and truth over
popularity.
Travel the path of integrity without looking back, for THERE IS
NEVER A WRONG TIME TO DO THE RIGHT THING.
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Bishop Soc Villegas
25 July 2007
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MARY, MOTHER OF
GOD
“Behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son,
….. Therefore the child to be born will be called holy,
the Son of God.”
(Luke 1:31a,35b)
January
1, 2010
Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God
Mary is the mother of God.
Now some
Christians have a problem with that. They say Mary is the mother
of Jesus but not the mother of God. Well to me it is simple logic.
Mary is the mother of Jesus, Jesus is God, and so Mary is the
mother of God. A = B, B = C, ergo A = C.
Some say that Jesus had two natures, the human and the divine.
That’s right. But they say Mary is the mother of Jesus in his
human nature but not in his divine nature. That’s wrong. One is
a mother of a person, not of a person’s nature. Jesus is one
person, albeit with two natures. Jesus was fully human and fully
divine. He is true God and true man. So Mary is the mother of
Jesus, one who is fully divine. And so she is the mother of God.
Paul affirms the divine sonship according to the divine plan.
“But when the fullness of time had come, God sent his Son, born
of a woman” (Gal 4:4). God sent His Son! And God caused His Son
to be born of Mary. A child is born of a mother. It just so
happens that this child is the very Son of God. This is a great
mystery, something humanly impossible. But nothing is impossible
with God.
Isaiah prophesied this birth, when God gave a sign to Ahaz: “the
virgin shall be with child, and bear a son, and shall name him
Immanuel.” (Is 7:14). To this Matthew added the meaning of
Emmanuel, and that is “God is with us.” (Mt 1:23). The virgin
Mary did bear a Son, and that Son is God who is with us.
John affirmed the birth of the Son. “And the Word became flesh
and made his dwelling among us, and we saw his glory, the glory as
of the Father’s only Son, full of grace and truth.” (Jn 1:14).
Elizabeth also acknowledged her cousin Mary as the mother of God.
When Mary visited her, Elizabeth, filled with the Holy Spirit (Lk
1:41), cried out in a loud voice, “And how does this happen to
me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?” (Lk 1:43).
The Spirit enabled her to know the truth being revealed to her.
Lord is Adonai, which translates to “Lord God.”
And so Mary gave birth to Jesus, who is “Son of the Most High”
(Lk 1:32) and the “Son of God” (Lk 1:35b). “Of her was born
Jesus who is called the Messiah.” (Mt 1:16b). Jesus is God, and
so Mary, who is the mother of Jesus, is the Mother of God.
(Note: This article is taken from the book “40 More Days with
Mary,” Day 3, pages 19-20. You are encouraged to read or re-read
this book.)
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