THE "MOTHER" OF THE CHURCH:
Virgin Mary is the Mother of Jesus... consequently, the "Mother of God", because Jesus is God...
... She is the Mother of God like my mother is the mother of Dr. Dominguez, even if she doesn't know medicine, nor how to make neither eyes nor souls... in the same way the Mother of Jesus, is the Mother of "Jesus", as he is... even if she doesn't know how to make neither hearts, nor spirits, nor God!...
We call her "Virgin Mary" because she is the only person in the Bible called "Virgin"... and 4 times!: Matt.1:23, Luk.1:26 (twice), Is.7:14... this way way we to distinguish her from other Marys in the Gospels.
At Calvary, "standing near the cross of Jesus were his mother, and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple who, he loved standing besides her, he sad to his mother, "Woman, here is your son". Then he said to the disciple, "here is your mother". And from that hour the disciple took her into his own home (John 19:25-27).
- Jesus knew very well that Virgin Mary was not the mother of John... and Jesus was not saying a lie on the Cross when he called Mary the mother of John... rather Jesus was stating a very sweet truth: You and I were represented by the "disciple", and to you and me Jesus was saying, "here is your mother"...
... On the Cross, Jesus gave us his Mother, to be also our Mother...
... St. Paul says the "Body of Christ", the Church, has a "head", which is Christ; and many "members", who are each Christian... that Body has only one Spirit, and only one Father, says Paul... and is got to have one Mother, otherwise would be a monstrous body, with a father and no mother... the "Mother" of the head, is the Mother of the Body, of each member of the Body of Christ... otherwise, again, it wold be a monstrous body, with a mother of the "head", and no mother for the "members"... (1Cor.12, Ef.4, Col.1).
Try Her!:
The Mother of Jesus is "your mother", know it or not, believe it or not... Try Her!...
I tried Her:
... I had an impossible wish in my School, and someone told me, if I ask anything to Virgin Mary, I will have it... I didn't believe it, but it cost me nothing, so, I prayed three Hail Marys every night for that dream... and I got it!... the number One in my class, though I was a mediocre student!... ... I had another dream: A house on the waterfront... I prayed my 3 Hail Marys... and you got it!... in three months I had a house "in" the water, and very cheap!... and I am keeping it already for 30 years.
... I wanted to have a Christian program on the Radio, I prayed my 3 Hail Marys... I had it in one month, and then another one, and then on T.V., already for 30 years... now on the Internet!...
... Just try Her: If you have an impossible dream, or a very difficult problem, pray 3 Hail Marys... and you will see wonders in your life... I guarantee it!...
... If you are not a Christian, try Her!, she is your mother!... you don't have to renounce to anything... it costs you nothing!... just try Her... and I guarantee it!... you will see wonders in your life!... let me know!.
... In the wedding at Cana, they had "no wine"... and Jesus didn't care, because his time to make miracles had not yet come, as Jesus told his mother, "my hour has not yet come" (Jn.2:4)... but they got the needed wine!... and with a miracle of Jesus!, the first!, though his time had not yet come... I believe it is the only place in the Bible where the "Plan of God" has been changed... because of the love of your mother!...
In all the kingdoms, the mother of the King is the "Queen Mother"... your Mother is a very important person in the Kingdom of Jesus!...Jesus is the Hing of Kings, and consequently His Mother is the Queen of Queens...
- Psalm 45, is the Psalm of the "King and the Queen": The first 9 verses talks about the King... the last 9 is like a "riddle": It says, the Queen is the "mother" of the King, the Spouse of the King, and the daughter of the King... who is she?... Virgin Mary is the Mother of Jesus, the Spouse of the Holy Spirit, and the favored daughter of the Father... and, in the last verse of the Psalm, says a prophecy about the Queen that is exactly the one made about Virgin Mary in Luk.1:48, "all generations will call me blessed"
The "prophecy" fulfilled!:
The prophecy just mentioned, has been fulfilled in the last 2,000 years: Virgin Mary is the women in the history who has had more poems dedicated to her, to call Her blessed with the poetry... and the person who has had more statues, and more paintings, and more chapels, and basilicas in the 6 continents, by the best artists... to call her "blessed" with all kinds of arts... and every second, during these 2,000 years, some one is saying in some part of the world, "Hail Mary, blessed are you among women"... the prophecy has been, and it is been fulfilled right now!...
- Do you fulfill it?... do your church fulfills it?.
The "woman":
At Calvary, Jesus called his Mother "woman"... and Jesus was not insulting his Mother on the Cross!... he was remembering the "woman" of Gen.3:15, that will crush the head of the serpent with the Blood of Jesus... by the way, the Bible mentions 5 times "Mother", and once "women" in Jn.19:25-27... all the prophecies about Mary in the Bible, can be applied to the Church, and vice verse.
Virgin Mary... the Mother of God, your Mother and mine... Try Her!.