As a Christian, do you consider the Blessed Virgin Mary as your Mother?

[ronnok20]

I do not consider Mary as my mother nor the mother of the church. Not to diminish who she is, Mary is foremost of all saints, but she is not divine and cannot perform miracles and such. She lived a life which all Christians should model and employ, but not adore to the point of worship. Mary can pray for us as a saint much closer to God than we presently are but cannot grant us grace for salvation. This truly only comes from Jesus Christ who is the purest realization of faith.

 

[Fragile]

I do, as a former Protestant who is seeking full communion w/the Church, I have begun to embrace many teachings of the Church I could not accept at one time. I’ve already seen some of my prayers to Mary answered, plus I’ve recently been reunited w/my birth Mother, for wich I shall be eternaly grateful to the Mother of God!

 

[JustinApologist]

I do not consider Mary as my mother nor the mother of the church. Not to diminish who she is, Mary is foremost of all saints, but she is not divine and cannot perform miracles and such. She lived a life which all Christians should model and employ, but not adore to the point of worship. Mary can pray for us as a saint much closer to God than we presently are but cannot grant us grace for salvation. This truly only comes from Jesus Christ who is the purest realization of faith.

True, Mary is not divine the CC doesn’t teaches that. She is venerated by the majority of Christians in Orthodox and Catholic Church.

 

[Fragile]

Peter & Paul are not divine, yet we see from scripture, they in fact performed miracles.

 

[Singinbeauty]

Since we are all brothers and sisters in Jesus Christ, and Mary is his mother, do you consider Mary your mother as well? I like your view on this matter, Catholic or Non-Catholic Christians.

You can vote on this, and if you so desire, you can explain your position.

If we use the logic that because Jesus is our brother that would mean that Mary is our mother then that means each and every other christian’s mother is my mother too. Is this widely accepted with the catholic faith? Something tells me no but I am interested in hearing your responses…

 

[ASimpleSinner]

The poll was lacking my reason for considering the BVM to be our Mother:

It was the last will and testament of Our Lord Jesus Christ on the cross.

26 When Jesus saw his mother there, and the disciple whom he loved standing near by, he said to his mother, Dear woman, here is your son,

27 and to the disciple, Here is your mother. From that time on, this disciple took her into his home.

From there it begins, that we fullfill the first Marian prophecy: “All generations shall call me blessed.”

She who is “Full of grace” (careful review of this phrase will help us to understand “full” meant just that - entirely filled, no room left of ANYTHING [ie. sin] BUT grace - filled to the brim!) was given to us as our own mother.

Interestingly, this fulfills a certain understanding also of the Church as the New Israel - for Jews recognized as members of old Israel the children of Jewish women (as they do to this day). With Mary as our mother - we her sons and daughters - enjoy this new status ourselves.

She is our inheritence, our love for her fulfills the prophecy she uttered when she became the ark of the new covenant, and being her child makes us brothers of Christ, and heirs to the new and eternal Jerusalem.

Blessed is my mother among women, and blessed is the fruit of her womb.

 

[ASimpleSinner]

If we use the logic that because Jesus is our brother that would mean that Mary is our mother then that means each and every other christian’s mother is my mother too. Is this widely accepted with the catholic faith? Something tells me no but I am interested in hearing your responses…

What a wonderful question - and what perfect timing.

An Orthodox blogger I rather enjoy reading was discussing what was going on in his life and aptly put it like this:

This week we prepare for the coming of friends and family. (his daughter) is on Saturday to make the transition, speaking as accurately as I know how, from being my daughter to being my sister,

Of course no Catholic would understand the natural order to work in such a fashion as to make us all unfit to be married as if we were biological brothers and sisters, but we do understand our baptism brings about a re-generation into something new, brothers of Christ and His saints, children of his mother.

 

[johnnydigit]

ROTFLOL This is why I answered I don’t know.
Not to debate…there is no debate on how someone feels about anything, BUT the one thing I do know is that she is the Mother of God…Jesus is God…she is His Mother. That’s so simple.

My view is changing of her because the more I have to defend her the closer I become.

Calling her my mother…not there yet, but I will defend all the church teaches because like I said, I believe it.

same here. when i learned more about her, i grew to love her. then i learned how important she is in the Bible and to our salvation. then i learned the Rosary and grew even closer to her and by doing so, closer to Jesus. then i realized i knew only a crumb of what it means to be her.

most importantly, i began to grow closer to, and love, my real mom even more.

now i’m starting to learn more about Joseph and John the Baptist and my world is expanding even more and yet more, and my love for God, oh so much more and more. has my love for Jesus dwindled? not one bit. it expands and multiplies. poor Protestants, if only they could see… let us pray for them.