Can we really call Mary the Mother of God?

[Brandon777]

Ok I have a kind of long question it came up during debate with a certain person who seems to be very knowledgeable about the Virgin Mary.

Now my question is , is it ok to say that the Virgin Mary is the Mother of God or should it be said Mother of God the Son? And is it wrong to say She is the Mother of God without adding the Son part?

Now in my catechism and all that I have ever read the Virgin is the Mother of God, and I maintain this but this person makes a good try by pointing out that the Virgin Mary didn’t Mother the Father or The Holy Spirit but She Mothered God the Son. And that God is the Trinity which sort of makes sense. Thanks in advance for your answers.

 

[Fr.Vincent_Serpa]

Hi,

The Ecumenical Council of Ephesus formally decreed that Mary is the Mother of God in support of the teaching that Jesus is fully and equally God and man. The patriarch Nestorius wanted to teach that Mary was only the mother of Jesus’ human nature. But the Council Fathers saw this as diving Jesus into two persons; one divine and the other human. Nestorius’s theory was condemned as heresy.

See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theotokos

and: catholic.com/library/Mary_Mother_of_God.asp

Fr. Vincent Serpa, O.P.