What Does Mary Mean To You?

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Last year in the R.C.I.A. class, I posed the question to the women. "What does Mary mean to you? I can’t remember their responses, but they were varied and positive. I like to know the view of Mary from a women’s(any age) perspective?
 
Mary, God’s perfect creature, conceived without sin; Mother of Jesus Christ; Spouse of The Holy Spirit, Devoted to Saint Joseph, her protector and foster father to Our Lord. She is the perfect model of purity and chastity. She is the Queen of my heart, the one I run to when I am fearful or in need.
 
I view her as the Mother of Jesus, so in my eyes she has a very maternal role, as well being co redemptrix.
 
Mary is my way to jesus. She is my mother, my guide, my inspiration, my protection. I confide in her, and she comforts me, I am devoted to her as my patron, and I have consecrated my self to serving her and her son for the rest of my life.
 
Mary is the greatest example of faith and love I know. To have accepted her roll in God’s plan and becoming our mother she was the ultimate role model of us all. She is THE most beautiful treasure in God’s creation! Thank you Lord for this wonderful gift!
 
I love Mary! She’s awesome! I mean, we invented hyperdulia just to describe her alone, she’s that cool. Well, she’s cool because Jesus is, but all the more reason to love her. She’s the mother of the MESSIAH! Who wouldn’t love her?

I remember my very first RCIA class (I entered a little late); we learned to pray the rosary. I brought my plastic and cord rosary home. I didn’t know what to expect. As a former Southern Baptist, I was under the impression that even touching a rosary was smite-worthy. I prayed to God and asked Him not to be angry with me, then hesitantly began to pray.

You know what? I didn’t get struck down with lightning. I was filled with the most profound sense of peace. Mary was holding me in her arms that night, and I knew I’d done the right thing in choosing to convert. It’s taken some time to get in the habit of praying daily, but I’ve been trying to pray the rosary more; it’s my favorite prayer, and it’s a great stress reliever.

I love our Blessed Mother. Jesus loves her too, and that’s enough for me.

Hail Holy Queen, Mother of Mercy!
Our life, our sweetness, and our hope!
To thee do we cry, poor banished children of Eve;
To thee do we send up our sighs, weeping and mourning in this valley of tears.
Turn the, most gracious Advocate, thine eyes of mercy towards us;
After this our exile show us unto the blessed fruit of thy womb, Jesus;
O clement, O loving, O sweet Virgin Mary.

Pray for us, O holy Mother of God,
That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.
 
Mary is my spiritual mother.I love her and venerate her as the mother of our Lord.I look to her for comfort and consolation,support and guidance,just as I do my earthly mother. She is the one I turn to as an example of virtue and complete faith and trust. I know that she will understand my sorrows and struggles.Who,aside from our Savior,suffered more?She IS God’s most perfect creature.I thank Jesus for sharing her with us.😉
 
I see her as the ideal woman. I also see her as the perfect saint, the one human who cannot possibly be diminished in my eyes (Jesus doesn’t count because He is also fully divine). She doesn’t have many things to say in the New Testament but she is compelling in that low key kind of way. She’s somebody whom I wonder about. What would it be like, to actually meet and speak with her? She is definitely someone easier to approach to, in prayer. I am aware of Marian apparitions but I won’t go into that.

I hope this is a good enough response. I wish I could write words of great praise but… I don’t want to write what I don’t feel. Don’t get me wrong. She’s faultless to me and I’m aware of her role in the world. I just don’t feel a lot of great emotion.
 
The rosary cured me of a life time of daily mortal sin in less than a month
 
Dear Our Lady Mary Mother of Jesus, Queen of Hearts and Queen of Peace throughout all people on God Our Heavenly Father’s, The Holy Spirit and Jesus Christ Our Saviour’s Earth, now and for Eternity.

Spoken to by The Holy Spirit and raised into Her place as Queen of Hearts and Queen of Peace for Eternity.
 
*She is my Maternal Spiritual Mother. Please bear with me as I try to explain.

My son and i were talking the other night. He had taken a walk with me in the dark and was kind of spooked because of a movie we had watched recently about Tom Sawyer. All he could think about was how some one was lurching in the shadows waiting to jump him and kill him. So I reminded him again about how he did not need to fear dying. That death was not the end of him. It was really just him being born into Eternity. He just said I know, I know. He has heard me tell him this a few times and I could tell he was wondering about it so I asked him if he remembered how the baby is in the mother’s tummy for nine months and then is born into this world as we know it. He said yes and then I told him that this world was like being in the blessed Mother Mary’s tummy and when it is time for us to die it is like she is giving birth to us into Eternity. He said I really was “freaking him out” but it did make sense to him. He asked do you mean that the whole world, like everything we see, al the trees and buildings and all the different people are like in her tummy and I said yes, not just the whole world but everyone in the world and that Jesus was in her tummy too.
This is what the Blessed Mother is to me. She is my mother and she is pregnant with me. While I am growing and maturing inside of her she is nourishing me with her Son, Jesus Christ.
The way I see it is if Jesus encompasses everything and she encompasses Him through her maternity, then in her maternity she encompasses everything also. She is not only pregnant with Jesus but she is also pregnant with us. Like I told my son it is like we are twins or something in her womb. it is in her womb that we meet Jesus and are nourished by Him. By nourishing us with her Son through her being willing to become His mother, she and her Son are preparing us for our rebirth into Eternity.
So what she means to me is I am completely dependent on her being my Spiritual Mother just like my children depend on me to be their mother and the spiritual growth I go through is the labor pains of being reborn into Eternity, her Son, Jesus Christ.

I hope this makes some sense…*
 
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