Where is the mother?

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A six year old girl comes home from her first day at CCD and told her grandmother that she learned a prayer. The grandmother asked the girl what the prayer was. The girl said "In the name of the Father and of the Son. and of the Holy Spirit Amen…At this point she asked the grandmother " If there is a father and a son where is the mother? A true story.

Can some one help this grandmother answer her granddaughter?
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JeanneH said:
:thumbsup:Good idea. I wonder if she will understand that God’s spirit made Mary pregnant and that is how the Son came to be.🤷

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Maybe a little information about the first Christmas . . .
 
Though, following the example of Jesus Christ, we refer to the Persons of the Trinity with masculine names, they are neither male nor female in their divine nature. We call the First Person of the Trinity the Father because the Second Person of the Trinity is generated by him and we call the Second Person of the Trinity the Son because the First Person of the Trinity generates him. The Father’s generation of the Son is more like the asexual reproduction of simple organisms than like the sexual reproduction of larger animals and human beings.

It wasn’t until the Son became flesh and was conceived in the womb of the Virgin Mary as Jesus Christ that he assumed a male human nature.
 
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Though, following the example of Jesus Christ, we refer to the Persons of the Trinity with masculine names, they are neither male nor female in their divine nature. We call the First Person of the Trinity the Father because the Second Person of the Trinity is generated by him and we call the Second Person of the Trinity the Son because the First Person of the Trinity generates him. The Father’s generation of the Son is more like the asexual reproduction of simple organisms than like the sexual reproduction of larger animals and human beings.

It wasn’t until the Son became flesh and was conceived in the womb of the Virgin Mary as Jesus Christ that he assumed a male human nature.
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Interesting, but a 6 year old will never understand this.
 
Well, my 4 year old asked some questions about God’s gender. I told her that God wasn’t really a man. God does not have a body, and to be a man or woman you have to have a body. We call him the Father because in a lot of ways he acts like a Father to us, taking care of us and loving us, and because Jesus, who knew him better than anybody, told us that it would be good to call him Father.
 
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