Why is so much attention devoted to Mary?

[FreeSmith]

Hello Catholic Answers.

I’ve been quite a fan of your ministry and been influenced greatly.

I’m on the very edge of converting to Catholicism, but one thing has bothered me for a long time: Why is Mary so important? I fully accept the existence of the “Communion of the saints”, but why Mary and not Paul or Peter, who seemed to have more importance in early Church History?

Thank you.

 

[Fr.Vincent_Serpa]

Hi,

Well, first of all we honor Mary as we do because God does. It was the Father who chose Mary to cooperate with Him in being the channel through which His Son would become man. She held God in her womb and nursed God at her breasts. No one, not any of the apostles or the saints who followed them, were ever called to be the tabernacle where the Word was made flesh! No one has had a more significant role in the history of salvation! No one! The more sensitive we are to just who Jesus is, the more we are taken by the one who was closest to Him. He, after all is God make flesh, and she is His mother.

Fr. Vincent Serpa, O.P.