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In the recent past, Mary became an object of controversy even amongst the bishops at the second Vatican Council! The council by and large, had witnessed unanimous voting in many other positions. When it came to Mary it was almost sharply divided on 20th October 1964. This was on a discussion as to whether to have a separate treatise on Mary or to include her – in the constitution on the church, the house was divided as 1114 for inclusion, 1074 against. Such a slim margin! It is said that one bishop cried on seeing the house divided precisely on Mary.


The key understanding of Mary

We do not start with Mary. We start with Christ, the son of living God! The less we think of him, the less we think of her; the more we think of him, the more we think of her; the more we adore his divinity, the more we venerate her motherhood; the less we adore His divinity, the less reason we have for repeating her. We could even resent hearing her name.

Mary’s Mother Hood
If Mary were only the mother of another man, then she could not also be our mother, because the ties of the flesh are too exclusive. Flesh allows   only one mother and a step mother is long, and few there are who can make it. But spirit allows another mother. Since Mary is the Mother of God, then she can be the mother of everyone whom Christ redeemed.

All Mothers are Alike?
The moment we place our divine Lord on the same level with Julius Caesar or Karl Marx, with Charles Darwin, that is, as a mere man among men, then the thought of special reverence to his mother as different from other mothers becomes positively repellant. Each famous man has his mother, too. Each person can say; “I have my mother, and mine is as good as or better than yours.” That is why little is written of the mothers of any great men – because each mother was considered the best mother by her Son. No one mother of a mortal is entitled to more love than any other Mother. Therefore no Sons and daughters should be required to single out someone else’s mother as the mother of Mothers except Holy Mary.