Yep...not to mention when He arose you’d think his mother would have been one of the first to know...but that didn’t happen.....
I think when we get to meet Mary she’s going to be quite disgusted with those who elevated her to such a place of honor equal if not over her son. It’s a good thing she’s with God and doesn’t see all this.
Yeah, she may be mad at us. But her Son won’t be because him himself elevated her to a place of honor. Lk 11:27-28.
Do you honor your mother? Does a son who doesn’t honor his mother commit a sin? I think there’s a commandment about that. If Jesus was God incarnate, do you think he failed to honor his mother and sinned and broke one of the Ten Commandments he commanded the rich young ruler to keep?
I’d be less concerned about what Mary’s going to say to you than what Jesus is going to say to you. Whaddya mean, there’s no need to honor my Mother? She’s my mother, for goodness sake. I’m her Son. You better believe that I honor her and I want all my followers to honor her.”
On the other hand, maybe Jesus doesn’t really care whether you honor your mother or His.
And then there’s the little problem that His Cousin Elizabeth honored Mary PRECISELY because she was carrying in her womb Elizabeth’s Lord, recognized by Elizabeth’s unborn baby John. Elizabeth explicitly called Mary “the Mother of my Lord” and “Lord” here means GOD. And Elizabeth said that she, Elizabeth, was not worthy to be visited by the mother of her Lord.
Sounds like giving Mary a whole lot of extra honor.
I guess Mary blew her top at that silly old Elizabeth. Why she was probably even disgusted with her as she will be with the rest of us for honoring her.
Oh, wait, Mary went on to say that all generations would honor her because God had visited her and made her the mother of the redeemer? That’s right there in Scripture. In Luke.
Doesn’t sound like Mary’s too disgusted with Elizabeth for honoring her, Mary. Sounds like Mary is saying, Hey Coz, you’re darn tooting that people are going to honor me, not because of anything I’ve done but because of what is growing in my womb.
Anyway, you are worried that Mary will be disgusted. I’m more concerned about what Christ will have to say. See, for us Catholics and Orthodox, Jesus Christ is what really matters. His Mother matters to us because, well
she
was
his
Mother.
And that’s special.