That's what I'm thinking, too. I admit I'm just groping around here, because I don't know the full implications, but it seems to me that that's why St. Paul identifies Jesus as a kind of "second Adam":
Romans 5:14
Adam [is] a type of Him who was to come.
1 Corinthians 15:22
For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.
1 Corinthians 15:45
So also it is written, "The first Man, Adam, was made a living soul." The last Adam was made a life-giving spirit.
I'm not sure exactly where I'm going with this, but think of this: Jesus has only one human parent -- His mother--- from whom He derived His humanity. He had no human father. So from a genetic point of view, everything human that was heritable, came from her.
She's an XX, and Jesus as a male had to be an XY, so I don't know how that works out. But it seems to follow that if Jesus' human nature was pure and perfect in the creaturely sense --- nothing in his nature or nurture as a human was darkened, weakened, bleared, smeared or disordered --- that tells you something about his mother.
This is my idea of fun!
I agree...I think Protestants (chill, folks...I will 'splain) think Catholics take Mary emotionally (which we probably do). But there's an intellectual aspect of figuring this whole relationship out.
What a woman she must have been!!! And she changed His diapers!! The scope of all of this is profound.
I don't know why Protestants seem to be scared of Mary. She is not a God.
But what she accomplished was amazing. She brought forth God into man.
She was pure...she brought forth a pure human...but He was human...He was able to be tempted...He threw hissy-fits (the money-changers at the temple)...He got impatient with people (the wedding at Cana)...he got impatient with the apostles.
More to come, I am still thinking....