But he chose to have a human mother.
Presumably Jesus could have known, possibly DID know, about the wine problem. But Mary told Him nonetheless.
You may think that Mary has no role in bringing Jesus to birth. But I think Scripture says otherwise. You may think we elevate Mary above Jesus. Scripture says Jesus was subject to Mary and Joseph.
I don't see how Mary could have had her conversation with Gabriel and not known the child was God's. Yet she and Joseph presented Him at the temple, and even redeemed him with two turtledoves, Scripture tells us.
It is perhaps not quite so simple as some make it out to be. Certainly every act of obedience to God comes from God and is enabled by his grace. So, instead of just plopping down a full grown Jesus on the earth, God gave Mary the grace to share with him the work of bringing Him to us.
The non-Catholic view may be that once parturition is past, the mother should just get out of the way and has no responsibility for rearing her child. Certainly that seems to be the liberal, progressive, and "liberated" view.
But we Catholics, or some of us at least, read our Scripture and find that in I Kings 2, Solomon, to whom all bowed, bowed to his mother!
You all want the Divine Kingdom to have the organizational chart of an army. But as I have said, a victorious general bestows honor on those whom he lead to victory. Yet you want God to reserve all honor to himself as though he were as afraid as some of you are that honor is a zero sum game, and that honor paid to Mary and the saints is somehow honor taken from Him.
"Oh God," you seem to say, "You have done great things for us indeed." You go on, "But we will ignore the great things you have done, while we praise you for them."
I think the vision of God is too petty, and the appreciation of His mighty acts and gifts too pusillanimous.
Clearly, on the other side of the Tiber, the mileage varies.
Why do you think this? I know of NO ONE who does not believe that Mary was chosen by God, that she was the mother of Jesus, and that she and Joseph carried out their parental roles with love in exactly the way God wanted them to be.
It must be some kind of all or none thinking. She was exactly what God's Word says she was. no more, no less.
Sorry Dawg - that doesn't wash. A "Queen Mother" is a very precise thing: A dowager queen whose son is on the throne.
A "dowager queen" was queen before the fact of her husband's ("the," or possibly, "a" previous king) death, and her son's ascent to the throne.
Solomon's mother was the wife of David - A dowager queen, and therefore properly entitled "queen mother."
For Mary to be "Queen Mother", she would have had to be married to, and widowed from, her son's father, the previous king. Otherwise, she is just the mother of the king, and not entitled to any royal privilege in the proper sense.
Just sayin'
You can't be serious. That fact that King Soloman (who was just a human, btw) made a courtly bow to his mother as she entered the room? THAT is your scripture that justifies making Mary the "Queen of Heaven"?
Do you understand how lame that is?