Mary is not given the first and last word in our Spiritual lives merely for being a great woman, though she was, but because of what she reveals to us of her Son Jesus Christ, such that the closer we are to her the closer we are to him. Taking our Holy Scriptures as one example, we wouldn’t know half the things we know about Jesus in the Gospels, unless it came from Mary. Yes Matthew, Mark, Luke & John wrote the Gospels from what they witnessed, but how did they learn the many other intimate things in their Gospels if not from Mary. The Evangelists were toddlers-if born at all-when the angel Gabriel visited Mary and announced she would bear the savior of the world. Only Mary & Joseph were present when the shepherds announced the Avedis/Good News of a Savior, and the Magi came to worship the newborn king. Mary alone knew what miracles Jesus was capable of at that famous family wedding in Cana. She gives the servants profoundly simple advice that echoes to us over the ages; just ‘do whatever he tells you,’ says Mary. The writers of the Gospel couldn’t have known any of this about Jesus without Mary, which is why some have even gone so far as to call the Gospels Mary’s memoirs, because so much about Jesus-from birth to death-was intimately part of her own life.
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