YOUCAT Question n. 85 - Part I. Why is Mary our mother also?
(Youcat
answer) Mary is our mother because Christ the Lord gave her to us as a mother.
A deepening through CCC
(CCC 963)
Since the Virgin Mary's role in the mystery of Christ and the Spirit has been
treated, it is fitting now to consider her place in the mystery of the Church.
"The Virgin Mary… is acknowledged and honored as being truly the Mother of
God and of the redeemer.... She is 'clearly the mother of the members of
Christ'... since she has by her charity joined in bringing about the birth of
believers in the Church, who are members of its head" (LG 53; cf. St.
Augustine, De virg. 6: PL 40, 399).
"Mary, Mother of Christ, Mother of the Church" (Paul VI, Discourse,
November 21, 1964).
Reflecting and meditating
(Youcat comment) “Woman,
behold, your son!... Behold, your mother!” (Jn 19:26b-27a). The second command,
which Jesus spoke from the Cross to John, has always been understood by the
Church as an act of entrusting the whole Church to Mary. Thus Mary is our
mother, too. We may call upon her and ask her to intercede with God.
(CCC Comment)
(CCC 964)
Mary's role in the Church is inseparable from her union with Christ and flows
directly from it. "This union of the mother with the Son in the work of
salvation is made manifest from the time of Christ's virginal conception up to
his death" (LG 57); it is made manifest above all at the hour of his
Passion: Thus the Blessed Virgin advanced in her pilgrimage of faith, and
faithfully persevered in her union with her Son unto the cross. There she
stood, in keeping with the divine plan, enduring with her only begotten Son the
intensity of his suffering, joining herself with his sacrifice in her mother's
heart, and lovingly consenting to the immolation of this victim, born of her:
to be given, by the same Christ Jesus dying on the cross, as a mother to his
disciple, with these words: "Woman, behold your son" (LG 58; cf. Jn
19:26-27).
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