Welcome to our daily rosary meditation.

For any of our listeners who will be at the Sikh conference

this coming week,

Theresa and I will be there giving a talk on Tuesday, January 2nd at 330.

So if you're at the conference, come out and see us.

We'd love to talk with you.

Let's begin in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

Amen. Let's call to mind all those we've promised to pray for.

Today we celebrate Let's call to mind all those we've promised to pray for.

Today we celebrate the solemnity of Mary, Mother of God.

Now how can we make this outrageous claim that Mary is a mother of God. Well, it's actually very simple.

Mary is a mother of Jesus and Jesus is God. Mary is the mother of the

eternal son of God made man who is God himself. So we call her Theotocos, the one who bears the one who is God.

And she's not only the mother of God, she's our mother. In John Chapter 19, verse 25 we hear, near the cross of Jesus to his mother and his mother's sister Mary the wife of

Clopis and Mary of Magdala. Seeing his mother and the disciple he loved standing near her, Jesus said to his mother,

woman, this is your son. Then to the disciple he said,

this is your mother.

The apostle John This is your mother.

The Apostle John speaks of himself anonymously because he wants all of us to recognize ourselves as beloved disciples of Jesus. And God doesn't need to use a lot of words to make big things happen.

Before the world began, God said,

Let there be light, and the universe sprang into existence.

At the last supper, God said, this is my body, and mere bread became God in the Eucharist. And from the cross God said this is your mother and from that moment Mary

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