How should we begin thinking about Mary?

One saint said if you want to understand the mother, begin by understanding the son.

I like that because if Jesus was just a really top fella and that's it I'm actually not interested in who his mother is.

If Christ was a prophet but only a prophet, then certainly his mother deserves some level of reverence, whatever that means.

But if Jesus Christ is in fact the second person of the Blessed Trinity

That's wild God the Zygote God the zygote, God the fetus.

You thought the infant of Prague was weird.

God the fetus.

This woman conceived within her flesh God Almighty and gave birth to him,

nourished him with her breasts, raised him.

If you want to understand the woman, begin by understanding the son. If I die tonight and go to heaven and the Lord says I'll let she in but you just have to tell me who you are I might say like well I'm Matt

Frad and he said of course he knows all this but he'll say I didn't ask you your name I asked you who you were and I said

I have a podcast and he'll say so does every other

person I didn't ask you what you do I asked you who you are. Well my mom and dad, Gary and Debbie,

Pupiri, South Australia. Yeah, great. Who am I? You and I are who we are before

God and nothing else. I suppose our core identity could be said to be a beloved son of God

or a beloved daughter of God.

What makes Mary different to you and I is that she has a unique relationship with each person of the Blessed Trinity.

Not only is she the daughter of God the Father, she is in a mysterious way, a spouse of God the Holy Spirit, and a mother of God the Son.

And this recognition of who Mary is has led people to say all sorts of beautiful things about her.

For example, the Protestant poet William Wordsworth called her Our Tainted Nature's solitary boast.

Protestant revolutionary Martin Luther said,

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