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🗓️ 6 September 2022
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Do you welcome Mary into your heart? In this episode, Dr. Sri explains the Biblical foundation for why we call Mary our mother. He also shares why it is essential for us, our families, and the world that we strive to grow closer to her.
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If we want to grow in our relationship with Christ and if we want to bring truth into this world, we must draw closer to Mary.
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0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Edward Sree, and welcome to all things Catholic where real faith meets real life. |
0:14.0 | Have you called your mother to tell her happy birthday? |
0:17.6 | You know her birthday is just around the corner. |
0:19.6 | Every year, the Catholic Church celebrates on September 8th Mary's birthday, the feast |
0:25.2 | of the birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and she's our spiritual mother, and we should |
0:29.4 | honor her and be so grateful for her motherly intercession for our lives. |
0:33.8 | Mary is awesome. |
0:34.8 | She loves us and does so much for us, but yet some people may wonder, where is this all |
0:39.4 | in the Bible? |
0:40.4 | Does the Bible say anything about Mary being our spiritual mother, that Mary prays for |
0:45.6 | us, that Mary is important for the spiritual life? |
0:48.2 | Well, as we're approaching the feast of the birth of Mary, I want to just take a moment |
0:53.2 | to take a look at three little biblical points. |
0:56.3 | I'm going to look at just a short passage in John chapter 19, just a couple verses. |
1:00.7 | I'm going to pull out three biblical points from God's revelation about how Mary isn't |
1:05.9 | just someone there on the side, a nice figure that was important for Jesus, but it doesn't |
1:12.0 | really matter for her spiritual life. |
1:13.2 | No, no, no. |
1:14.2 | She's front row in center. |
1:16.1 | In fact, when the last things Jesus does before he dies, is give us his mother Mary as our |
1:22.9 | own spiritual mother, so she can pray for us. |
1:26.2 | He's so important to him right before he says, I thirst, he's going to do something that |
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