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All Things Catholic with Dr. Edward Sri

“Who is My Mother?”

All Things Catholic with Dr. Edward Sri

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🗓️ 14 November 2017

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Why does Jesus sometimes seem to push Mary away? For example: When people inform Jesus that his mother has arrived in Capernaum to see him, he says, “Who is my mother?” (My. 12:48).

What does he mean by that? Far from disrespecting his mother, Jesus is honoring her – for he goes on to say “Whoever does the will of my Father is mother to me?” And Mary is the first to do the will of the Father. Indeed, these passages present Mary as a preeminent member of the supernatural family of disciples Jesus is forming. She is the first and model disciple.

This event originally took place at Capernaum in Israel and this episode was recorded there during Edward Sri’s Holy Land pilgrimage last week.

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0:00.0

Hi, I'm Edward Sree, and welcome to all things Catholic Catholic where real faith meets real life.

0:16.3

As we're standing here on the shores of the Sea of Galilee right outside the ancient

0:21.7

city of Kepurnum. We are right next door to where

0:25.6

Peter's houses. We have the remains of Peter's house and it's amazing to think

0:29.4

of this is this was the center of Jesus's public ministry.

0:33.2

There's so many of the great miracles and teachings took place.

0:36.9

This was like the first mini Vatican, if you will.

0:40.3

And it was the headquarters for Jesus and where he worked out of Peter's house and did so many

0:48.3

healings here.

0:49.3

We read in Matthew's Gospel chapter 8 about how many people came out and brought all of their sick here.

0:57.0

So it's like the first hospital.

0:58.6

And as I'm standing outside of Peter's house, one of the things I like to think about is the

1:02.4

healing that

1:03.0

Jesus wants to continue to work in our lives. So if you know of the of sick people and your

1:08.3

family and your friends whether it's physical illness, whether it's a mental illness, emotional, psychological, hurts from people's

1:16.3

past, the same Jesus that brought so many healing that gave sight to the blind that made

1:21.0

the paralyzed walk.

1:22.6

He wants to bring healing into our lives,

1:25.2

especially those deep wounds that we fall into all these sins

1:28.3

and keep us from walking with the Lord.

1:29.8

He wants to heal us of our spiritual paralysis. So we can pray for ourselves and for people

1:34.5

there when we're at Peter's house we can think of the great teachings of

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