Bishop issues message on Mary: ‘Behold Your Mother’

Love for Mary, the Blessed Mother of the Lord Jesus Christ, is as natural to the Christian as love for one’s own mother. Mary is, after all, the Mother of the Lord and he is, at once, our Savior and our Brother. “We never give more honor to Jesus than when we give honor to his Mother and we honor Her simply and solely to honor Him all the more perfectly. We go to Her only as a way leading to the goal we seek, Jesus Her Son (St. Louis Marie de Montfort).” We worship him as God. We love her as his Mother.

The entire month of May has been set aside by the Church for loving devotion to Mary the Mother of God for centuries.  The darkness of winter has passed, beautiful flowers are in bloom, the Easter Season is well underway and new life is all around us.  What better time could there be for loving and honoring the one who was given to us because she has given us her Son — the Light of the World, the Source of all Beauty and Goodness and Truth, the Newness and Fullness of Life.  Mary is the Mother of God and, as the Second Vatican Council proclaimed, she is the “Mother of the Church.”