“THE MOTHER OF GOD POINTS YOU TO GOD”
Saint Luke 1: 39-55
The Dormition of Saint Mary [transferred]: 14 August Anno Domini 2016
Father Jay Watson SSP
Mary is
the “Mother of God.” Period. To fail to make that confession means you are
not a Lutheran and possibly not a Christian.
Failure to confess this truth caused the ex-communication of the heretic
Nestorius. Now, to be sure, The Blessed
Ever-Virgin is NOT the mother of The Father and is NOT the mother of The Holy
Ghost. She is not the mother of The
Trinity—The Godhead. But she is the
mother of Christ Jesus in every way possible to be a mother.
And the Lord said to Peter and the other Disciples: “and what about you, Who do you say the Son of Man is?” What did you confess in The Creed a few moments ago? “God of God, Light of Light, very God of Very God, begotten not made…” Jesus is God and that makes Saint Marium the most unique human being ever to live.
And yes, you probably do confess that. So why don’t you like her more? What is it that causes you such anxiety in talking about her, in loving her?
Oh, she’s dead? Don’t you still love your dead Grandmother or your dead father?
Oh, the Papists have turned her into a cultic and faith-denying co-redemtrix contrary to Sacred Scripture? Don’t you know that the same Papists love the Apostles Creed, Lord’s Prayer and Psalm 23? Are you not able to exercises a little discernment in rejecting one ditch to avoid falling into without veering towards the other ditch of mean-spirited sectarianism?
The real reason you don’t love the Blessed Mother like you should is simple. You don’t love anyone like you should. You don’t love your neighbor as yourself (2nd Table) because you don’t love The Lord perfectly with fear and trust (1st Table).
Jesus loved Mary. To love The Lord is to love Him in His Saints as well, even if they happen to be His mother.
Mary cared for her kinswoman Elisabeth—not just in a vacuous “I’m sending prayers your way” nonsense & worthless platitude, but in a “get up off your bottom way and go and help!”
Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost. When she spoke it was God speaking through her. You must believe, teach, and confess God’s Word. “Blessed are Thou among women, (Mary) and blessed is the fruit of thy womb (Jesus)…the mother of my Lord (LORD—Adonai—God) should come to me…for lo, as soon as the voice of thy salutation sounded in my ears, the babe (John the Baptist) leaped in my womb for joy” (joy produced by the Gospel Word—words and Incarnate Word).
We know exactly what the Virgin greeted Elisabeth with: her song, her chant, her glorious canticle which we call the Magnificat. First she Gospelled her dear relative and then the Gospel filled the elderly woman with The Paraclete and filled John with peace and joy of forgiveness and salvation. Of course he leaped: “then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing; for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert.” [Is. 35.6]
Does not your heart also jump as a deer on the mountaintops because it too has been loosed and watered from The Rock? The mountain was Calvary and the Water is Christ’s precious Blood.
If Mary’s soul magnifies The Lord Christ can you not share in that? When the full moon reflects the light of the sun can you not love both while at the same time knowing that life comes only from the sun? The Virgin says God her Son is her Savior! Can you refrain just once from the Marxist urge to level her down by grumping: “she…she is a sinner just like everyone, harrumph?” She recognizes that Christ is her Savior thus making the good confession of trespasses and of original Adamic falleness.
Wherever the child finds its mother, The Blessed Virgin, the child will find its Savior Redeemer God, Jesus Christ. The Virgins job, like the blessed liturgy, is to hold up her Bethlehem Babe and Gospel to you: “hear Him…whatever He says to you do it!”; to hold up her slain child (the Pieta) and Gospel to you: “hear Him…whatever He says to you do it!” Jesus says to you “Repent and Believe the Kingdom of heaven is in your midst.” If you believe your Lord, Jesus, then you will commune on His actual Flesh and Blood at Mass in the company of The Ever-Virgin, for she in fact “lead[s] their praises.” [TLH 475.2] She is “higher than the cherubim, more glorious than the seraphim” says your own hymnal, because she is “bearer of The Eternal Word—the Word was made flesh, and the Word was God.”
But like the Magdalene and the other Easter Morning Myrrh-Bearers, the first Gospellers, her magnificence comes only form the Word’s Grace bestowed; only from the then reflected, trumpeted, and Canticle-ed, loosing Gospel itself: “He hath regarded the low estate of His handmaiden—and of you—his Church, His precious bride. He is mighty, mighty enough to suffer and die on the Cross, to do those great things for you. Mary’s name Blessed as it is, is not holy, only Jesus’ Name is Holy. His mercy is on [the Virgin] and upon you virgin, white, Redeemed, as it flows over your + infant heads and onto your tongues this day. He puts down your old Adam from its seat by being seated, Himself, on the sedalia of the Crucifix. He was raised up between thieves but He raises you up this morn between John the Baptist and Saint Mary. He had His veins drained of their life-blood so that He might fill you hungry brothers and sisters with the good things of God’s Blood of Eternity.”
With John, leap for joy at the Gospel words that you are helped—FORGIVEN! Blessed is The Virgin among women—among all the Saints. But far, far, More, MOST, Blessed is the Fruit of her womb—The God/Man, your Lord and Life. But now, like Elisabeth, blessed are you that the Lord comes to you.
In the Name of The Father and of + The Son and of The Holy Ghost
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