The faith of our fathers - Carmel Apologetics

""""""THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY. 199Mother of the Divinity. She had not, and couldnot have any part in the generationof God. For, that generationis eternal ;her maternity temporal He is her Creator ; ;she His creature.of the WordStyle her, if you will, the Mother of the man Jesus,or even of the human nature of the Son of God,but not the Mother of God.I shall answer this objection by putting a question.Did the mother who bore us, have any part in theproduction of our souls f Was not this nobler partof our being the work of God alone ? And yetwho would for a moment dream of saying,"themother of my and notbody," my mother ?The comparison teaches us that the terms parentand child, mother and son, refer to the persons andnot to the parts or elements of which the personsare composed. Hence, no one says: The motherof my the mother ofbody"my soul; but in allpropriety my mother," the mother of me wholive and breathe, think and act, one inmy personality, though uniting in it a soul directly created byGod, and a material body directly derived from thematernal womb. In like manner, as far as thesublime mystery of the Incarnation can be reflectedin the natural order, the Blessed Virgin, under theovershadowing of the Holy Ghost, by communicating to the Second Person of the adorable Trinity,as mothers do, a true human nature of the samesubstance with her own, is thereby really and trulyHis Mother.