The Everlasting Mary In St. Louis 'She, Our Blessed Mother'

“She is the air of our true Christian breeze.” This is a rather interesting quote from St. Louis. What St. Louis is metaphorically saying that Mary, Our Blessed Mother, is the air that we take in so replenish our lives. Not so much in a figuratively sense, inhaling and exhaling our lungs to keep our circulatory system continuous, but in the sense that She, Our Lady is the everlasting breathe of Salvation that we partake every moment of our lives. “You cannot get to Jesus without Her,” (Mr. Berube). To become truly Catholic and to love Jesus tenderly, one must love and accept Mary first. Only through the Blessed Mother can we obtain ever gratification. Without Jesus and Mary there is no salvation. If there is a deep understanding of their infinite
Just like the Old Testament mentions the prophesy of Our Savior, Christ Jesus, so the Old Testament mentions Mary who is extremely important to our Salvation. After the Fall of Adam and Eve Mary and Our Savior is greatly revealed in the Genesis 3:15. “And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed: he shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel” (Genesis 3:15). Here, with great examination, one can see that Jesus and Mary are both mentioned in here. This is God’s first promise; a Women and a Son will crush the devils head. Caravaggio’s Madonna dei Palafrenieri, an Oil on canvas painted in 1606, amazingly and thus beautifully depicts Mary and the child Jesus crushing the serpents head. Not only will one find Mary in Genesis but also in Isaiah. “Therefore, the Lord himself will give you a sign: The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel” (Isaiah 7:14). Mary is also depicted in the Old Testament as Judith. Judith is a biblically historical person who fights for Salvation. Just like Mary crushes the devils head so does Judith when she severs the enemies head off, “He guided you as you cut off the head of our deadliest enemy” (Judith 13:18). Judith’s soul is stunningly beautiful just as Mary’s soul is spotless and unblemished. As Mary is part of the most high God so is Judith. “Judith, my dear, the Most High God has blessed
But one that particularly would captivate one would be Mary’s Divine Motherhood. The Church has always recognized Mary’s true importance. “But when the set time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law” (Galatians 4:4). Here we have one out of many examples that define Mary’s true motherhood. She was conceived the Savior miraculously and biologically, then she, without any pain, gave birth to Christ Jesus. Mary is the mother of Jesus, Jesus is God, therefore, Mary is the Mother of God. Then with this logic, one can conclude that Mary is truly the Mother of God. “We can call Mary the Mother of God because her Son, Jesus Christ, is the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity, God the Son” (Hahn, 272). Jesus Christ has two natures, human and divine. He takes on His human nature with Mary, His mother. Consequently, Mary accurately and precisely is the Mother of God. The Catechism of the Catholic Church article 495 proclaim, “Called in the Gospels ‘the mother of Jesus,’ Mary is acclaimed by Elizabeth, at the prompting of the Spirit and even before the birth of her son, as ‘the mother of my Lord’” (CCC 495). The definition of Our Lady’s true motherhood was not addressed until at the Ecumenical Council of Ephesus AD 431. This was very explosive. Many individuals who proclaimed things not accurately proclaimed false information. This council helped settle the confrontation. “O fools,