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9/22/26 Mothers of Christ · Omnia Christus

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  SPEAKER_00: As you might know,
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  SPEAKER_00: this gospel is used by some Christians who are separated from us
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  SPEAKER_00: for sad historical reasons to say that Jesus doesn't really respect his mother,
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  SPEAKER_00: and so neither should we.
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  SPEAKER_00: Catholics are mistaken in honoring and respecting the Blessed Virgin Mary
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  SPEAKER_00: because Jesus is just dismissive towards his mother.
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  SPEAKER_00: Jesus says in another gospel,
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  SPEAKER_00: he says,
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  SPEAKER_00: who are my brother and my mothers than those who fear the word of God and keep it?
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  SPEAKER_00: That, I think,
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  SPEAKER_00: is on its face a bad reading of the text because that would not only be something
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  SPEAKER_00: that Jesus wouldn't do, that would be something that any good son wouldn't do.
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  SPEAKER_00: If we believe Jesus is the Son of God,
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  SPEAKER_00: then certainly he would respect and honor his mother as a son regardless of whether
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  SPEAKER_00: or not he was the Son of God and so much more so as the Christ and as the Son
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  SPEAKER_00: of God.
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  SPEAKER_00: Would he honor and love his mother?
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  SPEAKER_00: But what is he trying to say if he's not trying to tell us
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  SPEAKER_00: that we should disrespect Mary or that she doesn't matter or
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  SPEAKER_00: that his brothers don't matter?
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  SPEAKER_00: What he's trying to tell us is that there is something more important
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  SPEAKER_00: in our Christian faith than simple family ties, than simple human bonds.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's saying, who are my mother and my brothers?
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  SPEAKER_00: Those who hear the word of God and keep it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Of course, Mary, as we know, is in the first place in that.
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  SPEAKER_00: She's the one preeminently who heard the word of God and keeps it.
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  SPEAKER_00: But Jesus is like, that's what's important.
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  SPEAKER_00: What's important,
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  SPEAKER_00: the reason why we have as close a relationship as we have is because of our faith,
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  SPEAKER_00: because we hear the word of God,
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  SPEAKER_00: because we have this new way of belonging,
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  SPEAKER_00: which is this Christian community to which we are called.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so I think that's a challenge for all of us.
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  SPEAKER_00: We are all called to be a part of Christ's family.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're all called to be his mother, his father, his brother, his sister.
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  SPEAKER_00: We are all called into this new relationship.
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  SPEAKER_00: But it's not based on just family ties.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's not based on just being raised in a certain way.
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  SPEAKER_00: Some people think that they were born Catholic.
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  SPEAKER_00: Nobody was born Catholic.
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  SPEAKER_00: Everybody was baptized.
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  SPEAKER_00: We have to enter into this community somehow.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it's up to us whether we are going to intentionally live in this community Or
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  SPEAKER_00: whether we're just going to sort of rest on our laurels.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're just going to say, well, you know, I'm Catholic.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's just the way I am.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's not enough.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's something that we have to choose to do.
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  SPEAKER_00: Who are my mother and my brothers?
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  SPEAKER_00: Those who hear the Word of God and act on it.
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  SPEAKER_00: That is our challenge,
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  SPEAKER_00: to listen to Christ's words,
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  SPEAKER_00: to listen to the Word of God, and then to put it into practice in our lives.
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  SPEAKER_00: And in so doing and only in so doing will we be The brothers,
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  SPEAKER_00: the sisters, the mothers of Christ.