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On Monday, 8 September 2014, 10:24, Raymond ...> wrote:
THE WOMAN
Mary has three great titles: Virgin, Mother, and Woman.
The last of these is in a way the most fundamental. Jesus underlines it for us at two different important junctures in his life on earth: At the marriage feast at Cana and on Calvary itself. On each of these occasions he, very significantly addresses her, not as Mother, which one would expect, but as WOMAN.
There must be some great significance in this choice of address. Surely he is here indicating to us that she is the great Woman of the primordial prophecy of Eden; the Woman who was to be joined with himself as Saviour of the world in crushing the ancient serpents head.
At Cana Mary urges him to begin his saving work, even though it was not yet time: “Woman, My hour has not yet come!”
On Calvary he appoints her as mother of us all in the person of John “Woman, Behold your son!”
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