You may not be familiar with Franciscan spirituality, which includes a particular love of nature and creation as a gift and reflection of God's goodness and beauty. He seemed to draw on it at times today.
And somebody tells this man Jesus Christ does not need Mary’s protection anymore... to protect Jesus with Mary? I pray that is an error in transcription.
He uses the word "protection" in various ways in his homily, that's for sure! It threw me off at first. Here's the condensed version if you didn't read it: He defines what he means by protection in paragraphs 4, 5, 6. He's calling us to ponder the way Joseph cared for Mary and Jesus. He's calling us to see Christ in each other, especially the poor, elderly, children, etc. He's telling us the service to which he feels called as Pope and inviting us to join him in loving Christ by loving others we might be tempted to pass by. In most of the homily he's holding up Joseph as our role model in how to protect (i.e. love). But also addresses openness to God's will and discernment (paragraph 5), and things that thwart our role as protectors (paragraph 7). All of this he discusses as "protection."
He closes by saying he intends to seek Mary's prayers (now and in the future) that he may be a protector (in all the senses he defined the role of a protector in preceding paragraphs) in his duties as Pope. Then he says we are all called to be protectors. Hopefully you now understand that when he says "protect Jesus with Mary" he means to protect (love and serve) Jesus (in the disguise of the poor and vulnerable person) with (by asking the help of) Mary (that is, asking her to pray that we may learn to love better).
He's not saying Jesus needs her to safeguard him as if he's helpless. He's citing her as "exemplar and model" (see paragraph 3) of the type of love and service (i.e. protection) we're called to give.
Other than asking the help of Mary's prayers, I don't see too much for a nonCatholic to object to. But maybe that's just because I've been up over 24 hrs. Anyway, hope this made sense.
So protect really means to serve ? Somebody better tell the police around that their motto of :to Protect and serve is stupid.
Or maybe the church leaders twists everything in those knots that Mary can untie...because he didn’t have to place Jesus in the beginning to get his point across... he could have said protect creation, people, poor.. your explanation is hollow as the only way Mary can be in that paragraph is because Jesus’ name is used....
Nice explaining.