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This account is not in Scripture.
No where in the Bible is Mary ever referred to as our spiritual mother.
No where in the Bible is Jesus ever telling Mary to be the mother of His disciples. This must be where the rcc title, "queen of the apostles" for Mary originates.
So instead of Peter being the "lead" disciple, it's John instead?!
Catholicism is now erring in a huge manner. They are corrupting the text to make it fit their narrative of worshipping Mary.
This is how it is in Christianity. John 19:25-27
....But standing by the cross of Jesus were His mother, and His mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. 26When Jesus then saw His mother, and the disciple whom He loved standing nearby, He said to His mother, “Woman, behold, your son!” 27Then He said to the disciple, “Behold, your mother!” From that hour the disciple took her into his own household.
Now, if the above misinterpretation of scripture isn't enough, catholics continue to double down on their version of Mary.
Mary is a minister of reconciliation (see 2 Cor 5:18) who will help us accept God's grace to forgive.
There is nothing, absolutely nothing, in Scripture to support this assertion from catholicism.
From 2 Corinthians 5:16-21. I've included the verses just before and after for context. The reader will note there is no mention of Mary in this passage.
16Therefore from now on we recognize no one according to the flesh; even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know Him in this way no longer.
17Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come.
18Now all these things are from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation,
19namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and He has committed to us the word of reconciliation.
20Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making an appeal through us; we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.
21He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
I pray catholics come out of the darkness of deception they are in and come into the light of Jesus Christ, Savior of the World.
The entire Gospel of John uses a system of symbols. Each action of Jesus--feeding the multitude, turning water into wine, being sacrificed in the manner of the Passover Lamb, giving Mary to John as his mother--is used by John as a sign of a greater or spiritual reality.
The Gospel DOES tell us that Mary is our spiritual mother--precisely in the passage we are discussing. The expectation that every truth in Scripture is to be found on the surface, expressed explicitly, rationalistically, and concretely, is a symptom of the loss of an understanding of the "spiritual sense" of Scripture.
The New Testament was not written in order to set out in explicit detail, using a concrete, rationalistic mode of expression, each and every belief of the Church.
BTW: If Mary had a number of children other than Jesus, then Jesus was VIOLATING THE LAW by giving Mary to John as his mother.
Amen!