Is the Blessed Virgin Mary “divine”?
The word “divine” is an adjective that describes one who has the divine nature, and by consequence the prerogatives, authority, and power of God Himself. Clearly the Blessed Virgin Mary is a creature, finite and limited, whose perfection and fullness of grace and predestination to be the Mother of God are received from Almighty God as gratuitous gifts, not owed to her by nature. Consequently, it would be a blasphemy to call the Blessed Virgin divine, as if to indicate that she had the uncreated and infinite nature of God Himself. However, the greatness of the Blessed Virgin Mary consists exactly in this, that while retaining her status of a creature, she is by a special grace united to the divinity in such a special way as to be the Mother of the Son, and the perfect Spouse of the Holy Ghost. It is in this sense that St. Louis de Montfort does not hesitate to call her divine, confounding thereby the small-minded, who in their effort to reduce the mystery of the Incarnation to a human w
