Why do Catholics call Mary Mother of God?
Catholics do call Mary “The Mother of God,” but this does not mean that Mary came before God. It does express our belief that Mary is truly the Mother of Jesus Christ, who from the first moment of his conception was both human and divine. Catholics believe that God is a Trinity of Persons—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit–in one divine nature. We believe that God existed from all eternity and is the source of all created things. We believe also that, to save us from sin, the Second Person of the Trinity, the Son (called the “Word” in the Gospel of John) took on a human nature. God became one of us in the mystery of the Incarnation (God-becoming-flesh). The story of the Incarnation is related in the infancy narratives of the gospels of Luke and Matthew. Luke’s gospel tells us that God sent the angel Gabriel to Mary, a young woman of Nazareth in Galilee. Gabriel announced that Mary would have a child, the Son of God, by the power of the Holy Spirit. Mary consented, and Jesus Christ was conce
