Why does the Catholic Church give so much honor to Mary when she was just an ordinary woman selected for a great purpose?
Firstly, I deny that Mary was just an ordinary woman. She was a human being, but among human beings there are degrees of dignity. And she was no ordinary woman to whom God thought fit to send an Archangel with the salutation, “Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with thee.” Nor was she an ordinary woman to whom Elizabeth, filled with the Holy Ghost, cried out, “Blessed art thou amongst women; and whence is this to me that the mother of my Lord should come to me.” Had any ordinary woman come to visit Elizabeth, no such exclamation would have fallen from her lips. Secondly, you yourself say that Mary was selected for a great purpose. Selected by whom? By God. Now God has ever fittingly prepared those whom He has designed to call to great duties. We see that in the case of the prophets, and above all, in the case of that greatest of all the prophets, St. John the Baptist. Yet not one of these had so close a relationship to Jesus as she who was destined to be His Mother. Some female had to be
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