Did the virgin Mary worship Jesus?
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Mary responds to the news of her special role in the following way:
Luke 1:46-47
And Mary said: "My soul magnifies the Lord, And my spirit has rejoiced in God my Savior."
Mary knew this meant she was to give birth to her Saviour, the Anointed One, that is, The Son of God. This means she knew her child would be her own personal Saviour before He was born. In fact at the moment of His conception in her. So she would have regarded Him in that light from the beginning, long before He was born. Before this Gabriel declares to her the following:
"Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God. And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bring forth a Son, and shall call His name Jesus. He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Highest; and the Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David.And He will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of His kingdom there will be no end."
So Mary knew exactly who her son would be. His name was to be Yeshua meaning Saviour in Hebrew. This is the name The Father gives to His Son- Yeshua, the Saviour or One who Saves, and His Title is Hamashiach, The Anointed One. Jesus Christ is the Romanized version of that name. All this Mary would have known from the start.
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She had no doubt He is God; the Archangel Gabriel told her, and, because she knew Holy Scripture, she knew prophecy (e.g., that of Isaias) was being fulfilled through her. After His birth, even the Magi adored Him, so, a fortiori, His own mother certainly did.
After His death, St. John provided Holy Communion for her, and thereby she worshiped her Divine Son:
Art. 5 "The Principal Mysteries which Contributed to Maryβs Increase in Grace after the Incarnation", Β§ "Mary, Model of Devotion to the Eucharist" of Mother of the Saviour and Our Interior Life by Fr. RΓ©ginald Garrigou-Lagrange, O.P., says:
It is most becoming to insist here a little on what Holy Mass and Holy Communion, received from the hands of St. John, must have meant for Our Blessed Lady.
Why had Mary been committed to St. John on Calvary rather than to the holy women who were also at the foot of the Cross? The reason was that St. John was a priest and had a treasure which they could not give her, the treasure of the Eucharist.
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