The Epiphany of Our Lord and the Queenship of Mary (II)

In one of the homilies attributed to Origen, Elizabeth calls Mary "the Mother of my Lord" and even addresses her as "Thou, my Lady." The same thing is found in the writings of St Jerome where he makes the following statement amidst various interpretations of Mary's name: "We should realize that Mary means Lady in the Syrian Language." After him St Chrysologus says the same thing more explicitly in these words: "The Hebrew word 'Mary' means 'Domina.' The Angel therefore addresses her as 'Lady' to preclude all servile fear in the Lord's Mother, who was born and was called 'Lady' by the authority and command of her own Son." (...) For all these reasons St Alphonsus Liguori, in collecting the testimony of past ages, writes these words with evident devotion: "Because the Virgin Mary was raised to such a lofty dignity as to be the mother of the King of kings, it is deservedly and by every right that the Church has honored her with the title of 'Queen'."