Can a Christian pretend to be an orphan?

Mary is Mother, and one cannot conceive any other title of Mary that is not ‘Mother.’ She is Mother, because she brings us Jesus and she helps us with the strength of the Holy Spirit, so that Jesus will be born and grow in us.

She constantly gives us life. She is Mother of the Church. She is maternity. We do not have the right — and if we think we do we are mistaken – to have a psychology of orphans. A Christian does not have the right to be an orphan. He has a Mother! We have a Mother.

An elderly preacher once ended his sermon by saying, “Whoever does not want Mary as a Mother will have her as a mother-in-law!”

Pope Francis

Speech given to 7,500 members of the Schoenstatt Movement, in Rome for the 100th anniversary of their foundation, October 25, 2014