MOTHER OF GOD  

            In these days of Christmas, over and over again the Church presents for our contemplation the mysteries of Mary.  Two of these days are Holy days of obligation---the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception and today's feast, the Solemnity of Mary, The Mother of God.  On the Immaculate Conception we commemorate that dogma of our faith that Our Lady was immaculately conceived in the womb of her own mother, Saint Anne.  The liturgy tell us that because of her Immaculate Conception and her perfectly sinless life, Our Blessed Mother was found worthy to be the Mother of the Redeemer.  Today, on the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God, the liturgy reminds us that the Child in the Crib is no ordinary Child.  We are reminded that this Child is the Son of God who has become Man.

    About the year 450 A. D. there was a Bishop named Nestorius who came up with the idea that Mary should not be called the MOTHER OF GOD.  She did not bear God into the world because, as he falsely claimed, Our Lord Jesus had two natures and two distinct Persons.   Mary bore Him in  His Human Nature and His Human person.  This dreadful heresy was condemned by the Church.
      Indeed, Our Lord did have two natures, the nature of God and the Nature of man.  But, although there are two natuires, there is only one, divine Person; the Person of the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity.  Two Natures and one divine Person.   The Human Person of Our Lord is united to His  Divine Person and therefore Our Lady must be referred to as MOTHER OF GOD.  This is her most  important of all of her titles.