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THE BABY GOD AND HIS MOTHER MARY… And it came to pass, that, when Elisabeth heard the salutation of MARY, the babe leaped in her womb; and Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost: and she spake out with a loud voice, and said, Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb. And whence is this to me, that the MOTHER OF MY LORD should come to me? (Lk 1:41-43, KJV, emphasis mine) And Thomas answered and said unto him, MY LORD AND MY GOD. Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed. (Jn 20:28-29, KJV, emphasis mine)
THE BABY GOD AND HIS MOTHER MARY… And it came to pass, that, when Elisabeth heard the salutation of MARY, the babe leaped in her womb; and Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost: and she spake out with a loud voice, and said, Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb. And whence is this to me, that the MOTHER OF MY LORD should come to me? (Lk 1:41-43, KJV, emphasis mine) And Thomas answered and said unto him, MY LORD AND MY GOD. Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed. (Jn 20:28-29, KJV, emphasis mine)
[Jesus responded in Matthew 12:48-50 when he is told that his mother and family members were outside asking to speak to him:
“But he replied to the man who told him, “Who is my mother, and who are my brothers?” And stretching out his hand toward his disciples, he said, “Here are my mother and my brothers! For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother, and sister, and mother.”
How could Mary as the “mother of God” be denied acknowledgment from her son, the Son of God?]
That incident in Matthew 12:46-50 cannot be explained satisfactorily by anyone except the ones involved, meaning the Lord Jesus Christ and His Mother, the Blessed Virgin Mary.
And Mary did just that.  She explained what her Son Jesus meant in that controversial passage to her chosen seer.
Excerpts from: THE VIRGIN MARY IN THE WRITINGS OF MARIA VALTORTA by FR. GABRIEL M. ROSCHINI, O.S.M. pp 27-28:
Mary says [to the seer]: “In the Gospel, there are two more sentences about Me that people do not interpret very well.  Let me explain them to you.
“Matthew says: ‘As He was yet speaking . . . behold His Mother and His brethren stood without, seeking to speak to Him.  And one said to Him: Behold Your Mother and Your brethren [are] seeking You.  But He answering . . . said: Who is My Mother, and who are My brethren? . . . Behold My Mother and My brethren: whosoever shall do the will of My Father.’
“Is Jesus rejecting His Mother?  No.  Rather, He is praising Her because She did the Father’s will perfectly.  My Son Jesus knew very well whose will I obeyed.  I had made God’s will mine, and I did not recoil from it.  Every minute that went by I was reminded: ‘This shall end up in Calvary.’  This thought was like the shooting pain of a nail driven into My heart.  Jesus knew very well that I had deserved to be the Mother of God because I had done the Father’s will.  If I had not done it, Jesus would have not have had Me for a Mother.
“As a result, I was the first of all His disciples.  Not only timewise, but also knowledgewise, because the Word of God had been teaching Me ever since I began bearing Him in My womb.  The bonds that tied Me to Jesus were much closer than blood: they were supernatural.  When Jesus told the crowd of His Mother, then, He meant it in a divine sense.  The crowd knew Me as His Mother in a human sense, but His divine words revealed My true identity, as true Mother, because I gave life to the Father’s will . . . ”  (Quad. ’43, p. 631-632 [Dec. 7])

[Jesus did not even call Mary “mother” but only as “woman”.]
This is the recurring pitfall of Protestants caused by their idiotical doctrine of Sola Scriptura or Bible Alone.  For these Protestants, apostates from the Catholic Church of God and of Christ, anything not written in the Bible is not worthy of their belief.
Just because it was nowhere found in the Bible that Jesus called Mary “mother,” they conclude that Jesus never called Mary “mother” throughout His 33 years of life on earth.  What a preposterous and ludicrous claim!
What about Jesus’ clear declaration, “I am God?”  Such statement is nowhere found in the Bible.  Shall we conclude also that Jesus never said, “I am God?”
What about the words Bible and Trinity?  They were nowhere written in the Bible, yet Protestants also believes in the Bible and the Trinity.  Shall we conclude that the Bible and Trinity are unworthy of our beliefs?  Of course not.
What is unworthy of our belief is the Protestant’s diabolical doctrine of Sola Scriptura or Bible Alone!  And that’s for sure.
As to why Mary was called “woman” instead of “mother” in some passages in the Bible, the answer is quite obvious as we shall soon learn after reading these relevant verses:
  • And when they wanted wine, the mother of Jesus saith unto him, They have no wine. Jesus saith unto her, WOMAN, what have I to do with thee? mine hour is not yet come. His mother saith unto the servants, Whatsoever he saith unto you, do it.  (Jn 2:3-5, King James Version, emphasis mine)
  • Now there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene. When Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he loved, he saith unto his mother, WOMAN, behold thy son! Then saith he to the disciple, Behold thy mother! And from that hour that disciple took her unto his own home.  (Jn 19:25-27, KJV, emphasis mine)
In the aforementioned passages, the Lord God Jesus Christ called His mother Mary “WOMAN” instead of “MOTHER” in order to purposely connect her to the “WOMAN” which refers back specifically to her MOTHER in these passages:
  • And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life: and I will put enmity between thee and the WOMAN, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. (Gen 3:14-15, KJV, emphasis mine)
  • Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world: but when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a WOMAN, made under the law, to redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. (Gal 4:3-5, KJV, emphasis mine)
  • And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a WOMAN clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars: and she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered. (Rv 12:1-2, KJV, emphasis mine)
  • But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, are only a small village among all the people of Judah. Yet a ruler of Israel will come from you, one whose origins are from the distant past. The people of Israel will be abandoned to their enemies until the WOMAN in labor gives birth. Then at last his fellow countrymen will return from exile to their own land.  (Micah 5:2-3, New Living Translation, a Protestant Bible, emphasis mine)

[Jesus as God cannot call Mary as “mother” simply because he is God and he has no mother.]
This is another preposterous and ludicrous claim of Protestants.  The Lord Jesus Christ has a mother and He is God, so the Lord God Jesus Christ has a mother.  You see, when the Lord Jesus Christ was born by Mary, He is no longer simply Jesus as God, but rather, He became Jesus as God who became Man (cf Jn 1:14) or Jesus as God who was manifested in the flesh (cf 1Tm 3:16, KJV).
Jesus as God who became Man or Jesus as God who was manifested in the flesh has to have a mother, for otherwise, how will Jesus as God become Man or manifest in the flesh if He has no mother?

[It is biblical to say that Mary was the mother of the Lord Jesus Christ during His incarnation on the earth. However, Catholics believe it is not enough to say that Mary was the mother of Jesus. Pope John Paul II, in a speech in 1996, encouraged people “not only to invoke the Blessed Virgin as the Mother of Jesus, but also to recognize her as Mother of God” (L’Osservatore Romano, 4 December 1996, p. 11).]
Pope John Paul II said it correctly to recognize Mary as Mother of God because the Bible says so.
Elizabeth, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, called Mary “Mother of my Lord,” and the zygotic Jesus as “my Lord”:
  • And it came to pass, that, when Elisabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb; and Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost: and she spake out with a loud voice, and said, Blessed art thou among WOMEN, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb. And whence is this to me, that the MOTHER OF MY LORD should come to me? (Lk 1:41-43, KJV, emphasis mine)
Because Elizabeth said the zygotic Jesus is the Lord by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, she meant the one and the same Lord of the Israelites:
  • Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed: and that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost. Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord.  (1Cor 12:3-5, KJV)
  • Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord: and thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. (Deut 6:4-5, KJV)
  • But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him. (1Cor 8:6, KJV)
As a matter of fact, the “MY LORD” of Elizabeth is one and the same “MY LORD AND MY GOD” of Thomas, who professes it in this wise (to which the Lord God Jesus Christ concedes):
  • And Thomas answered and said unto him, MY LORD AND MY GOD. Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed. (Jn 20:28-29, KJV, emphasis mine)
THEREFORE, the Vicar of Christ, now St. John Paul II, said it correctly to recognize Mary as Mother of God because the Bible said it so.

[This is not biblical. The Lord God Almighty has no mother, since He has no beginning and no end (Genesis 1:1; Revelation 4:8).]
No, it is Biblical that the Lord God Almighty has a mother as discussed in this article:

[Catholics are following the command of their pope. Catholics obey to a man not God.]
Apolonio Mora III is dead wrong again.  The Pope is obeying the Word of God that Mary is truly the Mother of God, and Catholics are following the example of their Pope in obeying the Word of God that Mary is truly the Mother of God.
Source: splendorofthechurch.com.ph