EXCERPTS FROM THE MARY BOOK, Sheed and Ward, 1950 With Nihil Obstat and Imprimatur Of a Mother Only F.J. SHEED The Human nature of Christ was not simply a human body animated by a human soul. thus possessing all that the definition of a man requires, suddenly appearing among us. He actually belongs to us. His soul was a direct and individual creation of the Blessed Trinity, just like your soul and and my soul; but by His body He was conceived of a human mother, just as you and I. Of a human mother, notice, but not of a human father. In the sense in which other human beings have a mother and father, He had a mother only. The bodies of other human beings result from the action of an element supplied by their father upon an element supplied by their mother. In the case of Our Lord the effect upon the female element normally produced by the male element was produced simply by a creative act of the will of God. Thus He is a member of Adam's race on His mother's side; He is a Jew on His mother's side; but not upon His father's side; for in the order of human generation He had no father. He was descended from Adam as we all are, but not as much as we all are. None of us derived our souls from Adam, but we all derived our bodies from Adam; whereas He derived His body from Adam only as to part. It follows that we are all related to Him---through her, and only through her: we are all His maternal relations, His mother's people.   Carol 15th Century Anonymous I sing of a maiden that is matchless; King of all kings To her Son she chose. He came all so still There His Mother was, As dew in April That falleth on the grass. He came all so still To His Mother's bower, As dew in April That falleth on the flower. He came all so still There His Mother lay, As dew in April That falleth on the spray. Mother and maiden Was never none but she; Well may such a Lady God's Mother be. DOWNLOAD THE MOTHER AND CHILD PLAIN, PRINTABLE SIZE DOWNLOAD THE MOTHER AND CHILD DESKTOP E-MAIL HOME-------------------CATECHISM www.catholictradition.org/Children/mother-only.htm