Nobility

One of my favorite priests of all time is Fr. John Corapi, whom I discovered through EWTN a year or so before my reversion. His show comes on every Saturday night at 10:00 Eastern Time. Go. Watch. You'll be glad you did. ;)

Anyhow, on this past week's show, he had this to say:

"God is our Father. Mary is our Mother. You are nobility. So act like it."

A lightbulb went on when I heard this. Our Heavenly Father is the Maker of our world, and ruler over both His earthly and heavenly kingdom. His Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, is called the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. As we're all children of God, the King of Kings is our spiritual brother.

Mary is the mother of Jesus, who is both true God and true man. This is where the Church gets the title Mother of God. If Jesus is the King of Kings, and God the Father is the ruler of all, Mary would be something special as well. From this, we get another title, the Queen of Heaven.

If we are Jesus' spiritual brothers and sisters, and Mary is His mother, then she would be our spiritual mother as well.

To sum up:
* The ruler of all the Earth is our Father.
* The Queen of Heaven is our Mother.
* The King of Kings is our brother.

We really are nobility. We are sons and daughters of spiritual royalty.

That should awe and humble us all at once. We'll never even come close to being worthy of this nobility we gain through Christ who died for us...and yet it's ours, a priceless gift.

Shouldn't we be doing whatever we can to show loyalty to and pride in our family?