Lunchtime Learning - Mary Mother of our Lord

Speaker: Mother Victoria Barlow

Mary, the mother of Jesus, has been a contentious figure through faith history. A shared point of connection between Islam and Christianity, her name has been on lips and hearts through the centuries. She has also been the centre of many controversies, and misunderstandings. We reflect on her place in our lives of faith, what can we learn from the young woman who saw angels, who said a yes that changed the Universe, and who birthed Love into the world.

In Luke’s gospel she is blessed because she heard the word of God and obeyed it. She waits with the lost and broken at the foot of the cross. She forms part of the community with the disciples after the resurrection, and on the day of Pentecost. She is a woman who is filled with the Spirit at the beginning of both the gospel and the book of Acts.

For many Christians, therefore she is also a model of prayer, and a praying companion on the Christian journey; while others, uncomfortable with asking her to pray for and with them, nonetheless value her as a model of faith and obedience, and, as her Magnificat prophesied, rejoice to call her blessed.

Come and reflect on Mary’s role in the gospel and in the church with Victoria Barlow, Team Vicar in the Halas Team Ministry. Mthr Victoria is a retired musician, now parish priest, lover of words, flowers and motorcycles, formed in the catholic tradition of the Church, with a deep love of the Church of England and its liturgies, saints and central message of a joy and hope that never stops singing.

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