Tuesday, October 19, 2004
Fw: [catholicACT] What respectable King does not have a Queen?
It is perhaps understandable that Evangelicals have been alarmed at the "Queen" statement about Mary, given the cultural context of this generation. We live in a time when the Queen of England is the highest in the Commonwealth. There is no king. She wears the commonwealth trousers. She is it. She is the focus. Everyone is talking about the queen and singing "God save the Queen." So it is natural that our contemporary understanding of the word queen would be that she is someone in highest authority. But what happens to the queen when there is a king. Then who has the authority? In commonwealth law, when there is a king, the queen has absolutely no authority whatsoever except the quiet of a whisper in the king's ear to influence a decision.
JESUS IS KING. He is it. Now if Mary is Queen, it means that she has no authority whatsoever over his decisions except a whisper in his ear (Jn 3:3). So I don't believe that calling Mary the Queen of the Universe diminishes the King's (Jesus’) authority in the least. In fact it reinforces it. What respectable King does not have a Queen?
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For King Jesus and the Queen, please read also:
