Daily Mass is celebrated:
Monday through Saturday at 8 a.m.
The Sunday Mass schedule is:
Saturday at 5 p.m. in English
Sunday at 7:30 a.m. in English
Sunday at 9 a.m. in English
Sunday at 11 a.m. in English
Sunday at 1 p.m. in Spanish
Please contact the parish office at
949-494-9701 to schedule.
We commit ourselves to: being a welcoming sanctuary and a place of prayer and worship.
Saint Anthony's daily calendar🙏
Our greetings from the Basilica of St. Anthony of Padua.
Peace and all good❤
𝑺𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒂𝒍𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒂𝒓 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝑺𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒕 𝑨𝒏𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒏𝒚
0 CommentsComment on Facebook
WHY DID JESUS CALL MARY “WOMAN”?🤔
____________________
To many people, it sounds strange.
Why would Jesus call His own mother “Woman” instead of “Mother”?
Was He being distant? Disrespectful?
No.
He was revealing a mystery, one that stretches across the entire Bible.
Let’s walk through it.
✝️ 1. IN EDEN: “WOMAN” BEFORE “EVE”
The first time the word “woman” appears in Scripture is in the Garden of Eden.
“This one shall be called Woman, for out of man she was taken.” (Genesis 2:23)
Eve was first called Woman, before she was even named “Eve.”
Why?
Because “Woman” expressed her identity, dignity, and mission.
She was the companion of man, the mother of the living, and the one through whom life would continue.
But then came the serpent.
And the fall.
✝️ 2. AFTER THE FALL: A PROMISE TO “THE WOMAN”
After Adam and Eve sinned, God addressed the serpent, not Eve:
“I will put enmity between you and the *woman*, and between your seed and her seed. He shall crush your head...” (Genesis 3:15)
This verse is known as the Protoevangelium, the First Gospel, because it’s the first time the promise of a Savior is made.
But notice:
God doesn’t say “Eve.”
He says “the woman.”
The Church Fathers, including St. Irenaeus, St. Jerome, and many others, understood this “woman” to be Mary, and her seed to be Jesus.
It wasn’t just about Eve anymore.
It was about a future sinless Woman, who would bring the Redeemer into the world.
✝️ 3. AT CANA: “WOMAN, WHAT IS THIS TO ME?”
Fast forward to John 2.
A wedding is taking place in Cana. The wine runs out.
Mary gently points this out to Jesus:
“They have no wine.”
And Jesus responds:
“Woman, what is this to me and to you? My hour has not yet come.” (John 2:4)
Why would He call her “Woman” here?
Because this is not just about wine.
Jesus is announcing the beginning of His mission, and revealing Mary’s role in that mission.
She is not just a mother anymore. She is the Woman of Genesis, whose “yes” to God made the Incarnation possible.
As Archbishop Fulton Sheen beautifully said:
“He was not denying her; He was declaring her the ‘Woman’ of prophecy.”
✝️ 4. ON CALVARY: “WOMAN, BEHOLD YOUR SON”
Three years later, we find ourselves at the foot of the Cross.
Mary stands beneath her dying Son.
And Jesus speaks again:
“Woman, behold your son.” Then to John, “Behold your mother.” (John 19:26–27)
This moment is sacred.
Jesus is giving Mary to all of us, through John, the beloved disciple.
Just as the first woman (Eve) became the mother of all the living in the natural order,
Mary now becomes the Mother of all the living in the order of grace.
She is the new Eve.
And Jesus again calls her “Woman”, to fulfill the prophecy from Genesis.
✝️ 5. IN REVELATION: THE WOMAN CLOTHED WITH THE SUN
The last book of the Bible brings us back to this “Woman.”
“A great sign appeared in heaven: a Woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and a crown of twelve stars on her head. She was with child…” (Revelation 12:1–2)
And who is the enemy?
The Dragon, that ancient serpent from Eden.
Mary, the Mother of Christ, is portrayed as the victorious Woman, battling the serpent and protecting her children, the Church.
Here, Genesis and Revelation meet.
The beginning and the end.
The first Eve and the new Eve.
✝️ THE DEEPER MEANING
So why did Jesus call Mary “Woman”?
Because the word carries a prophetic and cosmic meaning:
She is the Woman of Genesis, whose seed crushed the serpent.
She is the Woman of Cana, who interceded and launched His mission.
She is the Woman of Calvary, who became our spiritual mother.
She is the Woman of Revelation, crowned in heaven, fighting for her children.
Jesus wasn’t distancing Himself from Mary.
He was elevating her role in salvation history.
✝️ SHE IS MORE THAN HIS MOTHER. SHE IS OURS.
Mary is not only the Mother of Jesus.
She is the Mother of all the redeemed.
She is the New Eve.
The Ark of the New Covenant.
The Woman of the Promise.
And when Jesus calls her “Woman,”
He is proclaiming her role in the plan of salvation.
✝️ CONCLUSION
Every word of Jesus has power.
He didn’t say “Woman” by accident.
He was unveiling a mystery hidden from ages past, now revealed to us.
She is not just the mother of a child in Bethlehem.
She is the Mother of the Church.
The Mother of you.
The Mother of me.
The Woman.
God bless you 🙏
#catholicsonlineclass
___________________
0 CommentsComment on Facebook
