May, the Month of Mary May is the Month of Mary, the Mother of
God and the Mother of the Faithful Affirmation of Mary’s
maternal role toward Christians is one of the main focal points
in chapter 8 of the Second Vatican Council’s Constitution of the
Church, a chapter which names Mary as the “Mother of all Human
Beings,” or “Mother of the Faithful.” The development of the
doctrine of Mary’s spiritual motherhood was gradual; earlier
testimonies from Irenaeus, Ambrose, Augustine, and others were
present but sparse. It was in the high Middle Ages that real
theological development on the idea of Mary’s motherhood began
to occur. More and more, the Scriptural passage of Mary at
Calvary (John 19:25-27) came to be seen as the pericope
expressing Mary’s spiritual motherhood toward the disciples of
Jesus: “So the soldiers did this. But standing by the cross of
Jesus were his mother, and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of
Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. When Jesus saw his mother, and the
disciple whom he loved standing ne