what you have said be done to me.”  Mary’s “Yes” to God has never changed and remains as a perpetual confession, and so the liturgy of the Church celebrates Mary as Aeiparthenos, the “Ever-virgin.”  CCC 500 says, “Against this doctrine the objection is sometimes raised that the Bible mentions brothers and sisters of Jesus.  The Church has always understood these passages as not referring to other children of the Virgin Mary.  In fact James and Joseph, “brothers of Jesus,” are the sons of another Mary, a disciple of Christ, whom St. Matthew significantly calls “the other Mary.”  Matthew 13:55; 27:56; 28:1.  They are close relations of Jesus, according to an Old Testament expression.

 

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