In the last posting on this topic, we mentioned how parrhesia was a result of our being adopted sons of Our Father in heaven.
There is one type of parrhesia based on a relationship quite different and unique. As compared to us having the confidence of children before the Father, there is a confidence of a mother to the Son, the same confidence that the church saw manifest in our ladies request of her son at the wedding of Cana. In one hymn, the faithful ask of St. Mary: (more…)