The Mother Mary in The Battle for Jesus

The Mother Mary is a solid spirit, which means that she is a ghost in solid form so we mortals can see her, but, as such, she can return to Heaven any time she wishes to. The Archangels are also solid spirits (see blog: The Worlds within the story).

The Mother lives in the firmament on The Orchard Road where she runs the vicarage attached to St Michael’s Crossroads Chapel.

The vicarage is a protected domain only accessible via a side door within the chapel. The chapel itself, on entry, transforms into a cathedral.

The Mother passes her time at the kitchen table often referred to as The High Table. She keeps busy, ‘always cooking, cleaning or darning’.

The High Table in the kitchen is the primary link between Heaven and Earth. This means that the Mother Mary has a final say in all matters. Disturb The Mother and you disturb The Lord.

The Mother is worldly and understanding of all things mortal. She frets over Jesus’ safety, ‘Don’t let the Romans get you like last time’. She encourages him to listen to Mary Magdalene and, like any mother, she is keen for him to find happiness, to marry and start a family, ‘with Mary I will not worry’, she says.

The Mother Mary is a very special person, we never see her face. She listens and makes profound comments. She tolerates Saint Michael’s penchant for Glenugie whisky and, indeed, for her cooking. He has weakened to mortal ways.

Being a keen cook she starts a franchise called ‘Momma’s’, and agrees to Mary Magdalene’s request to give those who perished in the Holocaust a second chance. Many work in her franchise and she often ventures out to see how they are progressing. She also teaches Nicholas, Thomas’s and Martha’s adopted son, who refuses to go to school because he fears slavery.

 

 

‘Madonna in Sorrow’. Picture of The Mother Mary by Giovanni Battista Salvi da Sassoferrato (1609-1685), via Wikimedia Commons.

This picture of the Mother Mary is of a woman pure in heart.

In the story, The Battle for Jesus, she would be older. We never see her face because it is hidden by her cowl, but we do see her hands which are unblemished. As in this picture, she has the hands of the Madonna.