“The tradition of the Church has always upheld, in spite of minimizing responses to this question that one might come across, that our Lord appeared to his mother in his resurrection. It almost goes without saying, because of course she is the place and the person of his incarnation and the annunciation. And she stood at and she initiated his ministry with the wedding at Cana and the miracle at Cana, which she works in view of his hour, which he seems to be hastening in response to her request.
“And then she’s standing at the foot of the cross and then she’s at Pentecos…