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In Mary we see that neither she nor God is impassive. In the Gospel she seeks Jesus and never seems to leave him again. If we follow, she leads us to him, and that will be to his Father's house. In Lamentations we see her in her heavenly role weeping over her people, interceding, caring, for she is one with the Father and the Son. She sheds the tears and sighs in the Spirit in words that cannot be expressed. In her caring, we see the caring of God. And thus we go to her and get her to lead us to Jesus or simply to care for us and bring to us the caring heart of God.

We are tempted to look at the outward behaviors or to project ourselves onto the behavior of others, which Paul teaches us that God is producing within them a new creation and the past and the outward do not make that visible. We see that in the incident in the Temple where Jesus takes his place in his true Father's business as a man among the religious leaders, while Mary and Joseph miss it at first. And yet, because Mary's heart was immaculate, at a word from Jesus she apparently "gets it" and understands the meaning of his actions, although he then gives her a few years of more conventional behavior. We need to treat others in this way

Both Paul’s exhortation to Timothy to use the authority he had both within in the Church in educating and correcting and outside the church in evangelism, being prepared to suffer because of it, and Mary’s exercising her parental authority with a question, for Jesus was now a man, and accepting and mulling over the answer. while Jesus, having indicated where his Father’s house really was submitted to his parents and his father’s occupation, have lessons for us.