Blessed Mary









Blessed Mary


Question from on 05-22-2007:


Is it not written somewhere that Mary our Mother once did laundry to
help support the family? Was she not a working mother in a sense?
Please advise to where I may obtain the answers to questions.

Thank You



Answer by David Gregson on 06-05-2007:
It has no basis that I'm aware of in
authoritative sources. Joseph probably didn't lack work, given the
amount of building that was going on in that part of the country, and
Jesus would have worked too, when He was of an age. But it's not an
unreasonable supposition that Mary contributed in some way to the
family income. Perhaps she wove clothes or sold vegetables from her
garden. Whether she took in laundry seems doubtful to me, given the
Jewish laws on ritual purity (cf. Lv 5:3).




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