When will we learn that we can't trust these latin types?
She's not there to manage, she's their to 'intercede' with her son.
I was always somewhat troubled by that. It broughyt to mind Jesus as this nasty chap sitting there saying, " lols, this lad can die of cancer, what larks!" and his mum saying, "Jesus be a good boy and let him live, go on, just for your old mum" which didn't really fit with the mild-mannered loving figure protrayed in the gospels.
Theology is hard, man!
Talking of christmas stuffings, my wife is English and demands two types of stuffing at christmas: 1) pork, onion and sage, which she refers to as 'forcemeat', and 2) some concoction of breadcrumbs and cranberries or some other nonsense, which she calls the 'stuffing'.
She also insists on having bread boiled in milk.
The English are an odd bunch.
It also puts a bit of a hole in the idea of divine infallibility if Jesus has to be talked out of things by his mammy. I mean how dare she - a mere Jewish housewife, after all - presume to question the will of God?
It's almost as if the whole Marian cult is fundamentally heretical.