Jesus said to her, "Woman, what does that have to do with you and me? My hour has not yet come."
These words bring into sharp focus the true status of the earthly mother of our Lord; and, in the sacred text, she never appears as a semi-deity commanding and directing her son to do this or that, but as herself subject to error.  At no other point has the Medieval religion erred any more dramatically than here.  As Gaebelein noted: