[Mary]
was foreordained. There is only one Mary, even as there is only one Christ. We
may suppose that she was more highly endowed spiritually than any of her mortal
sisters, but with it all, she was a mortal, not a God. Her mission was to bring
the Son of God into the world, not to redeem mankind, not to intercede for
them. She was destined to be a mother, not a mediator; hers was the blessed
privilege, being mortal, to bring into the world Him by whom immortality should
come. And blessed is she forever! (Bruce R. McConkie, The Promised Messiah,
446)
