Posted on 12/08/2017 5:31:29 AM PST by simpson96
"We wish that for all eternities the Word should be glorified through this tabernacle and habitation of the human nature.”
“She is to be the daughter of the first man; but in the order of grace She is to be singularly free and exempt from fault; and in the order of nature She is to be most perfect, and to be formed according to a special providence. And since the incarnate Word is to be the Teacher of humility and holiness and for this end is to endure labors, confounding the vanity and deceitful fallacies of mortals by choosing for Himself sufferings as the treasure most estimable in our eyes. We wish that She, who is to be his Mother, experience the same labors and difficulties, that She be singularly distinguished in patience, admirable in sufferings, and that She, in union with the Onlybegotten, offer the acceptable sacrifices of sorrow to Us for her greater glory.”
“Now the time has arrived,” added his Majesty, “which was resolved upon by our Providence for bringing to light the Creature most pleasing and acceptable to our eyes. That Creature, in whom the human nature is freed from its first sin, who is to crush the head of the dragon, who was typified by that singular sign, the Woman that appeared in the heavens in our presence, and who is to clothe the eternal Word with human flesh. The hour is at hand, so blessed for mortals, in which the treasures of our Divinity are to be opened and the gates of heaven to be unlocked.
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“That Creature, in whom the human nature is freed from its first sin” FALSE
“who is to crush the head of the dragon” FALSE
“who was typified by that singular sign, the Woman that appeared in the heavens in our presence” FALSE
“that She, in union with the Onlybegotten, offer the acceptable sacrifices of sorrow to Us for her greater glory.” FALSE
And Roman Catholics say they don’t worship Mary.
Ô Marie, conçue sans péché, priez pour nous qui avons recours à vous.
It illuminates the Roman Catholic worship of Mary they vehemently deny.
It is a false religion.
ealgeone,
Meant to ping you and forgot. Mea Culpa!
100% FALSE, even in french.
NP!
Since Isis and before, mankind has wanted a female deity,
and by God, some of us finally figured out how to get one.
When man names someone else in Scripture, the name he gives that other person tells us something about the person’s origin or perhaps that person’s role in the narrative. For example, when God put Adam into a deep sleep and created a spouse for him from one of his ribs, the first name that Adam gave his new spouse was simply woman, indicating that she was taken out of the man, that she was flesh of his flesh and bone of his bone. It was not until after the Fall and after our parents had been exiled from the garden that Adam renamed his spouse Eve, indicating that she was to be the mother of all the living.
On the other hand, when God names someone in Scripture, the name he gives the person gives us an insight into their innermost being. For example, it is at the Annunciation that God names the woman whom he has chosen to bear the promised offspring of Eve. Note that Gabriel does not address this chosen woman as Mary. Gabriel calls her by the name that God has given her – Kecharitomene. We customarily translate Kecharitomene as full of grace, but it means much more. Kecharitomene is in fact based on the Greek radical meaning grace, but that radical takes the form here of a perfect passive participle meaning having been (and continuing to be) thoroughly transformed by God through grace. So the insight that we are given into Mary’s innermost being from the name that God has given her is that, just as God had prepared the Garden of Eden for Adam before creating him, so had the Father prepared Mary by creative grace from all eternity to be the virgin and sinless mother of Jesus, the second Adam and promised Savior who reopens for us the gates of Paradise. And indeed, Catholics recognize Mary as virgin and mother every time they recite the divine praises as they say, Blessed be the name of Mary, virgin and mother.
God’s name for Mary, Kecharitomene, which God revealed through the angel Gabriel at the Annunciation, forms the scriptural foundation for the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception, formally defined by Pope Pius IX in 1854, four years prior to the apparitions at Lourdes at which Mary appeared to Bernadette as the Immaculate Conception. The doctrine of the Immaculate Conception means that "the Most Blessed Virgin Mary, at the first instant of her conception, by the singular grace and privilege of almighty God and in view of the merits of Jesus Christ, the Savior of the human race, was preserved immune from all stain of original sin.”
Note carefully the phrase, “in view of the merits of Jesus Christ, Savior of the human race.” Despite all the objections to the contrary, the Immaculate Conception does not mean that Mary does not need a Savior. Indeed, Mary herself acknowledges her need of a savior when, upon greeting her cousin Elizabeth, she says to her, my spirit rejoices in God my Savior.
Mary’s singular grace of being conceived without sin is harmonized with her need of a savior in the following way. There are two ways you can save someone from a puddle of mud. Either you can pull that person out of the puddle of mud once he’s fallen into it; or, you can pull him back before he falls into the mud. Theologians call that second way of saving someone, prevenient grace – that is, supernatural grace that saves us in anticipation of falling into sin.
So to wrap up, the significance of Luke 1:28 is twofold. First, she whom the archangel Gabriel addresses as the one having been thoroughly transformed by God through grace is she whom the Church says has been saved by God through prevenient grace – the Immaculate Conception. And second, she whom God saved through prevenient grace to be the unblemished mother of our Lord is truly our mother as well. For as through baptism we become members of the Body of Christ, and as Mary gave birth to that Body, so is Mary truly our mother in the order of grace. Mary, the new Eve, is truly the mother of all the living, of all those who have been reborn to eternal life through baptism.
Oh Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.
To God alone be the glory.
What sort of fiction is this? It’s like Dan Brown flipped on it’s head.
She was not conceived with out sin.
The only On e who qualifies for that is the only One who did not have a human father.
Mary had a human father, hence she had the same sin natur3e as the rest of us and needed a savior, by her own admission.
That was in fact, her admission that she was a sinner and had sinned.
FALSE argument on so many fronts - and is this copied and pasted without attribution?
I write my own material, thank you. God bless.
“I write my own material, thank you. God bless.”
Then I must respond that what you wrote was false.
God bless to you, especially this Christmas.
This stuff again?
Hail, Mary, Full of Grace, the Lord is With Thee.
Blessed Art Thou among Women,
and Blessed is the Fruit of Thy Womb, JESUS. [ see Elizabeth words
Holy Mary, Mother of God, Pray for Us Sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen
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