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To: betty boop

Mary can’t protect anyone, dear Betty. That’s not her job. If anyone is protected, God does it.


208 posted on 03/15/2010 2:31:34 PM PDT by Marysecretary (GOD IS STILL IN CONTROL!)
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To: Marysecretary; betty boop
""Mary can’t protect anyone, dear Betty. That’s not her job.""

Assuming you're a mother and you protected your child,I find it odd that you can't see Mary as a protector when you know full well that she protected Baby Jesus as His mother

Listen to this with your heart From GK Chesterton.....

When I was a boy a more Puritan generation objected to a statue upon my parish church representing the Virgin and Child. After much controversy, they compromised by taking away the Child. One would think that this was even more corrupted with Mariolatry, unless the mother was counted less dangerous when deprived of a sort of weapon. But the practical difficulty is also a parable. You cannot chip away the statue of a mother from all round that of a newborn child. You cannot suspend the new-born child in mid-air; indeed you cannot really have a statue of a newborn child at all. Similarly, you cannot suspend the idea of a newborn child in the void or think of him without thinking of his mother. You cannot visit the child without visiting the mother, you cannot in common human life approach the child except through the mother. If we are to think of Christ in this aspect at all, the other idea follows I as it is followed in history. We must either leave Christ out of Christmas, or Christmas out of Christ, or we must admit, if only as we admit it in an old picture, that those holy heads are too near together for the haloes not to mingle and cross.-GK Chesterton

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211 posted on 03/15/2010 2:48:39 PM PDT by stfassisi ((The greatest gift God gives us is that of overcoming self"-St Francis Assisi)))
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