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To: annalex
Excellent post!

Some people seem unable to grasp the FACT that if a typical young woman (let's just set aside today's issues with premarital sex, birth control, etc.) who is engaged is told that she will conceive a child, her reaction will be along the lines of, "Of course, my husband and I will have intercourse after we marry and hopefully I will get pregnant very soon."

She would react this way because this has been the NORM throughout history. The ONLY REASON why a woman would react otherwise is if she believed that there was no possibility for her to conceive and, for a young virgin two thousand years ago, this could ONLY mean that she planned to remain a virgin.

People try to pretend that the Holy Family was a "normal" family, but they weren't, they were the most abnormal family ever. Angels of God appeared to both the Blessed Mother and Saint Joseph, they KNEW that their entire lives wouldn't be "normal" because they were being entrusted with the care of the Son of God.

5,044 posted on 12/09/2010 6:17:08 AM PST by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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5,045 posted on 12/09/2010 8:03:20 AM PST by xone
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To: wagglebee
She would react this way because this has been the NORM throughout history. The ONLY REASON why a woman would react otherwise is if she believed that there was no possibility for her to conceive and, for a young virgin two thousand years ago, this could ONLY mean that she planned to remain a virgin.

People try to pretend that the Holy Family was a "normal" family, but they weren't, they were the most abnormal family ever. Angels of God appeared to both the Blessed Mother and Saint Joseph, they KNEW that their entire lives wouldn't be "normal" because they were being entrusted with the care of the Son of God.

Thank you for understanding. The desire to slander the Christian saints is the agenda of Satan. Resists it, and it will fail.

5,350 posted on 12/14/2010 5:28:12 AM PST by annalex (http://www.catecheticsonline.com/CatenaAurea.php)
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