Posted on 12/27/2011 8:24:19 PM PST by RnMomof7
Mariology ping
Merry Christmas Rnmom!
It seems bold commentary about scripture, the Messiah, His mmother and the Church bothers some folks.
My soul magnifies the Lord,
And my spirit rejoices in God my Savior.
For He has regarded the low estate of His handmaiden,
For behold, henceforth all generations shall call me blessed.
For He who is mighty has done great things for me, and holy is His name. And His mercy is on those who fear Him from generation to generation.
He has shown strength with His arm:
He has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.
He has put down the mighty from their thrones,
and exalted those of low degree.
He has filled the hungry with good things;
and the rich He has sent empty away.
He has helped His servant Israel, in remembrance of His mercy;
As He spoke to our fathers, to Abraham and to His posterity forever.
Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit.
As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end. Amen
Magníficat ánima mea Dóminum,
et exsultávit spíritus meus
in Deo salvatóre meo,
quia respéxit humilitátem
ancíllæ suæ.
Ecce enim ex hoc beátam
me dicent omnes generatiónes,
quia fecit mihi magna,
qui potens est,
et sanctum nomen eius,
et misericórdia eius in progénies
et progénies timéntibus eum.
Fecit poténtiam in bráchio suo,
dispérsit supérbos mente cordis sui;
depósuit poténtes de sede
et exaltávit húmiles.
Esuriéntes implévit bonis
et dívites dimísit inánes.
Suscépit Ísrael púerum suum,
recordátus misericórdiæ,
sicut locútus est ad patres nostros,
Ábraham et sémini eius in sæcula.
Glória Patri et Fílio
et Spirítui Sancto.
Sicut erat in princípio,
et nunc et semper,
et in sæcula sæculórum.
Amen.
She became the Mother of God, in which work so many and such great good things are bestowed on her as pass man’s understanding. For on this there follows all honor, all blessedness, and her unique place in the whole of mankind, among which she has no equal, namely, that she had a child by the Father in heaven, and such a Child . . . Hence men have crowded all her glory into a single word, calling her the Mother of God . . . None can say of her nor announce to her greater things, even though he had as many tongues as the earth possesses flowers and blades of grass: the sky, stars; and the sea, grains of sand. It needs to be pondered in the heart what it means to be the Mother of God.
(Commentary on the Magnificat, 1521; in Luther’s Works, Pelikan et al, vol. 21, 326)
I went to Catholic school for 12 years and I think this devotion to Mary stuff is bunk. Who thinks up this stuff anyway??
I went to Catholic school for 12 years and I think this devotion to Mary stuff is bunk. Who thinks up this stuff anyway??
Satan?
Yes, often pearls are cast before swine.
What a waste of everyone’s time and resources.
That one's Easy: The king of hell.
Boy that’s a mythology if I ever read one. They have gone completely off track.
In 12 years you never read Genesis, the Gospel of Luke or The Apocalypse of St. John, not to mention the Church Fathers? That’s hard to believe.
God.
You probably have no idea what Luther, Calvin, Zwingli and many other revolutionaries would have to say about your ignorance of the topic at hand.
No.
Christ does not need the Church to be born in the world.
Christ needs nothing, by definition.
Matthew 28:18 - "And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth."
John 3:35 - "The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand."
Off track and round the delusional, linguistic bend.
Go ask Michael Servetus what I think of men like Calvin.
I don’t know of a single Proddy who considers their idiotic notions about Mary and the Revelation Scriptures to be
remotely the least bit infallible.
They may well have been as clueless as the Pope on the matter.
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