Immaculate Mary

Something for the weekend. There can only be one song on the Feast of the Immaculate Conception: Immaculate Mary. A Lourdes hymn, it was probably first sung in 1873. No one really knows who wrote the lyrics of the hymn although it has been attributed to Abbe Gaignet, a priest of Lucon. The melody is from a traditional Pyrenean song. It has long been a favorite hymn of Catholics in America.

The belief that Mary was conceived without the taint of original sin had its champions long before it was proclaimed as dogma of the Church in 1854 and some of the supporters, er, are unexpected!

“It is a sweet and pious belief that the infusion of Mary’s soul was effected without original sin; so that in the very infusion of her soul she was also purified from original sin and adorned with God’s gifts, receiving a pure soul infused by God; thus from the first moment she began to live she was free from all sin”

- Martin Luther’s Sermon “On the Day of the Conception of the Mother of God,” 1527

There is not one of the sons of Adam, except Mary and her Son, one born but is touched by the Devil at the time of his birth, and the child makes a loud noise from the touch.

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)

Yeah! How do explain this ?

Luke 1:5 "There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judea, a certain priest named Zachary, of the course of Abia: and his wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name Elizabeth. 1:6 And they were both just before God, walking in all the commandments and justifications of the Lord without blame."

" WALKING in ALL the COMMANDMENTS and JUSTIFICATIONS of THE LORD WITHOUT BLAME. "

HMMMM. INTERESTING to SAY THE LEAST!!

How can it be?

Zachary and Elizabeth = Blameless!

A Torpedo hit a verse boat. I guess me thinks it is more complicated myself.

Yeah! How do explain this ?

" WALKING in ALL the COMMANDMENTS and JUSTIFICATIONS of THE LORD WITHOUT BLAME. "

HMMMM. INTERESTING to SAY THE LEAST!!

How can it be?

Zachary and Elizabeth = Blameless!

A Torpedo hit a verse boat. I guess me thinks it is more complicated myself.

Whether we like it or not God wanted a mother by Birth of a woman named Mary. He wanted a "vessel" to be human/flesh. Yes he even a became a Baby.

Why to declare 1John4 which is the Test of the true Christ.

1 John 4

New American Standard Bible (NASB) Testing the Spirits

4 "Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. 2 By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God; 3 and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God; this is the spirit of the antichrist, of which you have heard that it is coming, and now it is already in the world. 4 You are from God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world. 5 They are from the world; therefore they speak as from the world, and the world listens to them. 6 We are from God; he who knows God listens to us; he who is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error."

Whether we like it or not God wanted a mother by Birth of a woman named Mary. He wanted a "vessel" to be human/flesh. Yes he even a became a Baby. Why to declare 1John4 which is the Test of the true Christ. Divinity became man by a woman. He was "clothed" into humanity by this action. Since he came into humanity as divinity.Which is why he is God thus mother of God. Mary as mother is humanity/flesh to the divinity still intact. It does not mean she was before God. In a nutshell she brought forth the human/flesh and Divinty of Jesus as human baby. She is the mother of God from his human birth. His divinity is intact as he is human/flesh as the scripture reads in 1 John 4.

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