? Then why did you put those out in answer to my statement, “Then I’m sure you’re the one who can show proof that the apostles taught the assumption and veneration of Mary” then ask me a question as if you had shown where the apostles taught that? I would say you are preaching “another gospel”.
>>but one can go to mass every Sunday and hear the name of Mary spoken but seldom.<<
Yeah, Mary is always in the background right? Give us a break.
Mary was hardly in the background in the first two Chapters of Luke. As for our veneration of Mary, it is of an entirely different sort that the Apostles would have paid to the person of the mother of Jesus. She does not seem to have traveled with him in Galilee. They could hardly have know about the circumstances of his birth from him. Until after the Resurrection, they would have thought such a story to be as preposterous as moderns today do. We don’t know how Luke and Matthew came to include the stories in their Gospels. Marcion, who made Luke his only Gospel, left off the first two chapters because the doctrine of the incarnation did not fit his theology.