Posted on 12/14/2014 11:57:21 AM PST by ealgeone
The reason for this article is to determine if the worship/veneration given to Mary by the catholic church is justified from a Biblical perspective. This will be evaluated using the Biblical standard and not man’s standard.
True. While pondering and attempting to get my head around a workable understanding of the infinite wonder of the Holy Trinity, I started thinking about what was taking place inside Mary by/from the immaculate conception to His birth.
I'm coming to terms with how Jesus actually means what He says about His Love and Forgiveness, "even for a wretch like me", and what it means to be born again, sorta like getting your inner program rebooted with the OEM software, clean and free of all worldly malware.
With that in mind, I started to think about just how complete, and how many level shifts beyond a garden variety human soul's rebirth, her transformation might be for carrying Him and becoming Jesus' mother and all that truly means, both during pregnancy and after His birth.
No woman I know is the same as she was before becoming a mom...And what about Mary?
I'm having some trouble getting a handle on it. It's beyond my rational mind, no doubt about it.
No wonder Satan fears the one who will crush his skull beneath her heel...or so I've read.
Try 'understanding' why Rome insists that she and Joseph NEVER consummated their marriage.
She a VERY poor example of a good Jewish wife!
Obviously just one more example of today's poorly catechized Catholic.
Genesis 3:19
I will make your descendants and her descendant hostile toward each other. He will crush your head, and you will bruise his heel."
Yes, that’s what the Word of God says.
For a moment, I thought the RCC might me teaching that Mary would crush the devil’s skull with one stomp of her 5-inch high-heels, ala Sarah Palin.
(ALWAYS blow my punchline.)
I really think the most significant words Mary speaks during Jesus’ ministry should be in caps. They’re awesome.
“Do whatever He says.”
At the wedding in Cana. So many interpret that to be Jesus being rude to His mother: “What do I have to do with you, woman!”
In Greek it’s actually very brief. Literally, ‘what to me and to you?”
I’ve never been quite sure where the translators come up with the rude response they put in Jesus’ mouth. His mother’s just told Him that they’re low on wine.
I actually see Jesus saying “What (is that) to me and you?” (In other words, “that’s nothing to us; we can handle it easily.”)
And her response fits those words better, too. Instead of acting like she just been disrespected, she instead says, “Do whatever He says!”
She already knew what He could do. She already knew He was a miracle worker. And He saw her as a team member. And she stuck by Him all the way to the cross when the disciples deserted.
We protestants make too little of Mary. The Catholics overdo it a bit, in my opinion, but it’s also wrong track to underrate her contribution.
Buy a vowel for 5 cents each.
+2,800 posts in and still Mary is treated as a demigod.
I don’t think this will be resolved here...
Yes, a bit.
The engaged in religious speculation in some areas, and then retained it as practice.
Yes, a bit.
They engaged...
Not necessarily. By and large, cults are known by rejection of 3/1 Trinitarian doctrine, and/or the deification of leaders.
Pope concerned about Syriac Catholics fleeing 'inhumanity' in Mideast
(CNS/Paul Haring)By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis expressed his concern for members of the Syriac Catholic Church who have had to flee from the "inhumanity" unfolding in the Middle East.
"Many have fled to find refuge from an inhumanity that throws entire populations onto the streets, leaving them without any means for survival," he said Dec. 12 in a special audience with Patriarch Ignace Joseph III Younan and about 350 of his faithful from the Syriac Catholic Church.
The audience, made up of bishops, priests and laity from the Eastern-rite church, came after the bishops' annual synod, which was held in Rome Dec. 8-10. Participants came from Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Jordan, Egypt, Turkey and the Holy Land, as well as from the diaspora communities in Europe and North and South America.
The pope offered his prayers and encouragement, especially for those from "Iraq and Syria, who are living a time of great suffering and fear in the face of violence."
"The difficult situation in the Middle East has caused and continues to cause the movement of faithful from your church to the eparchies of the diaspora, and this brings you new pastoral challenges," he said, such as how to remain faithful to one's traditions while adapting and contributing to new cultural settings.
Having so many faithful move abroad "impoverishes the Christian presence in the Middle East, land of the prophets, of the first preachers of the Gospel, of martyrs and many saints, the cradle of hermitages and monasticism," Pope Francis said.
The changes have meant the bishops have had to reflect on the "the situation of their eparchies, which need zealous pastors as well as courageous faithful, capable of proclaiming the Gospel, through discussions that are not always easy with people of different ethnicities and religions," the pope said.
Patriarch Younan said a major focus of their synod was on priestly formation since their communities have faced so much upheaval.
"For example, just the Eparchy of Mosul has seen one bishop and 25 priests flee" along with 15,000 Syriac Catholics when Islamic State fighters swept through northern Iraq in August.
"Many of them live with the refugees now and we want to take this difficult situation into serious consideration," he said in an interview with the website theologhia.com.
He said the Syriac Catholic community has been the minority community hit hardest by the violence in Iraq. "We were 40 percent of the population" in the Nineveh plain, which has been "completely emptied of Christians."
He said 60,000 members of the community fled, many of them to Kurdistan. However, unlike the Chaldean Catholics, who have their patriarchate in Baghdad, the Syriac Catholics "have no eparchies of support. Therefore we are literally displaced."
"We have no more structures. For that reason, our people live in tents in a situation of terrible precariousness."
The latest violence now means that more than one-third of the Syriac Catholic community "has been uprooted and is in diaspora. And only God knows when we will return and if we will return."
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You didn't read that in any correct translation. The Greek clearly says He will be the one crushing the head.
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