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[Tax-chick]

From a comment by the author at the source: ... 1 Kings 17:18 (3 Kings 17:18 on the LXX), when Elijah has come to the widow of Zarephath when her son had died. She says to him, “What is this between you and me” (or however it is to be translated – but in the Greek the quote is word for word). Christ’s statement to his Mother at the Wedding, invokes the Widow’s son (Mary at this point is a widow). It is an oblique reference that says, “If we start this, your son will die.” Indeed the Widow asks, “Have you come to bring my sin to remembrance and to kill my son?”

We read this passage in the Catholic lectionary fairly recently, and I particularly noticed this last line, "Have you come to bring my sin to remembrance ...?" I wonder what her sin was, and why she thought it was reasonable to expect that her son would die because of it.

[tbpiper]

To venerate the Theotokos is an inherent part of rightly believing in the Incarnation of the God-Man. To ignore her as Theotokos is to hold a diminished and inadequate understanding of the Incarnation.

I really don't think so. Paul says of Jesus in Colossians 2:9 "For in Him all the fullness of Deity dwells in bodily form". I hardly think Paul's description of the incarnation would be 'diminished and inadequate' because he didn't mention Mary.