[CharlesOConnell]

By the writer of Faith of Our Fathers, Fr. Frederick William Faber, this hymn was in 36 hymnals until it was canceled after the Second Vatican Council. It appears with many different tunes. This one is the Welsh "St. Denio". With the Catholic Church in disarray, this hymn calls upon Mary to rescue us, as she did during the Turkish attack on the West in the Battle of Lepanto. 1571.

[cuban leaf]

Here is the question I ask: Was Mary chosen to bear Jesus because she was “blessed”, or was she blessed because she was chosen to bear Jesus?

Personally, I think it is the latter. To me, she is like a lotto winner. For understanding, read every single verse where Jesus mentions her.

[Zuriel]

Mary didn’t create the soul of the Son of God. That soul is “the stone cut out of the mountain without hands”.

[JPII Be Not Afraid]

Mary was created to be the mother of God, hence the immaculate conception, she was born without sin. Mary’s yes was her freewill choice to be the mother of the Messiah. For those with a problem with this, think arc of the covenant. Think how pure the vessel was to house the bread from heaven. Jesus is the bread of life. How would we not expect Mary to be that pure to become Jesus’ mother.

[BubbaBasher]

Don’t pray to dead humans!

[Jan_Sobieski]

The Roman Catholic Church began to decline when Mary was declared Theotokos. Mary did not bear God the Father.? She bore Jesus Christ (2nd Member of the Holy Trinity). She is Christotokos. This Roman error led to other errors like Immaculate Conception, Mary as co-redeemer, and Mary prayer...