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To: NYer

For you Catholics; why do you need the mother to draw you to the son? Aren't you drawn to Him already?


69 posted on 12/12/2004 7:02:36 PM PST by bonfire
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To: bonfire
* For you Catholics; why do you need the mother to draw you to the son? Aren't you drawn to Him already?*

Mary is the Mother of Jesus, we are His brothers and sisters, so Mary is our Mother as well.  Though she did not physically give birth to us, she gave Jesus the Sacred Body of which we have become members (Ephesians 5:29).  We are all united to the very same Flesh which Jesus drew from the Virgin, so she is, in a very real sense, our Mother in the order of the Redemption.

Catholics know that Jesus is God and Mary is not.  Therefore our devotion to her does not overshadow her Son.

78 posted on 12/12/2004 7:37:42 PM PST by NYer ("Blessed be He who by His love has given life to all." - final prayer of St. Charbel)
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