Thanks for self-disclosing that.
Certainly worth praying about the APCK for many disenfranchised ECUSA-ites.
[I dearly love Roman Catholics, respect them greatly, and know they are my siblings and fellow heirs in Christ. Of course the Lord Jesus was born of a virgin, that I do believe. However, though I am familiar with why RCs believe in the immaculate conception of Mary, I do not find that to be accurate. Were that right, how could Jesus be wholly God and wholly man?
[But I admire their reverance, their zeal, their stand on the sanctity of life, their training up of children, their close ties to Christianity's beautiful traditions and multi-faceted expressions of God's glory in liturgy, music, and the arts.]
Anyway, that item has been a disconnect for me so that I have not felt free to consider returning to Rome.
Thanks again for all the ways you share of yourself. Greatly appreciate your work, and newheart's too.
JM
OOOO Jocko, you make an EXCELLENT point...wish I had thought of that. Its the same argument I have : am all too ready to honor Mary for her blessed role in our salvation, but not willing to go so far as to say she is to be the Pathway itself. It is too easy a step for deification by saying she was an immaculate conception herself.