To: Rhadaghast
I always wondered why Catholics don't treat Mary's mother the same as they treat Mary.
After all, if she was born without sin, immaculate, then her Mother, I'm sure, was also born without sin, to carry Marry.
And if Mary is the Mother of God, then her Mother is the Mother of the Mother of God, and is also worthy of being prayed to, and looked to as the intercessor between Mary and the sinner...
After all, if sinners need an intercessor between Jesus and them, why don't sinners also need an intercessor between Mary and them?
Ed
137 posted on
09/13/2005 2:58:04 PM PDT by
Sir_Ed
To: Sir_Ed
After all, if she was born without sin, immaculate, then her Mother, I'm sure, was also born without sin, to carry Marry. No such claim is made. Catholics don't believe that Mary "had to be sinless" so Jesus would be sinless, or any such strange ideas. It's simply a privilege given to Mary by her creator, who also happened to be her son.
And if Mary is the Mother of God, then her Mother is the Mother of the Mother of God, and is also worthy of being prayed to
Nothing wrong with asking for St. Anne's prayers. And one of the Eastern Orthodox liturgies actually refers to St. Anne and St. Joachim as "the holy and righteous ancestors of God".
139 posted on
09/13/2005 3:42:57 PM PDT by
Campion
(Truth is not determined by a majority vote -- Pope Benedict XVI)
To: Sir_Ed
I always wondered why Catholics don't treat Mary's mother the same as they treat Mary.
After all, if she was born without sin, immaculate, then her Mother, I'm sure, was also born without sin, to carry Marry.
And if Mary is the Mother of God, then her Mother is the Mother of the Mother of God, and is also worthy of being prayed to, and looked to as the intercessor between Mary and the sinner...
After all, if sinners need an intercessor between Jesus and them, why don't sinners also need an intercessor between Mary and them?
Ed
Such pointless and silly questions are asked when one is completely devoid of knowledge about the Catholic faith. Disappointing, but not unexpected.
A good idea is to go to www.google.com and look up "Mary" and "Original Sin". There should be about four or five thousand sites that deal with this issue.
To: Sir_Ed
158 posted on
09/13/2005 6:03:33 PM PDT by
Salvation
(†With God all things are possible.†)
To: Sir_Ed
Can you immagine God's grandmother, pulling his ear when she thought he was disrespectful.!~
oy vey
205 posted on
09/14/2005 5:01:28 AM PDT by
Rhadaghast
(Yeshua haMashiach hu Adonai Tsidkenu)
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