1 posted on
12/08/2006 2:19:36 PM PST by
Coleus
To: Coleus
A fitting thread on Feast of the Immaculate Conception
2 posted on
12/08/2006 2:57:01 PM PST by
stfassisi
("Above all gifts that Christ gives his beloved is that of overcoming self"St Francis Assisi)
To: Coleus
Mary is a model who works with us and in us, who guides our hand....Whoa! What divides us is very great.
3 posted on
12/08/2006 3:13:40 PM PST by
The Ghost of FReepers Past
(Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
To: Coleus
Mary is a model who works with us and in us, who guides our hand as we trace the outlines of the model par excellence, Jesus Christ, so that we might be "conformed to his image" (Romans 8:29).Does God work with you and in you as well??? How many 'spirits' do you have in you???
4 posted on
12/09/2006 12:53:17 AM PST by
Iscool
(Anybody tired??? I have a friend who says "Come unto me, and I'll give you rest"...)
To: Coleus; Iscool; The Ghost of FReepers Past
She is "advocate of grace" before she is model of holiness. Devotion to Mary, when it is enlightened and ecclesial, does not really draw believers away from the one Mediator, but brings them to him. Those who have had a true and authentic experience of Mary in their lives know that it brings them to the Gospel and to a deeper knowledge of Christ. She stands before all Christians always repeating what she said at Cana: "Do whatever he tells you."1Timothy 2:5 For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;
1John 2:1 My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:
It's very telling by the amount of emphasis placed Mary and the amount of emphasis placed on Jesus.
In Christ...Alone!
5 posted on
02/16/2008 3:31:56 PM PST by
WileyPink
("...I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me." John 14:6b)
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