[stfassisi]

A fitting thread on Feast of the Immaculate Conception

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

Mary is a model who works with us and in us, who guides our hand....

Whoa! What divides us is very great.

[Iscool]

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???

[WileyPink]

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!