“Holy Mary” -— Can smoeone please explain to me, a cradle catholis, why the term “Holy Mary” is considered to be inappropriate for the the Mother of Lour Lord and Redeemer?
This is a serious question as it puzzles me. If one is a Christian, and one understands that God, the Father, selected Mary to become the mother of the Messiah, the Annointed one, then why would anyone think that God who is all Holy and Almighty, would allow his only-begotten
Son to become man in the womb of an unholy woman?
I really do not understand why there should be any question about the holiness of Mary. She was created and selected by God to fulfill this most important female role in the history of mankind.
Holy implies without Sin there is no one who is Holy save God.
Could it be so that God could take on the UN-Holy attributes of man and be tempted by sin???
The only thing that is holy is what God declares holy. One has no holiness aside from that .
The word holy means set aside for Gods purpose not some intrinsic value . Mary was holy ( set aside for the purpose of God, but I prefer to worship and pray to and meditate on the one that declares things holy rather than one of the objects or people declares holy.
The object in the temple were holy, would you pray to them?
The same Son that came to walk on the cursed earth and eat with sinners and get his feet dirty as He walked? THAT Son?
Jesus was FULLY GOD AND FULLY MAN , He did not need to be kept in a sterile bubble, that would have been contrary to His call as the propitiation for men
Did He need to get his sinless nature from His mother?
Jesus was God and fully Divine, He did not need a sinless mother to bear Him. Mary gave jesus His HUMAN nature not His divine one