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To: MarkBsnr
labelling the pursuit of holiness “tripe” hardly advances it anyway.

oh please

personal holiness and the tripe of a co-redeemer are two distinctly separate issues.

and you stand where with regards to Mary ?

6,097 posted on 09/12/2007 2:49:50 PM PDT by Revelation 911 (prov 30:33)
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To: Revelation 911

Judging (!) by your FR page, it seems that we are more on the same theological wavelength vis a vis Arminianism versus Calvanism than many here.

As regards to Mary; a few excerpts from the Catechism may serve:

508 From among the descendants of Eve, God chose the Virgin Mary to be the mother of his Son. “Full of grace”, Mary is “the most excellent fruit of redemption” (SC 103): from the first instant of her conception, she was totally preserved from the stain of original sin and she remained pure from all personal sin throughout her life.

509 Mary is truly “Mother of God” since she is the mother of the eternal Son of God made man, who is God himself.

510 Mary “remained a virgin in conceiving her Son, a virgin in giving birth to him, a virgin in carrying him, a virgin in nursing him at her breast, always a virgin” (St. Augustine, Serm. 186, 1: PL 38, 999): with her whole being she is “the handmaid of the Lord” (Lk 1:38).

511 The Virgin Mary “co-operated through free faith and obedience in human salvation” (LG 56). She uttered her yes “in the name of all human nature” (St. Thomas Aquinas, STh III, 30, 1). By her obedience she became the new Eve, mother of the living.


6,099 posted on 09/12/2007 3:11:03 PM PDT by MarkBsnr (V. Angelus Domini nuntiavit Mariae. R. Et concepit de Spiritu Sancto.)
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