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To: netmilsmom
The reaction of Jesus to two separate calls to attend His mother is clear.

617 posted on 07/26/2007 10:30:00 AM PDT by William Terrell (Individuals can exist without government but government can't exist without individuals.)
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To: William Terrell; netmilsmom
The reaction of Jesus to two separate calls to attend His mother is clear.

It is. Two times He point out the reasons of our veneration of Mary:

My mother and my brethren are they who hear the word of God, and do it (Luke 8:21, similar Matthew 12, Mark 3)

Blessed is the womb that bore thee, and the paps that gave thee suck. But he said: Yea rather, blessed are they who hear the word of God, and keep it. (Luke 11:27-28)

Mary is to be venerated not for her physiological motherhood, but for her hearing the command of God and keeping the incarnate Word in her womb. We, men and women, can all follow the pattern she established and be sanctified with her. These alone would be sufficient scriptural basis of Marian devotions.

But there is more: the last commandment of Christ before He gave up His spirit was to ask Mary to adopt His beloved disciple, thus establishing the mystical connection between Mary and His Church (John 19).

The Christ's walk on Earth as a baby begins, of course with Mary at his side. But also His ministry begins with what? -- an intercession by Our Lady (John 2), just how it ends.

When Satan fights his war on the Church, his vomit is directed at Our Lady. He "was angry against the woman: and went to make war with the rest of her seed, who keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ" (Apoc 12:17).

These are all scriptures that you are ignorant of.

626 posted on 07/26/2007 11:15:41 AM PDT by annalex
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To: William Terrell

>>The reaction of Jesus to two separate calls to attend His mother is clear.<<

When spun just the way one sees it, without regard to other meanings of the words.


631 posted on 07/26/2007 11:21:23 AM PDT by netmilsmom (To attack one section of Christianity in this day and age, is to waste time.)
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