And I was given my first rosary and taught how to pray it by someone who was neither Orthodox nor Catholic.Then you wrote:
Actually, I went to "The Protestant Episcopal Seminary in Virginia", which was going through a Calvinist phase when I was there, and became an Episcopal priest in 1977. I became a Catholic in 1994.
I mentioned it because there's a lot of sort of under cover Marian devotion going on out there outside of Orthodox and Catholic churches. As to what led to my saying it, I would say that Mary became kind of a heroine to me when it hit me that she had made a very profound self offering and said a deep, "Yes," to God, and that led to her bringing Love Himself into the world. And despite my personal nastiness, I would like to say a profound yes to God and make an offering of myself to Him, and I would like to be a part of bringing Love into the world.They believe (as all Protestants do that I know of) that we will receive our incorruptible bodies all at once.
I copy. But do they get 'em "on the last day" or before?
And yeah, it had penetrated the thick cranium that not too many Protestants are on board with that. ;-) One of the reasons I put it out there was that someone recently insisted that we think, and that the doctrine claims, that Mary didn't die. So Somehow it seemed good to say what it DOES claim.
Interesting. Did that person ever tell you how he/she learned the rosary and became compelled to pray it?
But do they get 'em "on the last day" or before?
1 Thess 4:16-17 "For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven, with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first; then we that are alive, that are left, shall together with them be caught up in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord."