Annunciation
Pietro Cavallini
1291
Mosaic
Santa Maria in Trastevere, Rome
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Posted on 12/31/2007 8:21:48 PM PST by Salvation
**And how many threads and lines of posting from the RC camp, have had to do primarily with Mary on FR vs primarily about Jesus on FR? **
Most of the posting on FR have to do with God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.
Consider the Daily Mass Readings and all the quotes from the Bible as compared with threads at certain times about the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Even this thread is about Christ!
Happy New Year, BTW!
Those are angels.
May you have a blessed New Year as well . . .
full of The Lord’s provision, protection, faith, hope, joy, love, peace and intimate dialogues with those you love.
Methinks the count on FR is different but it’s an interesting empirical question. . . I suppose we could take 6 months and count . . .
This thread is about JESUS?
Obviously, that’s why most of the pics are about MARY! LOL.
Looks like babies to me. If you want to think of angels as baby heads, that’s fine, I guess, but no neutral observer would see that picture that way.
Why is the blue-eyed European girl standing on the disembodied ‘angel’ heads? Wouldn’t Mary have most likely been olive skinned with brown eyes?
You missed this post;
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1946602/posts?page=15#15
The pictures are about the beginning of the life of Christ. Everything is straight from the Bible.
It was the wrong picture. I have asked for it to be removed. Sorry to have caused you such angst.
Happy New Year.
What a remarkable painting. I’ve never seen it, or many other depictions of the fifth Joyful mystery. Thank you for posting it.
Just so you know, dear, I ask Jesus’ Blessed Mother to pray to God for me, or anyone in need, just as I might ask a friend to pray for me, or anyone in need.
Jesus loves His mother so much, so doesn’t it make sense that we would ask His mother to intercede for us.
I just kept looking for something. Didn’t find it in images, but rather a search for Finding Christ — Temple. Interesting, huh?
Sometimes, I think that the holy images are being diminished.
Let’s check the evidence . . .
Post # 6 MARY with Elizabeth Score at least half MARY
Post # 7 Holy Family . . . Mary almost center stage. score say what . . . 25-50% Mary highlighted—the’s the only one basking in the halo glo from Jesus . . . ?
Post # 10 Jesus at least has center stage . . . as an infant . . . The priest is speaking to Mary vs focusing on Jesus. Score Mary at least 35-65%?
Post # 12 The temple scene . . . Jesus is LISTENING . . .
TO
MARY . . . score Mary emphasis say 65-85%?
If the artist had wanted, he could certainly from that same incident had Mary listening to Jesus. But he did NOT. Mary is the SPEAKER, ACTER, AUTHORITY, JESUS the dutiful listener.
Post # 26 The Annunciation . . . Mary center stage with a messenger. Score 100% Mary emphasized.
I want to go to bed instead of calculate a total . . . but the tilt is clear, to me.
Not given the emphases of Scripture and the EMPHATIC PREEMINENCE OF CHRIST IN SCRIPTURE.
As CHRIST SAID . . . REFUSING TO GO TO HIS MOTEHR AND BROTHERS . . .
He counted those who did the will of the Father as His siblings and blood relatives.
I have no need, when praying to Heaven, to deal with a middleman, middle woman, middle parrot.
I may ask other believers in this time space dimension to pray for me—THAT’S BIBLICAL.
But MY prayers focus directly to Jesus, the Father by His Spirit. THAT’S Biblical.
Oh, you can leave it up if you want, my ‘angst’ is quite low.
Could you answer my questions though?
Why does Mary look European?
Why would angels look like disembodied baby heads?
Why would Mary be standing on their heads?
Why do Catholics get so anxious when people question them about their ‘worship’ or ‘adoration’ of Mary?
Are Catholics forbidden from disliking certain renditions of what some people picture Mary to look like?
You have FReepmail.
You are leaving the last line off this quote from Scripture! Who does Christ say his mother and brothers are?
All of us.
Apart from the fact that Mary was still alive for much of the time reported by the New Testament,
why do you think that the dead cannot pray for us? Are the dead indifferent to us? Does your mother cease to be your mother after she has passed away? In AC, the martyrs whom John describes in his Revelation are definitely aware of what is occuring on earth.
Yeah the dead are different from us......THEY ARE DEAD!
I believe the dead can not pray for us because the Bible doesn’t say that they can.
Revelations talks about the prayers of the saints. Saints in the New Testament refers to living believers. Revelations uses symbolic language when it talks about the prayers being as insense.
Your assumption that those ‘prayers of the saints’ are prayers of dead believers used as intercession is because of your other preconcieved ideas, not because the Bible supports it.
In heaven, my mother, father, and wife will be different then what I think of them now on Earth. (Matthew 22:30)
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