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To: Campion
All of God's family is "full of grace."

Only one was saluted by an archangel with that title.

Luk 11:27 And it came to pass, as he spake these things, a certain woman of the company lifted up her voice, and said unto him, Blessed is the womb that bare thee, and the paps which thou hast sucked.

Luk 11:28 But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.

But all of us Christians were given that title by Jesus, Himself...

If your're a Christian, you're more blessed than Mary...

143 posted on 05/03/2008 8:22:50 AM PDT by Iscool
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To: Iscool
We've done this before, AND I'll bet we'll do it again.

Difficult as it may be to imagine or believe, a few Catholics have actually heard that verse (since it's read in our worship from time to time.)

And those of us who have spent a little time with Greek think that Μενουν can't bear the freight you are asking it to carry, though it could bear the POSSIBILITY of that interpretation.

I would, myself, paraphrase the logion as "What you should say instead is, 'Blessed are they that hear the word of God and keep it.'" Which is to say, don't use a natural or family relationship with me as a distraction from your call to hear the word of God and keep it.

I did a radio show once on the Immaculate Conception. What I took 15 minutes to say was,"IF you're envious of Mary because of the special Graces she received, you need to remember that God has a special vocation and special graces tailor-made for you and only you."

IN any event nobody has "kept" the Word of God more intimately that Mary, and as soon as Jesus learned to talk, she heard it a lot.

151 posted on 05/03/2008 9:58:11 AM PDT by Mad Dawg (Oh Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.)
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To: Iscool

The “rather” does not mean what you claim it to me. You ride on the English word in this way only by divorcing it from the original Greek.


160 posted on 05/03/2008 10:28:19 AM PDT by Petronski (When there's no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth, voting for Hillary.)
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To: Iscool

Wonderful answer!


686 posted on 05/08/2008 3:57:25 PM PDT by Marysecretary (.GOD IS STILL IN CONTROL)
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