Homily on the Queenship of Mary
Salvation, thanks for posting the article to highlight our Lady's feast day! God bless,
The first sentence:
“Mary’s title as “Queen of Heaven and Earth” is a great scandal to many non-Catholic Christians.”
makes the whole thing not worth reading. Denominations such as Episcopalians are Catholic Christians, just not Roman Catholic Christians. But the professor seems to imply that the only Catholics are Roman Catholics, which goes along with the Roman Catholic tendency (as least in my experience) to pooh pooh ‘lesser denominations’. eh
I’ve never understood the problem. If Protestants believe that Mary was the mother of Jesus, both God and man, then why can they not think that his mother - who is not dead, but lives in Christ (who happened to be her son) - has a special connection with Our Lord?
The biggest problem that Protestants have is that they do not believe in the Communion of Saints (meaning, essentially, that the dead are part of our community, because God is eternal and if you are part of the Body of Christ, you are still part of the community, whether living or dead).
Very interesting. Thanks for posting this.
Homily on the Queenship of Mary
Salvation, thanks for posting the article to highlight our Lady's feast day! God bless,
See Jeremiah 7:18; 44:17; 44:18; 44:19; 44:25shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach
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Obama: “If they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.”
Catholics believe Mary should be honored, because she is the vessel who bore our Redeemer, and helped bring about our salvation. Jesus revered her, so we should do no less.
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So beautiful it has brought tears to my eyes.
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Some points to consider about the Queenship of Mary
We have seen how the Old Testament queen mother tradition serves as an important background for understanding Mary’s royal office. Indeed, the New Testament portrays Mary as the queen mother par excellence. Thus, prayers, hymns, and art giving honor to Mary’s queenship are most fitting biblical responses for Christians. In honoring her as queen mother we do not take anything away from Christ’s glory, but rather we exalt him even more by recognizing the great work he has done in her and through her.
Understanding Mary as queen mother sheds light on her important intercessory role in the Christian life. Just like the queen mother of the Davidic kingdom, Mary serves as advocate for the people in the Kingdom of God today. Thus, we should approach our queen mother with confidence, knowing that she carries our petitions to her royal son and that he responds to her as Solomon did to Bathsheba: "I will never refuse you."
The writer fails to report the outcome of Bathsheba's request. It was, indeed, refused. Solomon had wisdom enough to see Adonijah's request (for David's "Miss Palestine" trophy wife) as one more attempt to bypass God's ordination, one more illicit attempt to maneuver for the throne. The writer may, unwittingly, have given us a clue to the psychological dynamics behind the cult of the BVM -- the desire of fallen humanity to gain illicit leverage over God Almighty. The notion that the Judge of the Universe can be manipulated by "channeling" one's devotions and requests through an alternate channel.
Fallen humanity would love to have a "back door to heaven." Some buffering against the august Lordship of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the World. Cosmic momism is embraced out of a defective appreciation for the order of the universe. Out of a desire to make things other than they are, to suspend the laws of nature and of nature's God.
So much bad theology running around here... Kyrie Elaison!
I find the arguement from the Davidic Kingdom to be fundamentally weak. Yes, a young king held his mother in great asteem. What is so surprising about this? Does anyone think the young king in his right mind would do any less for his mother? Does anyone think that this practice was limited soley to Middle Eastern kingdoms? Check out the Severan Dynasty in Rome or the relationship between Richard the Lionheart and Eleanor of Aquitaine.
