Agreed. I worry that Jesus will not easily forget all the horrible things said about His mother. It would be hard to forget it if it was just a human mother and son; but this was divine God and man— and His mother was the only human who participated completely in the redemption plan from the moment it began until it was accomplished. She walked every step of His earthly life with him.
I’m sure the human side of Christ is not pleased when His mother is disrespected and ridiculed. I believe people get nasty when they feel the Hound of Heaven chasing them and their entire spiritual construct is being challenged.
Catholicism is the toughest, most demanding religion. It’s not for wimps. It also asks the purest act of faith: to accept that bread is changed to Christ’s body simply because He said so! It’s beautiful and mysterious and maddening— and I am so grateful to be Catholic and receive the gift of the Eucharist.
Absolutely. And you are so right about Mary. As the church says about her, she is the first and most perfect of disciples.
I do not take lightly the difficulties that protestants have with coming into the church. Even after being raised a Catholic, coming back after a twenty year absence took a lot of study and prayer.
The Church is beautiful and mysterious and eternal and I, too am a grateful Catholic. I love that it is a well so deep it is impossible to imagine plumbing all its wisdom.
The doctrine of Mary’s perpetual virginity is just one example of the richness of the Church’s theology. Though protestants insist the doctrine is a means to support the Church’s deification of Mary, in reality, it defends the person of Jesus as God and human.
The Church tends to see the long view of theology rather than grasp on to the popular exegesis of any given generation. And that is why she is ancient and eternal.
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