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To: Tax-chick
I don't think the phrase "as sunlight through glass" means that the baby Jesus was incorporeal. His mother wasn't glass either (glass being transparent and breakable and all that).

It's just a poetic turn of phrase meaning that Jesus' birth did his mother no harm, without getting into the nitty-gritty details of labor and delivery.

Since I have known plenty of moms who gave birth with no anesthesia and very little pain (my own mom and my self among them, mom being one of the first generation of American followers of Grantley Dick-Read M.D.), I would expect that the Blessed Mother's 'childbirth experience' would be at least that good, and better.

41 posted on 12/25/2012 8:56:41 AM PST by AnAmericanMother (Ministrix of ye Chasse, TTGS Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment))
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To: AnAmericanMother
It's just a poetic turn of phrase ...

Oh, that kind of thing always throws me off.

42 posted on 12/25/2012 8:59:43 AM PST by Tax-chick (Peace to people of good will.)
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To: AnAmericanMother
Since I have known plenty of moms who gave birth with no anesthesia and very little pain (my own mom and my self among them, mom being one of the first generation of American followers of Grantley Dick-Read M.D.), I would expect that the Blessed Mother's 'childbirth experience' would be at least that good, and better.

My wife is 4'11" and 95 pounds. She has given birth five separate times and never had anaesthetic during any of those births. Of course, I always made sure that her nails were clipped short...

46 posted on 12/25/2012 12:29:04 PM PST by MarkBsnr (I would not believe in the Gospel, if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so.)
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