As has been known for about a decade now, cells of the unborn baby's blood cross the placenta and migrate into the mother, where they set up a process known as "feto-maternal microchimerism". Fetal stem cells circulate around in the mother's bloodstream, or even settle and grow in certain sites in her body, where it is thought that they play a role in certain healing processes which benefit the mother.
Here's an article about it which was here in Free Republic: Childrens' Cells Living in Mother's Brain (Link).
And here's a little fuller research on the subject: More on Fetomaternal Microchimerism.
You emphasized, with great conviction, that every incorruptible particle of the Blood of the Lord Jesus would be gathered up to the Mercy Seat in Heaven.
His blood cells which passed through the placenta and micro-colonized parts of His mother's brain, bone, and blood? What would be the implications?
Any thoughts?
Yer links aren’t linking.
But, I believe you have come up with something profound here.
By MY count; there is room for at LEAST two more angels on the pinhead.
Lots of thoughts about the overwhelming sanctity of Jesus’s Mother, entirely because of His merits.
And given what my kids are like, this probably explains a bit about me, too. Maybe I really wasn’t bats before motherhood ... it’s all Tom’s and Pat’s fault.
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Fascinating subject. The implications would be breathtaking. I wonder what Popes Benedict and Francis might conclude? I wonder if this has ever been considered by them, or others at the Vatican?
Any thoughts?
It's an interesting thought, and I have wondered about it for some time. Too bad that it's not directly discussed in Scripture. In that vein, why did Mary need a Savior? (Lk. 1:47)