Simply for being Jesus' mother, Mary deserves respect: but to know her is to love her, and to love Her Son even more!
Thank you for all of your comments. That quote is from the message of March 20, 1996:
The Woman Adorned With The Sun
if you say: "we have no use for Her Heart", know that in reality you are saying: "we have no use for the Lord's Heart!"While "ymmv", I have found a treasure trove of ineffable value with the messages in True Life In God and pass them along for others who might not know of them.
learn, feeble man, that My Sacred Heart and the Immaculate Heart of your Mother are so united that in their perfect unity those Two Divine Hearts become One;
I tell you solemnly: if you acknowledge Her Heart, not only will you be acknowledging My Heart but also the Father's;
have I not said that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me?
if I am in the Father and the Father is in Me, My Heart, too, is in the Father and His Heart is in Mine;
to say that We are not inseparable and One, is to deny My Word;
do not be the slave of your spirit and do not be won by the arguments of the world;
Often the reactions some have to TLIG have been almost as instructive as the messages have been.
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How does that work?
True. While pondering and attempting to get my head around a workable understanding of the infinite wonder of the Holy Trinity, I started thinking about what was taking place inside Mary by/from the immaculate conception to His birth.
I'm coming to terms with how Jesus actually means what He says about His Love and Forgiveness, "even for a wretch like me", and what it means to be born again, sorta like getting your inner program rebooted with the OEM software, clean and free of all worldly malware.
With that in mind, I started to think about just how complete, and how many level shifts beyond a garden variety human soul's rebirth, her transformation might be for carrying Him and becoming Jesus' mother and all that truly means, both during pregnancy and after His birth.
No woman I know is the same as she was before becoming a mom...And what about Mary?
I'm having some trouble getting a handle on it. It's beyond my rational mind, no doubt about it.
No wonder Satan fears the one who will crush his skull beneath her heel...or so I've read.
To know ABOUT her is not to know her.
TO know her is to be in relationship with her somehow, give and take.
Since she is no longer alive on this planet, that is not possible.