While Christ holds all things in being --- blessed is His Name --- He also wants to be held. Isn't that an aspect of the Incarnation? Then He had to be held. He needed to be held. How much he loved Mary for that!
The Church Mary's Him forth: receives the Word, gestates the Word, brings Him forth into the world. She is the ultimate Aron Kodesh, the Ark of His presence, the Ark of God. Did He need that? He, Who needs nothing, willed to need it.
Not only that, but to use St. Paul's image, the Church is that pillar that holds Him up like the Torah on a lectern. Woe to us if we do not hold Him up, if we do not exalt Him who first exalted us by creating and sustaining us.
Hold Him up! Every imperative verb in the Gospel tells us this: He is your Lord. Hold Him. Hold Him up.
“What about what St. Paul said?
While Christ holds all things in being -— blessed is His Name -— He also wants to be held.
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Where did Paul say “Christ wants to be held?”
You've noted you have no biblical training and that is clearly evident.
Below is a link to Dallas Theological Seminary.
This is a free course on John.
There are others as well. I highly recommend this to you.
https://courses.dts.edu/register/gospel-of-john-registration/
I literally have no words. I hope you meet the Christ of the Bible someday not the one of the Roman fantasy
Just wow.......
Is all that poetic gobbly gook supposed to mean something or just make everyone feel good?
If Mary is the Ark of the Covenant (which she is not BTW) but supposing she was because she had Jesus living inside of her, then every believer would them become the Ark of the Covenant because Jesus indwells every believer who as been born again/born from above, just like every believer is graced with the same grace that the angel told Mary she was graced with.
Mrs. Don-o, you may find the article below interesting: