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To: Onelifetogive
If the Lord of the Universe wanted to esteblish a special place for Mary, this would have been the perfect place. Instead, this is what He said - completely and in context:

Matthew 12:46-50 46 While He was still speaking to the crowds, behold, His mother and brothers were standing outside, seeking to speak to Him. 47 Someone said to Him, "Behold, Your mother and Your brothers are standing outside seeking to speak to You." 48 But Jesus answered the one who was telling Him and said, "Who is My mother and who are My brothers?" 49 And stretching out His hand toward His disciples, He said, "Behold My mother and My brothers! 50 "For whoever does the will of My Father who is in heaven, he is My brother and sister and mother."

9 posted on 06/17/2003 7:06:26 AM PDT by DManA
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To: DManA
If the Lord of the Universe wanted to esteblish a special place for Mary, this would have been the perfect place.

So, you are blasphemously claiming Mary did not do the will of the Father most perfectly?

And the angel being come in, said unto her: Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women. (Luke 1.28)

And Mary said: Behold the handmaid of the Lord: be it done to me according to thy word. And the angel departed from her. (Luke 1.38)

Your words show your true colors - that of a fellow-traveller with evil, blasphemous, disgraceful Nestorian heretics. Your pride in your erroneous opinions is blinding you to the clear truths of Divine Revelation. Dare to see the greatness of the Mother of our Great God and Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ in her absolute and total fidelity to God, revealed in Holy Scripture, which you so cavilierly defame. You are behaving as one of those blessed Peter the apostle spoke of when he warned "... the unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, to their own destruction" (2 Peter 3.16). You Protestants cannot manage to accept even the clear words of Holy Scripture, which you claim so fervently to reverence and accept. Why is this? Why do you deny the clear meaning of God's Word? What posseses you to need to defame the Mother of God?

And Mary rising up in those days, went into the hill country with haste into a city of Juda. And she entered into the house of Zachary and saluted Elizabeth. And it came to pass that when Elizabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the infant leaped in her womb. And Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost. And she cried out with a loud voice and said: Blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb. And whence is this to me that the mother of my Lord should come to me? For behold as soon as the voice of thy salutation sounded in my ears, the infant in my womb leaped for joy. And blessed art thou that hast believed, because those things shall be accomplished that were spoken to thee by the Lord. And Mary said: My soul doth magnify the Lord. And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour. Because he hath regarded the humility of his handmaid: for behold from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed. Because he that is mighty hath done great things to me: and holy is his name. (Luke 1.39-49)

I dare say you probably give more reverence to your own mother, who like the mother's of everyone else, is but nothing compared to the Mother of God. Is your mother called "blessed among women" by "all generations"?

14 posted on 06/17/2003 7:43:13 AM PDT by Hermann the Cherusker
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