To: NYer; 1000 silverlings; OLD REGGIE; wmfights; Uncle Chip; Marysecretary
Keep in mind, as well, that it is through Mary that Jesus took on human flesh. No Mary, no Jesus. There was no other woman waiting in the wings. Really? How do you know that?
704 posted on
06/01/2008 6:04:27 PM PDT by
Dr. Eckleburg
("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
To: Dr. Eckleburg
I’ll bet he had a plan B somewhere...LOL.
846 posted on
06/01/2008 8:27:35 PM PDT by
Marysecretary
(.GOD IS STILL IN CONTROL)
To: Dr. Eckleburg; 1000 silverlings; OLD REGGIE; wmfights; Uncle Chip; Marysecretary; ...
Keep in mind, as well, that it is through Mary that Jesus took on human flesh. No Mary, no Jesus. There was no other woman waiting in the wings. Really? How do you know that?
Scripture. The angel Gabriel said, "Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with you" (Luke 1:28). The phrase "full of grace" is a translation of the Greek word kecharitomene. It therefore expresses a characteristic quality of Mary. Kecharitomene is a perfect passive participle of charitoo, meaning "to fill or endow with grace." Since this term is in the perfect tense, it indicates that Mary was graced in the past but with continuing effects in the present. So, the grace Mary enjoyed was not a result of the angels visit. In fact, Catholics hold, it extended over the whole of her life, from conception onward. She was in a state of sanctifying grace from the first moment of her existence.cf
935 posted on
06/02/2008 6:01:26 AM PDT by
NYer
(Ignorance of scripture is ignorance of Christ." - St. Jerome)
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