In regards to: BFHU> “Why did Mary offer a sin offering?” (July 19, 2009) It is a good article you posted, well written.
Also: the best explanation I have heard about ‘Mary being Immaculate’ was on the Catholic Answers radio show. A man who is not a Priest said something like this:
God is always testing us.
You are walking along a path with >your mother & you spot a mud-puddle. >Knowing your own mother would fall into the mud-puddle, do you:
1. Let her fall into the mud-puddle & >then save her by pulling her out of the puddle, or
2. Do you reach out & save your mother >before she falls into the mud-puddle?
We know that Jesus Christ kept the Commandments perfectly & honored both His Father & his >mother. Jesus Christ “redeemed Mary before she was conceived” & saved her >before falling into the mud-puddle of >sin.
Please tell God & your >own mother what you would do for your mother.
Mary is >our Mother too through Jesus Christ!
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I like that example. I’m from the far-west. But that example sounds like a New Yawker,> ‘You tell us! What would you do?’
Thank you for the post and ping!