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To: Mr Rogers
And Jesus makes it clear she has missed the point - that being TRULY blessed is obeying God. He doesn’t deny that Mary was blessed by God, the REAL point is “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and keep it!”

See, you continue spinning this verse as if it denies the validity of the woman's act of veneration. Note that Mary, too, kept the word both in the sense of obedience but also in the sense of being pregnant with Him the Word. The woman didn't miss the point, she did not go far enough. Christ told her not to restrict her veneration to Mary alone.

If your ‘saints’ are real saints, they would tell you the same thing: “Why do you stare at us, as though by our own power or piety we have done great things?” The focus is on what God has done, not man!

And they do say that, starting with Mary herself: "My soul doth magnify the Lord" (Lk 1:46-55). To venerate a saint is to worship God Who made them.

She went with the brothers of Jesus and stood by them

Nothing in that episode indicates she agreed with Christ's accusers. Let's not slander, of all people, Our Lady.

16 posted on 11/21/2009 5:44:40 PM PST by annalex (http://www.catecheticsonline.com/CatenaAurea.php)
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To: annalex

“See, you continue spinning this verse as if it denies the validity of the woman’s act of veneration.”

No, I read what the text says. But...rather. And she did NOT venerate Mary! “Blessed is...” is not veneration. When I say God has blessed me, I’m not venerating myself.

“To venerate a saint is to worship God Who made them.”

No, it is to venerate “Profound respect or reverence”. I respect William Tyndale, and thank God for how God used him - but I do NOT venerate Tyndale. You do not worship God by focusing on the created.


17 posted on 11/21/2009 5:57:37 PM PST by Mr Rogers (I loathe the ground he slithers on!)
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