[metmom]

“...(Mary is) the unique bridal, permanent helpmate and associate of Christ, who is the Head of the whole Church and world, in the entire work of redemption...” Fr. J. Kentenich, in Der Marianische Priester, p 38 (1941).

Mary? You mean His Mother? Now the *bride* of Christ, as in His spouse as an individual?

The church is the bride of Christ. There is NOTHING in Scripture that indicates that Mary is His bride and mother of the church as an individual.

For that matter, there's nothing in Scripture that says the church HAS a mother.

Through her divine maternity, Mary in a certain way entered the divine family as a spouse who enters a royal home. With regard to the Father she became the first born daughter: I came out of the mouth of the Most High, the first-born before all creatures (Ecclus 24:5). With regard to the Son, she was a mother; with regard to the Holy Spirit, she was a bride." Saint Alphonsus Liguori, in The Glories and Virtues of Mary, p. 43.

Mary, Jesus mother, now become His bride, and Mary, God's (alleged) spouse now becomes His daughter.

Words fail me.....

[smvoice]

The truth always comes out...after a person is attacked for giving it...it dribbles out.

[blue-duncan]

“Mary? You mean His Mother? Now the *bride* of Christ, as in His spouse as an individual?”

This is no more than the Roman version of the Babylonian myth of Ishtar and Tammuz (a form of Baal idolatry). Ishtar, the “Queen of heaven”, gives birth to Tammuz, the eternally dieing and resurrecting god who becomes her consort.

Ecc. 3:15, “That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been;..”