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To: annalex; 1000 silverlings; Alex Murphy; Belteshazzar; bkaycee; blue-duncan; boatbums; caww; ...
She had no such obligation, to be sure, but it is reasonable that she did.

No, it's not reasonable that she did. It's reasonable that she appropriately fulfilled her role to Joseph as his wife and bore him the children that the Bible mentions and names.

Her womb was the true tabernacle, after all, something not to be touched.

What a bunch of nonsense.

Christ is holy and sinless and is not corrupted by contact with sin. His environment did not need to be sinless for Him to inhabit it. Mary wasn't. She knew she needed a savior. She herself called God her *savior*.

There is NOTHING in Scripture that supports any of the contentions (fairy tales) that the Catholic church has made up about Mary.

4,097 posted on 12/01/2010 7:50:41 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: metmom; annalex; 1000 silverlings; Alex Murphy; Belteshazzar; bkaycee; blue-duncan; boatbums; ...

> “Her womb was the true tabernacle, after all, something not to be touched.”

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Not according to Jesus Christ:

Luke 11:
[27] And it came to pass, as he spake these things, a certain woman of the company lifted up her voice, and said unto him, Blessed is the womb that bare thee, and the paps which thou hast sucked.

[28] But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.
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4,110 posted on 12/01/2010 8:31:53 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Obamacare is America's kristallnacht !!)
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To: metmom; 1000 silverlings; Alex Murphy; Belteshazzar; bkaycee; blue-duncan; boatbums; caww
It's reasonable that she appropriately fulfilled her role to Joseph as his wife

She gave him his Savior. Not enough? Where is it in the Bible that St. Joseph wanted a carnal union after the Holy Ghost entered her womb?

His environment did not need to be sinless for Him to inhabit it

You are probably right that He did not really need any particular adoration. However, the Tabernacle was not to be prophaned by common touch. (Ex 28:41f)

4,952 posted on 12/07/2010 5:19:51 PM PST by annalex (http://www.catecheticsonline.com/CatenaAurea.php)
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