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Catholics, Protestants, and Immaculate Mary
The Catholic Thing ^ | December 8, 2012 | David G. Bonagura, Jr.

Posted on 12/08/2012 2:24:39 PM PST by NYer

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To: NYer

I was reading an article in Scientific American about Chimerian cells. These cells pass through the placenta from mother to child and from child to mother. These cells already do what scientists hoped stem cells will do. They speculate that women with multiple pregnancies have less Alzheimer’s because the cells are involved in healing. The father’s Chimerian cells are not passed to the child. It makes the creed that we say come alive. “Of one substance with the Father, wholly God and wholly man...”

Scientists Discover Children’s Cells Living in Mothers’ Brains

The connection between mother and child is ever deeper than thought

By Robert Martone
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=scientists-discover-childrens-cells-living-in-mothers-brain


581 posted on 12/12/2012 8:51:48 AM PST by Dutchgirl ("What I believe about God is the most important thing about me." A.W. Tozer)
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To: metmom
I've seen first hand the societies where Catholicism is the predominant religion and God spare us Catholic rule.

Because...."Moreover the law entered that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace abounded much more." (Romans 5:20)

The countries which are freest and most prosperous in this world through out history are those with the strongest Protestant influence, and history bears that out.

Because Catholicism is into poverty for it's subjects while Rome slithers around the halls of art and marble built on their subject's back.

Man-made teachings are all about their own interpretation. The hypocritical liars with a seared conscience are not to be believed because God's Word ALONE is the Final Authority as IT always was and IT always will be.

582 posted on 12/12/2012 9:00:46 AM PST by presently no screen name
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To: Dutchgirl
The connection between mother and child is ever deeper than thought

Maybe that you ever thought. Love conquers all and that applies even for the adopted child. Science can't measure that.

The connection between God and man is the strongest connection because He created a void in ALL mankind that ONLY HE can fill and He died for mankind because HE LOVED... That's the connection that is important and can have everlasting results.

BTW, those with the desire to eat or kill their children didn't get 'the science' memo. They show what 'mankind' is capable of no matter what supposed connection they have. Trust God, never man.

583 posted on 12/12/2012 9:21:53 AM PST by presently no screen name
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To: Dutchgirl

Thanks for the link. I posted a thread on it a few weeks ago. Recognizing this interaction between mother and child lends new insight into the spiritual connection between Christ and His mother.


584 posted on 12/12/2012 11:12:11 AM PST by NYer ("Before I formed you in the womb I knew you." --Jeremiah 1:5)
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To: annalex
they in fact left no noticeable legacy to their feebleness.

I guess to YOU, the Counter Reformation never happened; eh?

585 posted on 12/12/2012 11:31:50 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: annalex
Devotion to Mary and to the saints is a sure sign of Divine election. something alright!
586 posted on 12/12/2012 11:32:45 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: annalex
Devotion to Mary and to the saints is a sure sign of Divine election. something alright!
587 posted on 12/12/2012 11:33:35 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: annalex
Hear me well!

There are NO Christian troops advancing on Rome!



588 posted on 12/12/2012 11:35:00 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: annalex
A monk or nun start on their journey by shedding pride and arrogance/b>, and pledge to God a vow of obedience, chastity and poverty.

Well....

THERE are two jobs you'll never have!

589 posted on 12/12/2012 11:36:31 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie
but I'm afraid that MARY can't do a single thing for me

Don't be afraid,Dear Elsie

Perhaps if you think about this in a different way you might realize how much you need to have Our Blessed Mother in your life as well.

Here is a couple of beautiful quotes that might help you see this?

”Let those who think that the Church pays too much attention to Mary give heed to the fact that Our Blessed Lord Himself gave ten times as much of His life to her as He gave to His Apostles.”- Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen

"Let us not imagine that we obscure the glory of the Son by the great praise we lavish on the Mother; for the more she is honored, the greater is the glory of her Son. There can be no doubt that whatever we say in praise of the Mother gives equal praise to the Son." -Saint Bernard of Clairvaux

“Think of what the Saints have done for their neighbor because they loved God. But what Saint's love for God can match Mary's? She loved Him more in the first moment of her existence than all the Saints and angels ever loved Him or will love Him. Our Lady herself revealed to Sister Mary Crucified that the fire of her love was most extreme. If Heaven and earth were placed in it, they would be instantly consumed. And the ardors of the seraphim, compared with it, are like cool breezes. Just as there is not one among all the Blessed who loves God as Mary does, so there is no one, after God, who loves us as much as this most loving Mother does. Furthermore, if we heaped together all the love that mothers have for their children, all the love of husbands and wives, all the love of all the angels and Saints for their clients, it could never equal Mary's love for even a single soul.”--Saint Alphonsus Ligouri

590 posted on 12/12/2012 11:41:02 AM PST by stfassisi ((The greatest gift God gives us is that of overcoming self"-St Francis Assisi)))
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To: metmom
Don't you know that Luther is responsible for all the evil in the world that happened even BEFORE he was born?

And, according to MORMON geneological sources; his bloodline continued on down to George Bush; thus HIS responsibilty for ALL bad things happening now!

591 posted on 12/12/2012 11:42:52 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Dutchgirl
I was reading an article in Scientific American about Chimerian cells.

Now THERE is a publication that has slithered from the Right to the Left in the last few decades!

592 posted on 12/12/2012 11:45:10 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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593 posted on 12/12/2012 11:57:37 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: stfassisi
Perhaps if you think about this in a different way you might realize how much you need to have Our Blessed Mother in your life as well.

Other than 3 sycophant quotations; what OTHER evidence do you have that I 'need' her?

594 posted on 12/12/2012 11:59:39 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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595 posted on 12/12/2012 12:01:54 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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596 posted on 12/12/2012 12:03:15 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: annalex
>>Contemplation of all-holy Mary and her divine Child is the best Christian formation you can get.<<

LOL Catholics don’t so why should I? From what I see Catholics contemplate the teachings of the RCC and twist scripture to fit. I would suggest that you put off the blinders of the RCC and study scripture. The cult of the RCC blinds to the truth of scripture.

597 posted on 12/12/2012 12:18:12 PM PST by CynicalBear
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To: metmom
>>Don't forget that that is also a tacit admission that Catholics believe in election.<<

LOL I hadn’t even caught that but you’re right. The double speak is amazing.

598 posted on 12/12/2012 12:20:24 PM PST by CynicalBear
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To: metmom

Catholicism may dominate the last seven years I’m thinking.


599 posted on 12/12/2012 12:22:54 PM PST by CynicalBear
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To: annalex

Getting a little personal there annalex? I sense frustration. Are you seeing truth and fear it?


600 posted on 12/12/2012 12:36:57 PM PST by CynicalBear
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