[CynicalBear]

>>Just to be clear: leaving aside the sarcasm, of course Mary is an embodiment of Israel's ideal of purity and the fruit and high point of the Nation of Israel.<<

mary was the purity and fruit and high point of the Nation of Israel? Not Christ as far as Catholics are concerned? Wow! I guess that’s all anyone needs to know about the apostasy of the Catholic religion.

[annalex]

Not Christ ...?

That's dense. Christ is both God and man. Mary the Mother of God is just human, and she gave us our Savior; in her the natural history of the Hebrew nation culminated.