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To: SoothingDave
You know. It's in Luke. The angel greets Mary as "full of grace." At least he does in the Vulgate. Protestants tend to mistranslate this one.

And the Vulgate is your personal Bible? (Also in Douay Rheims) How many "Catholic Approved" Bibles do the same? And Stephen?

Acts 6:
[8] And Stephen, full of grace and power, did great wonders and signs among the people.

47,169 posted on 04/17/2003 10:33:16 AM PDT by OLD REGGIE (I am a cult of one? UNITARJEWMIAN)
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To: OLD REGGIE
Acts 6: [8] And Stephen, full of grace and power, did great wonders and signs among the people.

Ouch! I like this one.

47,170 posted on 04/17/2003 10:41:14 AM PDT by biblewonk (Spose to be a Chrissssstian)
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To: OLD REGGIE; SoothingDave; angelo
Acts 6: [8] And Stephen, full of grace and power, did great wonders and signs among the people.

But...but...that FULL OF GRACE can't mean the same as the OTHER FULL OF GRACE, for it was not speaking of the one we pray to.

BigMack

47,171 posted on 04/17/2003 10:42:22 AM PDT by PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain
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To: OLD REGGIE
Acts 6:
[8] And Stephen, full of grace and power, did great wonders and signs among the people

So is it all right to start praying to Stephen now?

JH :-)

47,172 posted on 04/17/2003 10:42:35 AM PDT by JHavard (You don't know what you don't know)
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To: OLD REGGIE
Do you doubt that Stephen was full of grace at this point?

The importance is not that Mary was made full of grace, it is that she was this way before Jesus was even sacrificed. She was the first to be saved.

Nowadays, any newly-baptised Christian is full of grace. Likewise any Catholic as he emerges from Confession.

SD

47,174 posted on 04/17/2003 10:45:17 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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