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To: RobbyS
We assign to Mary the qualities of a Glorified Body, which is to say what we all may hope to be after the Resurrection, and virtues of soul unsurpassed by any other saint. But an infinite gulf separates her from her creator. Lucifer sought to climb to equality and fell into darkness; Mary raises her hands and basks in the Light.

proof of this please...that is NOT what Jesus said

    Mar 3:33   And he answered them, saying, Who is my mother, or my brethren?

     Mar 3:34   And he looked round about on them which sat about him, and said, Behold my mother and my brethren!   

  Mar 3:35   For whosoever shall do the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother.

193 posted on 12/29/2002 10:12:59 PM PST by RnMomof7
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To: RnMomof7
And what does he say? Simply That the claims of one's natural family--and in the middle eastern world they are and always have been FAR stronger than in our Anglo-Saxon world--are not as important as the claims of our brotherhood, the Church. But you avoid the real point, which is that we do not, as you claim, make Mary a goddess. As to the Bible, the first two chapters of Luke might be headed" Mary," because they clearly show what her place is in creation: the mother of My Lord. We single her out as the first among us simply because God has. Who is Abraham or Moses compared with this humble maiden?
199 posted on 12/29/2002 10:33:39 PM PST by RobbyS
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