“If Mary is not part of your spirituality then you have not correctly understood who Jesus is and the immense significance it is that God chose to become a human person, ‘born of a woman’!” (Gal 4:4).
Many Catholics struggle with devotion to Our Lady and the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception. Paul helps us understand why she is crucial to our understanding of who Christ is.
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Devotion to Mary goes back to ancient times; the prayer, “We Fly to Thy Patronage O Holy Mother of God”, which I use to say every day at school, was found written on the walls of the catacombs so we know that has been prayed, from at least 250AD. That’s more than a hundred years before the New Testament was formally declared as part of the canon of Scripture.
Now if you think you have ‘a problem with Mary’, can I respectfully suggest to you that you really are having ‘a problem with Jesus’? If Mary is not part of your spirituality then you have not correctly understood who Jesus is and the immense significance it is that God chooses to become a human person, ‘born of a woman’! (Gal 4:4). God cannot be made in the human flesh from anything that is a part of sin, so Mary has to be sinless! If you disagree, then can I put it to you that you are not understanding the truth of who Jesus is!
Did you ever stop to think that Jesus is the only one who could choose and create His mother! If you could choose and create your mother – would you preserve her free from sin? Of course, you would but that is an absurd concept! But not for Jesus! Jesus can, and, in fact, did just that…preserved His Mother free from sin in view of the merits of His Cross.
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