So tell me, did Mary get a say in being impregnated? Because sometimes that part of the story just reads like get gets told that she'll be getting pregnant now, and, well, sure, she does say later on, "Okay, let it be so," that part of her response seems pretty inconsequential given the fact...
Is The Fifth Element a foreshadowing of the Second Coming?
In The Fifth Element, The Ultimate Evil intents to destroy all life in the Universe and only The Fifth Element can stop it.
The Fifth Element is a French Sci-fi movie from 1997.
I found an interesting article from nearly a...
MARY HAD A LITTLE LAMB…
Did you ever wonder where the Baby Jesus was before He arrived on Earth nearly 2000 years ago?
He was there. He was a pre-existing spiritual Person of the Tri-Une God, The Godhead. There from eternity past. God's prophet Micah let us know:
"..From you (Bethlehem), ONE...
"The Roman Pontiffs, favoring such types of popular devotion, have often crowned, either in their own persons, or through representatives, images of the Virgin Mother of God which were already outstanding by reason of public veneration."
This quote is from Pope Pius XII's proclamation making...
How Marian are you in your Catholicism? I'll give my testimony later in the thread if it happens to be a active thread.
Do you walk with her, talk to her, venerate her and bless her or do you have a hard time embracing her as your mother?
Please share your life with Mary with OBOB or for some...
Hey folks. I was praying Vespers tonight and meditating on an Icon of the nativity and had some thoughts. I wrote them up and figured I'd share here. I pray some of you find it edifying, and if you find it heretical, let me know so I can be corrected of my errors!
An Iconic Meditation on the...
There is just no way to get around it, we all came from a mother. Science has not yet done away with the hosting and carrying an average fetus for nine months where a spiritual bond takes place between mother and child. Truly, Mom’s can claim “bones of my bones and flesh of my flesh”. Mother’s...
I want to know why the word is used so much to refer to what most other denominations would call the Virgin Mary. Theokos, yes, I understand all of the theology. But that's not what I want to know. It's more of a linguistic or language question. I want to know how that word became so popular it...
Close to the very heart of the Christian story is a woman. She is integrally involved in the birth of Jesus, in a way that leaves the rest of us wondering what it must be like to be so close. She is personally involved in the events at Calvary, and is one of a few people addressed personally...
In principle God created His Wisdom.
To His Wisdom He gave a Face: the Theotokos
In the Face and Body of the Theotokos He became Son.
With this simple description one can understand how the Theotokos (Virgin Mary) is present inside the hypostatic Trinity.
The liaison among all is due by the...
”There is no one, O Most Holy Mary, who can know God except through thee; no one who can be saved or redeemed but through thee, O Mother of God; no one who can be delivered from dangers but through thee, O Virgin Mother; no one who obtains mercy but through thee, O Filled-With-All-Grace!”...
Do Catholics believe this?
I encountered some Catholics on another discussion forum who said that it would have been. Since the Bible describes marriage as sacred and having congress within it to be non-sinful-I don't get it.
To me it would have made no difference since I consider the conception immaculate in either case. Perhaps it is the definition of what the word immaculate means to many.
I was taught that immaculate conception in relation to Jesus meant that Adamic sin was not permitted to be part of his DNA. In...
As for me, I'm officially a Protestant but was raised a Catholic but I see Mary as the greatest of the saints because she bore God in the person of Jesus Christ. She raised Him and suffered with Him at the cross.I believe it is not wrong to pray to Mary as long as we praise God in that prayer as...
This might be a bad title for the thread, because what I am about to discuss may in fact be very important to people's prayer lives and thus may not be "light" in the sense of a light beer or something that is less substantial. It may be just as substantial or more substantial. I was just...