Mary was amazing

[ronny]

I have grown up in the protestant faith and been taught to see roman catholics as my brothers and sisters in christ. (obviously there are nominal believers in all walks of christianity though).
Somethings, I think about the fact that as protestants, we pay much less attention to Mary than catholics. in fact because of catholics to a large extent.
But I have always felt she gets rather over looked as a result with regard to weight of teaching given on her etc.
This is the sort of Mary ignorance that this thought of mine came in to.

I was playing with my wee 5 month boy saying to him "are you the most wonderful boy in the world?" when I was struck by the absurdity of the question. sure it feels to me that might be the case but come on, there are 7 billion people alive, not great chances that the one who is the most wonderful is in my longe no? I mean, dont you feel your kid surely more wonderful that mine?

My mind then traveled back a couple of thousand years to Mary and her saying "are you the most wonderful boy in the world?" to Jesus.
Yes
Yes he is.
wowsers.
Then I thought man I am glad that my boy doesnt have such expectation on him or I could not cope. How could I go to work in the morning worrying about how I was treating the most wonderful boy in the world. How could I relax at night thinking maybe I should be praying, maybe I should be out leafleting for him. What if his destiny depends on my parenting!?
oh my
I might break the universe
can I trust God in such a circumstance?
It makes me think of my five month old "thank you for my wee boy who I feel safe in loving with all my heart and not wondering if its enough.
I can trust you in that God. Youre a good Father God."

Mary's reaction is very different. She says "all generations will call me blessed" and "My soul exalts the Lord, And my spirit has rejoiced in God my Savior."

Wow she really trusted God
She was happy. very happy.
Now this strikes me as amazing. Beyond what I could conceive of in my own faith.
Maybe youre thinking I'm an idiot and you would love to raise Jesus.
But I struggle to know how I would cope if my son was even an amazing athlete. never mind it was said of him "He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High; and the Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David; and He will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and His kingdom will have no end."

I think Mary is amazing
She truly is blessed of God to have such a reaction I think.

Anyway, Just wanted to share my musings. feel free to comment.
and feel free to tell me your musings on Mary, be they from a catholic or protestant back ground
thanks

 

[Noxot]

she must have been a woman with great humility and faith. I think I would have a heart attack if Jesus was my kid. it must have been so weird for mary to have him in her womb, I think I would feel constantly overwhelmed.

but spiritually we do give birth to Christ, if only we could truly comprehend that, we ought to feel like mary did I think.

to me mary is a type for the church.

 

[Ecclectic79]

She is amazing. I think what happened is she got overlooked in the sense that she didn't do any public discourse or preaching that ended up written down (in part I'm sure because of the gender customs of the time, even the gender customs that continued under Christ).

That said though, and shockingly I'll even say this as a Catholic, there's still a big difference between having reverence for her role - let alone that she was clean enough morally to bear the seed of God - vs. making petitionary prayer to her or trusting an apparition that makes increasingly outlandish (and biblically baseless) authoritative demands while claiming her name.

 

[ChristOurCaptain]

Mary IS amazing
The RCC has put her up on a piedestal where she does not belong, and in response, much of mainstream protestantism has been keeping itself busy constantly saying that she's nothing special

Both approaches are wrong.

 

[coons786c]

Jesus is even more Amazing for dying for our Sins, Mary did not die for our sins.

 

[ChristOurCaptain]

Jesus is even more Amazing for dying for our Sins, Mary did not die for our sins.

No one has disputed that Jesus is even more amazing than ANYONE. Neither has anyone claimed that Mary died for our sins.
But thank you for illustrating the point I made

 

[Adaephon]

Mary is awesome, our Champion-Leader and the sort of prototypical Christian we should all strive to be!

O Virgin pure, immaculate/ O Lady Theotokos
O Virgin Mother, Queen of all/ and fleece which is all dewy
More radiant than the rays of sun/ and higher than the heavens
Delight of virgin choruses/ superior to Angels.
Much brighter than the firmament/ and purer than the sun's light
More holy than the multitude/ of all the heav'nly armies.
Rejoice, O Unwedded Bride!

http://youtube.com/WkqZbFQb0O0

 

[ChristOurCaptain]

Mary is awesome, our Champion-Leader and the sort of prototypical Christian we should all strive to be!

O Virgin pure, immaculate/ O Lady Theotokos
O Virgin Mother, Queen of all/ and fleece which is all dewy
More radiant than the rays of sun/ and higher than the heavens
Delight of virgin choruses/ superior to Angels.
Much brighter than the firmament/ and purer than the sun's light
More holy than the multitude/ of all the heav'nly armies.
Rejoice, O Unwedded Bride!

http://youtube.com/WkqZbFQb0O0

And this is a very good example of the first part of the problem I pointed out in my post.

 

[Adaephon]

And this is a very good example of the first part of the problem I pointed out in my post.

And this is a very good example of the second part of the problem you pointed out in your post.

 

[ebia]

Mary is awesome, our Champion-Leader and the sort of prototypical Christian we should all strive to be!

The difficulty with that approach is that we are told very, very little about her. So people create an image of what they think is a perfect Christian, impose that on Mary, and then attempt to emulate what was originally mostly a product of their imagination.

 

[ChristOurCaptain]

And this is a very good example of the second part of the problem you pointed out in your post.

No, it isn't. Mary was clearly special. But what you posted is more similar to worship than to simple admiration.

 

[Adaephon]

No, it isn't. Mary was clearly special. But what you posted is more similar to worship than to simple admiration.

Well, I'm glad you at least agree it WASNT worship. That's progress, for this forum.