Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Pastimes : Ask God -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Emile Vidrine who wrote (37026)	4/29/2004 1:33:41 AM
From: Emile Vidrine	Respond to of 39621

MARY AND THE CHURCH--FOR NINE MONTHS MARY BECOMES THE HOLY TEMPLE OF GOD. (A little help for McRitchie's anti-Catholic bigotry.) The Son of God is the firstborn of many brothers. Although by nature he is the only-begotten, by grace he has joined many to himself and made them one with him. For to those who receive him he has given the power to become the sons of God. He became the sopn of man and made many men sons of God, uniting them to hemself by his love and power, so that they became as one. In themselves they are many be reason of their human descent, but in him they are one by divine rebirth. The whhole Christ and the unique Christ--the body and the head--are one: one because born of the same God in ehaven, and of the same mother on earth. They are many sons, yet one son. Head and memebers are one son, yet many sons; in the same way, Mary and the Church are one mother, yet more than one mother, one vergin, het more than one virgin. Both are mothers, both are virgins. Each conceives of the same Spirit, without consequences. Each gives birth to a childof God The Fahter, without sin. Without any sin, Mary gave birth to Christ the head for the sake of his body. By the forgiveness of every sin, the Church gave birth to the body, for the sake of its head. Each is Christ's mother, but neither gives birth to the whole Christ without the cooperation of the other. In the inspired Scriptures, what is said in a universal sense of the virgin mother, the Church, is understood in an individual sense of the Virgin Mary, and what is said in a particular sense of the virgin mother Mary is rightly understood in a general sense of the virgin mother, the Church. When either is spoken of, the meaning can be understood of both, almost without qualification. In a way, every Christian is also believed to be a bride of God's Word, a mother of Christ, his daughter and sister, at once virginal and fruitful. These words are used in a universal sense of the Chruch, in special sense of Mary, in a particular sense of the individual Christian. They are used by God's Wisdom in person, the Word of the Father. This is why Scripture says: I will dwell in the inheritance of the Lord.. The Lord's inheritance is , in a general sense, the Church; in a special sense, Mary; in an individual sense, the Christian. Christ dwelt for nine months in the tabernacle of Mary's womb. He dwells until the end of the ages in the tabernacle of the Church's faith ( and in individual Christian hearts.) He will dwell for ever in the knowledge and love of each faithful soul. A sermon by the ancient saint, Isaaac of Stella