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To: Emile Vidrine who wrote (10176)	12/22/1997 2:31:00 PM
From: Emile Vidrine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 39621

Let us rejoice and worship Christ our saviour as we celebrate His birth. Let us also remember and honor His humble and God-chosen human mother who give him His humanity and nursed, nurtured and loved him into manhood through God's divine appointment. The virgin Mary has been maligned and dishonored in Protestant circles. They have neglected and abused her role in Jesus's salvation of mankind. Her womb truly became the temple and holy sanctuary where God's divine Son took on His humanity. She became the mother of the God-man Jesus. There is no parallel or equivalent in salvation history. This humble and virtuous little Israelite girl bore an unequaled affection for Christ that was both human and divine--her love for Jesus was complete. She was the first to love, to know and to recognize the Messiah by divine revelation from God. John leaped in his mother's womb for joy when he came into the presence of the divine sanctuary and its divine content, Jesus. When Elizabeth just heard Mary's salutation, she was filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the words from the Catholic Hail to Mary: "Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb. And whence is this to me, that the the mother of my Lord should come to me? For, lo, as soon as the voice of thy salutation sounded in mine ears, the babe leaped in my womb for joy" Luke 1:42-44 The Orthodox Christians call her the God-bearer--the Theotokos the mother of God. Since Jesus is fully God, Mary truly is the mother of the God-man Jesus. What can compare to the praise that Mary gives to God for the birth of Jesus: 46: And Mary said, My soul doth magnify the Lord, 47: And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour. 48: For he hath regarded the low estate of his handmaiden: for, behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed. 49: For he that is mighty hath done to me great things; and holy is his name. 50: And his mercy is on them that fear him from generation to generation. 51: He hath shewed strength with his arm; he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts. 52: He hath put down the mighty from their seats, and exalted them of low degree. 53: He hath filled the hungry with good things; and the rich he hath sent empty away. 54: He hath holpen his servant Israel, in remembrance of his mercy; 55: As he spake to our fathers, to Abraham, and to his seed for ever. God has truly fulfilled his promises to Abraham and to the true and believing Israel of God and brought forth their righteouness and the righteouness of all those who accept Him.