Virgin Mary
| When it comes to the Catholic Church's instructing on Mary, a good deal of of our non-Catholic brothers and sisters find the position Catholics hold in regards to Mary difficult to accept. Namely, the Immaculate Conception, Mary as "Mother of God", and the Assumption of Mary into Heaven and her Coronation as Queen. However, this difficultness mainly stems from a lack of understanding. The Catholic Church with resolute determination believes that Mary was immaculately conceived. Since God rejects all sin, and the intent of Christ's incarnation was to release man from the comprehend of Satan, it was not suitable that our redeemer be personally related with sin. This means that not similar to the basi sin that we as people inherit at the moment of conception, Mary was immune from this sin, and in like manner, was not subject to sin allround her life. In Luke 1:28, The Angel Gabriel addresses Mary "Hail, full of grace!" The fullness of grace would not have been hers, had she any stain of sin. In the Apostolic Constitution by Pope Pius IX on the Immaculate Conception, he iterates this teaching: "Above all creatures did God so loved her that veritably in her was the Father well pleased with singular delight. Therefore, far above all the angels and all the saints so marvelously did God endow her with the abundance of all heavenly gifts poured from the treasury of his divinity that this mother, ever utterly free of all stain of sin, all reasonable and perfect, would possess that fullness of holy innocence and sanctity than which, beneath God, one can not even imagine anything greater, and which, outside of God, no mind may succeed in comprehending fully." The Catholic Church commemorates Mary's Immaculate Conception on December 8th of each year. As we read the gospels, we see unmistakably that Mary is the Mother of Jesus. In the Angel Gabriel's greeting to Mary, he confirms that she will bear the Son of God. In the profession of faith we recite at each Sunday Mass, we proclaim that Jesus is the second person of the Trinity, that He is "true God from unfeigned God". Therefore, if Jesus is God, we will have to gather that Mary, the one who gave birth to, and nurtured Jesus, is the mother of God who became Man - Jesus. There is no other humane to whom Jesus was as almost and intimately connected, as His Mother, Mary. The Catholic Church relies to a considerable degree on sacred tradition, as passed down from the apostles, and manifested in the instructing authority of the Church. The assumption of Mary is one system of belief of the Church that has emerged from apostolic tradition, rather than directly from scripture. It is not officially declared whether or not Mary underwent humane death. However, what the Church does officially pronounce is that after the course of her earthly life, Mary was assumed body and soul into heaven by the power of God. The Church's faith that Mary's soul was utterly sinless gives us selfconfidence that she went directly to God. At the same time, her body was not subject to corruption, as our humane bodies distinctively are. There is biblical history of one who is so close to God, being assumed body and soul into heaven. In the Old Testament, we see that Elijah was assumed into heaven in a whirlwind. (2 Kings 2:11). Similarly we read in Hebrews 11:5, "By faith Enoch was taken up so that he would not see death; and he was not found because God took him up; for he received the witness that before his being taken up he was delighting to God." Mary was even closer to God than these two biblical figures, and accordingly this particular privilege of bodily assumption was granted to her. The feast of Mary's Assumption is celebrated on August 15th of each year. Mary's body has been glorified in heaven and she has been given an crucial role near her Son as Queen of Heaven and Earth. Mary is entitled "queen" because she is the Mother of Jesus, who is veritably a King of kings. With the queenship Mary has been given by her Son, Mary offers abiding mercy and compassion, interceding for all of God's children. In the book of Revelation 12:1, Mary's status as queen is reflected, "and a outstanding portent appeared in heaven, a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon beneath her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars." The feast of Mary's queenship is celebrated on August 22nd of each year. Mary has been given an extraordinary role in the history of salvation. In response to her particular status, Catholics give Mary unequaled wonderment and respect, dandier than any other saint. This is a tradition oftentimes misunderstood by non-Catholics. The honor we give to Mary is not to be equated to the worship and praise we give only to Almighty God. However, Mary must not be disregarded, as she offers a heap of graces, and mercy to all who call upon her intercession.
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