The Importance of the Blessed Virgin Mary, an article by David Solway, and a book by Carrie Gress titled "The Anti=Mary Exposed...."

An excellent article by David Solway at PJ Media reviewing the danger Feminism present to our civilization, focusing on a book by Carrie Gress, The Anti-Mary Exposed: Rescuing the Culture from Toxic Femininity, about demonic influence on women today, has prompted a lot of comments, with one Commentator wondering why so many Christians have such a negative attitude toward the Blessed Virgin Mary. I wrote the following in response.

Dear...,

As with "Mother_of_4_Original's response below, Protestants (the vast majority) "just don't get Mary."


The basic problem is they don't get the Covenants. Mary is integral to the establishment of the New Covenant while at the same time the fulfillment of all the old ones. When we partake of the Holy Eucharist, we take into ourselves the Real Presence of God, and that is necessary for Salvation (as in St. John, Chapter 6) – yet Protestants reject that dogma. At the Reformation, all the founding documents of the Reformed Churches rejected it. They may have kept some form of a "Lord's Supper" but denied Transubstantiation. But the central teaching of the Historical Church, East and West, is that the New Testament, the New Covenant, is the Holy Eucharist, and it is truly the Body and Blood of God. (1 Corinthians, 11:17 and following)


So therefore when we partake of the Holy Eucharist, we take on God's nature to a small extent, but it begins our transformation in Christ; the Greeks call it Theosis. It incorporates us into the great Covenants God made with the Patriarchs. We also take in some of His human nature, as well, which he received from His Mother –thus we become full biological heirs of the Covenants. (And thus one can see why the Jews and the Christians fell out early on -- the Jews obviously rejected the idea that just anybody could become a full heir of Abraham by baptism and then Holy Communion! But that's what the Christians asserted, hence the falling out. Protestants, on the other hand, miss out of all of this because of their strict rejection of the core idea of the entire Faith – Old and New Covenants.)


Anyway, Mary is thus the most important person to have ever lived: She's our Mother in Salvation, and literally our Mother, for we have the Salvation inheritance from Her through Her Son. She's the most important fully human person in herself; Jesus is both God and Man, with two Natures, fully both; but as one is a mother of a person and not merely a nature, so Mary is the Mother of God.


"Mother of God." Non-Catholic, non-Orthodox Christians don't get that, or they don't get the significance of what it means, that the Creator of All That Exists has a human Mother, God Himself nursed at her breast, took His very humanity from her. Learned to walk and talk from her. She was at His birth and at His death, the whole way. All they can say is "She's a human being and no different from any other human being."


That's a profound statement, incredible, really.


It's jaw-dropping. It's like missing half of the whole story! But there it is, the sad fruit of the Reformation. Ironically, Luther himself was quite devoted to Her. Protestant anti-Marianism didn't develop till a bit latter.

_An Préachán