Our Lady and her Immaculate
Conception is central to our salvation, because just as Our Blessed Lord
inherited His humanity -- His Jewish humanity -- through
her, and thus could in Himself fulfill all the previous Covenants that God
had made with the Patriarchs (the first Covenant being with all Creation, of
course, and the second with Adam and Eve, and so on), over time creating,
fashioning, the Jewish People in the process, preparing the way for His
Incarnation -- so we, through our participation in the Incarnartion via the
Most Holy Eucharist (itself the New
Testament, New Covenant, not the 27 books of the Christian Bible), receive His
Divinized Humanity. Being Incarnated ourselves in
the Incarnation now, with our natures changed, is the core of the Faith, and it
is something all Protestantism denies -- and denied from the very beginning.
And so
our Blessed Mother's Immaculate Conception is the first step in the Incarnation
of the Second Person of the Most Holy Trinity, and
our own incarnation in Him, we ourselves via the Most Holy Eucharist having
Jewish blood in our arteries along with His Divinized Nature, with the Blessed
Mother truly being OUR Mother
now.
ALL OF THIS the Modernists
and their tiresome, quasi-Lutheran, (cretinous, actually), teaching denies.
Their understanding of what the Faith is is defective, based as they do base it
on Evolution, our evolution in "understanding" and even "God's
evolution". This is the unholy seed Protestantism bequeated them when it
started, and that has since grown hideous, and it is what they want to foist on
the Catholic Church, and what we Trad/Orthodox/Conservative Catholics
repudiate.
There can
be no "middle ground" with the Modernists.
RC
"For whom he foreknew, he also predestinated to be made conformable to the image of his Son; that he might be the firstborn amongst many brethren." [Romans 8, 29]
ReplyDeleteBring your thought to the end: the Holy Virgin as our Mother, the Holy Church, gives birth to brothers (and sisters), so that Jesus Christ, her firstborn son, would have many brothers (and sisters). This is one and the same Mother: She gives birth only to the Sons of God (and such Daughters). Brotherhood implies unity as to the nature of the firstborn and the rest of the siblings. The Divine Mother cannot give birth once to the Son of God, and then only to human sons (and daughters). She conceives, gives birth and raises us, Sons of God (and Daughters of God) as our Mother Holy Church. That is why Saint Paul uses plural form in his Epistle to Romans [chapter 8], quote:
[14] "For whosoever are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. [15] For you have not received the spirit of bondage again in fear; but you have received the spirit of adoption of sons, whereby we cry: Abba (Father).
[16] For the Spirit himself giveth testimony to our spirit, that we are the sons of God. [17] And if sons, heirs also; heirs indeed of God, and joint heirs with Christ: yet so, if we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified with him. [18] For I reckon that the sufferings of this time are not worthy to be compared with the glory to come, that shall be revealed in us. [19] For the expectation of the creature waiteth for the revelation of the sons of God."
[21] "Because the creature also itself shall be delivered from the servitude of corruption, into the liberty of the glory of the children of God."
The plural begins with two: If Jesus Christ is the first-born son, then the second son having the glory of God will be the second Comforter, the Paraclete. Our Mother the Holy Church, will bring Him into the world in the Roman Catholic church, which is why Saint Paul wrote about the Sons of God in the Epistle to the Romans.
Oct. 15, feast of Saint Teresa of Avila