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5 days ago · Q: Do Catholics worship Mary? A: According to Catholic teaching, it is forbidden to worship any creature, and Mary is created by God — “For no creature could ever be counted as equal with the Incarnate Word and Redeemer” (“Lumen Gentium,” No. 62).
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I understand how Mary’s titles of Mediatrix and Co-Redemptrix remain one of the sorest points in Evangelical – Catholic discussions. A Protestant who has heard of these titles will use them as a big stick with which to beat Catholics, and it is important to know how best to engage the discussion. For genuine dialogue, it is vital to listen to and u...
Instead of wading into an argument about Mary being Mediatrix and Co-Redemptrix, it is useful to discuss the principle and possibility of humans cooperating with God in the work of redemption. Protestants have a deeply ingrained resistance to the idea that we can cooperate with God for our redemption at all. In their desire to maintain the doctrine...
Once an Evangelical admits that cooperation with God is not only possible, but necessary, it opens up the idea that there is a purpose for our co-working with God. We cooperate with God for the salvation of the world. Here is another point where the Evangelical critic can connect. The Evangelical believes that each one of us has a new mission in li...
An Evangelical may accept this in theory, but still may find it difficult to understand how Mary can be called a “co-redemptrix.” It is worthwhile going back to the mysterious words of St. Paul. In an astounding phrase, St. Paul says that his sharing in Christ’s sufferings is actually effective. It completes “what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions...
The Evangelical may accept Mary as vital for the Incarnation and therefore the Redemption but may wonder why we insist that she has a continuing redemptive and mediatory role. We believe this because Mary’s role was not once and done. Mary did not conceive and bear Jesus, then just disappear. If her action had meaning, then it was as a continuing r...
Feb 27, 2019 · I suspect that Oliver subscribed to a thesis recently proposed by Fred Bahnson: “The more urgent our ecological crisis becomes, the slower our art must proceed.” Mary Oliver died on the feast of Saint Anthony, the desert monk revered for his insistence that the words of God were ever before him in the nature of all created things.
Apr 8, 2021 · Oliver aims for the Catholic concept of living life with purpose — accepting the varieties of mystery, and finding God through a purposeful, love-centric life. To quote Eliot from The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism , “To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man ...
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Sep 29, 2020 · 1. How is viewing Mary as more “immaculate” and righteous than the rest of us human creatures not deifying her? 2. What are the Biblical grounds for the Catholic belief that Mary lived as righteously as Jesus did? 3. Even if God did create Mary without inclination to sin, why do Catholics esteem her for something He did?
May 7, 2014 · In the many years since 431, Mary has come to occupy a powerful place in Roman Catholic spirituality. She has many faces and innumerable names, among them Our Lady of Guadalupe, She Who Ripens the Wheat, Queen of Angels, and the Light Cloud of Heavenly Rain.
May 5, 2015 · Think of famous Catholic or nearly Catholic poets (Eliot and Donne were Anglicans). These four come immediately to mind. But another favorite of the Jesuits, I have learned, is the Pulitzer...
