My friend says he receives Mary in the Eucharist?

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Yes, that is true. Twins are individual persons.

My point was an 89 year old man might hear something, try to explain it and it not come out just correctly or the way they meant to say it. I have worked with elderly for many, many years and sometimes they think they are saying something but it isn’t quite what they meant.

I think we would also be good to hear his comments in the context that he is saying them, which would make it easier to add correction but that is not possible. We can only go by the OP comment.
 
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MagdalenaRita said:
Yes, that is true. Twins are individual persons.

My point was an 89 year old man might hear something, try to explain it and it not come out just correctly or the way they meant to say it. I have worked with elderly for many years and sometimes they think they are saying something but it isn’t quite what they meant.
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Yes. Actually, no matter what someone’s age, it is better to ask them to clarify what they are saying than to jump on them about a mistake. Perhaps it is we that misunderstood! Very true!!

It is also true, however, that neither the very young nor the very old like to be patronized. When it comes to these great mysteries, it isn’t those who are in their academic prime who always understand things best. We ought to instruct each other and be willing to both admonish and be admonished.
 
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Pray for him. There are serious heresies that begin with elevation of Mary beyond her blessed and revered role. People who begin to think of Mary as another member of the Godhead, as a deity. Can you find out where he has come across these ideas? Perhaps we can help with specifics if we know what “teachers” he is following.
 
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it isn’t those who are in their academic prime who always understand things best. We ought to instruct each other and be willing to both admonish and be admonished.
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I certainly agree with that.
 
If he is spreading this false teaching to others in your parish, your pastor needs to be made aware.
 
I didn’t see where he said she was another member of the Godhead as a deity. It sounds more like a he trying to explain a mother and son relationship through blood.
 
Thanks everyone. I’m trying to read all the replies, but it’s getting later where I am, and I’m going to bed. Thanks again.
 
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My only thought is could he be thinking about DNA and that scientists are now realizing that there are things mothers and their children share in genetics. Sometimes it is difficult for the elderly to express themselves correctly. Just a thought.
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My thought as well.
 
Is he a Palmarian? Only Palmarians believe this.
Jesus got His DNA from Mary, but it’s Jesus’ Body and not Mary’s. That too, Mary isn’t God. The only perfect sacrifice was done by our High Priest Jesus Christ who was also the victim, the perfect Paschal Lamb. The Theotokos was none of these things.
 
`He’s 89! He loves his Lord’s mother with a passion. I think the Lord will look kindly on him at judgement. Be kind to him, his viewpoint isn’t going to cause a worldwide schism or introduce a new heresy into the deposit of faith. His little red choo choo is chugging around the bend at his age. Smile and wish him blessings and all kindness.
 
Mary is a co-redemtrix (it isn’t dogma) because of her sufferings at the foot of the cross. Her body and blood made up that of Jesus’s in a certain way and she also gave up her son in accordance with the will of God.
 
Seems to me that by his logic the last time I punched a guy in the face I also punched his mom in the face because she carried him in the womb for 9 months. Lol. That was years ago btw
 
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I just wanted to say I’ve never heard it explained this way before. Quite profound!

Thanks for sharing 🙂
 
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Interesting thought…
  1. “Do this in remembrance of me” ( Lk 22:19). In the “memorial” of Calvary all that Christ accomplished by his passion and his death is present. Consequently all that Christ did with regard to his Mother for our sake is also present. To her he gave the beloved disciple and, in him, each of us: “Behold, your Son!”. To each of us he also says: “Behold your mother!” (cf. Jn 19: 26-27).
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Experiencing the memorial of Christ’s death in the Eucharist also means continually receiving this gift. It means accepting – like John – the one who is given to us anew as our Mother. It also means taking on a commitment to be conformed to Christ, putting ourselves at the school of his Mother and allowing her to accompany us. Mary is present, with the Church and as the Mother of the Church, at each of our celebrations of the Eucharist. If the Church and the Eucharist are inseparably united, the same ought to be said of Mary and the Eucharist. This is one reason why, since ancient times, the commemoration of Mary has always been part of the Eucharistic celebrations of the Churches of East and West.
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Read all of chapter six…it’s pretty good…

http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/s...-ii_enc_20030417_ecclesia_eucharistia_en.html
 
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Nobody really INTENDS to start a schism or a heresy. Even Arius and Luther at first only wanted to persuade the Church to adopt what they saw as the correct view of things.

Of course they then gathered followers, got puffed up with vanity and pride and stubbornness and caused untold damage to their own souls and those of others.

Being 89 does not give him a free pass, unless his mental faculties are quite far gone. Which does not always happen - two of my grandparents lived to a similar age as his and both were mentally very sharp right to the end.
 
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None of which means that one receives her in the Eucharist, or anything close. And I think ‘co-redemptrix’ has not been proclaimed dogma specifically to avoid confusions such as this gentleman seems to have.
 
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This thread has really jumped the shark. A random 89-year-old man at a parish who loves Mary and has some odd ways of expressing that is hardly trying to start a “schism” or a “heresy”. I’m not reading where he is a priest, deacon, or ministry leader trying to gather followers and preaching to them. If you decided every oldster with some unusual personal revelation or thought was trying to start a heresy and needed a talking-to from the priest, he’d be spending a couple hours a week dealing with that. I once spent 2 hours on a bus with a little old Catholic lady who described to me in detail how Jesus personally appeared to her in a dream. You smile, nod and listen.
 
Our DNA is 99.9% identical to every other human, but each human being is unique as a result of that 0.1% or less difference, and that includes Jesus. Even identical twins are epigenetically unique.
The Mother of God is not physically present in the Eucharist, nor does her flesh and blood have any power to give eternal life. She is a creature.
 
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