The Power of Mary

[Pani_Rose]

I find the whole aspect of this article intersting. Moreover, years ago - guess in the 80s, I read a book titled The Spirit And The Bride Say Come The author is the book is alluding me, although he is a well know priest, but he wrote on how the Holy Spirit and Mary will draw the Church to Christ. That Mary’s role will become more evident as the years pass, because she is always working with the Holy Spirit to draw people to her Son.

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[Della]

What I find so encouraging is the moving away from all but denouncing Mary amongst Evangelicals to an appreciation of her role in our redemption. I’ve known many on the Evangelical side who scoured the NT for verses to “prove” that Mary was nothing but a nuisance to her Son–an interfering mother who didn’t know her “place.” I’m so glad to see that trend being left behind, as it ought to be.

And I think Gibson’s “The Passion of the Christ” had a lot to do with changing attitudes. For the first time people saw a Mary that wasn’t just posing for a stained-glass window, but whose whole heart, mind and soul was involved in the life and mission of her Son and Savior.

As a Catholic, I am hoping this fresh understanding of Mary among Evangelicals will bring them closer to the truths of the Church and thus to reconciliation–if not by denominations, at least by individuals whose eyes have been opened to Mary’s real power–her ongoing intercession and aid as the Mother of Christians.

 

[Gottle_of_Geer]

I find the whole aspect of this article intersting. Moreover, years ago - guess in the 80s, I read a book titled The Spirit And The Bride Say Come The author is the book is alluding me, although he is a well know priest, but he wrote on how the Holy Spirit and Mary will draw the Church to Christ. That Mary’s role will become more evident as the years pass, because she is always working with the Holy Spirit to draw people to her Son.

freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061126/NEWS05/611260589

**But - “Mary is the Way” is a phrase is not found or implied in Scripture. However, Scripture does show us Jesus saying “I am the Way, the Truth and the Life”. **​

In any case, it is the Father Who draws men to Christ (John 6) - “No one can come to Me unless the Father draw him”. God the Father seems to be largely forgotten - if He were not, Mary might not be given functions which belong to Him or to the Holy Spirit. This misattribution of functions is one of the things in Catholic Mariology that bothers Evangelicals - or to state the same thing the other way about, they are bothered by the way in which what Scripture appropriates to this or that Divine Person, is in Catholicism engrossed by Mary. IMHO, this is an imbalance we badly need to correct, if our articulation of the Faith is to be properly Christian. Otherwise, we doom ourselves - quite needlessly - to a lop-sided & un-Biblical articulation of how God acts in our behalf. **
Interesting article though ** ##

 

[Pani_Rose]

Now I never once said that Mary is the way. It is all through the power of Jesus and his Holy Spirit. If anything it is the Holy Spirit.
However, God acts as he wills.

As a convert to the Eastern Catholic Church from Southern Baptist, I totally understand the fear and frustration. And I agree, that there are many places where it is out of balance.

Though there are some differences between EC understanding & Orthodox as this is an Antiochean Orthodox site, it is a very good explantion of the Eastern devotion to Mary as Theotokos, along with why and how it all came to be.
antiochian.org/1076

 

[SORROWS]

**But - “Mary is the Way” is a phrase is not found or implied in Scripture. However, Scripture does show us Jesus saying “I am the Way, the Truth and the Life”. **​

In any case, it is the Father Who draws men to Christ (John 6) - “No one can come to Me unless the Father draw him”. God the Father seems to be largely forgotten - if He were not, Mary might not be given functions which belong to Him or to the Holy Spirit. This misattribution of functions is one of the things in Catholic Mariology that bothers Evangelicals - or to state the same thing the other way about, they are bothered by the way in which what Scripture appropriates to this or that Divine Person, is in Catholicism engrossed by Mary. IMHO, this is an imbalance we badly need to correct, if our articulation of the Faith is to be properly Christian. Otherwise, we doom ourselves - quite needlessly - to a lop-sided & un-Biblical articulation of how God acts in our behalf. **
Interesting article though ** ##

Another anti-Mary post from tiresome you.
I’m not going to even bother refuting how ridiculous all this is. What does Evangelicals have to do with the Power of Mary in the Spirituality board??
And your opinion? Okay I said I wouldn’t bother. :yawn: