Thoughts on Black Madonnas

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Black Madonnas are beautiful to me in what they signify. Perhaps those who are anti-Christ in their values have invented the “Black Mass,” in all its evil, but no one can ever do that with the Madonna as the Lord has already claimed this term for her in her abundance of grace.

Jesus is pure love and light in Him, and the darkness cannot be around Him, but God in his infinite mercy let Mary who is so full of grace be the pure womb in which we can become amazingly close to Jesus even with our imperfections, the darkness in us…it is easier to approach Him through her. The Black Madonna is a beautiful reflection of this. The apparent inversion of her image is not stolen by the dark side but simply another way of covering all of us, in our human weakness, with her graces. Every way you turn and look at her, she is still good and still crushes the serpent under her feet and still brings us to the Lord. That is a super abundance of grace!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Madonna_of_Częstochowa
 
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Black Madonnas are beautiful to me in what they signify. Perhaps those who are anti-Christ in their values have invented the “Black Mass,” in all its evil, but no one can ever do that with the Madonna as the Lord has already claimed this term for her in her abundance of grace.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Madonna_of_Częstochowa
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there is no connection whatever with the famous image in the Polish church referenced here, (which is blackened due to the action of age and atmosphere on the material used to paint it, not by design of the artist) and the Black Mass, dark side or any other evil cult. So I am glad you like this image, but do not understand the rest of your references. There is NO inversion of her image, dark side or anything else weird going on here.
 
I am perfectly aware of that and would never have thought any such thing. I am merely musing on the fact that Mary is so full of grace and loves to help bring us to her son. I was thinking “wow, some really evil people took the most holy mass and inverted it; that is so evil–but if they tried to do the same with Mary,they would be surprised that not only has she already taken the term they might have tried to use, but that Black Madonnas are often considered to reflect the down to earth and human side of Mary. They are a beautiful reminder that she can meet us exactly where we are and take us to Jesus. A reminder of God’s grace.” I thought this reflected well on God’s mercy and grace. I thought it was an example of Mary’s abundant grace too. It was totally speculative, just musing on the nature of Mary and her triumph over the serpent in a “what-if” situation.

I thought of all of this while using my rosary with Our Lady of Czestochowa on it.

I am extremely devoted to Mary and honestly am not sure how you thought my post implied what you wrote. It bothers me and I’m sorry if it came across how you thought
because I got hurt that anyone would think in could suggest something so messed up. Seriously? I love Mary she is my mother. What you wrote would be extremely offensive to me but again I take any blame if my original post looked that way. If you knew me you would know I would never suggest or even think that.
 
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