There is never any danger that men will think too much of Mary, the danger is that they will think too little of Christ. Coldness toward Mary is a consequence of indifference to Christ. Any objections to calling her the "Mother of God" is fundamentally an objection to the Deity of Christ. The consecrated phrase "Theotokos", "Mother of God" has ever since been the touchstone of the Christian faith. It was not that the Church then had the intention of expanding Mariology; it was rather that it was concerned with Christological orthodoxy.

As John of Damascus said: "This name contain the whole mystery of the Incarnation". Once Christ is diminished, humanized, naturalized, there is no longer any use for the term "Mother of God". It implies a twofold generation of the Divine Word: one eternal in the bosom of the Father; the other temporal in the womb of Mary, Mary therefore did not bear a "mere man" but the "true God". No new person came into the world when Mary opened the portals of the flesh but the Eternal Son of God was made man. All that came into being was a new nature or a human nature to a Person Who existed from all eternity. It was the Word, the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity Who became flesh and dwelt amongst us. Theanthropos, or God-man, and Theotokos, or Mother of God, go together and fall together.

It will be discovered that so-called Christians who think they believe in the Divinity of Christ but do not believe in Mary as the Mother of God, fall generally into four ancient heresies. They are Adoptionists who believe that Christ was a mere man but after birth was adopted by God as His Son. Or they are Nestorians who held that Mary gave birth to a man who had only a close union with Divinity. Or they are Eutychians who denied the human nature of Christ and hence made Mary merely an instrument in a theophany. Or they are Docetists, holding that Christ's nature was only a phantom or an appearance.

Those who are offended at reverence paid Mary if they will analyse their thoughts will discover that they are holding a Docetist or some similar ancient error. Even if they profess the Divinity of Christ in His earthly existence, such people shrink from affirming that His Human Nature is glorified with Him at the right of the Father where He makes intercession for us. As some no longer think of Christ as God, so some no longer think of Christ as glorified Man. If He is no longer Man then Mary is no longer His Mother. But if He is still Man, the relation of Mary to Him extends beyond Bethlehem and Calvary even to His Mystical Body the Church. No one therefore who thinks logically about Christ can understand such a question as: "Why do you speak so often of His Mother?"

The Virgin Birth indeed, was a new type of generation. As our mind begets a thought without in any way destroying the mind so Mary begot the Word within herself without in anyway affecting her Virginity. There are various ways of generating: but the three principal ways are carnal, intellectual and Divine. The carnal is sexual whether it be in animals or in humans. Second is the generation of a thought within the mind. I take the idea of "fortitude". that thought or word (for it is a word even before I pronounce it) does not exist in the outside world. It has neither weight nor colour; nor longitude. Whence came it, then? It was begotten by the chaste generation of the mind.

This intellectual generation is really a feeble image of the spiritual order of the Eternal Generation of the Son by the Father. "In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God". God thinks a thought or a Word. But God does not think many thoughts or words. He thinks only one Word which reaches to the abyss of all that is known or can be known. That Word is the perfect image of Himself as the Thinker is called the Father as the principle of generation and the Word is called the Son as the term of generation.

God willed that there be another kind of generation which would be neither wholly intellectual nor wholly carnal but which in the order of flesh would reflect His eternal generation in time. God willed to take on a human nature like our own through a Virgin while conserving the Virginity of His Mother and showing precisely that He is the Word of God. As our mind does not alter or destroy itself in the begetting of a thought so neither does the Virginal Body of Our Blessed Mother go through any alteration in begetting Him as the Son of God made man. The Word of God willed that His generation in the order of the flesh and in time be elevated with as close a resemblance as possible to His Heavenly generation.

Christ is a Mediator between God and humanity; Mary is the Mediatrix between Christ and us. Our Lord is a Mediator between God and man. A Mediator is like a bridge which unites two opposite banks of a river except that here the bridge is between Heaven and earth. As you cannot touch the ceiling without a stepladder acting as a mediator so sinful man could not in justice reach God except by One Who mediated and was both God and Man. As Man, He could act in our name, take on our sins; as one of us, He redeems us on the Cross and gives us new life in His Resurrection. But as God, His Words, miracles, and death have an infinite value and therefore He restores more than we lost. God became man without ceasing to be either God or man and therefore is our Mediator, Our Saviour, Our Divine Lord.

AS we study His Divine Life, seeing Him as the first refugee persecuted by a cruel government working as a carpenter, teaching and redeeming, we know that it all began when He took on our human nature and became man. If He had never taken on our human flesh we would never have heard His Sermon on the Mount nor have seen Him forgive those who dug His Hands and Feet with nails on the Cross. But the Woman gave our Lord His human nature. He asked her to give Him a human life - to give Him hands with which to bless children, feet with which to go in search of stray sheep, eyes with which to weeps over dead friends and a body with which to suffer - that He might give us a rebirth in freedom and love.

It was through her that He became...............

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Sunday, May 24, 2009

I have through years of reading, pondering, reflecting and contemplating, the 3 things that last; FAITH . HOPE . LOVE and I would like to made available my sharing from the many thinkers, authors, scholars and theologians whose ideas and thoughts I have borrowed. God be with them always. Amen!

I STILL HAVE MANY THINGS TO SAY TO YOU BUT THEY WOULD BE TOO MUCH FOR YOU NOW. BUT WHEN THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH COMES, HE WILL LEAD YOU TO THE COMPLETE TRUTH, SINCE HE WILL NOT BE SPEAKING AS FROM HIMSELF, BUT WILL SAY ONLY WHAT HE HAS LEARNT; AND HE WILL TELL YOU OF THE THINGS TO COME.

HE WILL GLORIFY ME, SINCE ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. EVERYTHING THE FATHER HAS IS MINE; THAT IS WHY I SAID: ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. - JOHN 16:12-15 -