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by wfbrad on November 26th, 2005

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What do Catholics believe about the current status of the Virgin Mary?

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  • by bunker12 on December 2nd, 2005

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    I'm not quite sure what you mean abou tthe "current status" of the Virgin Mary because the Catholic church's view on and beliefs on her have never changed. There is a story by Kimberly Hahn you can read to really and truly understand it at out.http://www.star.ucl.ac.uk/~vgg/rc/aplgtc... The following may help you as well and it was written by Scott Hahn..."When Christ accepted the call from His Father to become a man, He accepted the responsibility to obey the law, the moral law which is summarized in the Ten Commandments. There's a commandment which reads, 'Honor your father and mother.'; in the original Hebrew, that word ";honor,"; kaboda, that Hebrew word means to glorify, to bestow whatever glory and honor you have upon your father and mother. Christ fulfilled that law more perfectly than any human by bestowing His glory upon His heavenly Father and by taking His own divine glory and honoring His Mother with it. All we do in the rosary is to imitate Christ who honors His Mother with His own glory. We honor her with Christ's glory.

    this is from Kimberly Hahn:
    The first thing is that Catholics don't believe Mary is a goddess.
    She's just a creature, but a creature who was specially made. It was the only time that a son made the mother first. What a beautiful thought. In the Magnificat where Mary says, "I rejoice in God my Savior?" I used to think, "That proves she sinned because otherwise how could she say she had a Savior" But the point is, when she was saved, she was saved from conception on. She was saved completely. One of my friends when he stood up to give a testimony in high school said, "God saved me from drugs, alcohol and wild sex"; I thought, I know this guy; he didn't do this stuff. It does make a pretty interesting entry into his telling his testimony." He said, "God saved me from all of that stuff before I got into that stuff." Well, that's what He did with Mary. He saved her before she got into any of that stuff.

    She wasn't called Queen of Heaven because she was married to God and equal to God. She was Queen of Heaven because she's Queen Mother of Heaven and if Jesus is the King of kings and Lord of lords and she's really his mother, then she is the Queen Mother, just like Bathsheba was the queen mother honored by Solomon. And Mary never wants you to just stop and focus on her, but Mary's whole mission is to bear Jesus to us.

    another thing..."Isn't it idolatrous to have all of these statues
    and paintings and pictures, you know, people bowing down and
    worshipping them?" The priest so lovingly said, "do you have a family
    photo wall? You know, you got your parents, your husband, your
    children?" I said, "Oh, yeah, sure." And he said, "Isn't
    that rather idolatrous?" "Well, no." He said, "What's
    the difference?" And I said, "Well, they just represent
    people I love." And he said, "Right. These represent our Blessed
    Mother. These represent our older brothers and sisters who have gone
    before us, and we love them." He said further, "If you look in
    the Old Testament," (because my concern was with the Ten
    Commandments -- the one which says 'Don't make a graven image:')&" He said, "Remember that not only did the Lord say that, but when he
    commanded them to make the tabernacle, what did he say that had to go over the Ark of the Covenant?" "Well," I said, "The two
    angels, the two Cherubs" He said, "Is that a graven image?"
    Apparently not.

    Hope this helps! God Bless.

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  • by Marguerite on August 10th, 2008

    Marguerite

    We believe she is the new Eve and Jesus is the new Adam. We live in the new kingdom. Eve brought death to humanity, Mary brought life to the new kingdom. Look at her position at the crucifixion. Why was she there? Why did Jesus introduce her to John, as his new mother? It's because she is the mother of humanity today. She became that because Jesus said so. It's all about how you understand scripture.

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  • by Stu B needs no COAT for summer on August 9th, 2008

    Stu B needs no COAT for summer

    she's long dead, and it's highly unlikely she was a virgin at all, at least after she conceived the Nazarene and any other kids she bore...but hey, I'm not catholic and don't believe in fairy tales like immaculate conceptions...

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  • by ImaCatholic2 on August 17th, 2008

    ImaCatholic2

    Catholics believe that the Blessed Virgin Mary is a saint in heaven with God.

    With love in Christ.

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  • by SAGE2 on August 10th, 2008

    SAGE2

    Her status is now and forever still intact.

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