Blessed Mother Archives - CatholicManiacs https://catholicmaniacs.com/category/blessedmother/ It's CRAZY Everyone's Not Catholic Wed, 28 Dec 2005 16:10:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.4 https://catholicmaniacs.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/cropped-Pieta_Square-32x32.jpg Blessed Mother Archives - CatholicManiacs https://catholicmaniacs.com/category/blessedmother/ 32 32 Mary Moments https://catholicmaniacs.com/2005/12/28/mary-moments/ Wed, 28 Dec 2005 16:10:00 +0000 http://blog.catholicmaniacs.com/?p=162 Just read an article at Christianity Today in their Leadership Journal called Leader’s Insight: Mary Moments. It was a pretty good piece on how sometimes God will ask you to do something BIG and TOTALLY outside what you had planned, something that has huge implications for you, others and possibly the world. I was pretty […]

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]]> Just read an article at Christianity Today in their Leadership Journal called Leader’s Insight: Mary Moments. It was a pretty good piece on how sometimes God will ask you to do something BIG and TOTALLY outside what you had planned, something that has huge implications for you, others and possibly the world.

I was pretty excited to see the Blessed Mother get mentioned. After all, CT is not a Catholic site. It’s run by Protestants. Though it is an excellent resource for a lot of things.

I agree that there are Mary Moments that God calls us to do things. But I think they happen way more than the writer realizes. Mary Moments to me are more embodied by the Miracle at Cana. The Blessed Mother’s last recorded words in the Gospels are “Do whatever HE tells you.”

That is the Mary Moment that we are all called to live. Each and every day. 24/7/365 with no exceptions. Mary Moments are not just for the big things God calls us to do. Mary Moments are all about our daily struggle to follow Christ and to do His will. That’s what the Blessed Mother always does. She shows us the way to her Son and Lord.

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]]> 162 Immaculate Conception https://catholicmaniacs.com/2005/02/13/immaculate-conception/ Sun, 13 Feb 2005 22:25:00 +0000 http://blog.catholicmaniacs.com/?p=147 Friday was my day to talk theology with Protestants it seems. A friend of mine who is starting an online ministry teaching people the Biblical secrets to success is married to a former Greek Orthodox woman who is now a born again like him. Though they did have their marriage blessed in her GO parish. […]

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]]> Friday was my day to talk theology with Protestants it seems. A friend of mine who is starting an online ministry teaching people the Biblical secrets to success is married to a former Greek Orthodox woman who is now a born again like him. Though they did have their marriage blessed in her GO parish. Not sure how that happened, but I didn’t pry. Anyway, he has taken to watching EWTN because there isn’t a great selection of Protestant channels for him. He has really gotten into Father Corapi and loves to listen to the man preach.

I was telling him about a story Fr. Corapi tells about speaking in Peru and the reaction of a Protestant minister in the crowd when he called the Blessed Mother the most perfect of God’s creation. Cute story and Fr. C. tells it way better than me. But the point is that this friend of mine was it TOTAL agreement with the Church on this one. Apparently he has believed for some time, maybe always, that Mary must have been pure to be able to bear God to the world.

He apparently talked about it with a priest friend once who gave him a great quote:

“An impure womb, could not carry a perfect God.”

That does a great job of summing up the Immaculate conception I think. He even calls Mary the Blessed Mother too. I love that. I jokingly referred one day to being a statue-worshipping papist and he about fell out of his chair laughing. He said something that was approaching the Catholic position and I told him to be careful or he might be accused of being one. Since then he jokes about being a closet one or working on being one. I told him I am going to bring him a statue to worship when I go to Michigan to work a conference in April.

All in all, an excellent discussion with him. Friday was good.

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