Burn of the Day
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Rather than the Holy Spirit getting credit, we might give the due to Screwtape or its many associates.
Amen, Dr. Kurland.
From “The Wisdom of Fulton Sheen.” “The good repent upon knowing their sin; the evil become angry when discovered.”
“Moral principles do not depend on a majority vote.”
T. Shaw +1
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MARY, THE MOTHER OF GOD CANNOT BE CO-REDEMPTRIX
Mary, whose Sacred Heart was always united with the Sacred Heart of Jesus, her son, cannot be co-redemptrix because Mary, our mother became our mother only after Jesus Christ, true God and true man had made restitution for our sins, the sins of mankind to the Divine Majesty of God.
Mary remained the human woman representing the whole human race in the Last Will and Testament of Jesus Christ when Jesus, crucified and dying, gave Mary, His Mother to the Apostle John. Then Mary became our mother.
Jesus laid down His life and took His life up again, because of the Hypostatic Union. Jesus said: “No one takes my life from me.”
Mary as Mother of the Redeemer, Jesus Christ remained human and could not participate in the redemption of mankind through reparation to the Divine Majesty of God. Mary willed to stay with Jesus Christ and it was granted to her, in her innocence to be with her son, Jesus Christ.
As Christ’s human nature died on the cross, Mary’s human nature suffered with Him, until the end. At no time did Jesus Christ, crucified, claim divinity, when He could have. Mary could not and did not claim divinity. Mary could only be human outside of the Hypostatic Union. Within the Hypostatic Union, redemption was wrought. Christ gave to His mother a redeemed human race.
Every priest is given the power to offer the Sacrifice of the Mass in Holy Mother, the Catholic Church, “in persona Christi”.
Mary did not act, did not ever act “in persona Christ.”
Christ assigned Mary’s place in heaven and on earth as our mother, the mother of mankind, that all human beings with immortal human souls created in original innocence may be brought to heaven through Mary’s intercession, so that all men who will to be with God have brotherhood an sisterhood in the sonship of Jesus Christ.
Saint John Paul II went astray when he forgave his assassin and asked that the assassin’s punishment be absolved. The state is in charge of punishment and the assasin must serve his term until he is rehabilitated, just like in the Sacrament of Reconciliation. The assassin, unrehabilitated, that is un-converted may have lost his chance for heaven.
Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ was assumed into heaven for there was nowhere else for her to be; whereas, Jesus Christ rose from the dead and ascended into heaven through the divinity Christ shared with His Father and the Holy Spirit.
Mary the human mother of Jesus Christ is not divine. Mary was not given the power to act “in persona Christi” and offer the Sacrifice of Calvary.
Women trying to be priests are not doing the will of God. “What does it profit a man or woman to gain the whole world and lose his or her soul?”