[Magdalen] Images and words about Mary

[Molly Wolf]

"Most highly flavored lady."

Molly

The man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. -- Mark Twain

> On Jan 29, 2016, at 5:01 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> As an aside, my father, whose sense of humor was definitely off-center,
> used to refer to the carol "A Virgin Unspotted" as "The Non-Dallmatian
> Virgin".
> 
> On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 4:27 PM, Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> I like our late rector's explanation in response to questions about
>> "immaculate conception": "God did whatever God needed to do to prepare
>> Our Lady to become the mother of Our Lord." So it's God's "beeswax,"
>> not ours. Mary did well in accepting her high divine calling and
>> pointing others to Jesus: "Do whatever he tells you."
>> 
>> On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 3:04 PM, Mahoney, W. Michael
>> <wmmah at stoneledge.net> wrote:
>>> On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 2:29 PM, Roger Stokes <
>> roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com
>>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I detect a little illogicality in the dogma of the Immaculate
>> Conception.
>>>> *If* mary had to be free of original sin in order to bear the totally
>>>> sinless Jesus why put the break in transmission at that point?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I agree, Roger.  It's turtles all the way down!  Or no turtles at all.
>>> 
>>> Mike M
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> --
>> Scott R. Knitter
>> Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA
>>