[Magdalen] Images and words about Mary

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

The virgin unspotted would be the young lady the guys have not yet spotted.

See how it all makes perfect sense?

James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy

On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 5:37 PM, Molly Wolf <lupa at kos.net> wrote:

> "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
> >>
>