[Magdalen] Images and words about Mary

[Lynn Ronkainen]

> Is it not that Mary's own conception is deemed to have been immaculate, 
> thus keeping her untainted by original sin?



roger that....

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When I stand before God at the end of my life I would hope that I have not a 
single bit of talent left and could say, "I used everything You gave me." 
attributed to Erma Bombeck
 "Either Freedom for all or stop talking about Freedom at all" from a talk 
by Richard Rohr

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From: "Marion Thompson" <marionwhitevale at gmail.com>
Sent: Friday, January 29, 2016 4:49 PM
To: <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Images and words about Mary

> Is it not that Mary's own conception is deemed to have been immaculate, 
> thus keeping her untainted by original sin?
>
> Marion, a pilgrim
>
> On 1/29/2016 2:29 PM, Roger Stokes wrote:
>> On 29/01/2016 18:13, Sally Davies wrote:
>>> But there are aspects, brought out by some of these contributors, that
>>> annoy me so much I can scarcely stand to look at them. Such as, the 
>>> world
>>> of misogyny and anti-humanism implicit in notions such as "unstained", 
>>> or
>>> "undefiled". YECHH!!
>>>
>>> What the heck does any of that mean? If Mary was "unstained by original
>>> sin" then who was that person who fully identified with her people in 
>>> the
>>> joyous explosion of the Magnificat? Not a perfect woman, just a very 
>>> young
>>> human who gave her whole heart to the purposes of God.
>>
>> 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?  If Mary 
>> could not bear that taint then how did she not receive it from her 
>> parents some years before the Annunciation? Wouldn't it be more sensible 
>> to say that the break in transmission occurred with Mary's response to 
>> the angel's call and her spiritual anointing at that point?
>>
>> Roger
>>
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