Keep me as the apple of your eye; hide me in the shadow of your wings Psalm He will cover you with his feathers, and under his wings, you will find refuge… Psalm Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maidservant to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes look to the LORD our God, till he has mercy upon us. But I have calmed and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with its mother; like a weaned child is my soul within me Psalm Like a bear robbed of her cubs, I will attack them and tear them asunder… Hosea O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not Matthew ; see, also, Luke These highly expressive similitudes — being like a mother — are divinely placed so that we can understand God by familiar things around us.
However, in Scripture, the comparisons to mothers or a maternal instinct are not transformed into declarations of divine identity. God is like a mother. Never is God revealed as female or as a motherly being.
The Eastern and Western Churches have many things in common. One significant difference is the Filioque Latin, tr. The Western Church insisted on retaining this clause in the Creed while Eastern Orthodox church leaders denied it. What is it? This is the clause that was introduced:. The disagreement was a significant one, indeed. So, to identify God as Mother not only assaults the inerrancy and infallibility of the Holy Bible but does damage to the Trinity, the Covenant of Grace, and, ultimately, to Creation itself.
God is Father. He is the first movement. Schiffer said it is legal for individuals or organizations to stand on a public sidewalk off campus and talk to people as they pass by. If the behavior starts to cross into harassment, however, the situation could rise into criminal behavior.
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If any assert that the manhood was formed and afterward was clothed with the Godhead, he too is to be condemned…" -Gregory Nazianzus To Cledonius against Apollinaris Epistle If anyone does not confess that Emmanuel is God in truth, and therefore the holy Virgin is Theotokos — for she bore in the flesh the Word of God become flesh — let him be anathema" — From the third letter of Cyril to Nestorius.
In order to understand this crucial doctrine and the reason it was treated as a litmus test for orthodoxy, we need to unpack the how, and the why behind it. He is the eternal Son of God, begotten of the Father before all worlds. As the eternally begotten Son, he preexisted Mary, and she owes her existence to him Jn. Because of this, the mission of Mary is totally inseparable from the mission of the Church.
And it should be clearly stated that the role of Mary, as Mother of all humanity, in no way eclipses or diminishes Christ. This is one of the reasons God decided to share his Mother with us. We Catholics, on the other hand, recognize her as the Queen of Heaven and Earth. We know that Jesus took her up to Heaven, body and soul, as soon as her earthly mission was over. This is the Dogma of the Assumption, defined by the Church with an infallible papal definition.
It makes sense that the woman who bore God in her womb should be borne by God into Heaven and not left in a grave to turn back into dust. One of King Solomon's first acts when his father David gave him the throne was to raise his mother Bathsheba to his side, to be the royal Queen - a mini-Assumption. There was a practical reason for this tradition: Old Testament Kings used to marry more than one wife, but the King had only one Mother, so she became Queen.
But there was also a deeper, prophetic meaning at work. God was already planning to send the Messiah through a Virgin, to involve a Mother intimately in the Redemption, just as a mother Eve had been involved intimately in the Fall original sin. God did it that way on purpose. God gives his Mother a special place in the ongoing history of salvation because He wants to tell us something about His love for us. His love is faithful, strong and indestructible, because He is our Father.
But it is also gentle, patient, and ever-present, always watching over us - like a Mother. Mary, our heavenly Queen and spiritual Mother, reminds us of this.
Life messages: 1 Let us strive to be pure and holy like our Heavenly Mother. All mothers want their children to inherit or acquire their good qualities. Our Heavenly Mother is no exception. In this way, we will be trying to become the saintly sons and daughters of our Heavenly Mother, the Holy Mother of God. In these Masses and at other times, we give Mary hyperdulia , that is, highest honor, because of the gifts of grace God granted her and because of the way she responded to these gifts.
These are prayers we should pray so often we have them memorized. We can honor Mary by cultivating an interior life like hers. Everything that happens to us has a good meaning, and it is up to us to try to discover and appreciate it.
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