Sept. 10, 2013
Deacon Robert Banet
My cousin Charlie is going with a girl. She’s not Catholic.
That could be a problem.
Well, yes it could be. But they get along and they talk about religon a lot.
Charlie says they never talk about the Blessed Mother.
Oh?
He says it’s too controversial a topic.
Ah, yes. I know what you mean. But , you know, it should not be.
Oh? How’s that?
Well, Mary is not a Catholic issue. It’ s not as if devotion to her were some offshoot that Catholics cooked up in the Middle Ages.
How do you figure that it’s not a Catholic issue? I always figured it was, since other churches do not make much of the blessed Mother.
Mary as an integral part of why we have a chance to go to Heaven, to eternal glory. If that isn’t important, then I don’t know what is.
What makes you say that?
Well, the God the Father, for reason known only to Himself, decided to save us from Hell by the human nature of Jesus.
Go over that again.
Jesus is true God and true man, right?
OK, Ive got you so far. Go on.
Well, Jesus got His divine nature from God the Father. Now where did he get His human nature?
I always figured He got it from mankind.
Well, yes and no. He got His human nature from His mother, the Blessed Mother.
I never thought of it that way. So She is really a necessary reason for our salvation.
Yes. That is the reality. Her part is crucial. Devotion to her is not something of a sentimental nature.
Are you going to tell Charlie about that?
Sure thing. I’m going to see him this evening. I’m going to tell him that’s why the Bible says all generations will call her blessed.