The difference between Eve and Mary gives Protestants this “Confusion Headache”: “The first woman disobeyed God and kept everyone out of Heaven. How can Mary do the opposite and open the door to Heaven by bringing God to earth in human form?”
The vanity that led Eve to “eat the forbidden fruit” still lives in many: “God cannot tell me what to do!” Many children of Eve still believe, “Mary cannot be so much better than me that she could bring God to earth in human form!”
Today, “The Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary” lets Catholic women realize how blessed they are to live by Psalm 98:1-4 and “Sing to the Lord a new song” because “All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation by our God.”
Catholics are blessed to cure “Confusion Headaches” by living in accord with the truth of God’s Angel in Luke 1:28: “Hail (Mary), full of grace, the Lord is with you; blessed is the fruit of your womb.” Catholic know that since Mary was “full of grace”, there was no room for any sin or error within her!
When Mary heard these Words of God addressed to her, “she was greatly troubled, and pondered what sort of greeting this might be.”
Gabriel cured Mary’s, and the world’s “Confusion Headaches”, by explaining: “Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God. Behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a Son, and you shall name Him Jesus. He will be great and be called Son of the Most High, and the Lord God will give Him the throne of David, His Father, and He will rule over the house of Jacob forever, and of His Kingdom, there will be no end.”
Mary has blessed all Catholics to cure our “Confusion Headaches” by letting us see our place in the preceding 13 trillion light-years of Time and Space that followed The Loving Programmer’s Download of The Creation Program, “Let there be light, and there was light!”
“Mary said, ‘Behold, I am the handmaid of The Lord. May it be done to me according to your word.’ Then, the angel departed from her.”
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Today’s Simple Rhyme: “Catholics have union / through Holy Communion / with Mary’s Son, our God.”
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