Presentation Of Mary (22/11) General Version
St Joachim and St Anne brought their 3 year daughter Mary from Nazareth to temple of Jerusalem(80 miles)in fulfilment of their vow,to educate Her by holy women, together with other girls,consecrated to Gods service& She start meditating on how she might please him most.
GOD LOOKED OVER WORLD FOR AN EMPTY HEART-BUT NOT A LONELY HEART- A HEART THAT WAS EMPTY LIKE A FLUTE ON WHICH HE MIGHT PIPE A TUNE and HE FOUND MARY. God look down her lowliness.
A box that is filled with sand cannot filled with Gold.
Mary showed
(1)there is no limit on God's part to His possession of a soul;it is soul alone which can limit HIS welcome,as a window curtain limit light!
(2)more empty soul is of self,greater room in it for God. LARGER THE EMPTINESS OF A NET,BIGGER THE BIRD THAT CAN BE HOUSED THEREIN.
Mary clearly shows, that she has chased away all 7 vices namely Sloth,Anger, Pride,Avarice,Envy, Lust, gluttony
Summary details about vices
The wrong ways of enjoying has come to us from the original sin. At times due to lack of proper guidance,we get attached to things and persons alive or dead. Unless we purified we cannot purely love God with all our heart and all our soul.(Cf. Dt.6.5;Lk 10.27;Jn 15.12; Jn4.7-22)
Sloth: is laziness or idleness. Apart from doing nothing, you can develop idleness through unnecessary judging. This can be of 2 types. Discussing with your friends about bad about others- you go to unwanted areas of analysis, where you create not only spoiling your time but introducing anger to your body. Other type is unwarrented analysis about politicians or crimes in a given country. Analysis is good, but when you try to crave for analysis, you create spoiling your time without any results and start creating anger in your body. For this category of people, should avoid listening to mutimedia, as first thing in the morning!.
Anger: is a strong feeling that comes when one feel, other is wrong or he is insulting or injustice etc. Anger is treated as commiting suicide in catholicism.
SLOTH AND ANGER ARE VERY CLOSE FRIENDS, AND ALWAYS WE SHOULD AVOID THEM LIKE A WATER DROP TO A LOYUS FLOWER. HENCE, JUDGING OTHER IS A ROOT CAUSE TO GRASPH THESE 2 FRIENDS, WHICH WILL RUIN YOUR MENTAL HEATH AND ULTIMATELY PHYSICAL HEALTH TOO!.
Pride; it is too great an admiration of oneself. Pride has 7 evil consequences: boasting, love for publicity, hyprocrisy, hardheadness,discord,quarrelin
Avarice: is lead us to be greedy,and ends up with fraud,perjury,dishonesty,perfi
Envy; envy start demanding,"WHY SHOULD NOT I HAVE EVERY THING THAT OTHERS HAVE?". We are envious of another's goods and jealous of our own. DEEPLY ROUTED JEALOUSY CAN LEAD TO LOSE HEALTH BOTH PHYSICAL AND SPIRITUAL. Paul says Love is not jealous or envious.
Lust; It is a dis orientated love that seeks not the other but personal individualistic pleasure and satisfaction in everything we do. Lust excludes all personal consideration for the sake of sen sate experience. Lust leads to exploitation of oneself and others or things for our own glory, satisfaction and pleasure.
The pleasure seeking attitude in life cannot help us to partners with God. The desire for pleasure is good thing in life. Life would be sapless without it. What is dangerous is inordinate craving for it. Jesus advocate a life that is simple. He is conscious of the dangers of riches and money.
Gluttony:
This flows from the dis orderly animal appetite, the obsession with food and drink to the point of living to eat, rather than eating to live.
The role of Holy Mary, as seen by Vatican II
In the public life of Jesus, mary make significant appearances. This is so even at the very beginning, when at the marriege feast of Cana, moved with pity, she brought her intercession the beginning of miracles of Jesus the messiah(cf. Jn 2:1-11). In the course of her son's preaching she received the words whereby in extolling a kingdom beyond the calculations and bonds of flesh and blood, He declared blessed (cf:mark3:35;27-28) those who heard and kept the word of God, as she was faithfully doing(cf luke 2:19,51). After this manner the blessed virgin advanced in her pilgrimage of faith, and faithfully preserved in her union with her son unto the cross, where she stood, in keeping with the divine plan(cf: john 19:25), grieving exceedingly with Her only begotten son, uniting herself with a maternal heart with His sacrifice, and lovingly consenting to the immolation of this victim which she herself has brought forth. Finally she was given by the same Christ Jesus dying on the cross as a mother to His disciple with these words"WOMEN BEHOLD THY SON"(cf John 19:26-27).
Conclusions:
Catholic church had many divisions.1000 AD/othodox,1517Protestants,153
1830:mary introduce Miraculous medal thru' catherine laboure
1854: immaculate conception dogma established
1858: mary confirmed immaculate conception thru Bernedeth
(Lourdes apparations)
1917: mary indicate her role, for our salvations(Fatima)
1950: assumption of mary dogma established
This resulted to delay in understanding about Her. God in His wisdom shows us to go to Mary to resolve our fears/sorrows& misunderstandings! and is clearly shown in the apparition of Fatima
Finally, Mary is the show case of practical christianity. God wanted to show about her for us to lead a happy life.
She led an exemplary life for us to follow as a human. Mary detached from all earthly things for us to present ourselves to Her without reserve!.
If we invite Mary to our life, mary will clear all our future fears and sorrows thouh her intercession with Christ. She always take her followers to God, doesnot keep for herself.
The wrong ways of enjoying has come to us from the original sin. At times due to lack of proper guidance,we get attached to things and persons alive or dead. Unless we purified we cannot purely love God with all our heart and all our soul.(Cf. Dt.6.5;Lk 10.27;Jn 15.12; Jn4.7-22)
Sloth: is laziness or idleness. Apart from doing nothing, you can develop idleness through unnecessary judging. This can be of 2 types. Discussing with your friends about bad about others- you go to unwanted areas of analysis, where you create not only spoiling your time but introducing anger to your body. Other type is unwarrented analysis about politicians or crimes in a given country. Analysis is good, but when you try to crave for analysis, you create spoiling your time without any results and start creating anger in your body. For this category of people, should avoid listening to mutimedia, as first thing in the morning!.
Anger: is a strong feeling that comes when one feel, other is wrong or he is insulting or injustice etc. Anger is treated as commiting suicide in catholicism.
SLOTH AND ANGER ARE VERY CLOSE FRIENDS, AND ALWAYS WE SHOULD AVOID THEM LIKE A WATER DROP TO A LOYUS FLOWER. HENCE, JUDGING OTHER IS A ROOT CAUSE TO GRASPH THESE 2 FRIENDS, WHICH WILL RUIN YOUR MENTAL HEATH AND ULTIMATELY PHYSICAL HEALTH TOO!.
Pride; it is too great an admiration of oneself. Pride has 7 evil consequences: boasting, love for publicity, hyprocrisy, hardheadness,discord,quarrelin
Avarice: is lead us to be greedy,and ends up with fraud,perjury,dishonesty,perfi
Envy; envy start demanding,"WHY SHOULD NOT I HAVE EVERY THING THAT OTHERS HAVE?". We are envious of another's goods and jealous of our own. DEEPLY ROUTED JEALOUSY CAN LEAD TO LOSE HEALTH BOTH PHYSICAL AND SPIRITUAL. Paul says Love is not jealous or envious.
Lust; It is a dis orientated love that seeks not the other but personal individualistic pleasure and satisfaction in everything we do. Lust excludes all personal consideration for the sake of sen sate experience. Lust leads to exploitation of oneself and others or things for our own glory, satisfaction and pleasure.
The pleasure seeking attitude in life cannot help us to partners with God. The desire for pleasure is good thing in life. Life would be sapless without it. What is dangerous is inordinate craving for it. Jesus advocate a life that is simple. He is conscious of the dangers of riches and money.
Gluttony:
This flows from the dis orderly animal appetite, the obsession with food and drink to the point of living to eat, rather than eating to live.
The role of Holy Mary, as seen by Vatican II
In the public life of Jesus, mary make significant appearances. This is so even at the very beginning, when at the marriege feast of Cana, moved with pity, she brought her intercession the beginning of miracles of Jesus the messiah(cf. Jn 2:1-11). In the course of her son's preaching she received the words whereby in extolling a kingdom beyond the calculations and bonds of flesh and blood, He declared blessed (cf:mark3:35;27-28) those who heard and kept the word of God, as she was faithfully doing(cf luke 2:19,51). After this manner the blessed virgin advanced in her pilgrimage of faith, and faithfully preserved in her union with her son unto the cross, where she stood, in keeping with the divine plan(cf: john 19:25), grieving exceedingly with Her only begotten son, uniting herself with a maternal heart with His sacrifice, and lovingly consenting to the immolation of this victim which she herself has brought forth. Finally she was given by the same Christ Jesus dying on the cross as a mother to His disciple with these words"WOMEN BEHOLD THY SON"(cf John 19:26-27).
Conclusions:
Catholic church had many divisions.1000 AD/othodox,1517Protestants,153
1854: immaculate conception dogma established
1858: mary confirmed immaculate conception thru Bernedeth
(Lourdes apparations)
1917: mary indicate her role, for our salvations(Fatima)
1950: assumption of mary dogma established
This resulted to delay in understanding about Her. God in His wisdom shows us to go to Mary to resolve our fears/sorrows& misunderstandings! and is clearly shown in the apparition of Fatima
She led an exemplary life for us to follow as a human. Mary detached from all earthly things for us to present ourselves to Her without reserve!.
If we invite Mary to our life, mary will clear all our future fears and sorrows thouh her intercession with Christ. She always take her followers to God, doesnot keep for herself.
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