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- Q: What about John 19:26-27? "When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple there whom he loved, he said to his mother: Woman, behold, your son. Then he said to the disciple: Behold, your mother. And from that hour the disciple took her into his home." - - Doesn't that indicate Mary was out of...

- At no time-- not even once --during the five decades that Mother Teresa was in India, did she feel even the slightest glimmer of the Lord's presence. The Lord's perpetual absence caused her quite a bit of personal distress. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

- Easter week commemorates the most important event in the history of mankind-- Christ's resurrection. The Bible says that Jesus was raised again for our justification (Rom 4:25). In other words: his recovery validates Christianity. †. 1Cor 15:17 . . If Christ is not risen, your faith is...

- From what I've read on this subject, the wedding took place elsewhere and the groom, with his new bride, was now returning home to celebrate; and the ten girls were only just a small portion of the number of people attending the reception. In other words: the ten girls weren't the only ones...

- It is not your right to count Christ's mothers; it is the Bible's right. †. Gen 320 . .The man called his wife Eve, because she became the mother of all the living. If Eve was the mother of all the living, then she was the mother of Christ; ergo: according to Rome's logic; Eve was the...

- CLAIM: If Jesus is God, and Mary is Jesus’ mother, it must be concluded that she is the Mother of God. RESPONSE: Christ's biological mother didn't just pop up out of nowhere. No, she was the natural human child of a normal human relationship between a man and a woman-- and having her...

- Beatitude (05) †. Matt 5:7 . . Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy. Christ wasn't talking about forgiveness in that beatitude. The word for "merciful" is eleemon (el-eh-ay'-mone) which means: compassionate (as an adjective). And the word for "mercy" is eleeo (el-eh-eh'-o)...

- "Just as we do not deny these things which are written, so do we repudiate things that are not written. That God was born of a Virgin we believe, because we read it. That Mary was married after His birth we do not believe because we do not read it." - Ste. Jerome - Jerome was correct on one...

- Beatitude (04) †. Matt 5:6 . . Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled. The koiné Greek word for "righteousness" is dikaiosune (dik-ah-yos-oo'-nay) which means: equity; which Webster's defines as: lacking in bias or favoritism. The world recently...

- CLAIM: Jesus had to be virgin-conceived in order to evade Jeconiah's curse. RESPONSE: Most Gentiles are unaware of Jeconiah's curse, and I dare say totally unaware of even Jeconiah himself (a.k.a. Jehoiakim and/or Coniah). He was a very bad king of the Davidic dynasty; so bad that God...

- Beatitude (03) †. Matt 5:5 . . Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. The third beatitude is another that comes from the Old Testament. †. Ps 37:10-11 . .For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it shall not be...

- OBJECTION: It is absolutely unthinkable that the Son Of God-- the second person of the Holy Trinity --would ever allow himself to be born of an ordinary woman! RESPONSE: A statement like that reads sexism, personal biases, and human sensibilities into holy writ instead of just letting holy...

- Beatitude (02) †. Matt 5:4 . . Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted. That beatitude, I believe, is related to one of the Psalms. †. Ps 55:1-2 . . Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not thyself from my supplication. Attend unto me, and hear me: I mourn in my complaint...

- CLAIM: The immaculate conception was believed in The Church much earlier than its becoming an official dogma; e.g. Franciscan John Duns Scotus (c. 1264-1308), introduced the idea of pre-redemption in order to reconcile Mary's freedom from original sin in her conception before the coming of...

- Beatitude (01) †. Matt 5:3 . . Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. That's an easy beatitude to analyze because it's taken from the Old Testament. "But on this one will I look: on him who is of a poor and contrite spirit, and who trembles at My word." (Isa...

- †. Rev 2:7 . . He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. Christ's beatitudes are located in a section of the so-called Sermon On The Mount (Matt 5:1-7:29). There's also a so-called Sermon On The Plain too (Luke 6:17-7:49) but it doesn't contain a complete list...

- CLAIM: Christ's mom was sinless since the Holy Bible says she was "full" of grace (Luke 1:26-30). RESPONSE: The Douay-Rheims and the Confraternity are both in error because the New Testament's Greek of Luke 1:26-30 doesn't contain the words "full of grace." The current official Catholic Bible...

- At the epicenter of New Testament Christianity is a man named Jesus Christ. But at the epicenter of Catholicism is the woman who gave birth to him. It's just a shame that the Christ of New Testament Christianity has to compete with his own mother for the loyalties and affections of people...

- Ave Maria & Lovely Lady Dressed In Blue I have a prayer of my own in response to those. The Ave Christos Hail Messiah Jesus ben David! Almighty God has always been with you. Blessed are you above every living creature (including your mother). Blessed are all they who put their trust in you...

- Neither the word purgatory, nor a specific teaching about a purgatory, is actually in the Holy Bible; so Rome points to certain passages that, although they don't actually prove without a shadow of a doubt the existence of a purgatory, they allude to (suggest the possibility of) a purgatory...