The
Perpetual
Virginity
of
Mary...
A Major
Stumbling
Block
For
Protestants...
Before writing this file I wondered, "Why would
anyone be interested in the virginity of a little Jewish girl who lived
2000 years ago?" Can you think of another person in history that is
so controversial regarding this subject?
I couldn't.
Then the answer came to me...
It is either because the persons questioning Blessed Mary's virginity,
have no love for GOD and wish to hurt Him in any way they can, or it is
because the Catholic Church teaches the perpetual virginity of Mary and
this is just another way to put down the Church which Jesus Christ founded.
If someone can come up with a better answer, I would certainly like to
hear from you. However, before you contact me, please read another file
on this website called, 'Genealogy of the Brethren'.
While dying on the cross, Jesus gave
his mother to St. John (John 19:27). Why didn't He give her to one of her
other children (as Protestants insist she had) instead? Jewish law would
have demanded it. It is simply because Mary had no other children for Him
to do so.
FOR ANYONE TO SAY THAT MARY HAD OTHER
CHILDREN IS
A DIRECT INSULT TO THE HOLY
SPIRIT, WHO SANCTIFIED HER AS HIS SPOUSE, AND TO BE THE VESSEL TO
CARRY THE WORD INCARNATE, THE SECOND PERSON OF THE HOLY TRINITY.
FOR ANYONE TO SAY THAT MARY HAD OTHER CHILDREN IS AN INSULT
TO JESUS CHRIST, WHO WAS THE ONLY BEGOTTEN
OF HIS MOTHER, AS HE HIMSELF WAS THE ONLY BEGOTTEN OF HIS FATHER IN HEAVEN.
FOR ANYONE TO SAY THAT MARY HAD OTHER CHILDREN IS AN INSULT
TO THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY, WHO WOULD
HAVE TO HAVE CARRIED THE GUILT OF INGRATITUDE TO GOD FOREVER, IF SHE HAD
DISCARDED THE PRECIOUS GIFT OF HER VIRGINITY WHICH GOD HAD SO METICULOUSLY
PREPARED FOR HER IN THE CONCEPTION OF HIS WORD INCARNATE.
FOR ANYONE TO SAY THAT MARY HAD OTHER CHILDREN IS AN INSULT
TO ST. JOSEPH. Knowing full well that
Mary had given birth to the Word Incarnate, and that her Son was the second
person of the Holy Trinity, the Son of GOD, he must have been awestruck
by the event. He knew that just by her being the one chosen (Luke 1:27-33),
and by an act of GOD, in protecting her virginity (Luke 1:34-38), that
she was special, and by the special graces given to her, elevated her far
above any other woman. After all what could possibly follow the honor and
graces given her by the Holy Spirit? The Holy Spirit is her spouse and
St. Joseph knew it when he was informed by the Angel in a dream (Matthew
1:20). Would any sane man be so vain as to father mere human children with
her? The idea of the spouse of the Holy Spirit becoming a mother to one
not by the Holy Spirit, would have been repulsive, and would have had all
the ingredients of sacrilege to him.
The Protestant Reformer Ulrich Zwingli had this to
say:
"It was not enough that the conception of Jesus take place without
a male role, for if a woman who had previously known a man had conceived
him even through the Holy Spirit, 'who would ever have believed that the
child that was born was of the Holy Spirit? For nature knows no birth that
is not besmirched with stain.' For the same reason she had to be ever a
virgin, she who bore the one in whom there could not be even the least
suspicion of blemish. For the birth of Jesus to be absolutely pure of every
stain, Mary herself had to be free of any pollution of normal child-bearing
... Zwingli
Why do his followers deny his words today?
There is absolutely nothing in Scripture
which says that Mary had other children. Those who say she did, are committing
calumny and slander, and are offending the Holy Trinity and the Holy Family.
They are playing 'You Bet Your Soul'. Is it worth it? When they meet Jesus
Christ face to face one day, how are they going to explain to Him, why
they slandered His mother?
What will they say to Him then?
"LET NO
ONE PRESUME TO HOPE FOR THE MERCY OF GOD, WHO DARES TO SLIGHT OR OFFEND
GOD'S MOTHER."
St. Louis de Montfort...
Compiled by Bob Stanley, 1997
Updated July 27, 2000
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