Why is Mary SINLESS? 

When they acknowledge that she is the Ark of the New and Everlasting Covenant it is all quite clear.

Ann Barhardt, has an interesting piece on the Immaculate Conception, where she mentions that Mary was FULL, not half filled, or just a smidgin, but filled to the brim with grace. This singular grace by God set her fully apart.

If the Old Testament states that a sacrificial lamb need be spotless, and if Mary even had the slightest touch of sin, certainly our Lord, the lamb of God, would have some chaff hanging on to Him. So it would make sense to believe she was spared from sin, that she was full of grace m, blessed, and sinless and therefore a favored one so to speak. All that aside I wouldn’t trust a Bible that a certain king decided upon himself to remove books of the Bible and reinterpret it the way he felt. I couldn’t trust, in particular, a Christian religion that started no earlier than 5-6 hundred years ago. Just my opinion tho. 🤷‍♂️

It is a great grace to recognize the holiness of our Blessed Mother. I'm so grateful to be Catholic. ❤❤❤ JMJ

​@@bradyfontenot7262this logic was instrumental in my return to the faith

Welcome home! Blessed Mother Mary pray for us!!

❤️‍🔥

The house of Israel is our mother, Galatians 4:26.

She is humility itself isn't She George..what an example for all of us...yes She is always with us, preparing The Bride for Her Beloved Son. Rosaries!🙏✝️🕊️🤱🩸🌹♥️ God Bless you.

Pride is the most blinding of all sins.

I hope you do Virginia. There is no greater feeling than what one feels after going to confession and have your sins absolved via the Priest.

What would stop you?

Waste no more time Virginia..Christ is calling you Home..and His Mother prepares the Brides for Her Beloved Son..and She does it with such beautiful Grace and care..find a Traditional Catholic Church and Priest, and let Our Lord do the rest.. God Bless you for seeing The Truth, and welcome. Prayers and love from Australia.🙏✝️🕊️🤱🩸🌹♥️🦘👍.

I did it 20 years ago; I highly recommend it! God bless you 🙏

Welcome to the real church.

Amen!..Our Lady would have kept Her Beloved Son strong and focused on the job at hand..the greatest act of love ever..the Salvation of the human race.!🙏🙏🙏✝️🕊️🤱🩸🌹♥️♥️♥️👏👍

Amen Tanya..love from Australia.🙏✝️🕊️🤱🩸🌹♥️🦘.

You sure do pray to a lot of people

Kindly..., why are you still a protestant? Come home to The Fullness of Faith please.

It does draw attention to the Apostasy of the Roman Catholic Church

​@@lestercarvin4422 How is the oldest Christian Church an apostasy?

not sure if it helps but I highly recommend listening to Dr Brant Pitre he has a book series on "The Jewish roots of..." this book series has been broken down into RU-vid videos on each topic of Jesus ( mostly The Eucharist), Mary and Joseph. Astounding stuff from what I've heard already, Dr Brant is also apart of Catholic Productions where he breaks down scriptures and applies the Jewish / Greek context.

It's easy, when you realise that The Catholic Church is The Bride of Christ, and His Holy Mother, Mary, prepares The Bride for The Wedding to Her Beloved Son, Jesus. A Mothers Love is also sacrificial, and She shared the agony of The Cross with Our dearest Lord...Their Hearts are united forever, and that Bond can never be broken...we are safe resting in Their Holy Family.😊🙏✝️🕊️🤱🩸🌹♥️. God Bless you..find a Traditional Catholic Church and Priest to help you understand more.👍

I understand this great struggle, and it took me several years to be convinced of it. Anyone who has made an earnest study of this subject will recognise that Dr Marshall has obviously done his homework. He can be trusted. As an ex-Protestant who converted to the Catholic faith after much reading, I came to realise that it is almost impossible for a Protestant to understand the truth of the Catholic faith if he is unwilling to extend his research outside the parameters set up by the 'reformers'.

@@CK-ub7jf Even the idea that they were “reformers” is also a clever deception by the father of lies.

@@revelation1215 Amen..yes the word "reform" does imply to make better.. it's definitely one of their trickiest manhouvers!..dreadful deception.

Do protestants these days honour Mary at all? Not saying they don't, I'm just unaware.

@@RobLewis3 Most Protestants don't honour Mary.

You got it. She was always there for him but never upstaging him in any way.

She was the first disciple to take on redemptive suffering. As Simeon said, a sword will pierce your heart also.

True and the reason for that was the fact that God is a spirit of pure love who cannot come in contact with sin or it is destroyed. We all are born with original sin except Mary which allowed the Word to be born of the Virgin.

I am now 68, daughter 41 and both healthy and cont' my prayers to Her and Her Son Jesus. He has blessed us.

how is Mary excluded from Luke 18:19, psalm 14:3, Romans 3:23, Mathew 7:7-11?

You are right! The NAB downgraded the translation of Luke 1.28 by rendering it as "so highly favored" instead of the "so filled with Grace". Ironically it rendered Ephesians 2.8 Τῇ γὰρ χάριτί ἐστε σεσῳσμένοι διὰ πίστεως (te gar KARIti sesomenoi dia pisteos) i.e. "You are saved by Grace (KARIti) through Faith (pisteos)." (Ep 2.8). What was more marvelous in Luke 1 was that Gabriel's confirmation that Mary was kekaritoumene (or filled with KARIS or Grace) ahead of the time that Jesus was to earn it from the cross. Truly God cannot be hemmed-in by space and time, and he applied this Grace ahead of Calvary to Mary - to prepare a clean vessel for the Son of God. Salve Mater Redemptoris semper!

ABSOLUTELY CORRECT! Sadly, protesting; "CHRISTIAN" PROTESTANTS would rather practice their "CHRISTIANITY" by offending the Most Holy Blessed Virgin Mother of God. I guess it's open season to Blaspheme the mothers of Protestants! SATAN and his Demons do that! Whose side are the Protestants on? AVE MARIA, GRATIA PLENA, DOMINUS TECUM.

@@josemariademanila677 And this single word Kecharitomene is used nowhere else in the Bible. It is used as a title. The only other person in the NT addressed with a title is Jesus.

@@revelation1215 Was not used anywhere in the Bible? Did you look this up from your King James Bible? or did read Luke 1.28 in the original koine Greek? Please check your facts before you post. κεχαριτωμένη (Kekaritomene) in the koine Greek of Luke 1.28 was no title but an adjective. The complete line of Gabriel's greeting was Χαῖρε κεχαριτωμένη, ὁ Κύριος μετὰ σοῦ, εὐλογημένη σὺ ἐν γυναιξίν (Kaire KEKARITOMENE, o Kyrios meta sou, eulogemene su en gynaixin) i.e. Greetings so-filled-with-KARIS (grace), the Kyrios (Lord) is with you, Blessed are you among the gynaixin (women). Are you telling us that the messenger Gabriel made a huge blunder for having declared Mary as κεχαριτωμένη (Kekaritomene) or so-filled-with-GRACE?

“My soul magnifies the Lord”. Mary

Jesus said" I am The Way, The Truth and The Life and NO man comes to the Father but by me"

@@anncurtis7740 no one is saying that by asking you to pray for them you are bypassing the Word. Mary says “my soul magnifies the Lord” in Luke. You can be an intercessor for others by praying for them but how much more is Mary an intercessor to the One who honors her more than anyone ever honored their mother?

@@anncurtis7740 AND, in the Old Testament before Our Lord Jesus Christ was born, Moses was The way and ONLY Mediator to God! He even wrote a (BINDING) Divorce decree for these, "Stiff necked people" as Moses called them. Catholics WHOLEHEARTEDLY know that Jesus is the only Mediator....BUT, THAT doesn't mean we can ask others to pray for us. 1Tim.2:1-5; St. Paul, (1) Urges that petitions, prayers, INTERCESSIONS and Thanksgiving be offerd for ALL men. (2) Especially for Kings and those in authority. (3) Prayer of this kind is good and God our Savior is PLEASED WITH IT! (Imagine that, God is pleased with it but PROTESTANTS ARE NOT!) This way, Our prayers can be delivered to the (5) One and ONLY Mediator in Heaven like it says in Rev.5:8, 8:3-4 even while burning INCENSE. TYPICAL PROTESTING PROTESTANTS WHO NEVER READ ALL THE CONTEXT.

​@anncurtis7740 Why do you think Jesus and God needed The Holy Angels and Apostles? The trinity could have done everything without them.

The Bible nowhere indicates that Mary can hear our prayers or that she can mediate for us with God. Jesus is our only advocate and mediator in heaven (1 Timothy 2:5 For there is one God and one Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus,)

She is the perfect model of redemptive suffering.

Well...she didn't mediate graces for herself, did she? If not, then she's not the mediatrix of ALL graces. If she was immaculately conceived, she was incapable of mediating that grace to herself, it was a direct divine grace, that is, itwas unmediated.

Joachim

Because they think that Satan is as powerful as God and that God must subordinate to him.

@@revelation1215 I am just coming back to faith, so I pretty dumb to the details still, but God doesn't kneel to no one. And I am ever so grateful He doesn't.

Great question. Once the Immaculate Conception has been understood we realize Mary is the first person born without sin. Therefore she is not given to sin and evil cannot defeat her just like Jesus. In Douay-Rheims version of Genesis God tells Satan 'You will wait for her heel & She will crush your head' He was referring to the future and the Blessed Mother. Satan fears her more than the Holy Trinity. Ask an Exorcist if you don't believe me. Every time we say the Hail Mary it is like a Nail in Satans head. Think about that. We have that power and it's stunning to understand. Yet we let Satan deceive us over and over. Pray the Rosary and give moral strength back to humanity.

Mary, too, recieved the Holy Spirit/Paraclete, during Pentecost. However. Mary was/will always be full of Grace - her discernment with help of Holy Spirit would always be different than Holy Spirits help regarding each of us.

As a convert to the Catholic faith, Dr. Taylor Marshall's eyes were wide open to the truth.

It is even more remarkable when you consider that even science tells us that the DNA of a child remain in the mother. She felt what he felt. She suffered in her own way what he suffered.

Adoration only to God

Note that what passes as Christian has been more and more diluted over the centuries. Now Christians claim that today’s Christianity is more pure and they have no regard for what the first Christians believed. Sort of how humans think they are more enlightened now while they march to their destruction.

Amen

Most glorious Virgin Mary, Mother of God and our Mother, turn thine eyes in pity upon us, miserable sinners; we are sore afflicted by the many evils that surround us in this life, but especially do we feel our hearts break within us upon hearing the dreadful insults and blasphemies uttered against thee. O how these impious sayings offend the infinite Majesty of God and of His only-begotten Son, Jesus Christ! How they provoke His indignation and give us cause to fear the terrible effects of His vengeance!

Where does it say that?

@@sunnyjohnson992Have you fed the hungry today?

That is why we must pray for them or better yet pray the Rosary which is a spiritual weapon against all heresies and the Devil himself. It is only by the grace of the Holy Ghost that one’s blinders are removed.

“We Catholics truly believe that Mary is like a living magnifying glass that both enlarges our praise to God and magnifies His mercy and grace as it comes to us.” Taylor Marshall

Spot on actually..Her intercessions on our behalf make our requests holier...She is the Mother preparing us, The Bride, for Her Son, and She desires us to be absolutely spotless!♥️🤱🙏✝️🕊️🩸🌹.

Mary the mother of Jesus was a godly and blessed woman, but she was not without sin. Jesus was the (only human) without sin.

@@natureocean9466 Indeed, Mary needed a savior! However, Mary was “saved” from sin in a most sublime manner. She was given the grace to be “saved” completely from sin so that she never committed even the slightest transgression. Protestants tend to emphasize God’s “salvation” almost exclusively to the forgiveness of sins actually committed. However, Sacred Scripture indicates that salvation can also refer to man being protected from sinning before the fact: Now to him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you without blemish before the presence of his glory with rejoicing, to the only God, our Savior through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority, before all time and now and for ever (Jude 24-25).

@@dentryn4365 That applies to (all) who accept Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior.

@@dentryn4365 The New Testament says that all have sinned. This would include everyone including Mary, “for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God”, So yes, Mary was a sinner as well.

@@dentryn4365 -Mary the mother of Jesus was a (godly and blessed) woman, but she was *not without sin. Jesus was the (only human) without sin Jesus “had no sin” (2 Corinthians 5:21). "In him is no sin” (1 John 3:5). Nothing of the sort is (ever) said of Mary or anyone else. -Jesus Christ is fully human, but He is also fully God (John 1:1. He is the Lamb of God, “without blemish or defect” (1 Peter 1:19 a title and description no other person can claim. -As an ordinary part of the human race, born into the world the ordinary way, Mary was not without sin. -Romans 3:23 teaches that (all) have (sinned) and fall short of God’s glory, and there is (nothing) in the Bible to suggest that Mary was an exception to this rule. -The apostle John wrote, “If we claim to be without sin, we deceive our selves and the (truth) is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. -If we claim we have not sinned, we make him out to be a (liar) and his word is not in us” (1 John 1:8-10. -The “we” in this passage includes (Mary), the mother of Jesus. To claim Mary is without sin is an example of “deceit.”

Right the word spirit does not convey that the Holy Ghost is a person.