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 GOD THE FATHER, WHO SENT HIS ANGEL, GABRIEL, TO PROCLAIM TO HER, AND ONLY TO HER,
"HAIL, FULL OF GRACE, THE LORD IS WITH THEE. BLESSED ART THOU AMONG WOMEN".
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 November 15, 2001
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