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Very beautiful. The Ark of the New Covenant and the New Covenant within the Ark.

Cool. I've never seen a depiction of the mother while she was pregnant with Christ. It's interesting to think what Mary must've been feeling and thinking after the annunciation when she knew that she was pregnant with Christ. She looks very peaceful in this statue, but she must've been scared or worried some of the time, I think. It's a lot of responsibility to be charged with raising the Messiah. Makes regular parenting seem not so intimidating!

She is worthy of an eulogy!

The Blessed Virgin Mary must have felt very pleased when she was sexually or spiritually "overcome" like in an orgasmic experience by the power of God the Holy Ghost! She was a teenager in full puberty. She was very eagerly submitting to the advances of the proxy agent Saint Gabriel that God the Holy Ghost sent to fix a deal with her. She didn’t hesitate for one moment to comply with the request of a perfect stranger! So it was not a rape, but more like a hottie young girl's dream to lay God the Holy Ghost come true!.

So it appears that as soon as Saint Joseph leaves the house on an errand and the Blessed Virgin Mary stays home alone, God the Holy Ghost “overcomes” her in a most divine copulation of unprotected sex ever recorded in religious history resulting in a positive pregnancy. She was never married to God the Holy Ghost! Saint Joseph is not the legitimate father of the Baby God the Son Jesus Christ! So what does that make Jesus, but a Holy b-a-s-tard? There are plenty of vulgar words that we can use to describe him, but since the Early Church Fathers came up with the brilliant idea to bestow on Mary the title of Perpetual Virginity nobody would dare to call Jesus any vulgar name! So no matter what kind of sexual relation she might have had with God the Holy Ghost MARY’S VIRGINITY WAS NEVER COMPROMISED.

Today, God the Holy Ghost would have landed in jail, but in those days it was very common for young girls to blame any questionable pregnancy on a deity of some sort. That is why none of the Early Church Fathers ever questioned the "virgin" birth. They claimed that a lot of Jewish girls were eagerly expecting to mother the Divine Messiah, but that only Mary was the lucky one! She kept it a secret from Saint Joseph for 6 months! When he found out that she was getting big with child he was going to dump her. The Virgin Mary assured him that she was going to be the mother of God. Fortunately Saint Joseph had a dream that same night confirming her statement so he kept her! Most Christians believe that the Saint Joseph – Blessed Virgin Mary marriage was never consummated. Today Saint Joseph is the Guardian Saint Protector of the Blessed Virgin Mary’s Perpetual Virginity and the Saint Protector of all the Christian believers in the World!

Because of the Holy Trinity connection, the Blessed Virgin Mary became recognized as the Mother of God conceived without the “original sin”™. Always virgin! Her hymen was not torn neither during the intercourse with God the Holy Ghost, nor during pregnancy or at delivery! She is defined as a “Perpetual Virgin”. That is a miracle verified by Saint Salome to the fullest satisfaction of Christianity! Nobody can prove any abuse! In 1950 it became a Church dogma that she ascended bodily into Heaven! Now she is officially the Queen of Heaven and the Mother of God! I don’t believe that she would be complaining about any statutory rape or abuse…!!! God compensated her beyond her wildest dreams!

The Blessed Mother is beautiful, but the image you have chosen, I don't like very much I don't know it is missing something in her face and the posing of the most elegant and gracious Queen of heaven and earth is given no real justice in this image.

Martin Luther wrote the veneration of Mary is inscribed in the very depths of the human heart

September 1522.

One of the oldest catacombs contains a drawing of the Madonna and child dating back to the second century

And the oldest know request to Mary. The Sub Tunm Paresidum dates back to at least 300 AD, It reads

We fly to your patronage oh Holy Theotokosz despise not our petition in our necessities but deliver us always from all dangers o ever glorious and blessed Virgin 300 AD

Martin Luther

Christ, our Savior, was the real and natural fruit of Mary's virginal womb . . . This was without the cooperation of a man, and she remained a virgin after that.

Christ . . . was the only Son of Mary, and the Virgin Mary bore no children besides Him . . . I am inclined to agree with those who declare that 'brothers' really mean 'cousins' here, for Holy Writ and the Jews always call cousins brothers.

A new lie about me is being circulated. I am supposed to have preached and written that Mary, the mother of God, was not a virgin either before or after the birth of Christ . . .

Scripture does not say or indicate that she later lost her virginity . . .

When Matthew [1:25] says that Joseph did not know Mary carnally until she had brought forth her son, it does not follow that he knew her subsequently; on the contrary, it means that he never did know her . . . This babble . . . is without justification . . . he has neither noticed nor paid any attention to either Scripture or the common idiom.

John Calvin

Helvidius displayed excessive ignorance in concluding that Mary must have had many sons, because Christ's 'brothers' are sometimes mentioned.

[On Matt 1:25:] The inference he [Helvidius] drew from it was, that Mary remained a virgin no longer than till her first birth, and that afterwards she had other children by her husband . . . No just and well-grounded inference can be drawn from these words . . . as to what took place after the birth of Christ. He is called 'first-born'; but it is for the sole purpose of informing us that he was born of a virgin . . . What took place afterwards the historian does not inform us . . . No man will obstinately keep up the argument, except from an extreme fondness for disputation.

Under the word 'brethren' the Hebrews include all cousins and other relations, whatever may be the degree of affinity.

Huldreich Zwingli

He turns, in September 1522, to a lyrical defense of the perpetual virginity of the mother of Christ . . . To deny that Mary remained 'inviolata' before, during and after the birth of her Son, was to doubt the omnipotence of God . . . and it was right and profitable to repeat the angelic greeting - not prayer - 'Hail Mary' . . . God esteemed Mary above all creatures, including the saints and angels - it was her purity, innocence and invincible faith that mankind must follow. Prayer, however, must be . . . to God alone . . .

'Fidei expositio,' the last pamphlet from his pen . . . There is a special insistence upon the perpetual virginity of Mary.

Zwingli had printed in 1524 a sermon on 'Mary, ever virgin, mother of God.'

I have never thought, still less taught, or declared publicly, anything concerning the subject of the ever Virgin Mary, Mother of our salvation, which could be considered dishonourable, impious, unworthy or evil . . . I believe with all my heart according to the word of holy gospel that this pure virgin bore for us the Son of God and that she remained, in the birth and after it, a pure and unsullied virgin, for eternity.

Heinrich Bullinger

Bullinger (d. 1575) . . . defends Mary's perpetual virginity . . . and inveighs against the false Christians who defraud her of her rightful praise: 'In Mary everything is extraordinary and all the more glorious as it has sprung from pure faith and burning love of God.' She is 'the most unique and the noblest member' of the Christian community . . .

'The Virgin Mary . . . completely sanctified by the grace and blood of her only Son and abundantly endowed by the gift of the Holy Spirit and preferred to all . . . now lives happily with Christ in heaven and is called and remains ever-Virgin and Mother of God.'

John Wesley (Founder of Methodism)

I believe... he [Jesus Christ] was born of the blessed Virgin, who, as well after as she

brought him forth, continued a pure and unspotted virgin.

"I urge then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone - for kings, for all those in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceful life in all godliness and holiness. This is good and pleases God our Saviour, who wants all men to be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man, Christ Jesus."

Hey i am Catholic!! This Question Brought my Attention Cuz Not Very Many ppl Are Catholic Nice picture

That''s a nice picture. Go to my 360 and tell me what you think of my two Mary in the Apparitions of Guadalupe pictures..

Its a Beautiful Avatar, Wow Marty loved your answer!

Nice carving . But I'm not drawn to it as having any religious significant s.

I LOVED IT,THAT'S PREACHING WITHOUT WORDS , BUT GET READY FOR SOME CATHOLIC BASHING FROM OUR SEPARATED BRETHREN, I HOPE THEY CAN BE MORE CHRISTIAN AND SAY "LOOK I DON'T AGREE WITH GIVE MARY THAT TITLE BUT THAT AVATAR LOOK OK" AT LEAST OR AM I WISHING TO MUCH.