As well they should, just as we praise God - The lesser praises the greater, yes?
she was blessed and fulfilled her God given duty.
I recall Her being asked and consenting, but not being given the command of a duty...
does this mean she was sinless?
Was Eve, the First Woman, Gune, sinless prior to eating the forbidden fruit?
Did Eve have God Living in Her Womb for 9 months?
How much sin do you think you will find in the Woman Mary who did?
can understand why God picked a virgin and made such a miraculous birth for Christ,
I cannot begin to understand it... I can only receive it in the Faith of Christ and struggle to abide...
His resurrection was miraculous too,
Utterly and ineffably...
you would think after giving birth to the Son of God you would just remain a virgin,
It is built in to her query of the Angel Gabriel that she had committed herself to virginity from the beginnings...
I dunno but it matters not one tiny bit
I makes ALL the difference, because by having done what she did, consenting to the conceiving of God in Her virgin womb, She became the Mother of God in the flesh...
And by this we, who are the many BRETHREN of Christ in the Household of God on earth, and members of His Holy Body, gain Her as OUR Mother together with Christ...
Just as fallen Eve is our Mother in fallen flesh, so too is Mary our Mother in Christ -
And by this, She is the Mother of our Salvation and the Ekklesia, which IS Christ's Holy Body...
Her life teaches without words that purity is the condition for Christ being perfected in us...
And no one perfected Christ's incarnation in themselves in the flesh...
In this she is without peer, and the Angels themselves glorify her...
because she accepted Christ as her Savior in the end and that's all that matters.
She did WAY more than that...
Nothing wrong with adoration towards Mary, I myself see her as a remarkable woman and God is well pleased with her.
Well, that is a good, if scanty minimalist, beginning!
All are required to die once, all fall short, all are saved in Christ only as there is no other way to the Father but by him, Mary is not an exception IMHO
Sinlessness is not Salvation...
God's Life as our Life IS Salvation - That is why it is a Gift that cannot be earned... That ONLY God CAN Give...
Christ was born in the sinless death that Mary gave to Him, and His Life on earth overcame the world and destroyed in Christ's Body that inherited death by His Holy Death on the Cross...
Arsenios
