Answering Your Questions About Mary and Her Immaculate Conception

there's an interesting thing whenever we start talking about mary again as i've always mentioned in all these videos people get all like they got a little nervous because they're like what are you gonna say about mary cause it takes away from jesus like false doesn't take away from jesus hi my name is father mike schmitz and this is ascension presents there is this uh dogma of mary actually there's four dogmas of mary uh regarding mary we're gonna get to the marian dogma in just a second but let's let's let's highlight this number one from the cross jesus said to the beloved disciple that's your mother and to his mother that's your son in doing so jesus gave mary as mother of all of us that is what all christians have believed for all time like the interpretation of that the interpretation of that has been for all christians from the beginning has been that from the cross in a moment of agony when he's being poured out jesus is not just entrusting his mom to the care of john the beloved he is entrusting his mom to all of us and he's trusting us to his mom he's giving us his mother as our mother so what it goes on to say from that moment he took her from that hour john took her into his home so that's what we were supposed to do too so number one jesus gave to us to her gave her give us to each other from the cross number two some people say maybe i've mentioned this before but some people think like but if i if i love mary i'm gonna love jesus less false sorry let's let's clarify is it possible to love the creature more than the creator absolutely is it is it possible to love the creation more than the creator absolutely i mean there are people in this world who are more preoccupied with nature than the one who made nature right there's people in this world who are more uh captivated by the universe than the one who made the universe and so yes is it possible to love the creation of the creator so much that actually takes away from your love for the creator definitely that can be that can happen so is it possible for someone to have uh more love for uh so much love for one of god's saints that you stop loving god yes i mean technically that's possible so don't do that but what is our loving mary supposed to do what it's supposed to do is supposed to increase our love for him i mean because he here's a little quick story i keep saying i might have shared this before because i keep thinking maybe i showed this before but here if i did here it is again and if i didn't hear this for the first time so i remember getting ready to get i remember dating this gal and and getting to know her and getting uh to fall in love with her and just being so like i wanted to marry this woman um and at one point she's like hey i want you to meet my mom and dad am i my little brother and i was like no that's ridiculous i don't want to meet your mom and dad i don't want to meet your little brother that's the dumbest thing i've ever heard i didn't say that because i was a good boyfriend when you love someone of course you want to meet their family of course you want if they love their parents and their parents love them then you want to meet those people in fact meeting her mom and dad was great and what i found was the more and more i got to know them the more i got to know her the more i loved them the more i loved her there were even times when you know i'd be we'd be visiting her family and like she and her mom would go do something so i would hang out with her dad and there's this sense of like that's kind of normal in fact to have our heart our love grow even more for the person who is our beloved because you love their family is completely normal and that is also the case when it comes to the saints specifically the saint we call mary the mother of god right because we're meant to love god is he's he's the one who is the center of our lives right he he captures captures our heart he's the beloved oh guess where the beloved he's the lover the more and more we love his mom the more we actually end up loving him it's this mystery but it happens it's the reality talking about mary sometimes uh people are like get i'm nervous but you don't have to be nervous because jesus gave her to us from the cross and because loving her more means loving jesus more some people have said this they say some people will say this quote i can't remember which saint said it but it's good quote he said you can never love mary too much um you couldn't possibly possibly love her more than her son like more than her son loves her you know yeah that's awesome that's great okay last thing immaculate conception i mentioned there's four marian dogmas there is the uh mary is the mother of god we have uh the immaculate conception at that from the first moment of her conception um jesus preserved mary from all state of original sin by merits of his future life death and resurrection number three is the assumption of mary into heaven and number four is the professor of virginity of mary okay so we're gonna focus on the immaculate conception but one of the things i want to emphasize when it comes to the immaculate conception is how it relates to you and to me right now now because of the immaculate conception mary gets to play a role in a redemption just like saint paul played a role in our redemption by giving us you know a big portion of the new testament just like peter played a role in our redemption by being the first pope and being one of the apostles just like the person who brought you to jesus played a role in your redemption like it's it's we're not taking anything away from jesus to say that mary played a role in the redemption of the world because you have a role as well in the redemption of the world and that's the key you have a role there are some people will be like i don't like that mary is uh has is the immaculate conception i don't like this this doctrine or this dogma that mary out of all human humanity was preserved from all state of original sin by the merits of her son's future life death and resurrection and i think why they think well because i wasn't you know i wasn't preserved from that i still have to deal with original sin i still have to deal with my own fallen nature say okay but here's the thing that's because your role is different than hers one of the the the hidden truths underneath this dogma of the immaculate conception is that god gives us everything we need for the role that he's created us to accomplish again god has given us everything we need to accomplish the role that he's entrusted to us now there there might be a lot of things that you and i want to do with our lives that we were not called to do that we weren't created to do that we haven't been redeemed to do and we might even do those things we might have all the gifts capabilities you might have the qualifications to do a bunch of different things but you also might not have the gifts the qualities the qualifications the abilities to do a bunch of the different things that you and i want to do but you and i have everything we need we have everything we need to play the role to accomplish the task to to live the mission that christ has placed you on this earth to live we have absolute confidence in this and one of the things the immaculate conception does is not only reveal god's love for us in in through mary and through his his plan of salvation like all these things but another thing that the immaculate conception reveals is that what god has done in mary in giving her everything she needed to accomplish the role that he assigned her to or essentially god is going to also he has or he will give you everything that you need to accomplish the mission that he has for you as a father or a mother as a single man a single woman as a son as a daughter as a brother or sister as a human as a disciple of jesus he has or he will give you everything you need you don't have to be afraid of that you don't have to worry but what if i get to that moment i don't have the gift if that's something he's called you to he will supply everything you need and that's what saint paul says right i'm confident that the lord god will supply everything that you need maybe not what you want maybe not everything you want maybe not everything i want but he will give you everything you need and that's one of the reasons why we get to thank god for giving mary uh his mother as our mother from the cross that's one of these we get to thank god and say i love you even more lord the more i get to know and love her and we get to thank god because in the immaculate conception one of the things he reveals is that everything he has called us to he will absolutely equip us for anyways that's wrong visual presents my name is father mike god bless [Music] you

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Length: 8min 47sec (527 seconds)

Published: Wed Dec 09 2020