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• Title: Ect on Mary (Letter) (Letter to the Editor)
• Author : First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life
• Release Date : January 01, 2010
• Genre: Religion & Spirituality,Books,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 64 KB

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Your well-written article on the Blessed Virgin Mary in November 2009 ("Do Whatever He Tells You," subtitled "A Statement of Evangelicals and Catholics Together") offers a very good start for further dialogue on the subject of our most holy Mother in Christ. Though many good points were made on both sides, for the purpose of stimulating a deeper engagement, I note here two serious weaknesses: one in the section titled "A Catholic Word to Evangelicals," on the meaning of Sacred Tradition; the other as an important omission in "An Evangelical Word to Catholics," on the concept of merit. The weakness on the Catholic side stems from a failure to define the most basic element of Church teaching: Sacred Tradition. Given the erudition of your article, I presume your avoidance of this "stumbling block" for Evangelicals is intentional. But Sacred Tradition is like the proverbial elephant in the living room. One cannot avoid it and then talk profitably about Mary. On the other hand, when Sacred Tradition is understood and accepted, it opens the whole field of Catholic teaching and practice, including everything to do with Mary. Indeed, when the meaning of Sacred Tradition is grasped, one understands that the Church founded by Jesus Christ, which is both visible and invisible like Christ, is a living marvel consisting of an astonishing supernatural union of the living God and human beings. It is truly the Mystical Body of Christ, with Mary, the Mother of Christ, as our spiritual Mother.

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