Comments on: Our Lady’s Perfect Virginity

By: Matthew

Matthew — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 21:16:00 +0000

Thanks Iosephus! You prompted me to make my latest installment in my “Catholic Masterpieces” feature on my blog on Our Lady of Perpetual Help. God bless you, and may Mary intercede for you!

By: Iosephus

Iosephus — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 18:55:00 +0000

Roman Catholic Sacramentals, as far as I can tell. It says: “From the 12th edition, 1955, published with permission.” The imprimatur is good:

“+ Carolus Hurbertus Le Blond, Episcopus Sancti Josephi”

:) sounds downright medieval, “Le Blond”

By: Matthew

Matthew — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 17:28:00 +0000

You are correct. I did a Google search, and found it in an online version Conformity to the Will of God. Who printed the booklet?

By: Iosephus

Iosephus — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 17:12:00 +0000

I recently purchased a couple of chapel veils from this company for friends here at Cornell. Along with the order came a little booklet Conformity to the Will of God, and the subtitle reads: “Drawn Chiefly from the Writings of St. Alphonsus Liguori.” My guess is that they reprinted the texts which appear in this booklet from St. Alphonsus’ book, Conformity to the Divine Will which you can get from TAN for a couple dollars. And so perhaps the St. Francis de Sales quotation comes from that book.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 16:58:00 +0000

Thank you Iosephus for posting the picture of the Icon of Our Lady of Perpetual Help! I made my consecration to Our Lord through the Immaculate Heart of Mary, according to the formula of St. Maximilian Kolbe, on the Feast of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, 27 June 2003. That icon is my favorite image of Our Lady. After I say the Angelus, I pray Maria, Mater de Perpetuo Succursu, ora pro nobis.

Oh, by the way, where did you get that quote of St. Francis de Sales from your earlier post?

By: Iacobus

Iacobus — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 08:24:00 +0000

Well…I enjoyed it!

By: Clara

Clara — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 08:16:00 +0000

Well, I’ve seen this before, and I’ve never been a fan, but I guess that’s no surprise to anyone.

By: Iosephus

Iosephus — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 07:55:00 +0000

It’s meant to be fun, not to rival Gerard Manley Hopkins. Does it fail to be fun, Doctor?

By: Doctor Asinorum

Doctor Asinorum — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 07:19:00 +0000

Wow, qua poetry, that sucks.

By: Iosephus

Iosephus — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 06:18:00 +0000

I would note that the image I’ve used above was not chosen by me at random, but selected on account of my love for St. Alphonsus Maria de’Liguori–may he love us from heaven! This is the image of Our Lady entrusted by Blessed Pius IX, author of the immortal syllabus errorum, to the church of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer in Rome. She is called Our Lady of Perpetual Help.

By: Tobias Petrus

Tobias Petrus — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 06:05:00 +0000

Quick apologetics: A protestant friend of mine once argued that Our Lady and St. Joseph must have had children together since this was the normal Jewish custom and the contrary would be odd. If any of you should get stuck on this (I don’t know, but it could happen), you might want to avoid arguing from the ambiguity of the koine Greek “adelphoi,” early Church tradition, etc.,etc. and focus on the issue of “normalcy.” Point out that the B.V.M. and St. J. were most certainly NOT a normal couple, and that angelic interventions prevented St. J. from doing the “normal” thing and divorcing Mary when she first was pregnant. It also prevented them from going straight back to Nazareth from Bethlehem. They were were an odd (-ly holy) couple, and one cannot draw inferences from normal Jewish (or human, for that matter) custom. The other guy had no answer.

By: Iosephus

Iosephus — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 05:59:00 +0000

Rosary is, indeed, at 9PM, Monday through Thursday. If you can make it, there will be a Rosary at 5PM in ATH tomorrow afternoon. Bene valeto!

By: Tobias Petrus

Tobias Petrus — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 05:51:00 +0000

Quite apt! As I tried to explain in a post after the Newman article, it is quite a misidentification of Our Lord if you misidentify Our Lady. I can’t believe that Our Lord would give sanctifying grace and real, salvific faith to people only then to forget to tell them that they should call His Mother “Blessed.” I’m not so obtuse as to think that conversion happens over night; I do hold that people who persist in sincere prayer will, this side of the grave, come to know Our Lady for who she is. Once you do that, your involvement in protestantim had better be described in the past tense. I pray (through Mary!) that I may be a better servant of her. Rosary’s still at 9:00?