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Text Box: Cross. Then, when the little sins seek to nibble away at us, to eat us in little bites, their teeth will be shattered as they strike against the wood of the Cross. Then, when the image of beauty and allurement which comes from the sea of iniquity seeks to pull us away from the Cross, our blood which is soaked into the Cross will not allow us to be even slightly removed from the Cross, for being torn from the Cross by anything would be too painful for us to endure. Our very blood being soaked into the Cross makes us incapable of being separated from the Cross unless we consciously and intentionally separate ourselves from it. And that is too painful to even contemplate. Such separation rarely happens, for it is in the Cross that our blood is mingled with the Blood of Christ, becomes intertwined and intermixed with it, becomes one with it. It is the intermingling of our bloods which is difficult to achieve Once joined to the Cross, and become soaked into it, were one to begin to separate from the Cross, the very nakedness and exposure which one would feel would cause one to burrow deeper into the Cross; the tearing asunder of one’s essence would cause one to shrink from that which is outside of the Cross. The Christ Crucified is our salvation not just because He is the Sacrificial Victim, but because we join with Him as the Sacrificial Victim, and receive the benefits of His Sacrifice, of His being the Victim. Ref: 1 Peter 2:11-19; John 16:16-22 +

Text Box: truth, but it is not the truth. No part of the Church makes a person a saint. God and that person make the person a saint. When a person is canonized, there is issued a declaration, a statement, by the Church, that the particular person is a saint. But the declaration is not the thing which makes the person a saint. The declaration that the person is a saint is just an acknowledgment of the fact the particular person is, in fact, a saint, in heaven, united with God. There are millions of saints who have not been declared by the Church to be saints. The Church has no power or ability to make someone a saint. Individuals, by their following God, are the key instrument in their being made a saint, and in receiving the eternal reward for following God, the individual is united with God in heaven for all eternity. Those who are united with God in heaven for all eternity have attained the status of sainthood, and each such individual is a saint. A person who is able to read can be called a reader. The person who taught the reader to read did not make the reader a reader, but without the assistance of the teacher, the reader would not have become a reader. But with the help of the teacher, the reader became a reader. When people observe the reader reading, the people declare the obvious, that the reader is a reader. So too is it with a saint. And unless the saint is a saint through martyrdom, where the act of martyrdom is usually proof sufficient of their sainthood; unless the saint is a martyr, the one for whom a declaration of sainthood is contemplated must meet certain prerequisites, such as having miracles performed in their name or through their intercession. (Each Church Jurisdiction may have slightly differing requirements.) Only then, when proof of union with God has been established, will the individual be declared to be what the individual is thereby shown to be, a saint. The best known saint is also the saint who receives the most disrespect from many who call themselves Christians.

Text Box: But those so called Christians who show this saint disrespect greatly diminish their probability of becoming saints themselves, for this particular saint is the saint most beloved by God and most beloved by those who love God the most. She is The Blessed Ever Virgin Mary. She followed God’s will without hesitation, without reservation, and once God informed her of His desires, she followed that course fully, completely, totally, with every particle and aspect of her very being. No one else has ever or will ever do that. No one else will ever attain her status. The most common attack against The Mother of Christ God is an attack on her perpetual virginity. Many who declare themselves Christians, state she had children after she gave birth to Christ. Those who state, believe, or even consider this can not be Christians, for is so stating they deny what God Himself has stated. Strictly in the flowing of time, if Saint James, who is called the brother of Christ, were the son of the Ever Virgin Mary, since Saint James was older than Christ, Christ could not have been born of a virgin. Christ would not be Christ. But more important is this. As the mother of Christ, the Blessed Ever Virgin Mary is she through whom the human nature of Christ was given to God. Christ is the eternally begotten of the Father. Mary is not God. But with God the Father, she is a parent of Christ God. She therefore is, in a very real sense, wedded to God the Father. She conceived Christ through the overshadowing of the Holy Spirit. In a very real sense, through this overshadowing her being wedded to God the Father was consummated. To be the mother of Christ the Saviour, she had to be a virgin, which she was. Were she to have had other children, those children would have to have been fathered by a human, which would mean she broke her vow of being wedded to God. But we know she did not break her vow to God. We know she is the perpetual virgin mother of Christ God.

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