WHY THE "COOLNESS" TOWARD MARY? by Gary L. Morella
think the "coolness" to Mary is a direct result of the assault on the
Incarnation, the revisiting of the Arian heresy where the "divinity" of Christ
is called into question.
Stop and think about it. If you equate "Christ among us" with his physical
presence in the Blessed Sacrament such as those espousing "community" and
"meal" over the "Holy Sacrifice of the Mass" and our primary obligation to
adore God, what are you really doing? (I am not so sure that "equate" is the
correct verb here anymore, as the "Christ in the tabernacle" is more often
than not subordinate to the "Christ in the community". The evidence for this
is that you can't find tabernacles anymore.) If Christ is in the
community more than he is in the tabernacle, what has Christ been reduced to?
Answer, the same "good ole boy" the Arians thought he was. And if that is all
Christ is, what does that make the Mother of Christ? Certainly, not the
Mother of God, the Mother of the Church, the Woman of the Apocalypse crowned
with twelve stars. How could the mother of nothing more than the Arian
"good ole boy" be deserving of such special veneration?
Unfortunately, this heresy is creeping back into the Church by the refusal
of clergy and laity alike to understand the prominence of Our Blessed Mother
due to her Son obeying the Fourth Commandment of His Father. The beautiful
fiat of Mary in the Magnificat is totally forgotten. Not to venerate Mary is
a slap in the face to her Son who did so above all. Not to venerate Mary is
a knife into the very heart of Christendom and the Catholic Faith because it
is an admission that her Son wasn't really all that important which is exactly
what has been happening in our churches whether of direct or indirect action.
Without Mary, there is no God-man Jesus Christ Son of the Living God as we
profess in the Nicene Creed. Without Mary, there is no Incarnation. To those
who say God could have become man in a different way. The answer is simple.
He chose not to. He chose to humble himself above all by becoming Incarnate of
the flesh of a simple virgin just as He humbles Himself in our tabernacles in
the form of Bread today. Mary, like all of us, is a part of God's providential
plan for the salvation of mankind. To relegate her to some type of
second-class citizen is the height of arrogance and betrays an ignorance of the
Faith of the Church founded by Jesus Christ upon the rock that was Peter. But
if somehow, God Himself has become an embarrassment to the Faith by being
prominent in tabernacles, is it any wonder why His Mother is also?
What is the first recourse to those who are angry with a particular individual?
Answer - to impugn their ancestry. Many are angered with Jesus Christ and
His Church because He and Holy Mother Church, as the Bride of Christ, will not
allow them to be comfortable with their vices.