"easily dismissed".
You're too much! Ha!!
MLW+
-----Original Message-----
From: GMSpencer@... [mailto:GMSpencer@...]
Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 2:19 PM
To: faithandlife@...
Subject: Re: [FaithandLife] The Orthodox View of the 'Immaculate
Conception'(died1966)
"Certainlyt,
perpetual virginity has never been a Jewish virtue! With regards to
entrusting Mary to John...I don't how much we can really read into it
considering Jesus' explosive ideas about family. Loyalty to family is
one of the ideas he roundly attacks in the Gospels"
I think virginity is a virtue for the unmarried and even Peter says it is ok
in marriage if the couple agrees. But I agree with you that one reading of
this passage is that Jesus radically deconstructs the family with this
action. It is secondary and easily dismissed by the Church.
gms+
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