And as Coleridge said "Mary is the one bright hope of our bespotted race" and as the old Post Communion Collect has it "and hHe gives us Mary that we might hope still more".Blessings. GDVW+ > > David is the antetype of we poor humans who struggle with our humanity. > He > gives us hope. > > MLW+ > > -----Original Message----- > From: The Rev GDVWiebe SSC.,PhD [mailto:gdvw@...] > Sent: Monday, October 23, 2006 7:40 PM > To: faithandlife@... > Subject: [FaithandLife] The Queen Mother 2 > >> Psalm 45 is also cited as an allegorical allusion/reference to the > Regina Coeli. As for David (and all his troubles) does it not say > somewhere that he was 'one after God's own heart' as well?" Blessings. > GDVW+ > > > > > >>That is quite true. There is an allegory in the OT about King Solomon >> welcoming his mother Bathsheba who of curse was David's Queen and that >> thus the BVM is the "Queen Mother"..." >> >> Now I thought it was David who was a type of Christ, mystigogically >> anyway? That would make David the type of Christ, Bathsheba a type of >> the >> Church and Solomon a type of the individual soul. I bet I can find some >> ascetical-mystical theologicans who agree with that. >> gms+ >> >> -- >> To unsubscribe, send ANY message to: >> faithandlife-unsubscribe@... >> >> > > > > ----------------------------------------- > Catholic Financial Services > Send and Receive all online Payments And Donations > No Merchant Account Required! > https://www.catholicfs.org/ > > -- > To unsubscribe, send ANY message to: > faithandlife-unsubscribe@... > > -- > To unsubscribe, send ANY message to: > faithandlife-unsubscribe@... > > ----------------------------------------- Catholic Financial Services Send and Receive all online Payments And Donations No Merchant Account Required! https://www.catholicfs.org/