From: sfp@lemur.cit.cornell.edu (Sheila Patterson)
Subject: Re: Mary's assumption
Organization: Cornell University CIT
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In article <May.11.02.37.01.1993.28111@athos.rutgers.edu>, mpaul@unl.edu (marxhausen paul) writes:|> feeling that "the assumption of Mary" would be better phrased "our

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|> I also don't see the _necessity_ of saying the Holy Parents were some-
|> how sanctified beyond normal humanity: it sounds like our own inability
|> to grasp the immensity of God's grace in being incarnated through an or-
|> dinary human being.  
|> 
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|> paul marxhausen 

Thank you very much Paul.  I have always been impressed by the very human-ness of
Mary.  That God chose a woman, like me, to bring into this world the incarnation
of Himself proves to me that this God is MY God. He reaches down from His
perfection to touch me. Ah, the wonder of it all :-)

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