Do Catholics believe Mary was the Holy Spirit incarnate?

Question

'Cause that's what you believe if you believe she was sinless.

Also, this comes from a Marion order in Catholicism. If it offends you, look to your own brothers first, don't blame me, the messenger.

Answer 1

No, back when "How many angels could dance on the head of a pin?" was considered a scholarly question, men came up with a lot of things that are well superfluous to the message of the gospels.
How about we just let the harmless orders be as good as they can be because they,as we do,rely on the promise of forgiveness for our foolish human ways.

Answer 2

No, Catholics do NOT believe that Mary is the Holy Spirit incarnate.

Do you believe that God is incapable of preserving a person from sin? This is what Catholics believe about Mary's sinlessness. Mary was KEPT FROM sin by a special grace of God.

Answer 3

a million Cor. 2:11; Matt. 24:36 The Holy Spirit is the father. to settle on your place would mean figuring out the Holy Spirit as a trifling extension, character, or manifestation of the father.

Answer 4

Adam was originally created sinless, and Adam certainly wasn't the Holy Spirit incarnate.

Eve was originally created sinless, and Eve certainly wasn't the Holy Spirit incarnate.

Mary was created sinless, and Mary certainly wasn't the Holy Spirit incarnate, although the sheer abundance of God's divine life in her soul, from the moment of her conception, was unique in all creation.

Luk 1:28 And the angel being come in, said unto her: Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women.

It was Gabriel who proclaimed Mary's sinlessness, when he stated that she was already FULL of grace (the greek term used means a pre-existing state of grace, with abundance to overflowing ... no room for sin at all).

No authentic Catholic order would ever confuse Mary with the Holy Spirit.

Evidently you would, though.

Answer 5

Mary became incarnate through the power of the Holy Spirit and was made sinless.

Answer 6

I was raised in the Catholic Church and I never heard of such a thing. We believe Mary was holy and the mother of God, but not that she was the Holy Spirit. Are you sure you did not misunderstand ?

Answer 7

She was specially prepare by God in advance to accept His Son for she is the ark of the new covenant, full of grace.
It you had an opportunity to pick your mother it most likely be perfect for you. She was and is a vessel of the holy spirit. I would like more theology behind this claim to better understand your point

Answer 8

Mary was born without sin,i cant understand the connection to the Holy Spirit you are making.

Because Our Lady was born without sin she did not die but instead ascended into heaven.

Answer 9

Your information is in error. The Holy Spirit is God.

Answer 10

NO-You may want to look at what the muslims believe about mary.

The Koran, which is the bible of the Moslems, has many passages concerning the Blessed Virgin.

First, the Koran believes in her Immaculate Conception and in her Virgin Birth. The third chapter of the Koran places the history of Mary's family in a genealogy that goes back through Abraham, Noah, and Adam. When one compares the Koran's description of the birth of Mary with the apocryphal Gospel of the birth of Mary, one is tempted to believe that Mohammed very much depended upon the latter.

Both books describe the old age and the definite sterility of Anne, the mother of Mary. When, however, Anne conceives, the mother of Mary is made to say in the Koran: "O Lord, I vow and I consecrate to you what is already within me. Accept it from me." When Mary is born, her mother, Anne, says: "And I consecrate her with all of her posterity under thy protection, O Lord, against Satan!"

The Koran has also verses on the Annunciation, Visitation, and Nativity. Angels are pictured as accompanying the Blessed Mother and saying, "O Mary, God has chosen you and purified you, and elected you above all the women of the earth."

In the nineteenth chapter of the Koran, there are forty-one verses on Jesus and Mary. There is such a strong defense of the virginity of Mary here that the Koran, in the fourth book, attributes the condemnation of the Jews to their monstrous calumny against the Virgin Mary.

Mary, then, is for the Moslems the true Sayyida, or Lady. The only possible serious rival to her in their creed would be Fatima, the daughter of Mohammed himself. However, after the death of Fatima, Mohammed wrote: "Thou shalt be the most blessed of all the women in Paradise, after Mary." In a variant of the text, Fatima is made to say, "I surpass all the women, except Mary."

This brings us to our second point, namely, why the Blessed Mother, in this twentieth century (1950), should have revealed herself in the insignificant little village of Fatima, so that to all future generations she would be known as "Our Lady of Fatima."

Nothing ever happens out of Heaven except with a finesse of all details.

I believe that the Blessed Virgin chose to be known as "Our Lady of Fatima" as a pledge and a sign of hope to the Moslem people, and as an assurance that they, who show her so much respect, will one day accept her Divine Son, too.

Evidence to support these views is found in the historical fact that the Moslems occupied Portugal for centuries. At the time when they were finally driven out, the last Moslem chief had a beautiful daughter by the name of Fatima.

A Catholic boy fell in love with her, and for him she not only stayed behind when the Moslems left, but even embraced the Catholic faith. The young husband was so much in love with her that he changed the name of the town where he lived to Fatima. Thus, the very place where Our Lady appeared in 1917 bears a historical connection to Fatima, the daughter of Mohammed.

The final evidence of the relationship of Fatima to the Moslems is the enthusiastic reception that the Moslems in Africa and India and elsewhere gave to the Pilgrim statue of Our Lady of Fatima.

Moslems attended the Catholic MASS in honor of Our Lady; they allowed religious processions and even prayers before their mosques; and in Mozambique the Moslems, who were unconverted, began to be Christian as soon as the statue of Our Lady of Fatima was erected.

As those who lose devotion to Mary lose belief in the Divinity of Christ, so those who intensify devotion to her gradually acquire that belief.