if mary is still a virgin and without original sin.......?

Question

why does Matthew 13:55 say, " Is this not the carpenter's son/ is not His mother called mary? And his brothers James, Joses, Simon, and judas?"
and
why in the opening stanza of Mary's Magnificant does she speak of her God as her "savior"?
Testimony from Mary's own lips says that she needed redemption.

notice someone said, what the "church" teaches. NOT what the Bible teaches. Catholics, you are so lost!

Answer 1

"The Magnificat"


Luke 1:46-55

And Mary said, My soul doth magnify the Lord, And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour. For he hath regarded the low estate of his handmaiden: for, behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed. For he that is mighty hath done to me great things; and holy is his name. And his mercy is on them that fear him from generation to generation. He hath shewed strength with his arm; he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts. He hath put down the mighty from their seats, and exalted them of low degree. He hath filled the hungry with good things; and the rich he hath sent empty away. He hath helped his servant Israel, in remembrance of his mercy; As he spake to our fathers, to Abraham, and to his seed for ever.

Answer 2

I hope you realize how many MARY WORSHIPERS you and I are gonna piss of with this question and answer... I will quote from the Catholic Encyclopedia even though I am not Catholic.
1967, vol. VII, pp. 378-381
acknowledges regarding the origin of the belief: "...the immaculate conception is not taught explicitly in the scriptures...the earliest Church fathers regarded Mary as holy , but NOT as absolutely sinless.

She was a human, ALL of us humans are touched by Adamic sin and imperfection.
Mary had, after Jesus, all the children you mentioned, and a couple of female children also.
For Jesus birth she was a virgin. Joseph her legal husband NEVER touched her until well after Jesus was born and the birth sacrifices for cleaning a woman were made at temple..
Mary ,again was an imperfect human, there for needing redemption like the rest of us. That ment Jesus sacrifice.

It was God Almighty, using his Holy Spirit that put the perfect seed into her womb.
That allowed the first perfect human since Adam was formed to come into existence.
So the real question is not about Mary....It is about your personal faith in the ability of a GOD WHO CREATED the entire universe to give that seed to one faithful and humble human female to Carry and protect.

Answer 3

When forty years of age, Joseph married a woman called Melcha or Escha by some, Salome by others; they lived forty-nine years together and had six children, two daughters and four sons, the youngest of whom was James (the Less, "the Lord's brother"). A year after his wife's death, as the priests announced through Judea that they wished to find in the tribe of Juda a respectable man to espouse Mary, then twelve to fourteen years of age. Joseph, who was at the time ninety years old, went up to Jerusalem among the candidates; a miracle manifested the choice God had made of Joseph, and two years later the Annunciation took place.

Now as we can see those children mentioned in the bible that were Jesus's brothers and sisters were His half brothers and sisters. But Mary was NOT their birth mother. These children were older then Jesus

Answer 4

Some of us Catholics might be lost, but you're simply ignorant.

Because Jesus' flesh had to be sinless, so did Mary's.

If either Mary or Jesus had ever sinned in the flesh, than Satan would have had a legitimate claim on them both, and our redemption would have been impossible.

Mary was privileged to be redeemed by God prior to her own conception, and she was provided by God with the super abundant graces necessary to totally reject all sin, for the purpose of bearing our sinless and holy redeemer.

Absent all this, Jesus could not have been the spotless lamb, and the perfect and eternal sacrifice, for the sins of the world.

Answer 5

Of course Mary needed redemption. Every human being does. What God's Holy Church teaches is that God redeemed Mary in a special way, at the moment of her conception, so that she was born without the effects of Original Sin. But her release from the power of sin was still the work of God, just as our being freed from sin is a work of God.

Answer 6

Look out! dem catholics is gonna gitcha!

Answer 7

No woman remains a Virgin after sex... Mary or Othewise.

Answer 8

she was a virgin before she had jesus, not after...