tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7534539169157708222.post3659627832447615603..comments2024-03-26T12:19:52.801-04:00Comments on Tea at Trianon: Faith, Reason and the Virgin Birthelena maria vidalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17129629173535139807noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7534539169157708222.post-5460310575847191752010-12-13T19:58:42.746-05:002010-12-13T19:58:42.746-05:00Exactly. It's in the Preface of Christmas whic...Exactly. It's in the Preface of Christmas which, since most Masses are in English, people MUST have heard at some time. Nothing is impossible with God.elena maria vidalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17129629173535139807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7534539169157708222.post-29672445635626003552010-12-13T19:51:45.640-05:002010-12-13T19:51:45.640-05:00Thanks for posting this, Elena! Many very devout C...Thanks for posting this, Elena! Many very devout Catholics do not realize this is an official teaching and still insist Christ was born the same way their own children were born. <br /><br />The way I think of it is that Mary, as the Immaculate Conception, is the New Eve, and as she is free of Original Sin, she is also free of the consequence of that sin, namely the pain and method of childbirth we experience today, which Scripture says Eve's sin brought upon all of future womankind. Certainly the pain was not part of childbirth before the Fall, and perhaps the means of birth was meant to be different in Paradise (Eden) as well. Mary, the New Eve, is as woman was meant to be from the beginning of creation.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com