{"id":35457,"date":"2019-05-03T07:16:18","date_gmt":"2019-05-03T11:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=35457"},"modified":"2019-05-03T07:16:18","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T11:16:18","slug":"mary-in-the-theology-of-st-ephrem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2019\/05\/mary-in-the-theology-of-st-ephrem\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary in the theology of St Ephrem"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>In another place, I posted the following on Mary’s place in the theology of St Ephrem.<\/p>\n

The month of May is traditionally known on as the Month of Mary. The Church holds Mary in the highest esteem; she is venerated but not worshipped by Catholics and Orthodox. A Syrian Father, St Ephrem, –the Harp of the Holy Spirit– the fourth century hymnographer, theologian and deacon as something to offer about the Mother of God.<\/p>\n

“As lightning illu\u00admi\u00adna\u00adtes what is hid\u00adden, so also Christ puri\u00adfies what is hid\u00adden in the nature of things. He puri\u00adfied the Vir\u00adgin also and then was born, so as to show that where Christ is, there is mani\u00adfest purity in all its power. He puri\u00adfied the Vir\u00adgin, having pre\u00adpa\u00adred Her by the Holy Spi\u00adrit… having been born, He left Her vir\u00adgin. I do not say that Mary became immor\u00adtal, but that being illu\u00admi\u00adna\u00adted by grace, She was not dis\u00adtur\u00adbed by sin\u00adful desi\u00adres”<\/p>\n

“Most holy Lady, Mother of God, alone most pure in soul and body, alone exceeding all perfection of purity… alone made in thy entirety the home of all the graces of the Most Holy Spirit, and hence exceeding beyond all compare even the angelic virtues in purity and sanctity of soul and body… my Lady most holy, all-pure, all-immaculate, all-stainless, all-undefiled, all-incorrupt, all inviolate spotless robe of Him Who clothes Himself with light as with a garment… flower unfading, purple woven by God, alone most immaculate.”<\/p>\n

“There is in you, Lord, no stain, nor any spot in your mother.”<\/p>\n

“You Jesus and your mother are the only ones who are beautiful in all aspects. Because in you, O Lord, there is no deformation, and in your mother, there is no stain.”<\/p>\n

“The two women were pure and simple, Mary and Eve. One of them, however, became the cause of our death and the other, the cause of our life.”<\/p>\n

St. Ephrem the Syrian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In another place, I posted the following on Mary’s place in the theology of St Ephrem. The month of May is traditionally known on as the Month of Mary. The Church holds Mary in the highest esteem; she is venerated but not worshipped by Catholics and Orthodox. A Syrian Father, St Ephrem, –the Harp of … Continue reading Mary in the theology of St Ephrem<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[32088,2448],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35457"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35459,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35457\/revisions\/35459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}