u/ChristusResurrexit_

Not a Catholic or planning to be one, but their arguments for it seem valid, eg:

1. The Church has held it as tradition that Mary didn’t experience birth pain, and birth pain is a result of original sin (genesis 3:16), so Mary would have to have no original sin.

2. Genesis 3:15 protoevangelium.
   “And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel,” seems to predict Mary’s complete sinlessness. Perfect enmity with Satan implies no participation in sin. Since original sin places humanity under Satan’s dominion, Mary’s total opposition to the serpent suggests preservation from original sin.

3. Luke 1:28. The Greek phrase kecharitomene is the perfect past principle of the word charitoo, which means to bestow grace or endow grace. The only other time charitoo appears in the New Testament is in Ephesians 1:5-7, where the 3 effects associated with it are being adopted by Christ as sons, redemption and forgiveness. Kecharitomene being the perfect past principle means the bestowing of grace was already done in the past with the effects carrying on into the future, meaning St. Archangel Gabriel calling Mary “full of grace” implies that she was already redeemed, adopted by Christ and forgiven of her trespasses before Jesus was even born or crucified.

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Personally I feel closer to St. Nicholas the Passion Bearer than my patron

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Personally I think he’s a really cool saint but now people are removing the pious aspect from him and just using him to justify w4r

I mean eg St. John of Damascus was a really good theologian, but only people like St. John the Apostle and St. Gregory of Nazianzus are called ‘the theologian’

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