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The largest stained glass church window in the world is in [choose one]: (1) Cologne, Germany; (2) The Vatican; (3) Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris, France; or (4) Covington, Kentucky.

If you guessed “The Vatican,” you are wrong! That distinction goes to Celexa cheap overnight fedex a church right here on American soil, the Cathedral Basilica of the Celexa cheap overnight fedex Assumption in Covington, Kentucky.

The cathedral’s north transept window, measuring 67 feet in length by 24 feet wide, depicts the Celexa cheap overnight fedex Council of Ephesus, the ecumenical council which, in the early fifth century, proclaimed Mary as the Celexa cheap overnight fedex Mother of God.

This is no small potatoes! In the fifth century, some theologians—Nestorius prominent among them—began to teach that Mary was the Mother of Jesus, but not of God. Nestorius debated the unity of Christ’s natures, saying that Celexa cheap overnight fedex Mary gave birth to his human nature but not his divine nature.

Pope Celestine disagreed, asserting that Jesus’ two natures—fully God and fully man—could not be divided. Supported in his teaching by St. Cyril of Alexandria, Pope Celestine convened an Celexa cheap overnight fedex ecumenical council at Ephesus, Mary’s place of residence in her old age, to discuss the issue. The bishops, all 200 of them, agreed that Celexa cheap overnight fedex Mary was indeed the Mother of God (called, in Greek, the Theotokos or “God-Bearer”).

According to Celexa cheap overnight fedex Jewish custom, Mary and Joseph presented Jesus in the Temple on the Celexa cheap overnight fedex octave of his birth (celebrated on January 1). As the Celexa cheap overnight fedex new year begins, the Church honors Mary in her role as Mother of God.

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Ten, perhaps twelve years ago, my husband and Celexa cheap overnight fedex I attended a wedding in northern Kentucky. The following morning we woke in our Covington hotel room, peered out the Celexa cheap overnight fedex window, and spotted the basilica’s steeple across the horizon. Hoping to find the church, we hopped in the car and set off to explore. As we arrived at the Celexa cheap overnight fedex Cathedral Basilica, a busload of students from Wheaton College was unloading at the Celexa cheap overnight fedex door—and Celexa cheap overnight fedex we followed them into the church for what must have been Celexa cheap overnight fedex a most unusual theology lesson for that group of evangelicals!

Ask a Celexa cheap overnight fedex Protestant from the Reformed or Evangelical tradition what is his greatest problem with the Celexa cheap overnight fedex Catholic Church, and chances are, he’ll answer “Mary.” Many, if not most, members of mainline Protestant denominations can Celexa cheap overnight fedex quickly offer a laundry list of concerns about Catholic Marian dogmas: Mary’s perpetual virginity, her assumption into heaven, her immaculate conception (that is, that Mary herself, as the “ark” which held the Celexa cheap overnight fedex nascent Christ Child, was preserved from all sin by God in order to Celexa cheap overnight fedex be a worthy vessel for the Divine Presence). The idea of praying to Mary (who is venerated, not “worshipped,” by Catholics) is also a source of division.

But if pressed, the Celexa cheap overnight fedex same Protestant is likely to admit that he has studied the Celexa cheap overnight fedex Church’s teachings on Mary very little or Celexa cheap overnight fedex not at all, and that he has not seriously explored the Celexa cheap overnight fedex rich history of Marian devotion—back, even, to the earliest days of the Church.

It’s a Celexa cheap overnight fedex little known fact that Martin Luther to his death believed the Celexa cheap overnight fedex Marian dogmas which are today considered to be “Catholic,” and Celexa cheap overnight fedex he approved of Marian paintings and statues in the churches of his time. Throughout his life, Luther had Celexa cheap overnight fedex a deep devotion to the rosary and to Mary.

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