To understand the role Mary played in the scheme of God, one must untie those shackles of unwavering, hardened beliefs they grew up with.
―Don Okolo
This piece could well mean that my bosses would have no choice but to cut me loose. They would have found the one reason they were looking for to give me a stiff kick in the pants, fire rounds of invectives (denunciations) as I am nearing the exit, to propel me further into the larger barracks, into the steaming cracks of those who wear the same mantle as I do.
Inside this garrison, you will find grief-stricken men wallowing in a pit of squalor, but holding their heads up, and looking to add to their own demise by firing more exclusive rants at the very face of insouciance, (rudeness)…that is, at the face of those that caged them.
I have never been one that would stroke an ego, nor would I blow that proverbial smoke up your innards to palliate your wild, indisposed constitution. In other words, I could not care what the larger Christian community believes, even as I am an enthusiastic, passionate follower of that faith. If you asked me, I would tell you this; more than seventy percent of all Christians do not understand the very tenets of their belief. Christians are saucy with what they believe in. Ask a great many of them, and they will tell you that one can only get to Heaven, only if one followed Jesus Christ. I will leave that alone and tell you the reason behind this article: Her name is Mary, and she is the Mother of God. Let that sink in for a while.
Christians love the Messenger of God, (Yeshua, The Anointed One) but they despise the one through whom God granted them the Messenger.
Christians love the Messenger of God, (Yeshua, The Anointed One) but they despise the one through whom God granted them the Messenger. (Mary, his mother) It was a package deal. You could not accept one and discard the other. You should hear some of the vulgarity they attribute to the one God created especially for that purpose. Over the years, I have tried to reason with some of these so-called Christians, and I have failed woefully in those attempts.
Harvard minister, Peter Gomes, told a joke once about Jesus Christ receiving a Protestant theologian at the pearly gates and making appropriate introduction. “Ah, Professor, I know you have met my Father, but I don’t believe you know my mother.” It is in this same vein that I bring you a somewhat similar joke, Chicago’s own priest, the right Reverend, Fr. Andrew Greeley delivered in a sermon. “Once upon a time, the Lord went walking through the streets of heaven, and he saw a lot of people who had no business being in heaven at all. So, the Lord goes to the gates of heaven, where Saint Peter sits at his laptop. He says to Saint Peter.
“Simon Peter, you’ve let me down! There are people with no business being here, and you let them in.”
“Boss, it is not my fault,” Peter says.
“Well,” says the Lord. “Who let them in?”
“I don’t want to tell ye, because ye’ll be angry,” Peter says.
“Ye better tell me, I am the boss around here,” the Lord says.
“Well, all right, but ye won’t like it. I tell them folks they can’t get in, and they go around to the back door, and your mother lets them in.”
“O hell, I knew it…” (I had to add that last quip from the Lord to make a point.)
That point is this; Mary, The Mother of God, would go all the way to intercede for you, even if you did well all your life throwing her under the bus. It is the assumption that we know everything there is to know about the realm of God that really aggravates me. If anyone genuinely believes that they have indeed figured God out, they should talk to Lucifer, the devil, and see how he fared with that cockamamie belief.
If anyone genuinely believes that they have indeed figured God out, they should talk to Lucifer, the devil, and see how he fared with that cockamamie belief.
This is the one place where Christians failed miserably. Did Lucifer not believe that he had God figured out? How many Christians have had time to sit complacently and dwell inside the rigors of disjointed precepts…holy and unholy? There are things the bible did cover, and those things it could not cover? The fluidity in the understanding of God cannot be contained, completely understood, and then re-configured to flow a certain way. Did our basic principles of education not tell us to question everything? To understand the role Mary played in the scheme of God, one must untie those shackles of unwavering, hardened beliefs they grew up with.
Here is an undeniable fact…and this is applicable here on earth. Our entreaties to God should be advanced this other way. From the twelfth Century Theologian, Bernard of Clairvaux: “If you fear The Father, go to The Son, if you fear the Son, go to The Mother.”
The Father, if a plea comes from His Mother, will get it done. Example: The miracle in Cana…the water into wine phenomenon, was coerced. The guys running the show did not go to him, they went to his mother to plead their case. The woman went to her son and asked him to do something he did not want to do…because it was not his time. Yeshua did not want to be rushed by anyone. But when the one persuading him (is) his mother, he could not rewrite his own law of; ‘Honor thy father and thy mother.’ That was the miracle where it all began.
And then, this:
Being pregnant with the second person in the Trinity has its privileges. I will dare you to challenge that fact. If you are a creative thinker, you would see the genial, supernaturally expansive platform Mary was playing in at the time. You would also be able to deduct simple, solid state, dramatic actions based on gazillion storylines before you.
Mary’s womb, for me, was a sanctuary of God proper. Mary saw things with the Eyes of God; the galaxies were in her purview…literally.
The possibilities should be endless as to what Mary would have been able to do at the time because she was carrying YOUR GOD in her womb; it would have been unfathomable. It is insane to think restrictedly, and wallow in that shallow pool of poor narratives, where the strictures of inane straight forwardness does not allow you to follow the meandering trajectories of prospects. This was Heaven’s own version of a theme park, where she alone had exclusivity. If you must know; she would have been able to raise the dead, heal the sick if she had wanted to…at the time Jesus was growing in her womb. That womb, for me, was a sanctuary of God proper. Mary saw things with the Eyes of God; the galaxies were in her purview…literally. Her Body was transformed…at least for those nine months, into the Hallowed Singularity of The Absolute One. If you think I have blasphemed, this is one I can live with. Hello?
What would you expect from the quintessential pious woman? I put forth this one nerve-wracking fact; that the one we refer to as The Mother of God, did not die, and could not have died…for this one simple reason; even Catholics will have a hard time believing this: Her Body could not have suffered death for a smidgeon of decay to set in the Body that gave life to God…as Man.
♦ Don Okolo, Professor and filmmaker, is on the Editorial Board of the West African Pilot News. He is the author of many books.
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2 comments
Onwuka Florence
August 23, 2020 at 10:01 am
Mary is first sanctuary of our saviour. Through her we get our petitions answered. May Virgin Mary Continue to intercede for Amen.
Thanks Prof. Don Okolo
Don Okolo
August 23, 2020 at 7:35 pm
Florence Onwuka
Daalu. You are right. Mary, The Mother of God is larger in the realm of God than what most Christians believe.
Don Okolo