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Entry: The Addams Family Chapel Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/the_addams_family_chapel#11228 Post contents: A bit more on why the Chapel is built thus: The Holy Friars have soil from the Holy Land that they are buried in for a time, and then their bones are retrieved for the Chapel furnishings. The limited amount of soil accounts for the accumulation through the ages of so many bones (back when vocations were more numerous clearly than today). The one point that John Zmirak did not raise about The Feast of the Immaculate Conception is her reception of the grace of absence of original sin in anticipation. This is an important one for it marks the division between Catholic and Eastern Orthodox understandings of Our Lady Mary’s role (the EO hold that she *did* have *original* sin). For the EO for Jesus Christ to fully receive the Two Natures (divine and Human) and thus allow the redemption of Mankind and ultimate reunion with Godhead Our Lady Mary *must* have original sin, for that is a part of the human nature of the Fall. @ John Ball’s odd extension of Zeno’s paradox on the absence of Original Sin in Our Lady Mary’s Mother (and so on and so on) the obvious answer is the individual distinction of human souls. Ockham would say don’t multiply when one will do. You don’t need Mary’s mother’s mother to have conceived Mary’s mother immaculately when to accomplish the goal you only need Mary Immaculately conceived. In addition, the Creeds teach that Our Lord Jesus Christ descended into hell for its harrowing, redeeming the righteous dead. He’d have a hard time getting a chain of immaculately conceived women outta there, and if they weren’t there, where were they? The bosom of Abraham? Sent at: 2008 08 30