Welcome to Verity. I'm your host, Felicia Masonheimer, an author, speaker, and Bible teacher.

This podcast will help you embrace the history and depth of the Christian faith,

ask questions, seek answers, and devote yourself to becoming a disciple of Jesus Christ.

You don't have to settle for water down Christian teaching, and if you're ready to go deeper,

God is just as ready to take you there. This is Verity, where every woman is a theologian.

Welcome back to Verity podcast friends. I had to take a little break to plan for our next

four episodes, because they're a little heavier topics. And we are starting back with one of

those awesome topics, which is Maryology, or the theology of Mary, the mother of Jesus.

I get questions about this almost every ask anything Monday, so I thought, why not dive into it

a little bit on here? This will be a shorter episode, because as most of you know, I am not Roman

Catholic, and I'm not Orthodox. So my Maryology is not going to be as robust as it would be,

if I were from one of those church traditions. So in this episode, we will just be talking about

the general understanding of who Mary was, and our response to her as held in the Catholic Church,

and to a degree in the Orthodox Church. The meaning or goal in doing this is to just increase

understanding between Protestants and Catholics when it comes to discussion of Mary. Because

growing up Protestant in a highly Catholic area, I frequently had assumptions myself about

Maryology, but also I noticed that as I grew up alongside my Catholic friends, when we would have

discussions about this, my assumptions are often proven wrong. And so I wanted to just dive into

this a little bit and hopefully increase some of the understanding between my Catholic and Protestant

listeners. Now, just because I'm covering this does not mean that I am completely on board

with every single thing I'm sharing, but I do think it's important, as always, to go directly

to our sources when we're talking about something. So in the event of a primarily Catholic theology,

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