Answering Every Protestant Objection to Mary (Fr. Josémaría) | Ep. 538

Pints With Aquinas

Matt Fradd

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🗓️ 27 August 2025

⏱️ 149 minutes

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Fr. Josémaría M. Barbin, F.I., is the U.S. Vocations Director for the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate and author of Beloved Disciple: Living Out Your Marian Consecration Daily. Based at the friary in Griswold, Connecticut, he guides men discerning religious life while promoting deeper devotion to Our Lady. He also contributes to Missio Immaculatae magazine, writing on Marian spirituality and even the Marian themes in J.R.R. Tolkien’s work.

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0:00.0	Pines with Aquinas is brought to you by Truthly, which is a groundbreaking Catholic AI app built to help you know, live and defend the Catholic faith.
0:09.3	Start your seven-day free trial today when you download Truthly on the app store.
0:14.7	How do we know that Mary's our mother? What does that mean?
0:17.4	Christians are other Christ.
0:19.5	Whatever the Catholic faith believes about Mary is based on
0:24.0	what it believes about Christ. So if you get our lady wrong, you get our Lord wrong. I hear a lot of
0:31.6	Protestants say, look, I love her. Don't make it seem like I don't love her. I love her. She's great.
0:35.5	She was a good woman. I'm sure she was very holy. But why do we need to have this ongoing relationship with her? Or why do we need
0:41.7	devotions and prayers to her? Good question. Immaculate conception. What does that mean? And why should
0:48.0	we believe it? The way we see our lady, redounce to the glory of Christ. Because this is what the Lord did for his mother.
0:59.5	What does the church not teach about the Blessed Virgin Mary? She does not teach that.
1:09.3	Hey, before we get in today's really, really excellent discussion, I've got some, I got a good
1:14.5	announcement, a big announcement.
1:15.6	It's a big, is it medium?
1:16.6	I don't know.
1:16.9	You tell me.
1:17.5	I'm excited about it.
1:18.6	Starting next week on the 4th of September, over on locals, you can join us for a 33-day preparation for total consecration to Jesus Christ through the Blessed Virgin Mary.
1:33.8	Maybe you've never done it before. Maybe you have done it, but you like to join a community of people doing it again.
1:39.3	We're going to be going through my spiritual father, Father Boniface Hicks' excellent book, The Fruit of Her
1:45.3	Worm. Now, you can buy that book, obviously, but all of the text will be available on locals
1:51.2	for free. So each day, we'll release a new post where we can all read the text together and pray
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