that He took possession of His body after its birth, and left it before its death; others, that in Him there were two persons, etc. "I don’t see,” said a Protestant to a Catholic friend, "why you Catholics make such a fuss over your devotion to the Virgin.” “ It is,” was the reply, because ‘ Mary, the Mother of God,’ is the most fundamental dogma of our faith.” And such, in truth, it is. Eve sought to make Adam equal to God: but to the new Eve, Mary, it fell to make man God Himself.
Q. Was Jesus Christ always God?
A. Jesus Christ was always God, as He is the second Person of the Blessed Trinity, equal to His Father from all eternity.
The Word of God
“ A word,” says the dictionary, “ is a sign expressing an idea.” Thus a word may be either oral or written, and it may even be a picture such as the hieroglyphics of the ancients. The human eye forms a word, or sensible picture, of the object seen, and the mind from this sensible word forms an intellectual word or representation of the same object. It is thus we examine and admire things and study the different ways in which our ideas may be modified and imitated in the material world. So, too, God contemplating His own divine essence forms a word, — the Word of God, the second Person of the Trinity, in whom all things had their first ideal existence; who though distinct from God, is God Himself since falling within
