{"id":64577,"date":"2017-06-04T23:52:17","date_gmt":"2017-06-05T06:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=64577"},"modified":"2021-05-24T07:32:13","modified_gmt":"2021-05-24T14:32:13","slug":"mary-and-the-early-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2017\/06\/04\/mary-and-the-early-church\/","title":{"rendered":"TEA: Mary and the Early Church (St. Ignatius)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Mary.jpg\" alt=\"Mary\" width=\"860\" height=\"573\"><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, I visited&nbsp;St. Ignatius Catholic Church in Los Angeles. The St. Ignatius Women&#8217;s Group invited me to give a presentation on the Blessed Virgin and the Early Church. This was a a longer version of a&nbsp;talk <a href=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2017\/01\/26\/how-i-met-your-blessed-mother\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">I had previously given<\/a> at St. Brigid&#8217;s here in San Diego.<\/p>\n<p>Over the course of forty-five minutes,&nbsp;I told the story of my initial struggles concerning&nbsp;Mary and the Catholic Marian doctrines, explaining how I eventually came to see the truth and beauty in the Catholic Church&#8217;s teaching concerning the Blessed Virgin. The audio and the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/MaryandtheEarlyChurchHandout.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">handout<\/a>&nbsp;are both available for download.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mary and the Early Church<\/strong> (<a href=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Mary-and-the-Early-Church.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Download<\/a>)<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-64577-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Mary-and-the-Early-Church.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Mary-and-the-Early-Church.mp3\">http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Mary-and-the-Early-Church.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>I was invited to speak to the group at&nbsp;St. Ignatius by a long-time reader of this blog. If you&#8217;re also interested in having me speak to a group at your parish or at a Diocesan Theology On Tap, please see my <a href=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/speaking\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Speaking page<\/a> for examples of other recorded talks. <a href=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/contact\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Just send me an email<\/a> and we can work out the details! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I visited&nbsp;St. Ignatius Catholic Church in Los Angeles. The St. Ignatius Women&#8217;s Group invited me to give a presentation on the Blessed Virgin and the Early Church. This was a a longer version of a&nbsp;talk I had previously given at St. Brigid&#8217;s here in San Diego. Over the course of forty-five minutes,&nbsp;I told the story of my initial struggles<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64581,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1908],"tags":[2226,2913,1566,2969,4100,2640,4343,1432,4344,4333,4342,184],"class_list":["post-64577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faith","category-mp3-download","tag-blessed-mother","tag-christian-history","tag-church-history","tag-featured","tag-los-angeles","tag-mary","tag-new-ark","tag-new-eve","tag-new-queen","tag-restless-pilgrim-tour","tag-st-ignatius-catholic-church","tag-theotokos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/MaryFeatured.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64577"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81464,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64577\/revisions\/81464"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}