The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-10-20
MARY, MOTHER OF GOD
SERMON by FATHER NICHOLSON Of
SACRED HEART CATHEDRAL
The Doctrine Taught by the Catholic
Church-lneident OF the Heresy OF
Nestorlus and Its Rebuke.

"Wheuce Is this to me, that the mother
Of my Lord should come TO visit me.
Luke 1, 40.
Nineteen hundred years have passed since
those words FIRST fell from the inspired lips
of Elizabeth, the wife Of holy Zachary and
mother Of ST. John the Baptist. Gabriel
mad horne on wings Of love that message
from on high that avenged the sin Of Eden
and crushed the seipcnt's head. That angel
in its heavenly splendor came. not to
gay and sinful city, but to meau nainlet
Of Galllee more obscure than the smallest
village Of Texas is today aud there IN
neat and lowly cottage. before boshtui
virgin, the purcst and the noblest OF Goi
creatures, the archunge Gabriel stood. ne
came 10 announce the aces enlistment OF
Gods PROMISE for which tlC world hau
been waiting for about +kO years.
As the serpent once trimumpheu lnIousn
the weakness Of woman so that serpent
must bc crushed by a woman's victory.
vim nut enmlty between thee and the
woman. between thy seed ana her seed Sne
shall crush thy head aud thou smart I've
IN walt for her heel II was TO announce
that victory the angel Gabriel addressed
the pure timid. humble daughter Of
Joachim and Auna, of Dayids roydl me
the nobest, the falrest the pnrest OF ner
race. Fear not, Mary: behold the Holy
Ghost shall come upon thee and the spirit
OF the Most High shall overshadow thee
ana therefore diso tVe hu MI, ~ Som
porn OF tlee shaH NC OaiiNu NV
God"
AT that moment was planted the seed OF
the yeritable Tree Of Life a tree that IN
three and thirty years was ia bring ioftn
the blessed fruit of our redemption.
the angel disappeared and Mary was lett
10 mediate in holy silence on the greatest
favor ever conferred on mortal pe'ng' tne
privilege Of being chosen mother Of the IN
carDate God
From the moment that her sanity UPS
moved responsive to the angels voice, from
the moment they uttered the m"mtntous
aud. for the world happy words, be ~
done unto me according to thy word
May the virgin among virgins, was ac-
ccptcd as the mother Of the worlds Savior.
Then commenced the six days Journey
through the rugged mountain passes TO
visit Elizabeth In her mountain home. Her
mnd was filled with Que thought, tue
thought Of the God she bore, therefore
there was no worry or anxiety Tor the
Wild surroundings. Though n stranger tray
ehug among strangers, she feared no danger
/ for She knew no sin.
When the Journey was over and the
| cousins met Elizabeth with inspired voice
cried out: whence Is this to me that
| inc mother OF my Lord should come 10
! vjeI+ mo :, thereby testifriug nv nspnStiou
10 the Divine maternity of Mary rnus
did the angels testify at the cradle of
| Bethlehem the shepherds from the hilIsides
faithful. too. OF nigh and low degree re.
yered that trutb FOR iOO wears.
Then arose NestorIus proud. preteptlous
and spnerdclal aud In his efforts 10 dIsplay
| hIq wisdom onIr rcvealed the shallowness
! Of bis LnoNIcdrc III. iauaht that IN Jcsus
Christ there worc two nersons instead Of
one Tho person Of tho man Teyus and the
pereou Of t;od The Word: that commemorative
God. and therefore, that the blessed virgin
was not the mother Of God, MS proved by
divine ana hn l 1estlmop}{ bit tne mother
trina destroyoS alike Tho wSoIe myssc, SV Of
the incarnation. the divinity Of Christ and
he divine maternity OF Mary. Tho Chris
ifon NJ he bnt ma az eS 10
taugth them to his priest aud preached
them to his people tli fred with indgno-
ton they rushed from the churches where
I such basphcmies were preached lie was
called to retract hut rctract he would not.
! When falsehood failed he tried TO win Inv
artdce. lie appealed to n council Of the
Of Ephesus in f31 Two hundred bishops
sat there IN council, at their head the papnl
cyril " Alexandria, ON golden stand in
the midst Of the council the hook Of the
holy gospels 10 represent the Master
Nostorus disobered the summons 10 M
pear His writings were examined and found
wanting. There we're many I'm thar council
warming To yfndiCnfp tho bounr ,f int,