Malleus, Incus, and Stapes: Thank heaven for little bones

J.M.J. + O.B.T. + M.G.R.*



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Malleus, Incus, and Stapes...

sounds like the name for a death metal band.

Our Triune God seems to have created a little hidden reminder that "faith comes through hearing" the Word.

God who is absolute and constant created human hearing to reflect this constancy. 

Think of how important it is for human bonding to know your mother's (and father's) voice and to cherish its beauty.  Now what if sounds changed as one grew from newborn to toddler, from toddler to kid, from kid to adolescent...  Get my point?  Ponder this while considering all of life's various relationships and you will see how significant it is.  Beauty wants to be recreated in the brain properly.  Is it live or is it Memorex?

It wouldn't matter if our sense of hearing kept changing, now would it?

God preserves us from this confusion by keeping  the hammer, anvil and stirrup constant shape and size so that sound waves which travel right around 333 meters/second pass through the outer ear's eardrum, into the middle ear to vibrate the three bones; for newly amplified waves to reach the inner ear cochlea and "pluck the strings" that then become electrical signals traveling down the auditory nerve for our brain to faithfully appreciate vocal and musical beauty. 

I am indebted to the Moody Institute and a wonderful old film entitled Dust or Destiny for this auditory appreciation lesson. Its a great film that my kids love.

Let's face the music...we are hardwired for sound and that sound seems awfully triune.

Thank heaven for little bones.

PS Don't do a GOOGLE Image Search on malleus...it proves my point about death metal.  Gulp...

Sincerely yours in Jesus and Mary,
Mike Rizzio

Imitate Mary
Become like Jesus
Live for the Triune God

Seek the Light of Our Lord Jesus Christ
See you on the High Ground!

* - J.M.J. + O.B.T. + M.G.R. stands for:
Jesus, Mary and Joseph;
O Beata Trinitas;
St. Michael, St. Gabriel and St. Raphael

Light, Life and Love and Mary's Relationship with the Triune God

J.M.J. + O.B.T. + M.G.R.*

There is no doublt about it.  There is something to this color scheme.

The Lovely Lady dressed in blue received this color mantle from her Father, Abba in heaven.  It was a gift, not unlike Joseph receiving a coat of many colors from Jacob. In both instances there is "favoritism" from a light sensitive parent to a special child.  The color of grace, pure water from heaven, is most often symbolized as blue.

Mary prayerfully knit and presented Jesus a gift of great value—a red seemless garment. "The Robe" was a symbol for his life as one destined from all eternity to be mankind's King and Saviour through His sacrifice as the Paschal Lamb at Calvary.

The Holy Spirit who is the love between the Father and the Son and peace is green as the olive branch, and the Trees that give their fruit in season in heaven. (Rev. 22)

Father, Son, Holy Spirit...Light, Life, Love...Blue, Red, Green

Keep an eye on the little guy...

Sincerely yours in Jesus and Mary,

Mike Rizzio

Imitate Mary

Become like Jesus

Live for the Triune God

Seek the Light of Our Lord Jesus Christ

See you on the High Ground!

* - J.M.J. + O.B.T. + M.G.R. stands for:

Jesus, Mary and Joseph;

O Beata Trinitas;

St. Michael, St. Gabriel and St. Raphael

Megatons of Grace..."three drops of her most pure blood"

 

J.M.J. + O.B.T. +M.G.R.*

A GOOGLE Search  on "three drops of Mary's  blood"
yields only 2 responses...hmmmm?

A second GOOGLE Search on "three drops of her most pure blood"
yields only 24 responses...curious

A third GOOGLE Search on "three drops of blood"

yields 3,770,000 responses

2 to 24 to 3,770,000

We need to get the word out. 

http://www.themostholyrosary.com/mystical-city-vol-ii.pdf


Here is the text from
Venerable Mary of Agreda's
Mystical City of God:
The Incarnation
p. 110-111

Venerable Mary of Agreda, circa 1643

137. Therefore this great Lady considered and inspected profoundly this spacious field of the dignity of Mother of God (Prov. 21, 11) in order to purchase it by her fiat; She clothed Herself in fortitude more than human, and She tasted and saw how profitable was this enterprise and commerce with the Divinity. She comprehended the ways of his hidden benevolence and adorned Herself with fortitude and beauty. And having conferred with Herself and with the heavenly messenger Gabriel about the grandeur of these high and divine sacraments, and finding Herself in excellent condition to receive the message sent to Her, her purest soul was absorbed and elevated in admiration, reverence and highest intensity of divine love. By the intensity of these movements and supernal affections, her most pure heart, as it were by natural consequence, was contracted and compressed with such force, that it distilled three drops of her most pure blood, and these, finding their way to the natural place for the act of conception, were formed by the power of the divine and holy Spirit, into the body of Christ our Lord. Thus the matter, from which the most holy humanity of the Word for our Redemption is composed, was furnished and administered by the most pure heart of Mary and through the sheer force of her true love. At the same moment, with a humility never sufficiently to be extolled, inclining slightly her head and joining her hands, She pronounced these words, which were the beginning of our salvation:"Fiat mihi secundum verbum tuum"; (Luke 1,31).

138. At the pronouncing of this "fiat," so sweet to the hearing of God and so fortunate for us, in one instant, four things happened. First, the most holy body of Christ our Lord was formed from the three drops of blood furnished by the heart of most holy Mary. Secondly, the most holy soul of the same Lord was created, just as the other souls. Thirdly, the soul and the body united in order to compose his perfect humanity. Fourthly, the Divinity united Itself in the Person of the Word with the humanity, which together became one composite being in hypostatical union; and thus was formed Christ true God and Man, our Lord and Redeemer.

Sincerely yours in Jesus and Mary,

Mike Rizzio

Imitate Mary

Become like Jesus

Live for the Triune God

Seek the Light of Our Lord Jesus Christ

See you on the High Ground!

* - J.M.J. + O.B.T. + M.G.R. stands for:

Jesus, Mary and Joseph;

O Beata Trinitas;

St. Michael, St. Gabriel and St. Raphael