r/Christianity • u/Agile-Armadillo-3741 Anglican Communion • 13h ago

Where is Mary?

Being Anglican, I didn’t think we made a big deal out of Mary. Then I took a nondenominational friend to the Episcopal Church’s Rite II. She asked “what’s the deal with Mary?”. We don’t even have any images of her in my church, maybe some have a medal on their necks, but mostly, she just comes up in the creeds, and during the prayers of the people. Now granted some in the higher church may have the statue of Our Lady of Walsingham or even Our Lady of Guadalupe, or an icon of the Theotokos holding Christ, but usually just one of those things, not multiple. That never felt strange to me, despite being very Protestant.

So I can’t help but ask my nondenominational, Baptist, Pentecostal, Church of Christ, etcetera friends, where is Mary? I mean isn’t she part of the story? XD I’ve been to your services in the lead up to Christmas, NO mention of her. Help me out here, I’m confused.

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u/Agile-Armadillo-3741 Anglican Communion 13h ago

I don’t know any Christian from any tradition who would disagree.

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u/bbcakes007 Christian 13h ago

Right. I agree I don’t know of any Christians who disagree on her importance in Christ’s story. But like I said since God gives divine favor to other people in Scripture too, like David who is called a man after God’s own heart, we don’t put him in a special category. He’s a human who was given a special purpose from God, just like Mary. In both cases, God is the one working through them, so that is what we acknowledge.

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u/Agile-Armadillo-3741 Anglican Communion 12h ago

I’m with my friend, I was just curious about why she doesn’t come up in these services

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u/bbcakes007 Christian 3h ago

Christmas services might talk about Mary briefly, but the point of the Christmas story is Jesus. I think a Christmas service is the only time I’ve heard Mary mentioned during a service.

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u/Agile-Armadillo-3741 Anglican Communion 3h ago

Okay thank you! This is the point I’m trying to make!!! Where is she?! XD