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 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.

“ 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