Dear Father Angelo,
I ask you if the Madonna has made apparitions to Protestants? Why don’t they believe that the Blessed Virgin Mary is a Virgin?
Thank you and greetings in the name of Jesus.
Reply from the priest
Dear friend,
The Madonna appeared privately to Adrienne von Speyr, who later became a Catholic. Adrienne von Speyr collaborated extensively with the great theologian von Balthasar.
There have been no public apparitions, like those at Fatima or Lourdes. Moreover, Protestants do not worship Mary.
The reason they do not venerate the Madonna is based on the fact that, according to Luther, man, after original sin, is profoundly corrupt, and God’s grace does not transform him internally. In other words, it does not transform him from a sinner into a saint, from an unjust man into a just man.
And the Madonna would also be in the same condition as sinners.
Mary would have been merely the channel through which God came into the world. But otherwise, she would also be part of sinful humanity.
Protestants recognize Mary’s virginity in the conception of Jesus, but not her virginity during and after childbirth. This is primarily because for them, the only source of Revelation is Sacred Scripture.
According to Catholics and Orthodox, Sacred Scripture should be read in the light of Tradition, which completes it and guarantees its authentic interpretation.
In light of Tradition, Catholics find many connections in Sacred Scripture to support Mary’s virginity during and after childbirth, as you may have noticed from a recent response on our website.
I greet you, I follow you with prayer and I bless you.
Father Angelo
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