LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

JOY provides sanity

I am truly saddened to read that your computer systems were hacked. I wanted to say thank you for your magazine. The best part, the peace in my day (every day) is when I sit down at night to read my Bible and the articles that you publish. It is my sanity in this busy world.

Greg Olfin

Mother Mary should be loved and appreciated

It was a real breath of fresh air to read Dr. Victor Kuligin’s article on the blessed Virgin Mary in the May issue of JOY!. Congratulations for this, as it in some way also recognises that the magazine caters (and must cater) for the entire Christian ‘market.’ It has always been a source of enormous hurt and anguish to me when some treat Mary with disdain, indifference, or even contempt, which seems prevalent in certain Protestant sectors. A point of interest here is that many Saints of the Catholic Church (those distinguished by the heroic practice of the Theological and Cardinal virtues), contend that an individual’s disdain for the blessed Mother is a sure sign of reprobation – and such an individual will necessarily be deficient in his knowledge of and genuine love for our Lord Jesus Christ!

While admiring the good doctor’s courage to take up an issue which is sometimes almost an unmentionable, there are a number of points I would like to raise that I feel could be accentuated and therefore give added justification to some of his assertions. Space does not permit some observations on the Immaculate Conception nor the Perpetual Virginity and