Mary:

A Woman For All Ages

Benny Ortega

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Dedication To seekers of truth and all men and women who love peace

Mary:

A Woman for All Ages

Table of Contents
Introduction .......................................................... 8 Chapter 1 ............................................................ 20 God Has A Plan..................................................... 20 Chapter 2 ............................................................ 44 God and Man in the Work of Redemption ................... 44 Chapter 3 ............................................................. 76 Mary in the Light of the Word................................... 76 Chapter 4........................................................... 146 Real Issues of Morality .......................................... 146 Conclusion ......................................................... 188 About the Author ................................................. 190

The Woman for All Ages Life is truly difficult. The modern man knows he is in trouble. The problems surrounding us today seem to defy common logic or a solution at hand any time soon. Man has been on an eternal quest to understand himself, his community and the circumstances that governs his life. He seeks for answers to the difficulties that dodge his steps at every twist and turn. Every moment of pleasure and happiness is met with an equivalent sum of suffering and pain. He seeks for explanation to the events that surround him. Through the different ages and dispensations of time, man has had to contend against opposing force. Situations that contradict his personal and collective experience, in his dealing with himself and relationship with other members of his community, a shell shock kind of experience that change his beliefs and attitude. He seeks clarification to know why there is so much sufferings and pain in the world. Is the world really beautiful? Are we here for a greater purpose? What are we here for exactly? These and many questions is what man have been asking since the world began. Man has been submerged in a never ending circle of strife, wars, fightings, conflicts and his own personal inner battle. His own personal confusion can make him lose faith in all that he holds dear and true. Such times when words from the bible make little sense, when the comforting words of a priest sound like the rambling of an insane fellow, when God seems to be nowhere. Man is on trial! Man today is experiencing a whole new set of problems, plus the added troubles from our forebears. What should be our response? What tools do we have at our arsenal to ward off this evil? Man urgently needs an answer to our pressing questions. Today, we dont need theology quoted back at us, we have had enough and now clear answers that clearly define and help our situation must come. In our day we have to deal with vicious people who will take up arms and shoot down our young people in the theatres, sell drug on the street to our children. We

are experiencing calamities on a scale never seen before. In our personal life we go through failed marriages, let go of a relationship that has gone sour, make losses in business and in our career, lose a love one to cancer and suffer ill health ourselves. It is like having a blast in life and suddenly the carpet is pull under us, we fall to dizzying heights to the lows of life. At this point we start questioning the real purpose of existence.

This War Has Been On This is the greatest battle ever fought. It is a battle for the domination of our minds. The forces between our experience and our belief, between good and evil, between what is convenient for us to survive or hold on to irrespective of the situation, the ultimate aim is to make man discover his purpose for being. Your personal inner conflict, insecurity, fear and aspirations create the stage for a much larger clash. We have fought many wars with other men because we could not understand the battle that was going on inside of us, and properly channel it to seek enlightenment for direction. The first point of call is for you to understand yourself so that you can start asking the right questions. Not knowing what to seek for will make your quest for answers a futile exercise. By pursuing the right quest you get answers to your questions. Man, Know Thyself Why do we have this inner battle? We do we feel insecure? In seeking to understand the reason for our existence on this plane of life, we at last start the journey to self discovery. You will come to realize the purpose you are here, then and only then will you find peace with yourself, live harmoniously with your fellow men and in good tune with nature. In knowing yourself, you will find out the prime responsibility for your being here on earth. Your eyes will open to the grand design for all of mankind, the basis for you been here at this moment in history. If you have a distorted view of your creation, you will always be at war with nature, yourself and your fellow man. Most of our failed marriages could have been saved if each party in the marriage could rise above their little bickering, and selfishness to look at the grand design

for marriage. You are here for a good cause, follow the design and know your place. Find fulfillment, true happiness and contentment today by knowing your purpose for existence. The universe has fashioned man to be dissatisfied with himself until he realizes his greater purpose. You will find true happiness when you start on that road to real self discovery. The reason why you seek to know the answers, why you have that unquenchable thirst burning inside of you, that eternal quest is because you were designed to look for answers and not to be satisfied with less than satisfactory answer. Your calling has a much higher importance than your job, your career, your business; your relationship etc. knowing this purpose will help you put all that concern you into proper perspective. In our highly intellectual society today people are desperate for solutions to life problems, and theology are no longer accepted as explanation. You have a logical mind to help you survive in this world. A logical mind helped man to survive his immediate environment. Through logic he could discern which animal to domesticate, which herbs to use for food and medicine and which were poisonous. Logic has served him well in his one dimensional living. He built relationship and mutual interest with other people creating a harmonious balance in his community. His experience and his five senses made him feel that all there was to life was the mundane existence that he knew. He became limited to just the world he could see and relate with. But the truth is that man is a dual being; this explains why he can make so much money, have a successful business and have all the fine things in life that money can buy and still be miserable. In the grand design of things all of life is transient and no amount of money in your account, assets and investment can compare to any eternal value. There is a higher calling for man, something out there is calling out to him, and he knows that this thing calling him is bigger than him, better than what he has already and probably the answer to his boredom. Man today is generally bore. That is why they look for the next big thing, the next high, the next sex partner, always seeking for things to fill that void they have within them. Man is on an undertaking to make himself happy. This El Dorado

state has eluded him for centuries because it is not in man to find fulfillment societal status, properties, wealth etc, you need to tie your life to something higher. When your life is tied to what is superior to you then you will find value in what you do and your life will have a distinct purpose. The problem man has is that he does not know how to respond to the call inside him, that void. He divorces his partner and gets a new bride or she leaves him and the kid after 10 years in marriage and elopes with Billy the carefree on a motor bike; the quiet and obedient kid suddenly turn a terrible teen and start doing drugs, and we all have our responses to that great pull. Because the truth of the matter is, been happy and at peace does not come from things that we do or have, it comes from within. Finding Your Way Back You were not created for yourself; you have a responsibility to the universe, your fellow men and yourself. You are here to carry out an assignment that is bigger than the life activities that you pursue with your time and all your energy. You live this life just once, life is not a continuous unbroken circle, at death the circle of life is broken, and the dead person is not coming back again to live out another phase of his existence. For lack of direction and proper orientation, man in trying to answer this deep groaning in him has resorted to different vices. Such acts include wars, sexual experimentation and indulgences, drunkenness, drugs and murders. He has been trying to suppress that call, pretend that it doesnt matter and he can get by. Yesman is getting by. Have you seen a newspaper of recent? Watch the evening news? That is man trying to make it on his own. We cannot of ourselves make this world a better place. At the risk of boring you let me repeat that what this proves is that for you to find happiness, contentment and fulfillment, you must start considering the reason for your existence. Such vices, while suppressing his inner battles and insecurities, will not make them go away. Life is not a mellow drama; hell life is not drama at all. It is serious business. if you find yourself on this lane, doing drugs you discover that to get high next time you need a higher dose. You cannot live on drugs and alcohol to escape this stifling feeling of helplessness. Life has two options for you my

friendfind the right answer on time or be force to jump through a high rise building. For some people, they have never known what it means to be cuddled. They have never experience love for once in their life. They feel abandoned and unloved and therefore kick back his fellow man, he turn vicious and unleash mayhem on them. The cure to this nagging disease is attaching oneself to purpose. Do you know why you are here? This one question will set you on the track to finding yourself. Todays Challenges Two world wars and a fear of an imminent third war, diseases that have scientists scratching their head in frustrations as their best effort fail to solve the problem, hatred, unprecedented divorce rates, drought and the fear of food shortages, global economic melt down that has refused to go away, and knows he is in danger of extinctionwell something close to it. Man certainly need deliverance from himself, right now he doesnt even know what to hold on to and what to let go. They approve abortion, gay marriage, same sex partner, genocide etc and let go of the moral compass that have guided man for ages. We Are Gods Workmanship God want to bring man close to himself. He put that inner battle in man so that man can seek help outside of himself. God knows that mans intellectual ability and sharp logical mind will not provide the answer he so seek for. The modern man with his high sounding words, educational qualifications and quick readiness to reject all that is not scientifically proven, must have a paradigm shift. Only in seeking after this seemingly elusive and detached God can he begin to find fulfillment. With all our modern architectural design and scientific breakthroughs, we are still not closer to our quest than did our ancestors. We live in an uncertain and dangerous time. More than ever man is looking for the right answers to questions. Nobody is taking just about any explanation from religious experts, churches and spiritual leaders. There is increase awareness on really finding answers that work. This has even lead to many people resisting and rejecting any religious theory.

We live in an age of enlightenment and deep knowledge, we now have seekers who want to know things for themselves, and they are on a quest. Repeating prepared answers from dogma book will not cut the chase, quoting bible passages is no longer acceptable, for people doubt the authority that the bible holds. And yet this longing must find an acceptable answer. They need to know that they can find answers to their desperate cries. Maybe this is Your Cry Also God has not left man without help. The answer that we seek for has always been near us. Daily we come against challenges that defy immediate response. People are dying everyday from seemingly avoidable deaths. We hear people dying from loneliness, fightings, conflicts (religious conflicts has been on the increase in recent years), diseases and mans greed. We know that this world needs rescuing. Natural disasters, fear of overpopulation, conflicts from all corners of the globe, economic downturn, and man more than ever is facing an uncertain future and uncharted territory. Today family value no longer holds dear as it used to be. Yet from this chaos come great order. You can live a life of hope, happiness, and love and in complete harmony with your neighbours. Once you know the answer to life long riddle, you open a box of complete happiness.

You Are Gods Witness If you have experience pain in this life, probably you have had cause to ask why me? If you are broken hearted, if life seems to be working against you, if you feel lost, confused and unhappy then you are not alone. Millions worldwide feel that life has dealt them a cruel blow. Around the world there are many more people like you. They are in the same sticky situations and they are asking why. They want answers and not some religious theory. You can have the answers you seek today, happiness that you deserve.

Why You Need to Learn From Mary In this little book: Mary-The Woman for all Ages, you will discover the grand design of life and your part in it. Through her actions and words and her special relationship with God you too will discover your unique purpose in this life. The book shows we are all seekers of destiny. And our happiness and ultimate satisfaction lies in us getting the answers. We will find great happiness when we come to know and accept our roles. Through the actions of Mary you will find purpose in the eternal design of things. I hope you will find the peace that you seek after. My wish for you is that you will discover your purpose, respond to it and live life in that understanding just like Virgin Mary did. For all who are already on this pursuit, may you find strength and motivation anew to continue the race, and make the world a better place for us all. To read the full book, please click on the button below and download the whole book within