The Blessed Virgin Mary Is a Creature

The idea that God is this sort of attention hog who is unwilling that others should participate in reflecting his beauty just isn't how we live. C.S. Lewis has a great meditation on this in the four loves where he says you got three friends and they have a wonderful friendship. And so I think that in God's dealings with men, God uses instruments. He uses mediators and it's not competitive. It's like God is working in and through his saints. Our veneration of them is ultimately referable to the Lord. What type of conscious event is going on at the moment? I don't think that's too terribly important.