Is Reading More Scripture at Mass Always Better?

New Liturgical Movement ^ | November 11, 2013 | PETER KWASNIEWSKI

[Heart-Rest]

"I’ll also add that when you pray to Mary, it assumes that she is omnipresent and omniscient, capable of hearing millions of prayers at a time."

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That assertion is utterly ridiculous, and borders on blasphemy.

Do you somehow mistakenly think it is you who gives yourself the ability to hear even one voice?

(In case you are confused about that, I will clear it up for you -- it is God who gives you the ability to hear even one voice -- not yourself -- and that is true for ALL human beings who can hear.)

Now, as any parent of multiple children can tell you, God also gives you the ability right here (in this much more limited life on earth) to hear more than one voice at a time.    For example, if a parent is listening to one of their children tell them about what happened in school that day, and another one of their kids calls from another room saying, "Help! I'm stuck!", does the parent have the ability to hear that other child at the same time?    (That ability to hear one or multiple voices comes completely as a gift from God.)

So how drastically would you limit God's power?    For example, is it possible or not for God to enable a person (a finite creature) to hear ten voices at a time in heaven?    Is it possible or not for God to enable a person (a finite creature) to hear 100 voices in heaven?    1,000 voices?    At exactly what number do you think God runs out of power to enable a person to hear that many voices, if God so wills it?

You say that for a person to hear many voices in heaven, it would require that the person be "omnipresent and omniscient".    Baloney!

That silly and ridiculous claim is as false as what the serpent told the woman in Genesis 3:4; "You will not die".    The truth, of course, is, that it would only require that an omnimpotent God wills that a human be able to hear however many voices God chooses to enable them to hear.

Your hearing abilities come from God, and are bestowed completely according to God's will.    So also do Mary's hearing abilities come from God, according to His Holy Will.

Please stop trying to falsely and erroneously denigrate and downgrade God's capabilities, and capriciously limit God's omnipotent power like that, using such disdainfully false claims.

Such enhanced human hearing capabilities (to be able in heaven to hear multiple prayers from earth at the same time) only require that those extended capabilities be willed and bestowed on human beings by Almighty God.

[Salvation]

**I’ll also add that when you pray to Mary, it assumes that she is omnipresent and omniscient, capable of hearing millions of prayers at a time. These are divine attributes, not reflected attributes. And when you claim that prayers to her can save you from the wrath of Christ, it is a slap in the face of Christ who redeemed you personally.**

Your thinking is in error. We ask Mary to pray for us.

Have you ever asked your mother, a friend, a prayer warriors here on FR to pray for you?