Posted on 01/14/2014 11:39:41 AM PST by NYer
No doubt, but how many millions of people have lived and died and left NO remains, or whose remains will never be found?
Her bones not being found means nothing.
As a matter of fact, the claim that that bone the Church has is of her mother needs to be substantiated beyond doubt and I don’t think that can be done. Hearsay is not good, solid, credible evidence.
You can’t read. I am not saying anything about the Rosary (which, frankly, is unbiblical). I have a problem with this section of the article, which exalts Mary, rather than the Messiah:
“That’s who is with you now. Mother Mary.” I give him the rosary. “You’re going to die soon, but I want you to hold on to this rosary as you go. She and your guardian angel will see you across the river. Are you good with that?”
Unfortunately, not many seem interested. It’s enough to make God weep...
** I am not saying anything about the Rosary (which, frankly, is unbiblical). **
Huh?
Christ teaches the Our Father....biblical
Gabriel greet Mary, “Hail Mary, full of grace.”....biblical
Elizabeth, filled with the Holy Spirit says to Mary at the Visitation “Blessed are you among women and blessed is the fruit of your womb.” Elizabeth also says, “the babe leaped in my body at the sound of your voice.”....biblical
(The word Jesus was added later.
Second part, Holy Mary, Mother of God — Elizabeth asks “How is this that the mother of my Lord should come to visit me?”....biblical Elizabeth — just like saying “The Lord is with thee”......biblical.
The other prayer on the end of the decade is the Glory be.
Christ tells his apostles to go out to all the nations baptizing them “in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.” Christ also emphasizes again and again that his kingdom is not of this earth but of eternity...”As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be.” Those direct words aren’t in the Bible, but they are inferred in John 1:1 as well as in Genesis 1:1.
The Rosary may not have been mentioned in the Bible, but it is a meditation on some of the events that occurred in the Bible, in the life of Jesus. Yes, there are other occurrences dealing with Mary, which are not in the Bible, but they certainly don’t detract from Jesus, rather they draw us closer to Him as our Lord and Savior.
So, by not responding directly to the paragraph I excerpted, you are implicitly affirming the following, right? You see the rosary as having some sort of magical power, and that Mother Mary is the primary comforter (rather than, for example, Jesus or the Holy Spirit)?
“That’s who is with you now. Mother Mary.” I give him the rosary. “You’re going to die soon, but I want you to hold on to this rosary as you go. She and your guardian angel will see you across the river. Are you good with that?”
This priest was offering the Rosary, because it was something the dying man remembered from his youth, and was a connection to his Catholic upbringing. Remember, the man ASKED for a priest, nothing was forced on him. The Rosary isn't magic, and the priest didn't present it as such. It is, as prayer is supposed to be, a connection between us and Jesus, it just happens to be connected more with Mary. The events presented in the decades of the Rosary aren't made up stories; they are pulled from Scripture, and set up in a way that we can meditate on them through the eyes of Mary, Jesus's mother on this earth. We are drawn to understand both the humanity and the divinity of Jesus, through our recitation of the prayers.
It was simply a way to ease this man into his death in a peaceful way. I don't understand all the ruckus about it.
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