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To: RaceBannon
Examples of Maryolatry



Also See the Article:
Rome's Mary on the Cross and on God's Throne




Mary crowned Queen of Heaven, Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome




Mary sitting in the place of God on the Ark of the Covenant, St. Stanislaus Kostka, Chicago




Mary, Queen of Peace, Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome




Mary on the cross with Christ, Poland




Mary on the cross with Christ, Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome



43 posted on 01/24/2015 5:15:12 PM PST by RaceBannon (Rom 5:8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for)
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To: RaceBannon
Mary sitting in the place of God on the Ark of the Covenant, St. Stanislaus Kostka, Chicago

What blasphemy!

128 posted on 01/24/2015 8:17:42 PM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: RaceBannon
The article you link to in your post #43 is full of nonsense and falsehood.

For starters, whoever wrote that article does not seem capable of distinguishing between symbols and reality.    For example, when St. Paul said the following, he was not saying he was literally up on the cross with Jesus Christ during His crucifixion, but only "crucified with Him" in a symbolic manner of speaking.

I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me; and the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.    Galatians 2:20
Any mother whose child is crucified right there in front of the mother, is also "up there on the cross with their child" (although not literally), and every astute and honest person realizes that they are not up there literally (and those pictures of symbols you posted of Mary and the Baby Jesus on a cross are just that: pictures of symbols, and it really should not be difficult for anybody to figure that out).

That type of analysis applies to all the pictures and erroneous points in your post.

Another clear example is the photo you have labeled with the following:

"Mary sitting in the place of God on the Ark of the Covenant, St. Stanislaus Kostka, Chicago"
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No, that label assertion is a completely false assertion.   In fact, that photo is of an iconic "monstrance" called "Our Lady of the Sign – Ark of Mercy", where the Sacramental Presence of God in the Blessed Sacrament is lovingly placed for Adoration (as you can see in the picture), and that iconic monstrance is demonstrating how Mary is the "Ark of the New Covenant", who was chosen by God to hold the special Presence of God (Jesus Christ) inside her body.

God willed His special Presence to be in the old "Ark of the Covenant" of the "Children of Israel", and God also willed His special Presence to be inside of Mary as well, making her the "Ark of the New Covenant".   (That was God who willed that Mary hold God's Presence in a uniquely special way like she did, and to denigrate that Holy action of God shown to that one solitary human being favored by God named "Mary", is to denigrate God.)

(To learn more about those important matters, carefully read the following sources, starting with reading the first one on youtube.)


148 posted on 01/24/2015 9:23:46 PM PST by Heart-Rest ("Our hearts are restless, Lord, until they rest in Thee." - St. Augustine)
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To: RaceBannon
Thank you for the pictures, although the term, "Mariolatry" has negative connotations, derisive of our devotion to her. She is still the Mother of God and our Mother as well. She is the Daughter of God the Father; Spouse of the Holy Spirit, and Mother of Jesus! Hence, the Trinity being One God in Three Divine Persons, NOT FOUR, she is not God, but is the Mother of God! Divine mystery, but truth nonetheless.

She is often depicted with the Cross behind her: she stood helplessly and watched her Son suffer and die. When He was already dead, His Body was pierced through the Heart with the soldier's lance, and His Precious Blood and Water from His Side gushed forth. Jesus was dead. Who suffered the pain of seeing her Son's Body so mutilated? The Prophecy of Simeon was fulfilled. Yet she had to go on, to prepare the Body of Jesus her Son for burial, and watch as the stone was rolled in place. For the first time in 33 years, her Son was not with her, not because He was away preaching, but because He had been tortured, murdered, and His dead Body pierced. If anyone has the right to be depicted next to her Son, it is she. And yes, we interpret as Catholics, that Jesus entrusting her to John, and, in His last hours of life referring to her as Woman, "behold thy son" that she was given all He had: the souls redeemed by His Passion and Death, entrusted to the Woman to whom God had entrusted His Only-Begotten Son. Mary is our mother as well. Jesus rose from the dead on the third day; until then, His Holy Mother grieved. She who had not the concupiscence of sin within her, suffered all these things in innocence.

Who, on Christ's dear mother gazing,

in her trouble so amazing,

born of woman, would not weep?

Who, on Christ's dear Mother thinking,

such a cup of sorrow drinking,

would not share her sorrows deep?

At The Cross, Her Station Keeping

378 posted on 01/25/2015 11:46:07 AM PST by Grateful2God (And Mary kept all these things, and pondered them in her heart.)
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To: RaceBannon

I try to be fair but those images are unusual to me


673 posted on 01/26/2015 8:54:45 AM PST by wardaddy (glenn beck is a nauseous politically correct conservative on LSD)
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To: RaceBannon

About that Mary on the Ark....Read Zechariah 5:5-11 and get chills...

“Vision of the Woman in a Basket

5 Then the angel who talked with me came out and said to me, “Lift your eyes now, and see what this is that goes forth.”

6 So I asked, “What is it?” And he said, “It is a basket[a] that is going forth.”

He also said, “This is their resemblance throughout the earth: 7 Here is a lead disc lifted up, and this is a woman sitting inside the basket”; 8 then he said, “This is Wickedness!” And he thrust her down into the basket, and threw the lead cover[b] over its mouth. 9 Then I raised my eyes and looked, and there were two women, coming with the wind in their wings; for they had wings like the wings of a stork, and they lifted up the basket between earth and heaven.

10 So I said to the angel who talked with me, “Where are they carrying the basket?”

11 And he said to me, “To build a house for it in the land of Shinar;[c] when it is ready, the basket will be set there on its base.”


1,499 posted on 01/29/2015 4:21:49 AM PST by mdmathis6 ("trapped by hyenas, Bill had as much life expectancy as a glass table at a UVA Frat house party!/s)
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