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Hail Mary, full of Grace.
Swing and a miss...
Please make this “Catholic caucus” Thanks
Thank you!
From Mary we learn to surrender to God’s Will in all things. From Mary we learn to trust even when all hope seems gone. From Mary we learn to love Christ her Son and the Son of God! ~St. Pope John Paul II
Consecratory Prayer of St. John Paul II, Excerpt
Above all creatures, may you be blessed, you, the Handmaid of the Lord, who in the fullest way obeyed the divine call!
Hail to you, who are wholly united to the redeeming consecration of your Son!
Mother of the Church! Enlighten the People of God along the paths of faith, hope, and love! Enlighten especially the peoples whose consecration and entrustment by us you are awaiting. Help us to live in the truth of the consecration of Christ for the entire human family of the modern world.
In entrusting to you, O Mother, the world, all individuals and peoples, we also entrust to you this very consecration of the world, placing it in your motherly Heart.
Immaculate Heart! Help us to conquer the menace of evil, which so easily takes root in the hearts of the people of today, and whose immeasurable effects already weigh down upon our modern world and seem to block the paths towards the future!
From famine and war, deliver us.
From nuclear war, from incalculable self-destruction, from every kind of war, deliver us.
From sins against the life of man from its very beginning, deliver us.
From hatred and from the demeaning of the dignity of the children of God, deliver us.
From every kind of injustice in the life of society, both national and international, deliver us.
From readiness to trample on the commandments of God, deliver us.
From attempts to stifle in human hearts the very truth of God, deliver us.
From the loss of awareness of good and evil, deliver us.
From sins against the Holy Spirit, deliver us, deliver us.
Accept, O Mother of Christ, this cry laden with the sufferings of all individual human beings, laden with the sufferings of whole societies.
Help us with the power of the Holy Spirit to conquer all sin: individual sin and the ‘sin of the world', sin in all its manifestations.
Let there be revealed, once more, in the history of the world the infinite saving power of the Redemption: the power of merciful Love! May it put a stop to evil! May it transform consciences! May your Immaculate Heart reveal for all the light of Hope!”.(4)
I Doubt there are any believers who does not adore Mary, the mother of our lord.
John 4
24 God is a spirit; and they that adore him, must adore him in spirit and in truth.
So shouldn’t the love of Mary also be in love and truth rather than symbolism?
I am not against Church teaching in general but believe we would do well to heed the things our lord told us to do in his own words.
Mathew 22: 37 to 40
Luke 6:27 6:31 37,38
And believe the reason his words are made light of or not taught in many Churches at all is because the truth makes the Church a small matter.
The Apostles started the Church for the purpose of spreading Christ`s Gospel, but heeding the gospel of Jesus is the love of God which is the road to salvation.
Thank you so much.
Hail Mary, Full of Grace.