Posted on 09/07/2006 11:32:47 PM PDT by Salvation
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Sorry. You need to refer to the Greek not to the English translation.
Lawsa mercy, child, puleeeeeeze give that needle of yours a bump or change the record already! We get the picture!
Hi Miss Maeve,
A happy birthday of Our Mother to you!
Reparation for Blasphemy Against the Blessed Virgin Mary
Most glorious Virgin Mary, Mother of God and our Mother, turn thine eyes in pity upon us, miserable sinners; we are sore afflicted by the many evils that surround us in this life, but especially do we feel our hearts break within us upon hearing the dreadful insults and blasphemies uttered against thee, O Virgin Immaculate. O how these impious sayings offend the infinite Majesty of God and of His only-begotten Son, Jesus Christ! How they provoke His indignation and give us cause to fear the terrible effects of His vengeance! Would that the sacrifice of our lives might avail to put an end to such outrages and blasphemies; were it so, how gladly we should make it, for we desire, O most holy Mother, to love thee and to honor thee with all our hearts, since this is the will of God. And just because we love thee, we will do all that is in our power to make thee honored and loved by all men. In the meantime do thou, our merciful Mother, the supreme comforter of the afflicted, accept this our act of reparation which we offer thee for ourselves and for all our families, as well as for all who impiously blaspheme thee, not knowing what they say. Do thou obtain for them from Almighty God the grace of conversion, and thus render more manifest and more glorious thy kindness, thy power and thy great mercy. May they join with us in proclaiming thee blessed among women, the Immaculate Virgin and most compassionate Mother of God.
Hail Mary three times.
Source: The Raccolta, 1950
And a happy birthday of Our Mother to you too, dear friend!
Well, we don't say she was God, so I dunno how that follows. Plus, all the prophets were clear that it was God working through them, not them doing it themselves.
(And I don't mean giving birth to God incarnate, that was not something she stood up and did, but was placed on her by God.)
Again, just like the Prophets...it was not her that was doing it but God doing it through her. But I wouldn't take Mary's will out of the equation either: remember..."Let it be done to me according to thy word." That's an assent, however you slice it. She could have said "no" as Jonah once did.
The Divine Praises
Blessed be God.
Blessed be His Holy Name.
Blessed be Jesus Christ, true God and true man.
Blessed be the name of Jesus.
Blessed be His Most Sacred Heart.
Blessed be Jesus in the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar.
Blessed be the Holy Spirit, the paraclete.
Blessed be the great Mother of God, Mary most holy.
Blessed be her holy and Immaculate Conception.
Blessed be her glorious Assumption.
Blessed be the name of Mary, Virgin and Mother.
Blessed be Saint Joseph, her most chaste spouse.
Blessed be God in His angels and in His Saints.
May the heart of Jesus, in the Most Blessed Sacrament, be praised, adored, and loved with grateful affection, at every moment, in all the tabernacles of the world, even to the end of time. Amen.
Believe it or not...they are very good people..one is actually a pastor of a church in south carolina...another is extremely active in Calvary who is trying to get me to leave the Catholic Church...another is Jewish who just has all kinds of problems with the modern day church and says the faith is based on idols and icons....etc..but each of these people are actually very good and giving human beings....and another is a Southern Baptist who believes the church is a "dungeon of guilt".
They just love to take swipes on the Catholic religion and church at any given time.
 Our Lady's Nativitye |
| Joye in the risinge of our orient starr, That shall bringe forth the Sunne that lent her light; Joy in the peace that shall conclude our warr, And soone rebate the edge of Satan's spight; Load-starr of all engolfd in worldly waves, The card and compasse that from shipwracke saves. The patriark and prophettes were the floures For God, on Earth, she is the royall throne, Robert Southwell (1560-1595) |
How about this one?
James/John's mother: Lord, when you come into your kingdom let my sons sit on your right and left.
Jesus: What! Are you daft!! I don't have that right but if you asks my mother then I'll see what I can do.
Thank you for this beautiful post.
I was away for a while--(I do have a day job)
I have often thought, when meditating on the the Wedding Feast at Cana: Our Lord chose his Twelve. Then together with them and his mother, they went to the wedding. The Apostles and his Mother went with him to the wedding--what an important fact this is for us to remember. From Genesis to Revelation the Scriptures refer, either openly or obliquely, to the "Nuptials"--Christ and his Bride the Church. How fitting that He chose to work his first public miracle, making his first entry into his public life as Son and Messiah, at a wedding feast--with his Twelve and his mother.
Yea, God's little incubator.
God's glorious plan involves His Will to send His Son to die on the cross for just one, JUST ONE, sinner - as they will say.
Not that this plan was thought out in eternity as an integral whole that involves anything important like taking into account His whole humanity, including His conception and birth. Or His Mother for that matter.
Christ loved His Mother. To be a follower of Christ, best to do the same.
So according to the person you spoke with " Mary means nothing in spiritual and biblical terms" Yet at the same time he said " she was just "chosen" to give birth."
To buy his premise I would have to believe that God chooses in a random, unknowing, blinded and indifferent manner. He does in other words indeed play dice with the universe.
But the very assumption of your friends argument goes against what has been revealed to us in Scripture about the Nature of God. How can an all powerful, all knowing, all seeing God do anything randomly?
How can a loving God and father be indifferent to how He interacts with us? It also contradicts an idea central to Christian teaching. That our relationship with Christ is not only Corporate but Personal. We are called by name and Christ died for my sins and saves me. It is because of the love that God has for each and everyone of us that He came down from heaven and became man. This is not a God of random indifference. But a loving Father that knows His children and acts always for their good.
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