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Pope John XXIII in a radio message to the 16th Eucharistic Congress of Italy on Sept. 13, 1959, (AAS 51. 713) said he hoped all would grow in their fervor and veneration for the Blessed Virgin,"the Mother of the Mystical Body, of which the Eucharist is the symbol and vital center." And he added: "We trust that they will imitate in her the most perfect model of union with Jesus our Head; we trust that they will join Mary in the offering of the Divine Victim."
Staggering.
The RCC would have us believe Protestants to not understand their faith.
In truth, it's not difficult to understand what RCs believe. It is, however, puzzling to understand why they choose to believe in fables over Scripture.
The RCC believes Mary was born and died sinless by some scattergun, retro-salvation through Christ which was greater than the salvation Christ won on the cross for you and me and all believers.
If RCs would simply return to Scripture they could read, just as we read, that Christ declared His flock to be of even more import than His own mother...
But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it." -- Luke 11:27-28"And it came to pass, as he spake these things, a certain woman of the company lifted up her voice, and said unto him, Blessed is the womb that bare thee, and the paps which thou hast sucked.
Everything in Scripture points to the glory of God through the redemption of Christ's sheep. It does not point to anything above the one-time, single, perfect sacrifice Christ made at Calvary for each and every believer.
And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours. And I will bring the land into desolation: and your enemies which dwell therein shall be astonished at it. And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste... And upon them that are left alive of you I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as fleeing from a sword; and they shall fall when none pursueth. And they shall fall one upon another, as it were before a sword, when none pursueth: and ye shall have no power to stand before your enemies. And ye shall perish among the heathen, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up." -- Leviticus 26:30-33;36-38"And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.
God is very specific about the singular attention He expects His flock to pay to Him. To glorify men in place of God, even alongside of God, is error of the first magnitude.
But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils. Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of devils. Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?" -- 1 Corinthians 10:19-22"What say I then? that the idol is any thing, or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is any thing?
Amen. (Mk.7:7-9)