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“Happy New Year to all and a blessed Solemnity of Mary, the Mother of God, to all of you.”
Thank you.
Tomorrow we will be going to Mass for the Holy Day, and start the year off right.
NOT AT ALL--MUCH MORE the opposite from all the RC UNBiblical propaganda I read hereon.
I was just wondering . . . if we listed all the names of all the RC churches in the world . . . What percentage would be named after Mary and what percentage would be named after Jesus?
Seems to me RC's are rather affronted that Jesus was getting too much acclaim in Christendom and have been working diligently for 1,500 years or so trying to redress the imbalance!
I wonder how many songs have been written TO Mary vs TO Jesus in the RC edifice.
How many RC coloring books for children have been created about Mary vs about Jesus?
What percentage of the Christian doodads in the Vatican shops have something to do with Mary vs something to do with Jesus exclusively? I don't recall as I wasn't so keenly aware of the disparity when I was there.
How many postage stamps have been essentially and primarily about Mary vs essentially and primarily about Jesus?
How many souvenir post cards have had to do primarily with Mary vs primarily with Jesus?
And how many threads and lines of posting from the RC camp, have had to do primarily with Mary on FR vs primarily about Jesus on FR?
I think I know the answer for at least some of those. And I don't think Mary or Jesus are well pleased and certainly not The Father.
Happy New Year to all and a blessed Solemnity of Mary, the Mother of God, to all of you.
Happy New Year to you and all our Catholic friends.
PANAGIA PLATYTERA
Platytera means "Broader than the Heavens" and expresses our belief that her love is as expansive as the womb which encompassed the Ruler and Creator of the Universe!
"It is truly meet to bless thee, O Theotokos, ever blessed, and most pure, and the Mother of our God. More honorable than the cherubim, and beyond compare more glorious than the seraphim. Without corruption thou gavest birth to God the Word. True Theotokos, we magnify thee."
Starting the New Year and the Solemnity of Mary the Theotokos with a little flame bait, are we? I can see that chumming the waters has already gathered the sharks.
Thanks for the post. As to the rest.... and I thought I had no life?
Have a Blessed New Year!
That's putting it mildly. She decreased, according to the scriptures, to the point of being completely eclipsed by the knowledge of the SON OF GOD. Eclipsed means being blocked out to the point on no longer being visible as a significant character on the scene. Scripture bears this out, as she is no longer mentioned after the Gospels as anything approaching a point of doctrine, and only in Acts as an incidental presence at a gathering.
Thank you, may you have a blessed New Year!
No Mary, No Jesus, no mother, no son. -- Mother Teresa
Really? So how many articles did the author write about Mary before he was 'poped'?
Well and beautifully said. Thanks for posting and for the tender explanation. May the Lord bless you for clarifying this for us.
Was this originally posted as a Catholic Caucus?
I don't want to get your thread off topic...
But everytime I read that title, it reminds me of what Hillary's campaign must feel like everytime Bill opens his mouth.
The only time Mary comes into my mind is when I read about her in scripture.