[Ottofire]

Nope, no idolatry here.

[Mad Dawg]

This prayer demonstrates the underlying blindness of Catholicism.

Aw, bless yore heart!

[jtal]

Your energies are best directed against the secularism, which is currently the strongest weapon that the enemy uses against Christ.

[Illuminatas]

Nope, no bigotry here.

[SumProVita]

Anti-Catholic alert!

[Scythian]

[Rum Tum Tugger]

This kind of drivel is one of the reasons that I left protestantism 7 years ago and became a Roman Catholic.

If anyone with a brain takes the time to really learn Roman Catholic theology, he would quickly see the nonsense of the protestant attacks on Catholicism.

There is no theology in the Christian world as intellectually sound as Roman Catholic theology.

[kitkat]

We Catholics do not WORSHIP Mary. We WORSHIP only God. We recognize Mary as the mother of Jesus. And we pray to her to intercede with her Son. GET IT STRAIGHT!

[ZULU]

Islam used Iconoclasts to undermine Christianity in the past in Byzantium. I guess we have some idiot home grown ones right here.

[magisterium]

Rubbish. She is asked to take pity and intercede for us. Which is the idolatrous part: taking pity on us or praying for us?

[Petronski]

Nope, no idolatry here.

Glad to see you're catching on.

[Puddleglum]

Hate hate hate!

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Know this, my dear brothers: everyone should be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath,
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for the wrath of a man does not accomplish the righteousness of God.
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Therefore, put away all filth and evil excess and humbly welcome the word that has been planted in you and is able to save your souls.
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Be doers of the word and not hearers only, deluding yourselves.
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For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his own face in a mirror.
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He sees himself, then goes off and promptly forgets what he looked like.
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But the one who peers into the perfect law 12 of freedom and perseveres, and is not a hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, such a one shall be blessed in what he does.
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If anyone thinks he is religious and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, his religion is vain.

[Brian S. Fitzgerald]

devotional thread ... no arguments please LOL /sarc

[Petronski]

Indeed, here is Jesus' own condemnation of the error of adoration and veneration of Jesus' mother.

Indeed, here is an anti-Catholic bigot misrepresenting the words of Christ in order to put in His mouth dishonor for His own mother.

Sickening the depths to which anti-Catholic hatred can drive a soul.

[3AngelaD]

I pray that the Blessed Mother touches your heart and illuminates your mind. Her Son teaches us to pray for those who hate us, her intercession helps us to carry out His command.

[John W]

Just said a little prayer for the author of this.

Remember, O most gracious Virgin Mary, that never was it known that anyone who fled to thy protection, implored thy help, or sought thine intercession was left unaided.

Inspired by this confidence, I fly unto thee, O Virgin of virgins, my mother; to thee do I come, before thee I stand, sinful and sorrowful. O Mother of the Word Incarnate, despise not my petitions, but in thy mercy hear and answer me.

Amen.

[laweeks]

We are in much more trouble with our Hussein Obama the Great Wonderful and Merciful Messiah worship than anything in Catholicism.

Lord a’Mighty, let’s get our priorities straight.

[Dutchboy88]

Isn’t it amazing how much some of these possible brothers & sisters need the idolotrous trappings of Rome?

[JPII Be Not Afraid]

Here is a story to illustrate our honoring of Mary and the power of her intercession for us.

In the days of Kings and Queens, there lived a farmer who owned an orchard. He was so greatful for the bountiful harvest that his orchard produced, that he wanted to share it with the King. Before the farmer headed to the castle he went into his orchard and picked some apples off of the trees. He paid little attention to the dirt and dust on them and just headed on. When he reached the castle, he told the guards that he had a gift for the King. The guards let him pass and he walked along the long pathway up to the Kings chair. When the farmer offered the apples to the King, the King looked at the dirty and dusty apples and refused the gift. As the farmer turned to walk away, he had not noticed the Queen in an upper window who saw all that had just happened. Well, the Queen ran down to the farmer and said let me see your apples. She took them back in the room from where she came and then washed and polished the apples until they were a glorious shining red, then put them on a gold plate. She handed the plate to the farmer and said let us return to the King. When they reached the King, he saw how beautiful the apples were and accepted the gift.

This is what Mary does. When we ask Mary to pray for us or
ask for her intercession, She too, takes our prayers and requests, shines and polishes them, then presents them to the King.

[Quix]

I was quite stunned, shocked to read this blasphemy:

Benedict XVI is also reported as praying to her, “If you will not help us because we are ungrateful and unworthy children of your protection, we will not know to whom to turn.”

[Claud]

Benedict XVI did not even omit to provide a sacrifice to this de facto goddess. It is reported that, "In a gesture of filial love, the Pope then offered the Madonna a golden rose."

Did you ever sacrifice to your wife? I suppose you must have, if you ever gave her a rose!