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To: kosta50; stfassisi
she is a saint above saints (Panagia) but not a Queen of Heaven or Co-Redemptrix

You are arguing about reverential titles here. Should I list Orthodox practices of venerating Mary alongside Catholic ones? I would start with "Theotokos, save us!"

The notion of Mary not being the Queen of Heaven comes from not paying attention to the Book of Revelation, where she described as such.

64 posted on 08/24/2009 7:41:30 AM PDT by annalex (http://www.catecheticsonline.com/CatenaAurea.php)
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To: annalex; stfassisi
You are arguing about reverential titles here. Should I list Orthodox practices of venerating Mary alongside Catholic ones? I would start with "Theotokos, save us!"

That's not what the prayer says.

66 posted on 08/24/2009 1:05:29 PM PDT by kosta50 (Don't look up, the truth is all around you)
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To: annalex; stfassisi; Mr Rogers
The notion of Mary not being the Queen of Heaven comes from not paying attention to the Book of Revelation, where she described as such

This book was considered "questionable" until the 9th century in Constantinople. How could it have been a source of dogmatic tradition about Theotokos accepted at the Nicene Council, and repeated in subsequent ones? After the 7th century there are no other Ecumenical Councils that the Eastern Church knows about or recognizes, and for sure no one in the East was told to call Mary the "Queen of Heaven."

Yet, Mariology was alive and well in the East, including the belief that she died and was assumed to heaven body and soul on the third day by her own Son. The feast of the Dormition of the Theotokos is almost as old as the Eastern Church, yet remains unknown in the Latin West to this day.

The Orthodox dogma of Mary is simple and ancient, and unchanged:

The Catholic tradition was obviously unknown in the East and is not part of any Eastern dogmatic tradition. Yet another example of more man-made traditions.

68 posted on 08/24/2009 1:46:29 PM PDT by kosta50 (Don't look up, the truth is all around you)
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