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To: conservativegramma
Wow, that sounds worse than what TSgt said. Looks eerily like goddess worship to me.

Well for goodness sale if you can't tell the difference than DON"T SAY THE PRAYER! If, however you look at the last line the that expresses the hope that we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ, the same Christ we ask Mary to take us to earlier in the prayer, then you can begin to understand that we're asking her, she who all nations call blessed, to do what she did for the folks at Canna: intercede on our behalf to her Divine Son.

But if your not able to conceive of that as the intent of the prayer, if you for some reason fall into worship, that is to adore and place her above Him who is above all things, don't say the prayer.

In fact the only place in the BIBLE the title 'Queen of Heaven' is found is in Jeremiah - and that's precisely what the Queen of Heaven was, a pagan goddess:

Indeed, but that's not Mary so no worries, unless, again, your lack the ability to know what your intent is while praying, then you may want to avoid pray to anyone other than GOD since praying to the Father, Son and Holy Ghost may lead you into polytheism. Careful now.

123 posted on 06/15/2010 11:14:15 AM PDT by conservonator (How many times? 7X70!)
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To: conservonator
, the same Christ we ask Mary to take us to earlier in the prayer,

Well see there's the problem right there. Mary is not a co-mediator in any shape or form.

1 Timothy 2:5 - For there is one God, and one mediator also between God and men, the man Christ Jesus

Timothy didn't say there were TWO mediators, Mary + Christ, or that the one mediator between God and man was Mary - he specifically said that mediator is Christ alone.

Go ahead and pray to Mary all you want - its bouncing off the ceiling because she isn't the mediator.

Indeed, but that's not Mary so no worries,...

True. So why is she called that then??? Unless of course you lack the ability to discern that Mary being referred to with the exact same title as Jeremiah's pagan goddess is not a good thing????? For the rest of us, its quite th eye-opener.

131 posted on 06/15/2010 11:30:53 AM PDT by conservativegramma
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