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To: WrightWings; 1000 silverlings; Alex Murphy; Belteshazzar; bkaycee; blue-duncan; boatbums; caww; ...

This following prayer by one of your own popes isn’t about Jesus. Catholicism needs to get rid of idolatry like this and there’s plenty more like it and it starts at the top down.

Adding enough Jesus as window dressing to give the appearance of legitimacy does NOT Christianity make.

Prayer of Pope Pius XII
In Honor of the Immaculate Conception

http://catholicism.about.com/od/tothevirginmary/qt/Honor_Immacula.htm

Prayer of Pope Pius XII

Enraptured by the splendor of your heavenly beauty, and impelled by the anxieties of the world, we cast ourselves into your arms, O Immaculate Mother of Jesus and our Mother, Mary, confident of finding in your most loving heart appeasement of our ardent desires, and a safe harbor from the tempests which beset us on every side.

Though degraded by our faults and overwhelmed by infinite misery, we admire and praise the peerless richness of sublime gifts with which God has filled you, above every other mere creature, from the first moment of your conception until the day on which, after your assumption into heaven, He crowned you Queen of the Universe.

O crystal fountain of faith, bathe our minds with the eternal truths! O fragrant Lily of all holiness, captivate our hearts with your heavenly perfume! O Conqueress of evil and death, inspire in us a deep horror of sin, which makes the soul detestable to God and a slave of hell!

O well-beloved of God, hear the ardent cry which rises up from every heart. Bend tenderly over our aching wounds. Convert the wicked, dry the tears of the afflicted and oppressed, comfort the poor and humble, quench hatreds, sweeten harshness, safeguard the flower of purity in youth, protect the holy Church, make all men feel the attraction of Christian goodness. In your name, resounding harmoniously in heaven, may they recognize that they are brothers, and that the nations are members of one family, upon which may there shine forth the sun of a universal and sincere peace.

Receive, O most sweet Mother, our humble supplications, and above all obtain for us that, one day, happy with you, we may repeat before your throne that hymn which today is sung on earth around your altars: You are all-beautiful, O Mary! You are the glory, you are the joy, you are the honor of our people! Amen.


559 posted on 12/17/2010 9:50:40 AM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: metmom

Thanks for the response, I suppose, but that in no way has anything to do with your assertion that Catholics believe the Gospel is about Mary.


561 posted on 12/17/2010 9:57:12 AM PST by WrightWings (Remember, Remember, the Fifth of November...)
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To: metmom
A more recent Pope, John Paul, was also known for his heavy emphasia on Mary with his motto, "Mary, I am totally yours".

http://www.ewtn.com/entrustment/index.htm

When elected Pope in 1978, Karol Wojtyla of Poland dedicated his papacy to Mary, taking as his episcopal motto the Latin words “Totus Tuus,” meaning “Totally Yours” (“John Paul II’s Devotion to Mary,” Inside the Vatican, special insert, May 1996).

He had these words of devotion to Mary embroidered on his papal robes.

John Paul II even used the term “worship” to describe devotion to Mary. In his general audience of May 7, 1997, the Pope said that “MARIAN WORSHIP in the ecclesial community ... is based on the will of Christ” and “MARY IS THE PATH THAT LEADS TO CHRIST...” (Vatican Information Service, May 7, 1997). He concluded by urging all Christians to acknowledge Mary’s “providential role in the path of salvation.”

Engraved in his wooden coffin, viewed at what has been called “the world’s largest funeral,” was a large letter M for Mary (The Evening Standard, London, Apr. 8, 2005).

564 posted on 12/17/2010 10:20:05 AM PST by bkaycee
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To: metmom
Prayer of Pope Pius XII In Honor of the Immaculate Conception

A prayer from the pit.

we may repeat before your throne that

And they say they don't worship their Mary - LOL!! Are they that clueless they don't know what they are doing?
567 posted on 12/17/2010 10:26:50 AM PST by presently no screen name
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