[Dr. Eckleburg]

"O blessed Virgin, Mother of God, look down in mercy from Heaven, where thou art enthroned as Queen, upon me, a miserable sinner, thine unworthy servant..."

Mary is merciful???

You serve Mary???

"Co-Redemptrix of the human race."

Please, just reading those words sullies my soul. Those five words betray a craven mindset and a corrupted church.

While it is helpful to know and understand what others believe, may God forgive anyone who utters that decayed sentence.

According to Wikipedia, "Roman Catholic tradition and Mariology include specific prayers and devotions as acts of reparation for insults and blasphemies against the Blessed Virgin Mary" (of which this "prayer" is one.)

This "prayer" is from the Roman Catholic "Raccolta" which is "a book of Roman Catholic prayers for which specific indulgences have been pledged by Popes."

So do you imagine my post was somehow an "insult" to Mary?

Do you believe you're receiving an "indulgence" from God for posting that "prayer?" Time off in purgatory by mouthing this blasphemy?

I don't think that's likely since this "prayer" deflects God's glory away from Him and towards a creature, a common habit among pagans and blasphemers.

That being the case, perhaps Roman Catholics should ditch the indulgences and "other mediators" and go straight to God to ask for His forgiveness for elevating a creature to the status of "god" and worshiping her as "the Mother of God" and as "Co-Redemptrix."

(((shudder)))

"For I beheld, and there was no man; even among them, and there was no counsellor, that, when I asked of them, could answer a word.

Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion." -- Isaiah 41:28-29

[P-Marlowe]

"Co-Redemptrix of the human race."

Pure unadulterated blasphemy!

[wmfights]

Thanks for the ping.

I enjoy your posts. You provide links and references. It lets me go back and double check on my own and print out the info. You should see the faces of normal RC's when they see what some of these things really mean. I wish there were some way to reveal the evil of the Marian Cult without all the heated rhetoric, or hard feelings, but I don't see how.

I know you take a lot of heat, but there are people who start to learn the truth because of your efforts.

[HossB86]

Once again, Dr. E, you nailed it. Those five words stink of brimstone.

Hoss

[caww]

Do you believe you're receiving an "indulgence" from God for posting that "prayer?" Time off in purgatory by mouthing this blasphemy?

Well now isn't that interesting.. catholics get "paid" for frequent usage of particular prayers. Middle-age thinking comes to mind, no wonder they called it the "dark ages". But then much was bought and sold then to keep their coffers full. Looks like Middle-Age thinging remains intrenched in the minds of some.

I wondered why that prayer was shot out of their cannon so much...Ha! The possibility it's to gain some sort of deal with God along the way. Wonder if they keep track in a ledger or something so they can show it to Him when the day arrives?

[Gamecock]

Mary......

I recently attended a funeral at a Roman Catholic house of worship and a couple of things, well really a lot of things, jumped out at me.

The oddest thing I witnessed occurred during the singing of the Ava Maria. A group of mourners placed flowers at the feet of a life sized statue of Mary. Pure idol worship, don’t care what the FRoman Catholics call it.

[presently no screen name]

Please, just reading those words sullies my soul.

WOW! Do I know what you mean. Reading it alone is repulsive to my spirit.

[narses]

Holy Immaculate Mary,
help all who are in trouble.
Give courage to the faint-hearted,
console the sad,
heal the infirm,
pray for the people,
intercede for the clergy,
have a special care for nuns;
may all feel,
all enjoy your kind and powerful assistance,
all who now and always render and will render,
you honour,
and will offer you their petitions.
Hear all our prayers, O Mother,
and grant them all.
We are all your children:
Grant the prayers of your children.

Amen forever.

[Quix]

"Co-Redemptrix of the human race."

Please, just reading those words sullies my soul. Those five words betray a craven mindset and a corrupted church.

Please allow an editorial correction . . .

Those five words betray a craven mindset and a corrupted church [bureaucratic political, power-mongering pile of pseudo theological elites, pontificating endlessly heretical horrors from hell while pretending to be an infallible magicsterical leading the Vatican Alice In Wonderland School of Theology and Reality Mangling] .

[Lera]

All this because the put the words of men above God’s WORD.

Act 5:29 Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.