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To: FourtySeven

“Suffice it to say, given they are more alive than us, it doesn’t require omnipotence/ omnipresence/ omni-anything for them to hear our prayers, as its our prayers that “cross over” to their ears not the reverse.”


The RCC does not teach that Mary is receiving transmissions from Earth. According to Pope Benedict the 16th, she shares in God’s omnipresence and is, therefore, personally present with every Catholic believer.

“Mary is taken up body and soul into the glory of Heaven, and with God and in God she is Queen of Heaven and earth. And is she really so remote from us?

The contrary is true. Precisely because she is with God and in God, she is very close to each one of us.

While she lived on this earth she could only be close to a few people. Being in God, who is close to us, actually, “within” all of us, Mary shares in this closeness of God. Being in God and with God, she is close to each one of us, knows our hearts, can hear our prayers, can help us with her motherly kindness and has been given to us, as the Lord said, precisely as a “mother” to whom we can turn at every moment.

She always listens to us, she is always close to us, and being Mother of the Son, participates in the power of the Son and in his goodness. We can always entrust the whole of our lives to this Mother, who is not far from any one of us.”

http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/homilies/2005/documents/hf_ben-xvi_hom_20050815_assunzione-maria_en.html

“Papa” Francis speaks of the “spiritual presence” of Mary:

April 28, 2013
Regina Caeli

“I would like to entrust the confirmandi and all of you to Our Lady. The Virgin Mary teaches us what it means to live in the Holy Spirit and what it means to welcome the newness of God in our life. She conceived Jesus by the work of the Spirit, and every Christian, each one of us, is called to welcome the Word of God, to welcome Jesus in ourselves and then bring him to everyone. Mary invoked the Spirit with the Apostles in the upper room: every time that we come together in prayer, we are supported by the SPIRITUAL PRESENCE of the Mother of Jesus, to receive the gift of the Spirit and to have the ability to bear witness to the risen Jesus. I say this in a special way to you who have received Confirmation today: may Mary help you to be attentive to that which the Lord asks of you, and always to live and to walk according to the Holy Spirit!”

This poor fellow prays the Rosary, and personally receives visible confirmation of her presence. Evidently, every time someone prays the Rosary all the way through, she and Jesus get a crown of roses:

“Our Lady has shown her thorough approval of the name Rosary; she had revealed to several people that each time they say a Hail Mary they are giving her a beautiful rose and that each complete Rosary makes her a crown of roses.

The well-known Jesuit, Brother Alphonsus Rodriguez, used to say his Rosary with such fervor that he often saw a red rose come out of his mouth at each Our Father and a white rose at each Hail Mary. The red and white roses were equal in beauty and fragrance, the only difference being in their color.

The chronicles of Saint Francis tell of a young friar who had the praiseworthy habit of saying the Crown of Our Lady (the Rosary) every day before dinner. One day for some reason or other he did not manage to say it. The refectory bell had already been rung when he asked the Superior to allow him to say it before coming to the table, and having obtained the permission he withdrew to his cell to pray.

After he had been gone a long time the Superior sent another Friar to fetch him, and he found him in his room bathed in a heavenly light facing Our Lady who had two angels with her. Beautiful roses kept issuing from his mouth at each Hail Mary; the angels took them one by one, placing them on Our Lady’s head, and she smilingly accepted them.”

http://www.rosary-center.org/secret.htm

The RCC does not teach that she receives our messages into eternity. The RCC claims that Mary is personally hearing the prayers and is present with the Catholic believer. Not only that, but you should read that last link. Evidently, many vain repetitions of the Rosary gain eternal life. I got the title of the work from the Vatican website, which is:

“The Secret of the Rosary

by St. Louis De Montfort”

For any lurkers, I recommend reading the link in full, to totally understand the sheer idolatrous nature of the RCC’s adoration of Mary, and of their superstitious nature.


208 posted on 05/29/2013 3:08:44 PM PDT by Greetings_Puny_Humans
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

Have you never heard of apparitions?


233 posted on 05/30/2013 9:29:23 AM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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