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Vatican City, Oct 11, 2013 / 07:25 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Anticipating Pope Francis' entrustment of the world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary on Oct. 13, a specialist in Marian apparitions reflected on how the Blessed Mother serves to bring people to Jesus.
“It is necessary to have recourse to the Virgin because she can only bring you to God. That's her whole mission. She has nothing of self in it at all. She lives only for God and to bring you to God,” said Marian expert Tim Tindal-Robertson during an Oct. 10 interview with CNA.
Tindal-Robertson is currently the national president in England of the World Apostolate of Fatima, an international association of the faithful which was erected by the Pontifical Council for the Laity in 2010.
Speaking of the significance of Pope Francis’ decision to entrust the world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Tindal-Robertson said that “the Pope has judged that in the year of faith this is a very appropriate moment” to focus on Mary’s presence in the Church.
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Read the text you quoted. Note that it doesn’t say that “only Mary” can bring you to Jesus. It says that Mary “can only” bring you to Jesus.
Where in the Bible does it say that ONLY the Bible is a source of religious truth?
Wow. It took just a few minutes for the Catholic-bashers to come out.
Yet, He is still mentioned.
The importance of Mary's role in the modern Church is shown most clearly in the annunciation, he said, where the angel Gabriel appeared to the Blessed Mother and told her she would give birth to the Son of God.
Yes, because I was talking about right now.
Nobody has ever said that the “Hail, Mary” is part of Scripture. Nobody has ever “added” the “Hail, Mary” to Scripture.
What are you talking about?
I merely quoted Scripture without commentary. Your argument is with the plain Word of God, not me.
“For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.” (Hebrews 4:12)
I see your point.
This verse is very clear. However...
It is an exercise in futility to quote the Bible to Catholics, as THEY DO NOT BELIEVE THE BIBLE. So I’ve been told by R.C. friends. They think some of the Bible is true, but everything the Pope says is true.
To make a point, when I ask them if I get to disregard the things in the Bible I don’t like, perhaps, “Thou shalt not kill”, would that be OK? If they can pick and choose, why can’t I?
Do you look to the scribbling of Sinful man for the truth.
shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach
Not to mention the fact that is a Marian feast day on the Extraordinary Form calendar: Feast of the Divine Maternity
When the course of her life on earth was completed, Mary was taken, body and soul, into heaven.
It is an interesting fact that no one in the history of the world has ever claimed to possess a relic from the body of Mary. The complete absence of such a claim is conclusive evidence that even those inclined to make fraudulent claims of that sort have known from the beginning of Christianity that no one would give such a claim any credence.
In other words, belief in the bodily Assumption of Mary into heaven dates all the way back to the Apostles.
Put another way, we can be certain that, if Mary had died and been buried, there would have been both genuine and fraudulent claims regarding relics. There have been no such claims. Therefore, she was bodily assumed into heaven.
The "Reformed" interpretation of the Scripture is implied.
All of which matters not one bit in the current discussion.
Why do you call any follower of the Christ
shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach
who quotes the Holy WORD of G-d, catholic bashers ?
Read the common quote from the first post, which is, if I’m not mistaken, taken from the Rosary. No attempt is made to differentiate the ADDED part at the end from the scriptural part at the beginning.
Mean Maryjean, it is not “only Mary brings you to God.” We all know that it is only through Jesus that we can come to the Father and receive the grace of the Holy Spirit. The statement is that Mary can only bring you to God. The only thing Mary can do is help bring us into a closer relationship to God.
No one was prohibited from owning a copy of Scripture before the Reformation.
What was prohibitive was the cost.
It never ceases to amaze me that anyone buys the notion that Jesus intended the personal reading and personal interpretation of Scripture to be the ONLY source of knowledge about him, when during his lifetime on earth, and for 1500 years after, the cost of a copy of the Bible was astronomical, and the vast majority of people were illiterate.
This is very sophomoric. “Son Behold Thy Mother”! Having shed his last drop of blood for mankind, Christ gave us all what He loved most: His mother.
The Bible did not fall from the skies. For the first 60-100 years after the death of Christ, His apostles and disciples practiced the received traditions and teachings of the time. It was the Catholic Church and the early Fathers who sorted out the various writings and the early Councils that gave us what we today called the Bible. As we say “To Jesus through Mary” like the wedding guests at Cana learned.
Your conscience indicts you, FRiend. You know what the Bible teaches and you reject it.
So? I’ve been aware since about the age of six that the first part came directly from the gospel, and the latter part didn’t.
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