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To: CynicalBear
I think that's actually a quote of St. Anselm in St. Alphonse Liguori's Glories of Mary. Just after that citation the following is written:

Meaning, that we more easily find salvation by having recourse to the Mother than by going to the Son—not as if Mary was more powerful than her Son to save us, for we know that Jesus Christ is our only Savior, and that he alone by his merits has obtained and obtains salvation for us; but it is for this reason: that when we have recourse to Jesus, we consider him at the same time as our judge, to whom it belongs also to chastise ungrateful souls, and therefore the confidence necessary to be heard may fail us; but when we go to Mary, who has no other office than to compassionate us as Mother of mercy, and to defend us as our advocate, our confidence is more easily established, and is often greater.

Emphasis mine, just to make sure we're all on the same page here.

133 posted on 07/14/2014 1:05:00 PM PDT by Legatus (Either way, we're screwed.)
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To: Legatus
From the Catechism of the Catholic Church. http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__P2C.HTM#$19G

972 After speaking of the Church, her origin, mission, and destiny, we can find no better way to conclude than by looking to Mary. In her we contemplate what the Church already is in her mystery on her own "pilgrimage of faith," and what she will be in the homeland at the end of her journey. There, "in the glory of the Most Holy and Undivided Trinity," "in the communion of all the saints,"516 The Church is awaited by the one she venerates as Mother of her Lord and as her own mother.

In the meantime the Mother of Jesus, in the glory which she possesses in body and soul in heaven, is the image and beginning of the Church as it is to be perfected in the world to come. Likewise she shines forth on earth until the day of the Lord shall come, a sign of certain hope and comfort to the pilgrim People of God.517

You know...we could always conclude by looking to Christ.

148 posted on 07/14/2014 1:33:10 PM PDT by ealgeone (obama, borderof)
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To: Legatus

What a bunch of nonsense.

Just where does the author get the facts to support all those claims about Mary.

Scripture is totally silent on every claim that author makes in Mary’s alleged role in salvation.

And Jesus is our Judge to chastise *ungrateful souls*? That DIRECTLY contradicts Scripture, words that Jesus Himself spoke.


163 posted on 07/14/2014 1:55:00 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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