Our Lady of the Holy Eucharist

[OrthodoxIndianCatholic]

Introduction:

The Blessed Mother is both Eucharistic Lady and Queen of the Holy Rosary. The Angelic Salutation "Hail Mary" that recurs throughout the Rosary that ended up in Mary's acceptance of Jesus Christ physically in her womb bonds the Rosary with the Eucharist.

Linking Earth to Heaven :

As the bearer of both, she draws us closer to the latter through the former. Mary's Rosary is indeed a magnetic chain that pulls us towards the Eucharist -"The Centre of Catholic - Christian Life".

It is obvious that the Rosary is called "The Sacred Chain linking Earth to Heaven".

It has been said of Mother Mary that she conceived Jesus Christ in her heart before she conceived him in her womb. Mary's virginal womb was the first tabernacle that housed Jesus Christ.

Much more than just sheltering the Incarnate Word of God within her, Mary nurtured, loved, and adored him "Who" is her God in her own flesh and blood.

Mary's Life from the Anunciation to the Assumption was a constant contemplation of the Holy Face of Jesus Christ. While she lived the sacrificial aspect of the Holy Eucharist through the sorrowful mysteries of Jesus Christ, she sang the thanksgiving aspect of the Holy Eucharist through her "Magnificat".

The interior disposition of the humble Mother of Jesus Christ, who "Treasured" his every word in her heart and "Pondered" over every mystery associated with him, made her "The Lady of the Eucharist".

Mary's exhortation from the wedding feast in Cana "Do whatever he tells you", corroborates the command of Jesus Christ at the institution of the Holy Eucharist, "Do this in remembrance of me".

Mother Mary was the centre and cementing bond of the Early Christian Apostolic Community where she received her Eucharistic Son in the form of Bread and Wine with unspeakable joy.

Mother Mary moves among us armed with the "Holy Rosary" - Her Spiritual Weapon that defeats evil and wins us to God. As the Mother and Model of the Church, she stands besides every altar reinforcing our faith in "Him" who changes Bread and Wine into his "Body and Blood" as he changed water into wine at Cana.

Mother of Grace :

As the "Mother of Grace", Mary is the mediatrix of all graces. All grace won for us by Christ comes to us through Mother Mary.

Even though Mary is not omnipotent, she dispenses the infinite graces of God through her maternal intercession. If we contemplate the Holy Face of Jesus Christ with Mary our Heavenly Mother through the mysteries of the Holy Rosary, she is sure to draw us closer to Our Eucharistic Lord.

Conclusion :

The Maxim "To Jesus Through Mary" in its practical application goes "Through Rosary to the Eucharist".

Credits:

The Examiner, Mumbai November 3, 2007 Vol 158, No 44 "The Queen and the Holy Eucharist" By Sister Tisy Jose, UMI Pages 10-11

[Mark17]

My, my!

LOL. Roger that.

[Elsie]

Pretty good that someone who allegedly doesn't exist...

Your voices tell you this?

No one claims she doesn't exist; especially me!

I say she exist - as a pile of bones and some dust somewhere!

[defconw]

ROFLOL!

[Alex Murphy]

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OrthodoxIndianCatholic
Since Jan 7, 2015

[Alex Murphy]

I say she exist - as a pile of bones and some dust somewhere!

Nah - Mary is five feet, five inches tall - and she rides around on a cloud....

....In the new book "Medjugorje - 30 years of a phenomenon" authors Marijan Sivric and Ivo Scepanovic have spoken to the schoolchildren - now adults - who said they are surprised that people so often ask "what does she look like"....the Lady is dressed in a grey gown and a white veil covering her black hair, adding: "She has a crown of golden stars, blue eyes, rosy cheeks, and she floats on a silver cloud. She never stands on the ground." The visionaries counted 12 stars above her head, and said she looked to be around 18 years old - but not more than 20.

[defconw]

ROFLOL! She lives rent free in your heads!

O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee, and for those who do not have recourse to thee, especially the enemies of the Church and those recommended to thee, Amen.

[daniel1212]

There are approximately 1.2 billion Catholics world wide; If merely 1% of them 'ask' Mary for help just once each day; that means that 12 million separate prayers are headed Mary's direction every day. Given that there are 86,400 seconds per day... (24 hours times 60 minutes times 60 seconds) ...that means that Mary has to handle approximately 139 'requests' per second!

Good math, and which is part of the deification of the false Mary of Catholicism , as only God is shown having this power, or being prayed to out of over 200

http://peacebyjesus.witnesstoday.org/BIBLE-PRAYERS.html , and the only supplication offered to any created being in Heaven by those on earth are by deceived pagans.

But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of our own mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, as we have done, we, and our fathers, our kings, and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem: for then had we plenty of victuals, and were well, and saw no evil. (Jeremiah 44:17)

[daniel1212]

So, you believe everything you need to know about Mary is in the Bible? Jesus never thought that, and neither did the Authors of the Gospels. IOW, it doesn’t say so in the Bible. That’s why we have the Holy Spirit, given to His Church, to pass down revealed truth, unadulterated and unchanged for two thousand years. When did they start your church?

Same argument as the Mormons and other cults. Under sola ecclesia, in which the church alone is the supreme authority, as it alone is assuredly right in defining what Scripture and tradition consists of and means, then all sorts of things not seen in Scripture, and even what is contrary to it (which the church defines as not doing so), can be said to be binding Truth.

Mormonism has its fables, and Catholicism has theirs.

But holding Scripture as supreme and sufficient does not mean that all that can be known is in Scripture, but that all that is necessary for salvation and growth is provided in its formal and material aspects as a completed canon.

Which flows from the fact is that "the word of God/the Lord" was normally written, even if sometimes first being spoken, and that as written, Scripture became the transcendent supreme standard for obedience and testing and establishing truth claims as the wholly Divinely inspired and assured, Word of God. As is abundantly evidenced

And which testifies (Lk. 24:27,44; Acts 17:2,11; 18:28; 28:23, etc.) to writings of God being recognized and established as being so (essentially due to their unique and enduring heavenly qualities and attestation), and thus they materially provide for a canon of Scripture (as well as for reason, the church, etc.)

Which meant that the additional revelation of NT oral preaching was established as being of God upon Scripture substantiation in word and in power, not upon the premise of ensured perpetual magisterial infallibility. Which is the case with Rome.

Moreover, an examination of anything called "the word of God/the Lord will show it being written, or subsequently revealed, and which was wholly inspired of God, possessing a power that goes beyond merely being true. (Heb. 4;12)

Thus if God wants us to know something more than what is written, then the veracity of would have to be established upon Scripture substantiation.

In contrast the veracity of RC teaching does not rest upon that, lest she be as evangelicals, but rests upon the premise of ensured perpetual magisterial infallibility.

Nor are what she claims to pass on as traditions or any of her infallible decrees the wholly inspired words of God. Nor are even the arguments and reasoning behind them necessarily without error.

But Rome has presumed to infallibly declare she is and will be perpetually infallible whenever she speaks in accordance with her infallibly defined (scope and subject-based) formula, which renders her declaration that she is infallible, to be infallible, as well as all else she accordingly declares.

Thus a faithful RC is not to ascertain the veracity of RC teaching by examination of evidences (for that reason). For to do so would be to doubt the claims of Rome to be the assuredly infallible magisterium by which a RC obtains assurance of Truth

..in all cases the immediate motive in the mind of a Catholic for his reception of them is, not that they are proved to him by Reason or by History, but because Revelation has declared them by means of that high ecclesiastical Magisterium which is their legitimate exponent.” — John Henry Newman.

It was the charge of the Reformers that the Catholic doctrines were not primitive, and their pretension was to revert to antiquity. But the appeal to antiquity is both a treason and a heresy. It is a treason because it rejects the Divine voice of the Church at this hour, and a heresy because it denies that voice to be Divine... I may say in strict truth that the Church has no antiquity....Primitive and modern are predicates, not of truth, but of ourselves...The only Divine evidence to us of what was primitive is the witness and voice of the Church at this hour. . — Most Rev. Dr. Henry Edward Cardinal Manning, Lord Archbishop of Westminster, The Temporal Mission of the Holy Ghost: Or Reason and Revelation (New York: J.P. Kenedy & Sons, originally written 1865, reprinted with no date), pp. 227-228.

Thus the reasoning (akin to Mormonism), Catholic doctrine, as authoritatively proposed by the Church, should be held as the supreme law; for, seeing that the same God is the author both of the Sacred Books and of the doctrine committed to the Church, it is clearly impossible that any teaching can by legitimate means be extracted from the former, which shall in any respect be at variance with the latter. .(Providentissimus Deus; http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/leo_xiii/encyclicals/documents/hf_l-xiii_enc_18111893_providentissimus-deus_en.html)

And instead of being as the Bereans, implicit assent is called for,

It follows that the Church is essentially an unequal society, that is, a society comprising two categories of per sons, the Pastors and the flock...the one duty of the multitude is to allow themselves to be led, and, like a docile flock, to follow the Pastors. - VEHEMENTER NOS, an Encyclical of Pope Pius X promulgated on February 11, 1906

"The intolerance of the Church toward error, the natural position of one who is the custodian of truth, her only reasonable attitude makes her forbid her children...to endeavor to discover religious truths by examining both sides of the question. This places the Catholic in a position whereby he must stand aloof from all manner of doctrinal teaching other than that delivered by his Church through her accredited ministers." — (John H. Stapleton, Explanation of Catholic Morals, Chapters XIX, XXIII. the consistent believer (1904); Nihil Obstat. Remy Lafort, Censor Librorum. Imprimatur, John M. Farley, Archbishop of New York )

And incredibly, it is argued that one cannot even know what Scripture is with the infallible magisterium to tell him so:

"People cannot discover the contents of revelation by their unaided powers of reason and observation. They have to be told by people who have received in from on high. " - Cardinal Avery Dulles, SJ, “Magisterium: Teacher and Guardian of the Faith,” p. 72; http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2008/08/magisterial-cat-and-mouse-game.html

.the believer cannot believe in the Bible nor find in it the object of his faith until he has previously made an act of faith in the intermediary authorities between the word of God and his reading. - Catholic Encyclopedia>Tradition and Living Magisterium; http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15006b.htm

Back to Mary and the Biblical premise of establishment of Truth based upon Scriptural substantiation, one would have a hard time in Bible times explaining kneeling before a statue and praising the entity it represented in the unseen world, and as having Divine powers and glory, and making offerings and beseeching such for Heavenly help, directly accessed by mental prayer.

Moses, put down those rocks! I was only engaging in hyper dulia, not adoring her. Can't you tell the difference?

It seems that the RC argument is that an assuredly (if conditionally) infallible magisterium is essential for determination and assurance of Truth (including writings and men being of God) and to fulfill promises of Divine presence, providence of Truth, and preservation of faith, and authority. (Jn. 14:16,26; 15:26; 16:13; Mt. 16:18; Lk. 10:16)

And that being the historical instruments and stewards of Divine revelation (oral and written) means that Rome is that assuredly infallible magisterium. Thus any who knowingly dissent from the latter must be in rebellion to God. Does this fairly represent what you hold to or in what way does it differ?

[imardmd1]

A work of poesy and pure imagination! The article needs a star for creativity in religious fiction and fantasy!

[aMorePerfectUnion]

Poor Mary. Blessed by God and cursed in posts like yours, that fasion her into a demigod.

Welcome to FR. your education is beginning.

[RnMomof7]

Next thing you know the Vatican will say when you eat that wafer the real miracle is that you are also eating Mary too...

[Salvation]

I missed that.

[daniel1212]

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[daniel1212]

Also, Reminder from Jim Robinson: "Free Republic is a pro-God site. The one and only true Judeo-Christian God as taught to us by KJV with no additional editing or books of fiction..I have zero faith in Joseph Smith or his so-called Mormon religion and do not want it taught on FR as gospel Joe Smith was a false prophet and his book is false gospel (look it up in KJV). Those who cannot live with that are certainly free to post elsewhere." http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2963890/posts?page=475#475

The Mormonic fantasies are akin to those of the Mary of Catholicism, and the veracity of which are based upon the same fallacious premise. Contrary to the God of any Bible.

[blue-duncan]

“Next thing you know the Vatican will say when you eat that wafer the real miracle is that you are also eating Mary too...”

Actually you are since her DNA is passed on along with the DNA of the whole family of Judah or for that matter, Noah’s and Adam’s. Now that is a mouthful in a little wafer!

[Alex Murphy]

Next thing you know the Vatican will say when you eat that wafer the real miracle is that you are also eating Mary too...

So far it hasn't happened, but that very point was debated on this 2010 thread: Mary and the Eucharist

[Mark17]

A work of poesy and pure imagination! The article needs a star for creativity in religious fiction and fantasy!

LOL, affirmative sir.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

“Next thing you know the Vatican will say when you eat that wafer the real miracle is that you are also eating Mary too...”

No doubt. They already have a contingent that considers Mary a “co-redemptress”.

[defconw]

Sure, that could happen. OMG! She resides rent free!

[imardmd1]

LOL, affirmative sir .

Sergeant. 22 003 834. Sir.