Posted on 03/16/2015 1:40:04 PM PDT by NKP_Vet
Probably caucus this before the loons show up?
Oh, me.
**Has the United States remained true to its founding ideals? In particular, are Jesus and His Mother afforded a place of honor in our nation’s culture, politics, and economy? **
Mary gas promised to protect the United States if the Bishops do only one thing....in fact, 9-11 may not have happened if this had been done.
Very simple — Enshrine Our Lady of America in a niche in the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D. C. It needs to be done soon!!!! (See the links in the next post.)
Mary didn’t appear to George Washington.
Read the links.
America’s First Mass [Ecumenical]
George Washington’s Return from Service to Mount Vernon, Christmas Eve, 1783
Remember, Remember (George Washington and Guy Fawkes Day)
A Tea Party Thomist: Charles Carroll
America’s Catholic Colony [Ecumenical]
The Catholic Church in the United States of America [Ecumenical]
Catholic Founding Fathers - The Carroll Family [Ecumenical]
Charles Carroll, founding father and "an exemplar of Catholic and republican virtue" [Ecumenical]
CITIZEN JOURNALISM: Founding Catholic [Father]
"How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization" ( Book Review )
Followed by a bunch of general discussion on FR. That is called being a little less than specific.
Maybe I will regret having asked this, but what could a shrine to Mary at that location do which all the other shrines to Mary all over the USA have failed to do?
I say it is a problem with shrines to Christ not being in hearts!
Means such an encounter is not recorded. George was not ignorant of Catholic claims and seemed like a more than fair man.
>Are you truly serious about this Salvation?<
Sadly I think catholics really believe this.
And they claim they don't worship Mary......
Yeah, poor dead Mary can not do a thing but Jesus can and does.
Mary is viewed as an essential for getting to the “softer side” of God.
Such a claim is essentially unfalsifiable. Point to an ancient witness of tender mercies like David of the Psalms, and you get told what, that Mary was watching over him too? And if every evangelical prayer to Jesus got granted... Catholics would say it was because they had asked Mary.
How does such a thesis get tested.
Mary has no more power to “bless” anything than my Great Aunt Fanny has. Sheesh! Idolatry run rampant.
Washington would probably have mentioned it, as it is, the story is fake.
I do not know a lot about who takes care of that cathedral. It isn’t viewed as all that important by most evangelicals. To me it is a mere building.
If they can work out a way to put a Mary shrine in it in order to make Catholics happier, far be it from me to stop them. However I think we would straightway get shrines to Buddha, etc. in it too. We should be careful what we ask for.
The prayers are supposed to be for Mary to pray for us to be Blessed by God the Father, not to bless us herself. And she (or her image) is not to be worshipped (idolatry), only honored.
On the other hand, though she was virgin at Jesus' birth, he had siblings, and in Jewish tradition, IIRC, an unconsummated marriage is no marriage at all. That has never been adequately explained, to me anyway.
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