Doesn’t matter what’s in your heart...You have been conditioned to worship Mary while calling it something else...
Doesn’t matter what’s in your heart? Really?
The Lord told Samuel that He looketh at the heart.
But the Lord said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart. 1 Samuel 16:7
I can only speak for myself. I have never been instructed to worship or adore Mary in the same way that I have been instructed to worship and adore God. It was always made clear that devotions to Mary where not on the same level as the worship and adoration that is due to God alone. Not once, not ever, was I ever told that I must worship Mary in any way, shape, or form.
These are some of the things that I had to commit to memory while growing up in the Catholic faith:
Q. Why did God make you?
A. God made me to know Him, to love Him, and to serve Him in this world, and to be happy with Him forever in the next.
Q. What must we do to save our souls?
A. To save our souls we must worship God by faith, hope, and charity; that is, we must believe in Him, hope in Him, and love Him with all our heart.
Q. Which are the Commandments that contain the whole law of God?
A. The Commandments which contain the whole law of God are these two:
Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, with thy whole soul, with thy whole strength, and with thy whole mind;
Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.
Q. What is prayer?
A. Prayer is the lifting up of our minds and hearts to God to adore Him, to thank Him for His benefits, to ask His forgiveness, and to beg of Him all the graces we need whether for soul or body.
Q. How does the first Commandment help us to keep the great Commandment of the love of God?
A. The first Commandment helps us to keep the great Commandment of the love of God because it commands us to adore God alone.
Q. How do we adore God?
A. We adore God by faith, hope, and charity, by prayer and sacrifice.
And that is worship...
to thank Him for His benefits, to ask His forgiveness, and to beg of Him all the graces we need whether for soul or body.
but that is the same thing you do with Mary...You pray to her to watch over you, protect you...You ask her to provide grace to you...You ask her to give you salvation...That's all worship...
"Question: What must we do to save our souls? First, you cannot save your soul, that's why God took for Himself a body, Jesus, and fulfilled the law and went to the cross as the Lamb of God, perfect for the ultimate sacrifice to save your soul.Catholic Answer: To save our souls we must worship God by faith, hope, and charity; that is, we must believe in Him, hope in Him, and love Him with all our heart. And this is what muslims do in their worship of the god of Islam, which your organization claims is the same god of catholiciism. JESUS, GOD with us, said that we must believe, faithe on the One Whom GOD sent for our salvation, and thus be born from above. This allows GOD to immediately save the believer, as illustrated perfectly on the Day of Pentecost when more than 3000 were added to the body of believers, and in the House of Cornelius where people believed even before Peter finished his sermon, people who are SAVED because they believed in the One Whom God had sent to save them, immediately, when they faithe in Him.
This 'believe and immediately be born from above' (as Jesus explained to Nicodemus) is a subtle difference from what you were taught to memorize. But satan is brilliant at making holes in minds into which he pours his blasphemies. So the Catholic organization started feeding you slippage from the TRUTH in what they required you to memorize.
Eventually, they, the catholiciism hierarchy, doing satan's bidding, slipped in many more things which were pure heresy and some even blasphemous (like teaching you to believe --by twisting scripture, by isolating the chosen phrases, to say what the hierarchy commanded in order to empower their priestly class --you are taught that in the catholic Mass you are literally eating God, body, blood, soul and DIVINITY to get God-life in you.
The catholic Mass is pure blasphemy, a pagan ritual which mocks God on the Cross pouring out His perfect life's blood for our redemption. READ the Old Testament; the blood of the sin offering was NEVER imbibed, the Law which GOD gave to the Hebrews forbade it! The was poured out upon the ground, just as Abel's blood poured out upon the ground. And Jesus illustrated this when He poured out the last cup of WINE at the Passover with His disciples. God is not offering JESUS for your priest to feed to you. The Lord's Table was instituted by JESUS, God with us, as a remembrance of His Body slain as the sacrifice for our sins and His blood poured out for our redemption from sin, not a pagan rite of eating food sacrificed by priests for eating the object of worship.
Catholicism is not Christianity. It is a demonically inspired look-alike that will point to anything to gain your fealty, except the One Whom God has sent for your salvation. You cannot strive your way to salvation, trying to earn enough points with God in order to be owed eternal life. That is a lie, albeit one of satan's most camouflaged lies, and he started using variations of that lie all the way back with the first family.
What is the Gospel of Salvation? And where can someone find it in The Word of God? Answer that, then place that simplest of all revelations of GOD's Grace beside the complex system of worship promulgated as a 'striving way' to salvation by the catholic institution.
And know this Rich, your religion's leadership has said that even Muslims are saved because 'they believe in the same god as catholics', but you and I know that they do not faithe in Jesus, WHO is the ONLY means of Salvation. And the state of their spiritual deadness is manifest in their murderous jihadis who are of course NOT anathema to faithful muslims.