That statement is refuted by the picture above the article..
As the saying goes, derived from the miracle at Cana: “To Jesus through Mary.”
Our Lord Jesus, the creator of the universe, is very generous in giving us His mother as friend and confidant. Apart from Him, she can do nothing. But whatever she asks of Him, He will not deny. As also can be said of Joseph, her most chaste spouse. The Father put the care of mankind’s salvation in the capable hands of Joseph. Jesus, Mary and Joseph, the most holy family.
Thank you for your cogent, stirring words from the heart!
She had a rough life.
. . . but never mind. That's "different."
Apostle John
If you post him every day, I will never say "Enough!"
Beneath your compassion,
We take refuge, O Jesus:
do not despise our petitions in time of trouble;
but rescue us from dangers,
only pure, only blessed one.
There, fixed it!!!
I have posted this before and NEVER received an answer:
Why would you pray to Mary, or the Saints when the Father invites you into a direct intimate relation ship with Him?
As a Christian, I do not find anything mysterious about Mary. She was a beautiful, young girl with a heart after GOD. The fact that she had enough faith to believe GOD could produce a child within her .. is not mysterious.
There were plausible reasons for such an act. It had to be proven that she had never engaged in sexual activity. Nothing mysterious about that.
After Jesus was born, Mary did the normal mother things.
What I always enjoyed about the story of Mary was when she was in the Upper Room with the rest of the disciples, AND THEY ALL RECEIVED THE BAPTISM OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. Soooo, that would mean that Mary was Baptized in the Holy Spirit with the EVIDENCE OF SPEAKING IN OTHER TONGUES.
That is so exciting to me .. to know that Mary got to experience that special event after Jesus’ death. At that moment, she must have felt really blessed.
The entire experience of veneration seems to have been lost within Protestant thinking.
Joh 8:39 “Our father is Abraham!” they declared. “No,” Jesus replied, “for if you were really the children of Abraham, you would follow his example.
The Jews venerated Abraham, so much that they said he was their father. When rebuked for this by Jesus they then said the God was their father, Jesus rebukes them again and identifies their real father if you want to read the rest of the story.
Joh_6:31 After all, our ancestors ate manna while they journeyed through the wilderness! The Scriptures say, ‘Moses gave them bread from heaven to eat.’”
Joh_6:32 Jesus said, “I tell you the truth, Moses didn’t give you bread from heaven. My Father did. And now He offers you the true bread from heaven.
Moses was so venerated that tradition morphed the story to the point that it was Moses that gave them manna, and not God.
Do you see the problem of not having a direct intimate relationship with God?
When people will not recognize Mary as the Mother of God they are actually dissing Jesus Christ.
Go figure!
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I disagree. There is plenty of honor and recognition of the saints that have gone before us with no estrangement. Read Hebrews 11, you'll see. But, I ask, how can something be rudely forgotten when NONE of the Apostles nor anywhere else in Scripture encouraged believers to venerate and pray to Mary and her "entourage"? It's not there. If there is scant early evidence of prayers to Mary - and nothing any earlier than centuries after the last Apostle died, then it is questionable where it originated. That is the real reason some reject it, not out of any dishonor, rudeness or animosity. It is kind of patronizing to conclude "we" are missing something in our walk with Christ because we don't join in.