The Sorrowful Mysteries
The agony in the garden
The scourging at the pillar
The crowning of thorns
The carrying of the cross
The Crucifixion
The Glorious Mysteries
The Resurrection
The Ascension
The sending of the Holy Spirit
The Assumption
The Coronation
You seem to think that we Catholics will be embarrassed and contrite because we say the Rosary and that most of the prayers are asking for Mary's intercession, well guess what...I'm not embarrassed or contrite.
Most of my prayer is directed to God but I feel the need to pray more than I possibly can and so I ask the Holy Spirit, Mary and the Saints to pray for my intentions. That's the whole gist of it, there they are, up in Heaven, praising and glorifying God, seeing His face, feeling His Grace, knowing His love and reflecting it all back to God and I see nothing wrong with asking them to pray for me always.
Thanks for your reply on my inquiry about prayers to Jesus. What is the reason that we hear so little about this type of prayer (to Christ) and so much about the rosary and prayer to Mary? Don't you think one is emphasized a lot more than the other?
Only by Protestants who want to believe that we worship Mary.
No. Neither am I closing my eyes as I speak and assuming a posture of prayer as catholics do. Nor am I venerating them by affirming their blessedness and telling them how holy they are.
Well, once again, it says in the Bible, that the Holy Spirit (part of the Trinity) was speaking through Elizabeth and she exclaimed, “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb!
So if the Holy Spirit (part of the Trinity) confirms that Mary is blessed, I can do no less.
Only by Protestants who want to believe that we worship Mary.
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No, tiki, I'm not talking about when protestants mention her, I'm talking about when she (more than Christ) is emphasized by catholics, such as on EWTN (still not sure if those are the right call-letters). I really need an answer.
If you need proof, how about if I watch Mother Angelica and keep a tally of how often each (Mary & Jesus) is mentioned? I'd be more than willing to do it. I get a real kick out of watching her. She says some real good things, and she cracks me up sometimes.
tiki, then we can also give anyone who God has blessed the same honor can't we?
So then it is alright to set up statues and repeat prayers to all those who have been blessed, and doubly so if God himself did the blessing, right?
Judges 5:23 Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of Jehovah. Curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof, Because they came not to the help of Jehovah, To the help of Jehovah against the mighty.
Judges 5:24 Blessed above women shall Jael be, The wife of Heber the Kenite; Blessed shall she be above women in the tent.
And God blessed Noah and his sons,
And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth. And it came to pass after the death of Abraham, that God blessed Isaac his son.
And the woman bare a son, and called his name Samson: and the child grew, and Jehovah blessed him. And the Spirit of Jehovah began to move him in Mahaneh-dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.
Lk 11:27 And it came to pass, as he said these things, a certain woman out of the multitude lifted up her voice, and said unto him, Blessed is the womb that bare thee, and the breasts which thou didst suck.
V-28 But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.