Posted on 04/01/2008 4:23:02 PM PDT by NYer
God frequently chooses broken vessels.
I don’t think so.
I’ve noted that ATTACHMENT DISORDER slices across all our various reference group identities.
And, it is often a root of many good and not so good life choices and affiliations.
I’ve said such things many times.
The difference, of course, is that a Protestant would say it was by God's grace through the Holy Scriptures that he came to know his salvation was by Christ alone.
As we read, this priest says his enlightenment came from a book on Mary.
That's like comparing the encyclopedia to Grimm's fairy tales.
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I wouldn’t mock Our Lord’s Mother if ya know what I mean!
I wouldn’t mock Our Lord’s Mother if ya know what I mean!
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The founder of the Marians of the Immaculate Conception, this priest’s order, was recently beatified. Blessed Stanislaus Papczynski was Polish, born in 1631, and particularly advocated devotion to the Immaculate Conception and intercessory prayer for the souls in Purgatory.
The miracle that finally allowed his beatification after hundreds of years occurred in Poland, a woman was told the child in her womb was dead, no heart beat, etc, and her cousin prayed to Stanislaus. When she went to the doctor to have the fetal body removed, the child was alive (now a healthy four year old boy).
Very interesting all the connections God has interwoven through Poland. Pope John Paul worked on St. Faustina’s cause as a bishop, never knowing he would one day become pope and declare her a saint and institute Divine Mercy Sunday.
Then the priests that are charged with worldwide responsibility for the Divine Mercy Message suddenly have their Polish founder pulled from obscurity by a miracle in Poland.
And a miracle that involves the most critical issue of our time, the sanctity of life, especially the unborn.
Poland is currently the only country opposing the EU pressure to make abortion a “right.”
And this comes full circle back to Mary, whom Blessed Stanislaus honored as the Immaculate Conception two centuries before the dogma was declared. Mary, who is a greater advocate for life than the woman who carried the God-Man in her womb for 9 months?
The MIC’s Divine Mercy website is my homepage, it has daily quotations, inspirational stories, and orthodox answers. Something pleasant online for a change, just FYI:
http://www.thedivinemercy.org/
You’re correct that Medjugorje has not been authenticated, which is true for about 99% of Marian apparitions. However, the Church has also not gone to the other extreme, as has been necessary in some cases, of declaring it false or fraudulent. So it’s in that limbo (pardon the pun) where it’s permissible as a “private devotion” yet without any official status. Therefore I think you’re right to reserve a bit of caution, as I do as well, but on the other hand, I hesitate to throw any cold water on others’ enthusiam, because isn’t what happened to this one man a miracle in itself?
Homosexuals in the church are the result, he believes, of “the devil twisting” priests and seminarians. “With no Mary, there is a lack of tenderness and they seek in a new way.”
This is quite a profound statement, and it makes sense psychologically and spiritually. Look at the orders with the greatest homosexual problem, and where is Mary? I was recently in a Jesuit retreat center chapel. The statue of “Mary” seemed to be a wooden tribal carving of some Asian goddess (and not a very pretty one).
He may have hit on the one truth that can save the Jesuits from their path of utter self-destruction, they need to turn in humility to the Blessed Mother (before it’s too late).
Wow, do you really feel the need to mock Christ’s Mother by comparing Her to Grimm’s fairy tales. Last time I checked She was real, and the holy Mother of our Lord. Or do you believe the Bible is a fairy tale?
Both titles are blasphemous fiction. I pray for Catholics to have the spiritual discernment to realize Jesus Christ is our the only Redeemer and God the only dispenser of grace.
For Bible-believing Christians, that is basic Christianity 101, and Rome flunks the course.
Why do Catholics honor Mary? We are called to imitate Jesus for He is the Way, the Truth, and Life. We are called to love what Jesus loves and to hate what Jesus hates (sin). We are also called to honor whoever he honors. Jesus honored his mother otherwise he would have broken the 4th commandment (honor your father & mother).
And he answered them, saying, Who is my mother, or my brethren? And he looked round about on them which sat about him, and said, Behold my mother and my brethren! For whosoever shall do the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother." -- Mark 3:32-35"And the multitude sat about him, and they said unto him, Behold, thy mother and thy brethren without seek for thee.
There is a Spiritual family of which Mary has a significant role. Remember that Jesus was transformed in the presence of Moses and Elijah. God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit are the God Head with all others in Christ being the Body.
May God continue to bless this man. Satan, I’m sure, wants him back.
He was twenty, going on 21, and "all I knew was that I was madly in love with God and Our Savior."
THAT, friends and neighbours, is "wonderful testimony".
It just gets better.
How can we expect our kids to take Faith seriously if we don't? Again, wonderful testimony from this servant of God.
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