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Apart from the claims of the Redemptorists,whose language was always regarded as over the top, and went far beyond what St. Alphonsus wrote,
to understand what is said here.
when Mary is spoken of here, she is taken as the figure of the Church, as the woman in the Apocalypse. You will not be much happier though if you look at our claim that Christ can be known only through the Church. But beyond this, the Incarnate Word is known to us only because of Mary.

This is not a matter of necessity, just a matter of fact, if one takes the nativity stories, and the New Testament, seriously. As John says, the Word was made flesh, and as Paul said, he was born of a woman, and John tels us she was present at the foot of the cross. As Matthew and Luke say , the woman was a Virgin. Luke goes beyond this to tell us that Mary is a prophetess, that she was present on Pentecost. The exaltation of her name may make you uncomfortable, but if the name of Jesus is to be every other name, then the name of his mother ought to be mentioned. If Jesus is God, then Mary is the mother of God. Like it or not, that is how the Church councils argued, councils that claimed that this was the ancient teaching of the Church.

To exalt Jesus is to exalt Mary, but, so long as you are reading, look at the messages associated with the visions of Lourdes, LaSalette, and Fatima. Always she speaks as an angel of God. A fitting role for the queen of angels. And ominous. For as often as not she seeks to warn us as well as to comfort us. Bad things are about to happen, but do not despair.

You will not be much happier though if you look at our claim that Christ can be known only through the Church.

And that's fine...But that's why you are not the church Jesus founded...You can be any church you want...But you should quit connecting it with the God of Creation...

Your church did not 'found' nor will it 'found' Jesus...

The fact is; the REAL fact is that THE church can only be known through Jesus Christ...NOT your way, His way...

NO ONE has ever joined the church that Jesus founded unless that person has come to Jesus Christ first...Any other teaching is the epitome' of heresy...You have deluded yourself is you think otherwise...