If you keep My commandments you will abide in My love, AS I HAVE ALSO KEPT MY FATHER’S COMMANDMENTS, AND ABIDE IN HIS LOVE.”, John 15:10.
Now what about ‘honor thy father and thy mother’? Don’t you think He kept that one too? There is certainly ample Scriptural evidence to show that He honored His Father, and there is evidence that He honored His mother as well. In fact, He, GOD Himself, must have obeyed His mother’s, everyday living, ‘mother to child’ commands as He was growing up. This is shown in Luke 2:51, “And He went down with them and came to Nazareth, and was SUBJECT to them.” That is a very profound verse if you think about it. In effect it says, that for many years, the ‘Creator of the Universe’ obeyed the commands of a little Jewish girl, by the name of...Mary. Jesus also acted on her suggestion that the wedding guests were out of wine at Cana, by performing His first public miracle when He turned water into wine in John 2:1-5. Jesus Christ therefore kept the commandment ‘honor thy mother’, as well. If Jesus Christ honored His mother, can we do less? Jesus Christ loves His mother like any good son would. He will defend her from all attacks against her. If you have not honored Mary, what will you tell her Son after you have taken your last breath, and when you meet Him face to face, and He asks you why? Remember, at that point in time, the ‘GOD of Mercy’ becomes the ‘GOD of Justice’. Then it is too late to correct the injustice done to the Mother of GOD. St. Louis Marie Grignion de Montfort said it best in his book ‘True Devotion to Mary’, “Let no one presume to hope for the mercy of GOD, who dares to slight or offend GOD’s mother.”
Got some Scripture to back that up?
We are going to stand before the God who proclaimed at the first, that He is a jealous God, one who gave us a manual to live by so that we are without excuse.
1. Paragraphs are our friends.
2. That rationalization is such a pile of chaff as to be embarrassing that anyone would try and build a doghouse on it, much less the caricatured SUPER-MARY INDUSTRY.
Look what Jesus had to say to a woman who tried to honor Mary like you suggest. Luke 11: 27 As Jesus was saying these things, a woman in the crowd called out, "Blessed is the mother who gave you birth and nursed you." He replied, "Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it."
That woman's comment about Mary very closely reflects what the Catholic Church teaches about her and Jesus did NOT agree to or condone the veneration of Mary by this Israelite woman. He corrected her for it.
I know he was a proponent of the rosary ... he encouraged young priests to pray the rosary as he did.
I suspect this is one of many Catholic "saints" that this day burn in hell..
let no one presume mercy from God if they made Mary an idol and placed her where only Christ should be..