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To: metmom
What Catholics as a whole seem to miss is that the Gospel is about Jesus, not Mary.

So when Catholics, as a whole, recite "Glory to You, oh Lord" before the Gospel reading and "Praise to You, Lord Jesus Christ" at the conclusion of the Gospel reading, we're actually talking about Mary?

557 posted on 12/17/2010 9:44:07 AM PST by WrightWings (Remember, Remember, the Fifth of November...)
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To: WrightWings; 1000 silverlings; Alex Murphy; Belteshazzar; bkaycee; blue-duncan; boatbums; caww; ...

This following prayer by one of your own popes isn’t about Jesus. Catholicism needs to get rid of idolatry like this and there’s plenty more like it and it starts at the top down.

Adding enough Jesus as window dressing to give the appearance of legitimacy does NOT Christianity make.

Prayer of Pope Pius XII
In Honor of the Immaculate Conception

http://catholicism.about.com/od/tothevirginmary/qt/Honor_Immacula.htm

Prayer of Pope Pius XII

Enraptured by the splendor of your heavenly beauty, and impelled by the anxieties of the world, we cast ourselves into your arms, O Immaculate Mother of Jesus and our Mother, Mary, confident of finding in your most loving heart appeasement of our ardent desires, and a safe harbor from the tempests which beset us on every side.

Though degraded by our faults and overwhelmed by infinite misery, we admire and praise the peerless richness of sublime gifts with which God has filled you, above every other mere creature, from the first moment of your conception until the day on which, after your assumption into heaven, He crowned you Queen of the Universe.

O crystal fountain of faith, bathe our minds with the eternal truths! O fragrant Lily of all holiness, captivate our hearts with your heavenly perfume! O Conqueress of evil and death, inspire in us a deep horror of sin, which makes the soul detestable to God and a slave of hell!

O well-beloved of God, hear the ardent cry which rises up from every heart. Bend tenderly over our aching wounds. Convert the wicked, dry the tears of the afflicted and oppressed, comfort the poor and humble, quench hatreds, sweeten harshness, safeguard the flower of purity in youth, protect the holy Church, make all men feel the attraction of Christian goodness. In your name, resounding harmoniously in heaven, may they recognize that they are brothers, and that the nations are members of one family, upon which may there shine forth the sun of a universal and sincere peace.

Receive, O most sweet Mother, our humble supplications, and above all obtain for us that, one day, happy with you, we may repeat before your throne that hymn which today is sung on earth around your altars: You are all-beautiful, O Mary! You are the glory, you are the joy, you are the honor of our people! Amen.


559 posted on 12/17/2010 9:50:40 AM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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