Enjoy yourselves.
I just gave a brief talk on Truth which I concluded thus
This "always Yes", this affirmation of Suffering and Redeeming Love, this constant Champion of Truth, came to us by the loving gift, and self-gift, of his mother. So I would like to close in prayer to our Patroness, Mary, Mother of God, Truth bearer.To be mocked and slandered, to be barraged with ignorant sophistries and with all the evidences of the debilitating effect of heresy on the intellect, the proof of the accuracy of Dante's description of those who, preferring strife to peace, have rejected salvation: [loro] che hanno perduto il ben del intelleto, these stripes are like balm.Oremus:
Dearest Virgin Mary, Mother of the Truth of God: It was as at this time that you were heavy with the Truth of God. Holding nothing back, you committed yourself to that Truth in utter obedience, and by the Holy Spirit Truth was planted deep within you, there to grow until the time of His disclosure.You contemplated the Truth and all that took place around His birth. You loved and nurtured that Truth, you sought Him in anxiety and followed Him into the world and even to the foot of the Cross.
You rejoiced in the triumph of the Truth and were bathed in the wind and fire of the Spirit of Truth.
We beg you to accept our devotion to you and to your Son.
We ask that we too by your intercession may follow and care for the truth, may seek Him with anxiety, and rejoice in His triumph. May we also disclose him at the proper time.
In service and love of that Truth, we commit our lives, our hearts, our minds, ourselves to you, oh calm, gentle, and sweet, oh Blessed mother.
Amen.
Not just Jesus, but Mary also?
Why? Why should someone devote themselves to a dead person living in heaven who has no power to answer prayers? What's she capable of doing for them or you?
In service and love of that Truth, we commit our lives, our hearts, our minds, ourselves to you, oh calm, gentle, and sweet, oh Blessed mother.
Sounds like worship and idolatry to me-putting Mary on the same level as Jesus and committing your life to her.
God did say something about idols. And idols are not always most out of wood or stone.
Why do you guys never pray to Jesus and tell Him, 'We beg you to accept our devotion to you and your Mother'???