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To: narses
Here ya go!

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.
535 posted on 12/18/2010 3:52:48 PM PST by presently no screen name
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To: presently no screen name

Truly beautiful, thanks for sharing.


536 posted on 12/18/2010 3:54:32 PM PST by narses ( 'Prefer nothing to the love of Christ.')
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Oh my gosh PNSN...how can they be a part of that! Completely dethrones Christ as Savior...Mary isn’t any of these things....she cannot appease anyones desires...only Jesus can....only he is a safe harbor...Mary saves no one...and she certainly is not crowned Queen of Heaven..there is no such thing. Sheesh!

They ask her to “bathe their minds with her truths”...only Jesus is the truth...she has no power..it was all given to Him.

I shuddered when he wrote ‘Conqueruss of evil and death” What blashemy!!!!! Jesus Christ conquered evil and death thru His crucifixion...not Mary not ever...oh the mindless proifanity in his statement..and catholics followed these Popes? and then to add insult to injury he prays she convert the wicked no less! and seals the deal...in her name..not Christ’s.!!!!!!!!

It’s all bad and more than astounding that catholics buy into this....makes me think, rather than simply suspect, many catholics who believe this stuff don’t know Christ at all....if they do as some say they could not remain in the cathilic church which preaches and believes this...astounnding!


551 posted on 12/18/2010 4:25:31 PM PST by caww
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To: presently no screen name

Even their pope prays to and worships Mary...


598 posted on 12/18/2010 5:25:08 PM PST by Iscool (I don't understand all that I know...)
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