Mary is God's creation, a human being, period. And Catholics do NOT worship Mary, if they did I'd leave the Church. Catholics pray to Mary only to aske her to pray for them, as the mother of Jesus Christ, God incarnate. Protestants ask others to pray for them, which is right and good. But if the prayers of other, united to our own, make our prayers stronger, then how much stronger are our prayers when Jesus Christ's mother prays for us? Is the Virgin Mary dead, or alive in Heaven without the ability to hear our pleas and prayers? Impossible. The people in Heaven are more alive than you and I, and can most certainly hear our petitions, just as our heavenly Guardian Angels hear us.
Also consider the "Mount of the Transfiguration", where Jesus appeared to Peter, James and John, along with Moses and Elias. Our Lord actually spoke and conversed with Moses and Elias, both of whom certainly saw and heard the three Apostles. The Apostles then venerated Jesus and the two Old Testaments Saints by desiring to build them each a "tabernacle". Was this a slight to Jesus, the Son of God, that the Apostles wanted to venerate the Old Testament Fathers? Not at all.
Thank you for jumping in, jiminy. And I concur. :)
I’m reading John of Damascus and he confirms my hunch that many, including many of our non-Catholic brethren, do not understand the Incarnation and its implications.
At the bottom of this post are several devotional assertions by Roman Catholics over the ages deifying and worshiping Mary.
Certainly not all self-identified Roman Catholics worship the Vatican Cult's ISHTAR-MARY caricature. Though in South America and other 3rd world countries, the percentages seem to be extremely high of those who do.
Then there's the issue of only 7-30% of self-identified Roman Catholics come close to believing and practicing what the Vatican Cult calls the essentials of the faith. Fascinating, that.
In any case, below is some extensive documentation proving that many Roman Catholics do, in fact, worship the Vatican Cult's ISHTAR-MARY caricature. And, that they've done so for centuries though SOME official dogmatic pronouncements in that direction are only a hundred or less years old.
Below are the examples
of exalting other deities.
They are real.
They are serious.
They are owned,
operated in,
manifested in,
heart-felt wallowed in
by millions of Roman Catholics around the world.
Pretending otherwise does not change the facts.
White washing it with magicsterical diplospeak
doesn't change the facts.
Rationalizing it with 101 weasel words
doesn't change the facts.
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Here's the title:
And it carries the official sanctions of:
nihil obstat
n.
1. Roman Catholic Church An attestation by a church censor that a book contains nothing damaging to faith or morals.
2. Official approval, especially of an artistic work.
WITH RICHARD CARDINAL CUSHINGS IMPRIMATUR
Let me track down the brief portion of quotes upthread . . .
Here they are:
However, as we've seen through a variety of sources--a pile of them in Ferraro's manual about the Rosary--the Roman Catholic et al/Vatican Edifice disagrees with a lot of the claims of RC's hereon to the contrary.
p.32
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[Quixicated emphases below]
Mary is crowned Queen of heaven and earth, dispenser of all graces . . .
p32
4 - She became Queen of Purgatory, where she exercises her power as mediatrix in behalf of these suffering souls.
5 - She became Queen of us sinners, to assist us through the dangers of this life and to help us in difficulties.
6 - She became the ruler of hell, that trembles at her slightest gaze and is defeated by her power.
"Just as a rock extracted from earth will precipitate into the abyss, so will man, left without Mary's help, quickly slide toward hell." --Richard of St Victor
p37
Sacred Heart of Jesus, Thy kingdom come; Thy kingdom come through Mary! --Partial Indulgence
p41
"Mary is the tree of life to those who grasp her, and he is happy who hold her fast." --Prov. 3:18
p43
1 - "Hail Mary, beloved daughter of the Father, Mother of the Divine Son, Spouse of the Holy Spirit, complement of the most august Trinity!"
p45
6 - To her was granted grace greater than that conferred upon all others, 'that she might vanquish sin in every respect.'
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[Qx: I guess Christ's vanquishing sin was unnecessary--or ineffectual without Mary's assistance?]
p46
7 - "Mary is the dawn of God because, just as the dawn marks the end of darkness and the beginning of day, so Mary indicates the end of vices and the beginning of virtue."
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[Qx: I guess Christ's conquering on The Cross and HIS conquering trip to hell were unncessary?]
9 - God loved Mary so much that He gave her the keys to His heart. 'No one can go to God without Mary drawing him.'
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[Qx: I guess Holy Spirit has been relegated to a 'Walter Mitty' role as spouse of Mary? That's SOME POWER to cancel & take over HOLY SPIRIT'S role to draw men to God!]
p47
4 - "Mary, trusting in the word of the angel, destroyed the sin Eve committed by trusting in the serpent.'
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[Qx: Evidently, she beat Christ to the job of vanquishing sin!]
5 - "She desired the safety of everyone, went in search of it, and obtained it; it was also through her that this salvation was wrought."
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[QX: What an unnecessary waste of precious Blood and suffering on THE CROSS!!!/sar]
p47
10 - "As Noah's Ark saved all the animals that entered it, so Mary saves all the souls that entrust themselves to her care."
p50
8 - "If she were not so holy as she is, how could God appoint her to be the ladder of Paradise, the advocate of the world, meatrix between HIm and us?"
p50
4 - "By becoming Mother of God, Mary belongs to the order of hypostatic union; hence she participates IN the infinite sanctity of God."
I'm thinkin' the idea is to gain credibility...When you make statements like this around here, you're not gaining any ground...Numerous times info from different sources have been posted by from Catholics and from offical sites that show us people DO pray to Mary and ask her to provide everything from salvation to miracles...
Is the Virgin Mary dead, or alive in Heaven without the ability to hear our pleas and prayers? Impossible. The people in Heaven are more alive than you and I, and can most certainly hear our petitions, just as our heavenly Guardian Angels hear us.
Where did you learn that...Certainly not from God's scripture...
Sorry for butting into a debate without knowing who's saying what. But I gleaned enough to see that somebody thinks Catholic 'worship' the ever Virgin Mary, mother of Jesus Christ, mother of God. If the Protestants think they can seperate Jesus' humanity from His divinity, they are nothing but self appointed "popes"
Nope...We are bible believers who can read...We are not however followers of the Pied Piper...
Our Lord Jesus Christ is both man and God at once. The Apostle Thomas knew this when he fell to his knees before Jesus and said: "My Lord and my God".
When Thomas said this, he was speaking to the risen Jesus who had and has a glorified body...Not the same body he had while he roamed the earth...That body died and was changed...All those effeminate paintings you guys have around of Jesus won't help you recognize him when you see him...We have no idea what he will appear as when we see him...