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To: CynicalBear; All

For the record, for others’ education and edification (if not yours):

In prayers like what you have cited here, it’s always understood, if not explicitly stated in such prayers, such holy and glorious attributes of Mary are the direst result of God.

For example, in the very prayer you have cited here, we find the phrase, “ ...we admire and praise the peerless richness of sublime gifts with which God has filled you...”

Thus, in praising and glorifying these attributes of Mary, one is actually praising and glorifying He who gave them to her: God.

In virtually every prayer any critic of Catholiism has ever produced that praises attributes of Mary, similar phrases as quoted above can be found, thus setting the correct context for such praise. It’s such a common occurance, that it can be reasonably said, again, that it’s always understood that such glorious attributes come directly from God, and thus, praising such is praising God.

Again, for the record. I don’t know if you care for the truth, as I can’t read minds, but if not for your edification and education, then for others.


345 posted on 01/12/2012 8:50:11 AM PST by FourtySeven (47)
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To: FourtySeven
>>Thus, in praising and glorifying these attributes of Mary, one is actually praising and glorifying He who gave them to her: God.<<

1 Tim. 2:5 For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.

John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

"He answered and said unto them, Well hath Esaias prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me. Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups: and many other such like things ye do. And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition." -Mark 7:6-9

Ecclesiastes 9:5 For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten. 6 Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.

Colossians 3:5 Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

Romans 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, 23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.

351 posted on 01/12/2012 9:17:14 AM PST by CynicalBear
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