Hahahahahahahaaaa.
Another laugh this morning. I guess all those SHRINES to Mary to which RC's BOW and PRAY are just a figment of the imagination.
Note that Christ is relegated to the side...
Catholics do NOT worship Mary. This belief is one of the biggest misbeliefs that non-Catholics have.
We worship, God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
Hahahahahahahaaaa.
Another laugh this morning. I guess all those SHRINES to Mary to which RC's BOW and PRAY are just a figment of the imagination.
Note that Christ is relegated to the side...
That must be why there is a shrine to Mary everywhere in Italy and Mexico.
From the catechism of the Roman Catholic Church
http://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p4s1c2a2.htm
2677 Holy Mary, Mother of God: With Elizabeth we marvel, "And why is this granted me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?"36 Because she gives us Jesus, her son, Mary is Mother of God and our mother; we can entrust all our cares and petitions to her: she prays for us as she prayed for herself: "Let it be to me according to your word."37 By entrusting ourselves to her prayer, we abandon ourselves to the will of God together with her: "Thy will be done."
Pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death: By asking Mary to pray for us, we acknowledge ourselves to be poor sinners and we address ourselves to the "Mother of Mercy," the All-Holy One. We give ourselves over to her now, in the Today of our lives. And our trust broadens further, already at the present moment, to surrender "the hour of our death" wholly to her care. May she be there as she was at her son's death on the cross. May she welcome us as our mother at the hour of our passing38 to lead us to her son, Jesus, in paradise. Armenian, Coptic, and Syriac traditions preferred popular hymns and songs to the Mother of God. But in the Ave Maria, the theotokia, the hymns of St. Ephrem or St. Gregory of Narek, the tradition of prayer is basically the same.
2679 Mary is the perfect Orans (pray-er), a figure of the Church. When we pray to her, we are adhering with her to the plan of the Father, who sends his Son to save all men. Like the beloved disciple we welcome Jesus' mother into our homes,39 for she has become the mother of all the living. We can pray with and to her. The prayer of the Church is sustained by the prayer of Mary and united with it in hope.40
The man-made tradition of the catechism on Mary: You have prayer, committing yourself to her care, giving yourself to her. If that's not worship I'm not sure what is.
Contrast with the Biblical position on Christ: we pray to Christ, we commit our faith for our salvation through Him and we give ourselves to Him. And we call that worship.
How is that different than what is happening with Mary?
Each of the areas highlighted goes against the Word of God. The Bible tells us:
We are to pray to Christ. There are zero examples of the apostles praying to anyone other than Christ. When Jesus taught His disciples to pray He taught them the Lord's prayer....not a prayer to anyone else.
We are to give ourselves to Him and Him alone.
We place our faith and trust in Him for our resurrection to the next life. Christ, and Christ alone, died on the Cross for our past, present and future sins as a final offering for our sins.
The Bible tells us the Holy Spirit is constantly making intercession for us with words and groanings we can't understand. Jesus, who is at the right hand of the Father, is also interceding for us. How can you get any better than these individuals praying for us?
This is why we should rely upon the Word of God and the Word of God alone.
You simply do not know what you are talking about.
True. You merely venerate and adore her.
To the point of OBSESSION...