[mlizzy]

Mary does not have anything to do with salvation.

If you do not make the effort to learn about Mary's role in our salvation (during your lifetime), there's purgatory, which awaits most all of us who escape h*ll.

The “singer of Mary,” St. Bernard of Clairvaux, along with many of the Latin West, echoes the previous voice of the Eastern Church, when St. Bernard evokes the Assumption thus: “Our Queen has preceded us; she has preceded us and has been received very festively, so that with confidence the servants can follow their Lady saying: Take us with you, we run in the odor of your perfumes (Ct 1,3). Our pilgrim humanity sent its Advocate ahead that, being Mother of the Judge and Mother of mercy, can treat with devotion and efficacy the cause of our salvation. Our earth has sent today to heaven a precious gift so that, giving and receiving, they join the human and the divine in a happy exchange of friendship, the earthly to the heavenly, the lowest to the highest [...] She is the Queen of Heaven, she is merciful, she is the Mother of the Only-begotten Son of God” (In assumptione B.M.V., Sermo I: PL 183,415).

http://vultus.stblogs.org/index.php/2010/12/follow-the-via-pulchritudinis/

[MamaB]

There is nothing in the Bible saying she has anything to do with our salvation. Nada, zip, zero. I do not care what man says. I find it very telling that anyone would trust man over Biblical teaching. Read the Bible and quit putting your trust in man.

[Elsie]

If you do not make the effort to learn about Mary's role in our salvation (during your lifetime), there's purgatory, which awaits most all of us who escape h*ll.

Says who?

Is this in them 'books' that Luther 'removed'?

[metmom]

There’s no such thing as purgatory either.

It’s heaven for the believer, or hell for the unbeliever.

[Syncro]

If you do not make the effort to learn about Mary's role in our salvation (during your lifetime), there's purgatory, which awaits most all of us who escape h*ll.

Christians do not go to purgatory.

It does not exist. If it did, why would Jesus wipe out all of our sins and make us "white as snow?"

I think that because Catholics insist the purgatory exists, God may give you the desires of your hearts and create a fictional purgatory for you to languish until the salvation which comes from Jesus enters your mind.

Remember the "twinkling of and eye" scripture. That's a small amount of time to swivel a head from looking adoringly at Mary and putting your eyes on Jesus.

Make sure there is oil in your lamp.