It’s “perfect;y clear” to Catholics. We have a Catechism. We have a Credo recited in every Mass celebrated every two seconds in some part of the globe. What’s “not perfectly clear” is among 30-40,000 Protestant sects where any person thinks they can crack open the pages of the Bible (one that was assembled by the early Church fathers in the Council of Rome AD 382) and yet these Protestant sects think they understand the Word of God.
In the year 110 A.D., not even fifteen years after the book of Revelation was written, while on his way to his execution St. Ignatius of Antioch wrote: “Where the bishop is present, there let the congregation gather, just as where Jesus Christ is, there is the Catholic church”. The Church believes that when the bishops speak as teachers, Christ speaks; for he said to them: “He who hears you, hears me; and he who rejects you, rejects me” (Lk 10, 16).
(Got the same memo...)
Goodie for him!
It just MUST be true; then!
Whew!
That sure lets Francis offa da hook!
Only every two seconds??
Let's try some easy math:
There are approximately 1.2 billion Catholics world wide;
If merely 1% of them 'ask' Mary for help just once each day;
that means that 12 million separate prayers are headed Mary's direction every day.
Given that there are 86,400 seconds per day... (24 hours times 60 minutes times 60 seconds)
...that means that Mary has to handle approximately 139 'requests' per second!
Purty good fer someone NOT 'divine'!
Riiiiight...Ignatius wrote that in English and used “Catholic” as a proper noun???? It’s funny how many times you mock and ridicule the non-catholic Christians here as ignorant and ill informed, yet you trot out this canard even after you have been corrected numerous times. If all the ammunition you have is blanks and insipid, flaccid warmed over “apologetics”, save it for the forums where you can’t be challenged because you won’t get away with in here!