“However, some catholics believe: O Mary, Virgin most powerful and Mother of Mercy...”
There once were two brothers: one who loved to practice art with paper while the other aspired to carve figurines and other useful objects. Each received a present for Christmas along their passions, the first received a pair of scissors, while the other a carving knife. The brother who loved to carve was a peaceful fellow while the one who liked to cut things out of paper was a sort of brute.
The following year the two brothers received another gift but the same gift as the other brother, however, from their father. He knew they had both been wanted a pet lamb and both had been asking him relentlessly nearly all year long for one.
So their father obtained two young lambs from a local farmer and carefully placed them in their respective boxes with special ventilation holes, just before gift opening time on Christmas morning, after feeding them each a special grass that helps them feel sleepy. The two lambs had been rescued from being attacked by coyotes just after birth, but had been nursed to health by then.
Before the final touches on the gift wrapping, their mother wrote on the wrapping paper warning to be gentle, and that the contents were fragile.
Well when the two brothers saw the boxes, they both “knew” what was inside, and could hardly contain their excitement.
The brother who liked to make art with scissors, however, hurried to his prize and in his excitement grabbed the knife from his brother’s hands and sliced through the paper and box and tore the paper throwing shreds aside, and in fact inflicted a fresh cut upon the poor little lamb inside!
The second brother, having lost his knife in the travesty, picked up his brother’s scissors to open his package, and in his excitement, he exclaimed, “The present that I longed for and have for so long wanted to love!”
He held and caressed the box and looked up at his parents with gratitude. He looked closely at the paper, savoring every moment of this event. He then noticed the warnings and cautions which his mother had written on the wrapping paper, and proceeded to open the gift.
He then knew that he wanted to treasure this moment the rest of his life in every degree possible, including saving the very wrapping paper and box.
So he held the scissors gently and cut each piece of tape holding the paper on and unwrapped the gift slowly and carefully until he had the happy lamb sitting content upon his lap. At the days end he gathered the paper up and folded it neatly and put it and the box in safekeeping.
Which of the two brothers, do you think, received their respective gift lamb more properly and had a trusting lamb as a companion?
That made zero sense. Is this another Catholic attempt at defending the worship of Mary?
Where on earth do Catholics get those sappy fables they like to inflict on people as if that proves a point or something?
NOBODY is worthy to receive anything from God.
The root of thinking that you are worthy is pride and as long as you think you can be worthy, you will never humble yourself enough to receive the gift of salvation because only those who realize their unworthiness will ever ask for it.
Everyone else will just keep trying and trusting in their own merits, which will get no one anywhere.