Bodleian Girl, your mis-characterization of my beliefs is so head-slappingly wrong, it’s hard to know where to begin.
You say that I “spend a lot of time on this forum arguing for the worship of Mary.” I have never in my life argued for the worship of Mary, or of any human person.
I no more worship Mary than I worship you.
I can see that you either don’t know, or don’t care, about the meaning of words we both need to use in the same sense, like “worship”, n order to carry on a reasonable discussion.
We have to use worship as used in the Nre Testamemt. They did not fall down, kneel before, etc, created things as we see in Roman Catholicism. When people did they were told to stop.....just like the Roman Catholic has been told to stop.
Let’s circle back around to that passage of scripture.
Can I get your thoughts on God’s reaction to the disciples suggesting three temples and what that might mean to the adoration of another human, Mary, wife of Joseph and mother to several children including Jesus Christ?
How many times do we have to mention “dulia”, “hyperdulia”, and “latria”, and how they are distinguished from each other? Certain posters cannot be deprived of their intentional poverty of language surrounding the English word “worship”. It is a matter of ill will, not intellect.
But getting back to the topic at hand,... maybe the Catholics in Venezuela turning to Mary in prayer, reciting the Rosary, going to mass and confession, doing public penance, maybe a victory here would go a long way to exemplify the power of prayer?
As Catholics belonging to the Communion of Saints, we can join the Venezuelans in prayer and penance.
Our sacrificial love is divine insofar as we are part of the Mystical Body of Christ. He is the trunk and we are the branches, He is the head and we are His members.
Please pray for your brothers and sisters in Christ, that they might escape the scourge of communism in Venezuela, that freedom and justice will be theirs.
Call no man father...
 'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone, ' it means just what I choose it to mean, neither more nor less.'
'The question is,' said Alice, 'whether you can make words mean so many different things.' 'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master - that's all.' |