Posted on 10/14/2017 5:01:38 PM PDT by marshmallow
Reporting on the extraordinary turnout for the “Rosary on the Borders” prayer campaign in Poland, the Associated Press (AP) suggested that the event smacked of “a problematic expression of Islamophobia.”
On-the-ground sources said that over a million Poles turned out Saturday to pray the rosary along the country’s 2,000-mile border for the salvation of their country.
According to the spokesman for the Polish Bishops’ Conference, Father Pawel Rytel-Andrianik, the event drew “millions of people” to pray the rosary together and was the second-largest prayer event ever held in Europe, after the 2016 World Youth Day.
“This exceeded the boldest expectations of the organizers,” he said.
Organizers scheduled the event for Oct.7, the Feast of the Holy Rosary, which commemorates the anniversary of the Battle of Lepanto, where “the Christian fleet overcame the Muslim armada, saving Europe from Islamization.”
The feast day, originally called “Our Lady of Victory,” was established by Pope Pius V in 1571 after the so-called Holy League won a landmark victory over the invading Ottoman Turks at the Battle of Lepanto. At the time, much of Europe was under siege from the Islamic forces, which sought to win the entire continent for Allah.
The AP warned that Saturday’s national event, which was endorsed by Polish church authorities, had “anti-Muslim overtones.”
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Wait! What?
MSM: A problematic expression of Christophobia
What's wrong with good ol' fashioned hate?
Guns and Rosaries, that’s what it should be.
Wanting to keep your head is Islamophobia
It’s not irrational to fear Islam.
It’s rational.
The article would be more accurately titled....Roman Catholic prayers....not Christian. Praying to Mary is not in Christianity.
I certainly hope so. Evil should be opposed.
MSM bashes and attacks all that recognize Mohammadan evil. Look at their one-sided attacks on the Burmese Buddhists who finally had enough of the evil of the Mohammadans and drove them out to Bangladesh recently.
Catholics aren’t Christian?
The AP warned that Saturday’s national event, which was endorsed by Polish church authorities, had “anti-Muslim overtones.”
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For those who did not see comment #2, in reference to the Associated Press’s “anti-Muslim” claim, it was like this...
“What could they have to be afraid of?”
...illustrated by a photo of an Islamic jihadi, on one knee, knife in right hand, left hand with the index finger pointing up in the salute to allah — and 5 severed bloody heads lined up on the ground in front of him.
Not if they're buying what Rome is selling regarding Mary....among other things.
The Roman Catholic Church is the original Christian church. Not all of today’s Christians are Catholics. All devout Catholics are certainly Christians.
How can you say that Christ’s mother has nothing to do with Christianity?
Perhaps you should review the actual words in the Hail Mary.
They are direct Bible quotes preceding the request that she pray to Christ on our behalf.
From the Wanderer Press:
“To add much-needed heft, the AP invoked the open-borders Pope Francis, lamenting that his 2016 visit to Poland apparently “did little to budge the Polish authorities from their unyielding refusal to accept refugees or migrants.”
The story’s internationalist slant is predictable, but that’s political. Its core problem lies in its embrace of a central religious error, long condemned by the Church, and all too familiar to the faithful, both in Poland and the U.S. This error, called “clericalism,” resonates the tiresome canard that prudential opinions of politicized clerics qualify as the authentic, timeless, and magisterial teaching of the Church, implying that those among the laity who disagree are not only wrong, but immoral.”
Nope. The RCC came into existence around the 300s. The NT Church did not witness the worship of Mary, a pope, indulgences, etc.
All devout Catholics are certainly Christians.
Again not true. Devout Roman Catholics are....devout Roman Catholics.
How can you say that Christ’s mother has nothing to do with Christianity?
Not what I said.
The attributes, prayers to and reliance upon Mary for salvation as found in Roman Catholic writings has nothing to do with Christianity.
They are direct Bible quotes preceding the request that she pray to Christ on our behalf.
I have read the Hail Mary.
The “Hail Mary,” Ave Maria in Latin, is a Roman Catholic prayer to the Virgin Mary that consists of salutations and a plea for her intercession. Also, the term "Hail Mary pass" was used by the press to describe a pass by Dallas Cowboys quarterback Roger Staubach in a 1975 divisional playoff game and has come to be synonymous in football with a long pass that has little chance of success. The text of the Hail Mary prayer incorporates two Bible passages: “Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with thee" (Luke 1:28) and “Blessed art thou amongst women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb" (Luke 1:42). The first passage is the angel Gabriel’s greeting to Mary when he came to inform her that she had been chosen to bear the Messiah. The second is her cousin Elizabeth’s greeting to Mary when Mary came to visit her cousin, who was also pregnant at the time with John the Baptist.
The third part of the Hail Mary prayer is not from the Bible and is, in fact, in direct contradiction to Scriptural truth: “Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen.”
This last part of the Hail Mary prayer has three unbiblical parts to it. First, Mary is not and never was “holy.” Mary was a human being who was born, as all humans are, with a sin nature and who recognized that she needed a Savior. In fact, the very passage used in the Hail Mary, known as Mary’s Magnificat (Luke 1:46-55), contains the declaration “my spirit rejoices in God my Savior,” a clear indication that she understood her need for a Savior from sin. The Bible never says that Mary was anyone but an ordinary human whom God chose to use in an extraordinary way. Yes, Mary was a righteous woman and favored (graced) by God (Luke 1:27-28). At the same time, Mary was a sinful human being who needed Jesus Christ as her Savior, just like everyone else (Ecclesiastes 7:20; Romans 3:23; 6:23; 1 John 1:8).
The second unbiblical part of the Hail Mary is addressing Mary as the “Mother of God.” Mary was the human mother of the human Jesus Christ, who was indeed God incarnate. But she was not the mother of God, neither is she the ”queen of heaven,” another title given to her by the Catholic Church which has no basis in Scripture. God doesn’t have a mother, nor does He have a queen. He is an eternal, infinite Being, uncreated and unborn, self-sufficient and self-sustaining.
The third unbiblical statement in the Hail Mary is the plea for her to “pray for us sinners.” Here we see the unbiblical practice of praying to Mary to intercede with God for us. First, we do not need another intercessor with God. Christ is the only intercessor we need. Through Jesus and Him alone, we have direct access to the Father. Christ alone mediates and intercedes between God and man. “For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus” (1 Timothy 2:5). Prayer to anyone other than God alone is anti-biblical. Praying to Mary or petitioning her to pray for us is against the Scriptures. Prayer is an act of worship. When we pray to God, we are admitting that we need His help. Directing our prayers to anyone other than God is robbing God of the glory that is His alone, something God hates and will not tolerate (Isaiah 42:8).
While Mary was certainly a godly young woman greatly blessed in that she was chosen to bear the Savior of the world, she was not in any way divine, nor was she sinless, nor is she to be worshipped, revered, venerated, or prayed to.
https://www.gotquestions.org/Hail-Mary.html
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