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There is NOT a *****S-I-N-G-L-E***** line uttered in the Catholic Mass that is not bases on the Bible.

therefore I ask blessed Mary ever-Virgin, all the Angels and Saints, and you, my brothers and sisters, to pray for me to the Lord our God.

There are no admonitions or examples in the New Testament of praying to the departed saints.

I believe in one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church.

We are not called upon to believe in the "one holy catholic and apostolic Church" in the New Testament.

We are to believe in Christ.

In communion with those whose memory we venerate, especially the glorious ever-Virgin Mary, Mother of our God and Lord, Jesus Christ, and blessed Joseph, her Spouse, your blessed Apostles and Martyrs, Peter and Paul, Andrew, (James, John, Thomas, James, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Simon and Jude; Linus, Cletus, Clement, Sixtus, Cornelius, Cyprian, Lawrence, Chrysogonus, John and Paul, Cosmas and Damian) and all your Saints; we ask that through their merits and prayers, in all things we may be defended by your protecting help.

The definition of venerate and worship has been oft debated as to how Roman Catholics and Christians view the kneeling, praying to, invoking of Mary.

However, in either case relying upon their merits and prayers or appealing to their merits and prayers, as they are deceased from an earthly perspective is not substantiated by the New Testament.

We don't have any examples of believers on earth praying to those who have departed this world nor invoking their name in prayers or praying to them for assistance. All prayer is directed to God and God alone.

Lord Jesus Christ, Only Begotten Son, Lord God, Lamb of God, Son of the Father, you take away the sins of the world, have mercy on us; you take away the sins of the world, receive our prayer; you are seated at the right hand of the Father, have mercy on us.

Christ is seated at the right hand of the Father. However, what Roman Catholic priest O'Brien writes about in the Faith of Millions is that in the Mass, the priest brings Christ down from heaven, and renders Him present on our altar as the eternal Victim for the sins of man—not once but a thousand times!

This goes back to my original post on this that the underlying concept of the Mass is not Scripturaly sound based on this understanding of what the priest is doing.

The whole process of the Mass where the priest stands before the altar offering sacrifices is reminiscent of the OT system of sacrifices which was negated for necessity of forgiveness by the one time sacrifice of Christ on the Cross.

10By this will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. 11Every priest stands daily ministering and offering time after time the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins; 12but He, having offered one sacrifice for sins for all time, SAT DOWN AT THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD, 13waiting from that time onward UNTIL HIS ENEMIES BE MADE A FOOTSTOOL FOR HIS FEET. 14For by one offering He has perfected for all time those who are sanctified. Hebrews 10:10-14 NASB

There is more that can be said but you requested a S-I-N-G-L-E line in the Mass that is not based on the Bible.