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Litany of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Lord, have mercy on us.
Christ, have mercy on us.
Lord, have mercy on us.
Christ, hear us.
Christ, graciously hear us.
God the Father of Heaven,
Have mercy on us.
God the Son, Redeemer of the world,
Have mercy on us.
God the Holy Ghost,
Have mercy on us.
Holy Trinity, one God,
Have mercy on us.
Holy Mary,
pray for us.
Holy Mother of God,
pray for us.
Holy Virgin of virgins,
pray for us.
Mother of Christ,
pray for us.
Mother of divine grace,
pray for us.
Mother most pure,
pray for us.
Mother most chaste,
pray for us.
Mother inviolate,
pray for us.
Mother undefiled,
pray for us.
Mother most amiable,
pray for us.
Mother most admirable,
pray for us.
Mother of good counsel,
pray for us.
Mother of our Creator,
pray for us.
Mother of our Savior,
pray for us.
Virgin most prudent,
pray for us.
Virgin most venerable,
pray for us.
Virgin most renowned,
pray for us.
Virgin most powerful,
pray for us.
Virgin most merciful,
pray for us.
Virgin most faithful,
pray for us.
Mirror of justice,
pray for us.
Seat of wisdom,
pray for us.
Cause of our joy,
pray for us.
Spiritual vessel,
pray for us.
Vessel of honor,
pray for us.
Singular vessel of devotion,
pray for us.
Mystical rose,
pray for us.
Tower of David,
pray for us.
Tower of ivory,
pray for us.
House of gold,
pray for us.
Ark of the Covenant,
pray for us.
Gate of Heaven,
pray for us.
Morning star,
pray for us.
Health of the sick,
pray for us.
Refuge of sinners,
pray for us.
Comforter of the afflicted,
pray for us.
Help of Christians,
pray for us.
Queen of angels,
pray for us.
Queen of patriarchs,
pray for us.
Queen of prophets,
pray for us.
Queen of apostles,
pray for us.
Queen of martyrs,
pray for us.
Queen of confessors,
pray for us.
Queen of virgins,
pray for us.
Queen of all saints,
pray for us.
Queen conceived without Original Sin,
pray for us.
Queen assumed into Heaven,
pray for us.
Queen of the most holy Rosary,
pray for us.
Queen of peace,
pray for us.

Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world,
Spare us, O Lord.
Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world,
Graciously hear us, O Lord.
Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world,
Have mercy on us.

Pray for us, O Holy Mother of God,
That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.
Grant, we beseech Thee, O Lord God, that we Thy Servants may enjoy perpetual health of mind and body and by the glorious intercession of the Blessed Mary, ever Virgin, be delivered from present sorrow and enjoy eternal happiness. Through Christ Our Lord. Amen.

Approved by Pope Sixtus V in 1587

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[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

No sir. Not Mary. Jesus. Where did this Mary stuff come from? The Bible doesn’t teach us to worship or elevate Mary. It just doesn’t teach that.

[A strike]

I’m not RCC, but, is Mary Divine ?

[SaxxonWoods]

Very good article.

[ConservativeMind]

I don’t know any Protestants that hold Mary in contempt.

I, however, hold in contempt Catholics who elevate Mary beyond what Scripture supports.

[Theo]

Dang. Long prayer. Lots of repetition. Reminds me of Jesus’ words in Matthew 6:7:

“And when you pray, do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do, for they think that they will be heard for their many words.”

I agree with the comment above mine. Jesus above all. Jesus alone is our Savior. There is no “co-mediatrix.”

[taxcontrol]

When Jesus teachings contradict the teachings of the Catholic church, I will choose to follow the teaching of Jesus every time. Not out of pride or hate as projected by this article, but out of direct obedience to scripture.

When Jesus taught the Apostles to pray, he did not teach them to pray to Mary, or to David, Moses or Elijah or any of the old testament patriarchs. Jesus didn’t even teach us to pray to him. Jesus taught that we should have a direct conversation with God.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

Scripture simply states Mary was “blessed *among* women.”

She was blessed to be chosen to bear Messiah.

Mary is not above women.

The rest is made up.

Devotion to Mary is idolatry.

She would be appalled.

[Bommer]

Even as a former Catholic, I never understood why if Peter was the rock Jesus would make his church upon, why worship Mary? She was the vessel for Jesus birth, and not deminish her importance, but Jesus is God, and only he forgives sins, not Mary. No on seems to pray to Joesph, and he is the only reason Jesus lived at all!

[Mom MD]

breathtaking blasphemy

[Drago]

So it is Mary vs. The Pope? Rooting for Mary.

[CharlesOConnell]

Jesus is the Life Preserver. Mary is the Rope He Chose To Reel Us In.

In Captains Courageous, with Spencer Tracey, Freddy Batholomew is a blowhard millionaire's son who is socially, poorly adjusted. He uses his father's incredible wealth, to bully his classmates and even his teacher, but he's roundly disliked, and ostracized. While on an ocean liner, he unsuccessfully tries to impress some other boys by eating 5 ice cream sodas. When he has to throw up, to escape the mocking boys, he runs into a lifeboat area to evade their ridicule while purging his overindulgence, and manages to fall overboard into the ocean.

Instances of people falling overboard into the open ocean are rather commonly reported in the news. Usually they are lost, but if by chance their accidents are observed and a life-preserver is thrown to them, is that the end of the story, do we just say, "oh, well, you have a floatation device, you're okay now"?

No, we have to pull them in. The life-preserver, the lifesaver, is only part of the formula for saving their lives. There is also a rope, which must be attached to the life-preserver, and must be used to finally accomplish their salvation.

Jesus Christ is the one mediator between God and man. But on the man side of the equation, unlike the radical individuality most typified by J.J. Rousseau, we who life the life of Christians do so in communities. But even then, we do not abide as atomistic individualists. We live our Jesus-oriented life in relation to our fellows. "Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching." – Hebrews 10:25.

Jesus' first disciple was his mother, who gave us the total account of his early life and who "treasured these things up in her heart". "A sword will pierce your own soul too, so that the secret thoughts of many hearts might be revealed". On the cross, he gave his mother to John to take in his home, but when you take your master's mother, she takes care of you.

Then God's temple in heaven was opened, and the ark of his covenant was seen within his temple; and there were flashes of lightning, voices, peals of thunder, an earthquake, and heavy hail. And a great portent appeared in heaven, a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars; she was with child and she cried out in her pangs of birth, in anguish for delivery.

And another portent appeared in heaven; behold, a great red dragon, with seven heads and ten horns, and seven diadems upon his heads. His tail swept down a third of the stars of heaven, and cast them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to bear a child, that he might devour her child when she brought it forth; she brought forth a male child, one who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron, but her child was caught up to God and to his throne, and the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, in which to be nourished for one thousand two hundred and sixty days. …

And when the dragon saw that he had been thrown down to the earth, he pursued the woman who had borne the male child. But the woman was given the two wings of the great eagle that she might fly from the serpent into the wilderness, to the place where she is to be nourished for a time, and times, and half a time. The serpent poured water like a river out of his mouth after the woman, to sweep her away with the flood. But the earth came to the help of the woman, and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed the river which the dragon had poured from his mouth. Then the dragon was angry with the woman, and went off to make war on the rest of her offspring, on those who keep the commandments of God and bear testimony to Jesus. - Rev 11:19 -- 12:17

She forms the body of Christ. She schools her son's disciples. Those who won't attend her school, remain ignorant.

We are in a time when any merely human institution would be washed away. Our churches are going under the shadow of a new Heresy of Ba'al of Peor, as when the Hebrew people were successfully attacked and overwhelmed through human sexuality. Our churches are now pro-gay and as soon as the civil authority authorizes child sex, they will be indistinguishable from the denizens of the town of Sodom: "Bring them out that we may know them".

Jesus' mother forms the few of the elect who will resist being fooled by the great apostasy. Those who will not avail themselves of the lifeline of Mary, will be lost.

[MayflowerMadam]

“Approved by Pope Sixtus V in 1587”

Never heard of the guy. I have, however, heard of God (pre-1587), who condemns idolatry.

[mostly_lies]

The last words Jesus spoke directly to Mary in the Scripture were

“Woman”(not THEOTOKOS) “what is this to you and what to me?”

Nothing else is revealed. Further, I find NO prayers to Mary, and no supplications to her in the over 145 prayers (and instructions to prayer) recorded in the New Testament.

If Mary truly is the great intercessor, elevated to the post of “co redemptrix” (don’t deny it, I have citations), and the object of prayer, then why is there NO reference to this in the scripture? Not even one iota.

Again, the interaction of Jesus with her that is recorded is one that is clearly a rebuke (and this does not even include when she came with his brothers to get him, thinking he had gone crazy!).

Mary is actually worthy of great respect, and I admire and honor her. The nonsense of elevating her to an intercessor and object of prayer, with the silliness of her never sinning and being a perpetual virgin is the result of some fevered imaginations, and a serious sin.

[infool7]

Prayers for all of those

battling demons.

Sáncte Míchael Archángele,
Saint Michael the Archangel,
Sahn tay Me kale ark ann ja lay

defénde nos in proélio,
defend us in battle.
de fen day nos en pro leo

cóntra nequítiam et insídias diáboli ésto præsídium.
Be our protection against the malice and snares of the devil.
contra neh-queet ee um et in cid e ah s dee ob lay esto pray sid ee um

Ímperet ílli Déus,súpplices deprecámur:
May God rebuke him we humbly pray;
Im pair et ee lay Day-ews soup-lay-chase day-pray-che-more

tuque, prínceps milítiæ cæléstis,
O Prince of the Heavenly host
too quay pren-cheps may-lee-tea-a che-lace-tees

Sátanam aliósque spíritus malígnos,
Satan and all evil spirits
Say tan um ah lee o squeece spear ee toose mah ling nos

qui ad perditiónem animárum pervagántur in múndo,
who wander through the world for the ruin of souls
quee ard per dits ee own um ani mon um prev a gon tour en mundo

divína virtúte,
by the power of God,
day vee nay ver-toot-tay

in inférnum detrúde.
thrust into hell
en in fair num day-too-tay

Ámen.

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[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

So now, let's discuss whether or not the Virgin of Guadalupe is venerated or worshipped in Mexico....

[Moonmad27]

Guess I’m a heretic then. I learned all the stuff on Mary when I was a Catholic kid and later became a Lutheran, read the Bible and saw the actual truth about her in it. I suspect she’s embarrassed that people have replaced her Son with her.

[mostly_lies]

The clearest picture we have of the activity of the saints in the presence of God (the book of Revelation) shows NOT ONE TIME they ever receive prayers from anyone on earth.

Not one. I defy you to find an example. Prayers are made to God, never to the saints.

Why in the world would that be?

[firebrand]

Mary was a Jewish mother.

Among other things.

[metmom]

Who needs Jesus when you have Mary?