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To: Zipporah
I am a lifelong Catholic and have yet to meet a Catholic who worships Mary.
16 posted on 05/06/2002 7:45:35 AM PDT by Notwithstanding
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To: Notwithstanding;maryz
(You are aware that Catholics do not worship Mary?)

I am a lifelong Catholic and have yet to meet a Catholic who worships Mary.

Daily, Daily, Sing to Mary

Daily, daily sing to Mary,
Sing, my soul, her praises due.
All her feasts, her actions worship
With the heart's devotion true.
Lost in wond'ring contemplation,
Be her Majesty confess'd.
Call her Mother, call her Virgin,
Happy Mother, Virgin blest.

She is mighty to deliver.
Call her, trust her lovingly.
When the tempest rages round thee,
She will calm the troubled sea.
Gifts of heaven she has given,
Noble Lady, to our race.
She, the Queen, who decks her subjects
With the light of God's own grace.

Sing, my tongue, the Virgin's trophies
Who for us her Maker bore.
For the curse of old inflicted,
Peace and blessing to restore.
Sing in songs of peace unending,
Sing the world's majestic Queen.
Weary not nor faint in telling.
All the gifts she gives to men.

You don't see this as a hymn of worship?

39 posted on 05/06/2002 12:48:30 PM PDT by Right_Wing_Mole_In_Seattle
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To: Notwithstanding
The word worship means a form of religious practice with its creed and ritual, extravagant respect or admiration for or devotion to an object of esteem, as well as, reverence devoted to a divine or supernatural power. What I have observed (my husband was Roman Catholic .. most of my family is Roman Catholic and I live in an area with a large Roman Catholic population).. that IMO the esteem and devotion of Mary by many Roman Catholics can be and should be described as worship.
53 posted on 05/06/2002 4:52:54 PM PDT by Zipporah
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