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Posted on 12/20/2015 10:29:03 AM PST by ebb tide
355 was a typo.
If two of three branches of Christianity are correct in their shared beliefs about Mother Mary, then perhaps prayer for those whose feel differently are better than argument?
I worry that in my headstrong ignorance, I have let my mouth and my actions condemn my self and I worry a bit now when I see others who do that same thing.
If that's the case, then I tell myself that maybe it's better to just offer a prayer for those who do rather than let my ego join them.
A serious question: Fwiw, I've read that Garabandal is the sequel to Fatima. Do you know what that might mean?
Grammar and spelling tremble in fear when I type.
I think you need to start at the top and read the entire thread over again. Then go lecture the people who came here unbidden to harass the OP.
No, I wasn’t there; but my protestant great-great uncle was there. He was 16 years old at the time.
He converted to Catholicism and became a priest
You’re quite right. Sorry to have bothered you with my concerns.
‘’Mary was simply a nice lady, probably made it into heaven’’. You are a Fruitcake.
What you are saying about a fruitcake is simply someone who does not believe as you do.
“355 was a typo.”
Okay, then name the exact year “when the Emperor Constantine created his church.†Since you’re claiming a Roman Emperor tried to establish a major institution there should be some supporting documentation from Constantine’s hand, of the Roman governments’ offices, or some sort of recorded historical proofs written by contemporary observers. Got any of that to show us?
“Mary was simply a nice lady, probably made it into heaven,”
“...from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed.” Luke 1:48. Sounds like much more than “nice” or “probably made it into heaven”.
“and has no other function in the Divine Scheme beyond being the mother of our Lord.”
Except that 1 Corinthians 6:3 shows that all of us who are Christians will have other functions in the “Divine Scheme”.
“Her adaptation as a Goddess is simply a conversion from paganism of the Great Mother with a thin veneer of Christian words.”
Except no one here thinks of Mary as a goddess. No one. No Catholic I have ever met thinks of her that way. So, apparently, the “conversion” you speak of has taken place in your mind and really no where else.
A visiting angel thought just a little differently, huh.
If you do not believe in this miracle, Rdwhy are you on this thread? Has some Catholic come to your church to demand that you and your co-religionists begin practicing Marian devotion?
What you call "irrefutable logic," the rest of the world calls bullsh!t.
Every time one of these [Mary] threads are posted [without the caucus designation], souls are put at [great] risk.
Just my humble opinion, but if you love Mary as Christ wishes you to love Mary, why do you encourage the hate-fest? It can’t possibly make Mary [or Jesus] happy.
Stick with weather balloons, or whatever it is they teach you in clown college.
Actually, some of the “mass hysteria” victims included communists and secular journalists, hardly people predisposed to believe anything connected with Christianity. But don’t let facts get in the way of your convictions.
I understand, everyone prior to Luther, including the Apostles was wrong, and all 70,000 witnesses were wrong.
A most clever trick, considering he had been in the grave 18 years by then.
You don't really know what you're talking about, do you?
Half the anti-Catholic crowd who babble about Constantine think he’s a character from a comic book and nearly all the other have don’t know anything about him except what they’ve learned by rote.
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