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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: Right_Wing_Mole_In_Seattle
I've never sung that song in Church. There are many prayers highlighting Mary, but Mass focuses on Jesus Christ in everything.

I'm sure that if you look deep enough you can find many things that make Catholics look bad, and anything taken out of context can "look" bad. Catholic devotion to Mary, Mother of God, is not worship. We respect and love her as our Mother, the Mother of Jesus Christ, full of grace, who devoted her life to God and her Son, Jesus Christ. She is to be respected as the mother of us all, the Second Eve.

God bless.

41 posted on 05/06/2002 2:00:50 PM PDT by Gophack
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