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To: AnAmericanMother

Riiight. Mary worship is wrong. Sorry if that offends.


11 posted on 04/14/2011 9:57:10 AM PDT by RoadGumby (For God so loved the world)
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To: RoadGumby
Who's worshipping Mary? Not me, and I don't know any Catholics who do (I'm sure we have our misguided and confused, just like every group on this fallible earth, but the Church does not approve and indeed forbids it.)

It makes perfect sense for God to purify the woman who was going to carry God in her body for nine months and then have (with St. Joseph) the raising and education of Him for all of His childhood. It is contrary to nothing in scripture, and indeed tallies with the angel Gabriel's salutation - "Hail, full of grace" (in the Greek, the verb form indicates a complete and perfect fullness) - with no room left for sin.

This does not mean that the Virgin Mary is divine or worthy of worship. The Church has always distinguished between worship, which is due to God alone, and the honor paid to saints, especially the Virgin Mary.

18 posted on 04/14/2011 10:17:25 AM PDT by AnAmericanMother (Ministrix of ye Chasse, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment))
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