I’ll take Snake Handling preachers over these blasphemers any day:
From CatholicTradition.org http://www.catholictradition.org/Mary/mary18a.htm :
Open to us, O Mary, the gate of Paradise, since you have its keys!
St. Ambrose
God has entrusted the keys and treasures of Heaven to Mary.
St. Thomas Aquinas
No one can enter into Heaven except through Mary, as entering through a gate.
St. Bonaventure
Mary is called “The Gate of Heaven” because no one can enter Heaven but through her means.
St. Alphonsus Maria Liguori
Holy Scripture was written for Mary, about Mary, and on account of Mary.
St. Bernard
Who is this Gate if not Mary? Mary is the Gate through which Christ entered this world!
St. Ambrose
We had closed Paradise; you, O Mary, opened the entryway to the tree of life again . . . You are the bridge to life, the staircase to Heaven!
St. John Damascene
She is the stairway to Heaven, and the gate of Paradise!
St. Lawrence Justinian
All the Saints have a great devotion to Our Lady: no grace comes from Heaven without passing through her hands. We cannot go into a house without speaking to the doorkeeper. Well, the Holy Virgin is the doorkeeper of Heaven.
St. John Mary Vianney
All gifts, virtues, and graces of the Holy Ghost are administered by the hands of Mary to whomsoever she desires, when she desires, and in the manner she desires, and to whatever degree she desires.
St. Bernardine of Siena
She opens the abyss of God’s mercy to whomsoever she wills, when she wills, and as she wills, so that there is no sinner however great who is lost if Mary protects him . . . All men: past, present, and to come, should look upon Mary as the means and negotiator of the salvation of all ages.
St. Bernard
If our life were not under the protection of Mary, we might tremble for our perseverance and salvation . . . In her hands Jesus has placed His almighty power in the order of salvation. He has confided to her all the means of salvation. All the graces of salvation, both natural and spiritual, will be given to us by Mary. She is rich with the riches of God Himself.
St. Peter Julian Eymard
O Mary, we poor sinners know no other refuge but thee, for thou art our only hope, and on thee do we rely for our salvation.
St. Thomas of Villanova
Unless the prayers of Mary interposed, there could be no hope of mercy.
St. Bridget of Sweden
Mary is the whole hope of our salvation.
St. Thomas Aquinas
The foundation of all our confidence is found in the Blessed Virgin Mary. God has committed to her the treasury of all good things, in order that everyone may know that through her are obtained every hope, every grace, and all salvation. For this is His will: that we obtain everything through Mary.
Ven. Pope Pius IX
O, my Lady, next to thy Son Jesus Christ, thou hast always been the chief instrument of our salvation.
St. Dominic
We are debtors to the Blessed Virgin, after Christ, for the redemption of the human race.
St. Peter Damian
Sinners receive pardon by the intercession of Mary alone.
St. John Chrysostom
Only at the intercession of Mary do sinners obtain forgiveness . . . They receive pardon only by the intercession of Mary.
St. Peter Chrysologus
There is no one in the world who, if he asks for it, does not partake of the Divine mercy through the tenderness of Mary.
St. Agnes
Thank you for demonstrating the poet’s observation once again.
I don’t know whether to call that Satanic or Pagan...Probably both...And THAT is the Catholic religion these people are defending...