Posted on 12/14/2014 11:57:21 AM PST by ealgeone
The reason for this article is to determine if the worship/veneration given to Mary by the catholic church is justified from a Biblical perspective. This will be evaluated using the Biblical standard and not man’s standard.
See here. Perhaps you could explain and clarify?
So offering a prayer is not praying? Clinton is blushing.
Yes I can. As you stated the Hail Mary is a prayer. I keep hearing Roman Catholics do not pray to Mary. Yet there are prayers to her.
Your question: “Which is the Holy Spirit protected teaching?”
Catechism of the Catholic Church
2031 The moral life is spiritual worship. We “present [our] bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God,”73 within the Body of Christ that we form and in communion with the offering of his Eucharist. In the liturgy and the celebration of the sacraments, prayer and teaching are conjoined with the grace of Christ to enlighten and nourish Christian activity. As does the whole of the Christian life, the moral life finds its source and summit in the Eucharistic sacrifice. (1368)
I. Moral Life and the Magisterium of the Church 85-87, 888-892
2032 The Church, the “pillar and bulwark of the truth,” “has received this solemn command of Christ from the apostles to announce the saving truth.”74 “To the Church belongs the right always and everywhere to announce moral principles, including those pertaining to the social order, and to make judgments on any human affairs to the extent that they are required by the fundamental rights of the human person or the salvation of souls.”75 (2246, 2420)
2033 The Magisterium of the Pastors of the Church in moral matters is ordinarily exercised in catechesis and preaching, with the help of the works of theologians and spiritual authors. Thus from generation to generation, under the aegis and vigilance of the pastors, the “deposit” of Christian moral teaching has been handed on, a deposit composed of a characteristic body of rules, commandments, and virtues proceeding from faith in Christ and animated by charity. Alongside the Creed and the Our Father, the basis for this catechesis has traditionally been the Decalogue which sets out the principles of moral life valid for all men. (84)
2034 The Roman Pontiff and the bishops are “authentic teachers, that is, teachers endowed with the authority of Christ, who preach the faith to the people entrusted to them, the faith to be believed and put into practice.”76 The ordinary and universal Magisterium of the Pope and the bishops in communion with him teach the faithful the truth to believe, the charity to practice, the beatitude to hope for.
2035 The supreme degree of participation in the authority of Christ is ensured by the charism of infallibility. This infallibility extends as far as does the deposit of divine Revelation; it also extends to all those elements of doctrine, including morals, without which the saving truths of the faith cannot be preserved, explained, or observed.77
2036 The authority of the Magisterium extends also to the specific precepts of the natural law, because their observance, demanded by the Creator, is necessary for salvation. In recalling the prescriptions of the natural law, the Magisterium of the Church exercises an essential part of its prophetic office of proclaiming to men what they truly are and reminding them of what they should be before God.78 (1960)
2037 The law of God entrusted to the Church is taught to the faithful as the way of life and truth. The faithful therefore have the right to be instructed in the divine saving precepts that purify judgment and, with grace, heal wounded human reason.79 They have the duty of observing the constitutions and decrees conveyed by the legitimate authority of the Church. Even if they concern disciplinary matters, these determinations call for docility in charity. (2041)
What’s sad is seeing how miserable Non-Catholics are. That’s sad.
I personally don't care what you think of Mary or Catholic or me. Really I don't but for crying out loud..... Here have a hissy fit on me! Mary! Mary ! Mary! BOOOOOOO!
Colossians 3:22 Slaves, obey your earthly κυρίοις (kyriois) in everything; and do it, not only when their eye is on you and to curry their favor, but with sincerity of heart and reverence for the κυρίοις (kyriois).
All the same word. Were they all Gods?
John 2:4 And Jesus saith to her: Woman, what is that to me and to thee? my hour is not yet come.
Ask the same things HERE: http://www.manifestation.com/neurotoys/eliza.php3
Irrelevant you say! Yet one of the very reasons the Catholic Church uses to justify their assumption of the assumption is that there is no evidence of her remains. They wouldn't even know where to look because they don't even know where she was.
Nope...
Let's try some easy math:
There are approximately 1.2 billion Catholics world wide;
If merely 1% of them 'ask' Mary for help just once each day;
that means that 12 million separate prayers are headed Mary's direction every day.
Given that there are 86,400 seconds per day... (24 hours times 60 minutes times 60 seconds)
...that means that Mary has to handle approximately 139 'requests' per second!
Purty good fer someone NOT 'divine'!
Never have you complained to the Great narses for all of his graphics; why pick on lovable me?
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