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To: RaceBannon
Thank you for the pictures, although the term, "Mariolatry" has negative connotations, derisive of our devotion to her. She is still the Mother of God and our Mother as well. She is the Daughter of God the Father; Spouse of the Holy Spirit, and Mother of Jesus! Hence, the Trinity being One God in Three Divine Persons, NOT FOUR, she is not God, but is the Mother of God! Divine mystery, but truth nonetheless.

She is often depicted with the Cross behind her: she stood helplessly and watched her Son suffer and die. When He was already dead, His Body was pierced through the Heart with the soldier's lance, and His Precious Blood and Water from His Side gushed forth. Jesus was dead. Who suffered the pain of seeing her Son's Body so mutilated? The Prophecy of Simeon was fulfilled. Yet she had to go on, to prepare the Body of Jesus her Son for burial, and watch as the stone was rolled in place. For the first time in 33 years, her Son was not with her, not because He was away preaching, but because He had been tortured, murdered, and His dead Body pierced. If anyone has the right to be depicted next to her Son, it is she. And yes, we interpret as Catholics, that Jesus entrusting her to John, and, in His last hours of life referring to her as Woman, "behold thy son" that she was given all He had: the souls redeemed by His Passion and Death, entrusted to the Woman to whom God had entrusted His Only-Begotten Son. Mary is our mother as well. Jesus rose from the dead on the third day; until then, His Holy Mother grieved. She who had not the concupiscence of sin within her, suffered all these things in innocence.

Who, on Christ's dear mother gazing,

in her trouble so amazing,

born of woman, would not weep?

Who, on Christ's dear Mother thinking,

such a cup of sorrow drinking,

would not share her sorrows deep?

At The Cross, Her Station Keeping

378 posted on 01/25/2015 11:46:07 AM PST by Grateful2God (And Mary kept all these things, and pondered them in her heart.)
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To: Grateful2God

what blasphemy

She got married to the Holy Spirit??

You guys keep proving what the articles I keep posting saying

It isn’t veneration, t is worship, and that is blasphemy.


411 posted on 01/25/2015 1:30:28 PM PST by RaceBannon (Rom 5:8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for)
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To: Grateful2God
She is often depicted...

That makes it ok then.

536 posted on 01/25/2015 6:20:12 PM PST by Elsie ( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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