Posted on 10/08/2015 8:02:23 AM PDT by Salvation
What a wonderful incident in your mother’s life. Thanks for sharing.
If you don’t want the discussion.....hide it. Or don’t run go cry to Jim.
So sorry to hear about your mother. I have prayed the Rosary over the dying before and I do believe it is a comfort to both the dying and those who will be left behind. If you don’t mind I will put your mother on my Rosary intentions.
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The Angel of the Lord declared to Mary:
Behold the handmaid of the Lord: Be it done unto me according to Thy word.
And the Word was made Flesh: And dwelt among us.
Amen. "Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with you" (Lk 1:28) "Blessed are you among women, |
Not crying to Jim. I suggest that everyone just ignore this well meaning but unknowing person.
God gave us Jesus!
Jesus gave us Mary from the Cross!
Mary gives us the prayers for our world!
Most loving Mother, attracted by your beauty and sweetness, and by your tender compassion, I confidently turn to you, and beg of you obtain for me of your dear Son the favor I request in this novena: (state your specific request or intention here!)
Obtain for me also, Queen of Heaven, the most lively contrition for my many sins and the grace to imitate closely those virtues which you practiced so faithfully, especially humility, purity and obedience. Above all, I beg you to be my mother and protectress, to receive me into number of your devoted children, and to guide me from your high throne of glory.
Do not reject my petitions, Mother of mercy! Have pity on me, and do not abandon me during life or at the moment of my death. Daughter of the Eternal Father, Mother of the Eternal Son, Spouse of the Holy Spirit, Temple of the Adorable Trinity, pray for me. Immaculate and tender Heart of Mary, refuge of the needy and hope of sinners, filled with the most lively respect, love, and gratitude, I devote myself forever to your service, and I offer you my heart with all that I am and all that is mine.
Accept this offering, sweet Queen of Heaven and Earth, and obtain for me of your dear Son, Jesus Christ, the favors I ask through your intercession in this novena. Obtain for me also a generous, constant love of God, perfect submission to His holy Will, the true spirit of a Christian, and the grace of final perseverance. Amen.
I watched a documentary called “Convinced.” It’s a series of witnesses by protestants and atheists who “crossed the Tiber” and became Catholic. The most difficult thing, especially for Protestants, was to understand the devotion Catholics have to Mary. There is a lot of misinformation out there. Archbishop Fulton Sheen said that there are thousands of people who hate what they think are the teachings of the Catholic Church but very very few (now maybe a lot with the Muslim invasion) who hate what are truly the teachings of the Church. I challenge you to read Hail Holy Queen by Scott Hahn which goes into the scriptural Mary.
Typical Alinsky tactic.....if you can’t attack the message, attack the messenger!
The Holy Spirit moves us to pray.....not catholic mary.
Well meaning and unknowing are attack words now? Interesting.
I challenge you to compare catholic teachings/writings on mary with the Word and see if they stack up.
No where does the Word accord Mary the title "queen"....or the many other false titles accorded to her by catholicism.
You're correct....Christians have a very hard time understanding why Catholicism has so elevated Mary to the position(s) she now occupies when it is not supported anywhere in the Word.
“Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee; blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of
our death. Amen. “
Why is the second part added to scripture, as if it is a part of Scripture? Such is blasphemy.
Some unlearned adherent might just logically conclude that “Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen.” is literally in the Bible.
Back when Jesus had to by his own design return to heaven, he saw to it that his first followers had his Mother. In fact he said to John, Behold your Mother.This seems like an appropriate place to quote from Jesus of Nazareth: Part Two, Holy Week, From the Entrance into Jerusalem to the Resurrection by Joseph Ratzinger, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI:
John not only tells us that there were women at the foot of the Cross -- "his mother, and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene" (19:25) -- but he continues: "When Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple whom he loved standing near, he said to his mother, 'Woman, behold your son!! Then he said to the disciple, 'Behold your mother!' And from that hour the disciple took her to his own home" (19:26-27). This is one of Jesus' final acts, an adoption arrangement, as it were. He is the only son of his mother, who will be left alone in the world after his death. He now assigns the beloved disciple to accompany her and, as it were, makes him her son in his place; from that time onward, John is responsible for her -- he takes her to himself. The literal translation is stronger still; it could be rendered like this: he took her into his own -- received her into his innder life-setting. In the first instance, then, this is an entirely human gesture on the part of the dying Savior. He does not leave his mother alone; he places her in the custody of the disciple who was especiallyi close to him. And so a new home is also given to the disciple -- a mother to care for him, a mother for him to look after.If John takes the trouble to record such human concerns, it is because he wants to set down what really happened. But his concern always goes deeper than mere facts of the past. The event points beyond itself to that which endures. What is he trying to say?
The first clue comes from his form of address to Mary: "Woman." Jesus had used this same form of address at the marriage feast of Cana (Jn 2:4). The two scenes are thus linked together. Cana had been an anticipation of the definitive marriage feast -- of the new wine that the Lord wanted to bestow. What had then been merely a prophetic sign now becomes a reality.
The name "Woman" points back in the first instance to the account of creation, when the Creator presents the woman to Adam. In response to this new creation, Adam says: "This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman ..." (Gen 2:23). Saint Paul in his letters interprets Jesus as the new Adam, with whom mankind begins afresh. In the figure of Mary, Saint John shows us "the Woman" who belongs now to this new Adam. In the Gospel the allusion is a hidden one, but it was gradually explored in the context of the Church's faith.
When the Book of Revelation speaks of the great sign of a Woman appearing in heaven, she is understood to represent all Israel, indeed, the whole Church. The Church must continually give birth to Christ in pain (cf. Rev 12:1-6). Another stage in the evolution of this idea is found in the Letter to the Ephesians, where the saying about the man who leaves his father and mother to become one flesh with his wife is applied to Christ and the Church (cf 5:31-32). On the basis of the "corporate personality" model -- in keeping with biblical thought -- the early Church had no difficulty recognizing in the Woman, on the one hand, Mary herself and, on the other hand, transcending time, the Church, bride and mother, in which the mystery of Mary spreads out into history.
Just like Mary, the Woman, so too the beloved disciple is both a historical figure and a type for discipleship as it will always exist and must always exist. It is to the disciple, a true disciple in loving communion with the Lord, that the Woman is entrusted: Mary -- the Church.
These words spoken by Jesus as he hung upon the Cross continue to be fulfilled in many concrete ways. They are constantly repeated to both mother and disciple, and each person is called to relive them in his own life, as the Lord has allotted. Again and again the disciple is asked to take Mary as an individual and as the Church into his own home and, thus, to carry out Jesus' final instruction.
One of the most treasured memories I have of my mother’s passing earlier this year is praying the Rosary with her by her bedside. A few hours later she passed in her sleep and not even my father knew it until he happened to wake up next to her a few hours later. No doubt our prayers together brought this peaceful passing. I will pray for you and your mother during my daily Rosary.
I could say I love God "more" because He is he Supreme Being, and I owe Him more: my existence, my salvation. because His is all-good and deserving of all my love.
But love is living and it always grows, always abounds more and more. It is not a zero-sum game, it is a participation in something infinite.
I could never love Mary as much as God loves her.
Eal, it’s very ill-advised to call “sinful” the Blessed lady whom God called “full of grace.”
Awesome! Thanks for posting. Benedict really gets to the heart of the matter here.
Perhaps you remember that the 1st Commandant was to love God with your whole heart et al.
and the 2nd one was to love your neighbor as yourself.
It is difficult to love someone who is so negative and their cup is either half empty or perhaps completely empty.
How can you have a whole heart to love God if you are so negative that you espouse a form of hatred toward the Mother of God - Mary?
[The Immaculate Conception] is not supported in the Word as admitted by Roman Catholic apologists.That's some claim, ealgone. Please direct us to the "Roman Catholic apologists" who 'admit that the Immaculate Conception is not supported "in the Word." Thanks in advance.
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