AS soon as YOU produce one where ROME tells it's members NOT to 'worship' her!
AS soon as YOU produce one where ROME tells it's members NOT to 'worship' her!
Paragraph 6. Mary - Mother of Christ, Mother of the Church: "The Church rightly honors "the Blessed Virgin with special devotion. From the most ancient times the Blessed Virgin has been honored with the title of 'Mother of God,' to whose protection the faithful fly in all their dangers and needs. . . . This very special devotion . . . differs essentially from the adoration which is given to the incarnate Word and equally to the Father and the Holy Spirit, and greatly fosters this adoration."516" (Footnote Citing Lumen Gentium n. 66)
FAITHFUL HAVE FILIAL DEVOTION TO MARY, Pope John Paul II:
"When the faithful call upon Mary as "Mother of God" and contemplate in her the highest dignity conferred upon a creature, they are still not offering her a veneration equal to that of the divine Persons. There is an infinite distance between Marian veneration and worship of the Trinity and the Incarnate Word.
As a consequence, although the Christian community addresses the Blessed Virgin in language that sometimes recalls the terms used in the worship of God, it has a completely different meaning and value. Thus the love of the faithful for Mary differs from what they owe God: while the Lord must be loved above everything with all one's heart, with all one's soul and with all one's mind (cf. Mt 22:37), the sentiment joining Christians to the Blessed Virgin suggests, at a spiritual level, the affection of children for their mother."
There's two for you--you got an extra one as a bonus, since you gave me 13 posts to answer. Per your previous post to stick to one subject and per my employer, I'll stop there.