Are We As Catholics, Obsessed with Mary?

[Sacredheart1208]

I cannot speak to the cultural issues you are encountering in Europe, nor can I speak for “Catholics” as a universal group, I can only speak for myself and what I see…

The answer is that yes some Catholics are “obsessed” with Mary. Other Catholics not so much.

As a Church, there has long been a strong Marion tradition and in some places and at various times the devotion has bee extremely strong…I think that our time is one of those. I say this because of the “recent” (relatively speaking) Marion apparitions at Lourdes and Fatima and also because of the great devotion that our late great pontiff JP II had for Our Lady.

That said… for me personally, while I Love our heavenly mother dearly, I do not carry the great devotion to her that some others do. My prayers are primarily to the Father, just as our Lord taught us.
As “Oneofthewomen”, posted above, I have run into people who are quite willing to tell me that my soul is in danger if I do not have a devotion to Mary…I had one person here on CAF (several years ago) actually accuse me of arrogant pride because I prayed directly to the Father instead of going through Mary…Now THAT’s taking it too far.

Mary’s last words in the Bible are “Do whatever he tells you”… and when it comes to prayer, Jesus told us to pray "Our Father…So I obey my Mother, who I Love, and "do what He (Jesus) tells me to do…

Peace
James

I really like your post, it almost summarizes what I feel. I pray the rosary daily and I ask Mary to pray for me when I am saying my prayers before bed. But I do not just pray to her. She is my mother and I love her and I am devoted to her very much. But when people say it is better to pray to Mary instead of God Himself I get uneasy, I ask Mary for her intercession all the time but prayer to her does not overwhelm my prayer to God.

Just my two cents.

 

[Topaz1128]

I am an Evangelical convert, and when I became Catholic, I of course didn’t have any special devotion to Mary. However, over the past few years, I have been finding myself pray the Rosary about every other day, and I started keeping a holy card of Our Lady of Lourdes near my nightstand.

For me, it’s something that is organic: I didn’t seek out Mary per se, but she sought me out. I’m so glad she did since she is my spiritual mother in the order of grace.

 

[Freetobe]

It is an evil obsession given by Satan. The only way to the Father is through the Son. Read Luke 11 27-28

WAKE UP

 

[Fiasco]

It is an evil obsession given by Satan. The only way to the Father is through the Son. Read Luke 11 27-28

WAKE UP

A thread as old as this shouldn’t be “exhumed”.

Luke 1:48 says:
“for behold from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed.” Do you honour her in any way?

Hebrews 12 says we’re surrounded by a cloud of witnesses. In other words, we can pray to them to intercede for us. They can do that BECAUSE of our Lord’s atoning death, resurrection and ascension.

As far as the “evil obsession given by Satan”, goes, it’s the pot calling the kettle black.

Going by your inflammatory/incendiary accusation, you don’t plan on being on these forums for very long.
To make your agenda worse, you took the trouble to rake through old threads to (in your opinion) drag out mud.

Any anti-Catholic can selectively quote Scripture to “prove” his claim.
Satan, himself can quote Scripture, as we’re reminded each year on the first Sunday of Lent.