Ask your friend to pick up a dictionary and look up the word worship. It means “reference” to a divine being as in God -
BUT, it also means “admiration” for someone as in Blessed Mary. If this gal knew what “veneration” for Blessed Mary is, and what “adoration” for God and God alone is, she might still be Catholic. She fell for Protestant miss-information.
I think how sad it is that Protestants have such a hard time with the word “worship” and the word “Mary”. Even sadder that Catholics have been sucked into this Protestant black hole of deception. I know Jesus “admires” His mother and so do I. How sad so many confused people must attack her and smear her blessed name just to unjustly insult Catholics.
An educated and intelligent Catholic or Protestant knows that worship can be given Blessed Mary. Only an ignorent Catholic or Protestant fails to understand this. If you don’t like the word “worship” because you use it for God alone that’s fine, just don’t hate those who use the word “worship” to mean “admiration” for the mother of our God.
Communion is one thing to Protestants and the Eucharist to Catholics. Shall we stop using the words Body and Blood of Christ since Protestants say communion is “symbolic” only? (Of course we
ALL know Protestant communion
IS “symbolic” only. That’s one thing they actually got right!
) Catholics have the Eucharist, communion and the Body of Christ. They all mean the same thing to Catholics but 3 seperate things to Protestants. For them The Eucharist is “waffer” worship, communion is “symbolic” only, the Body of Christ rose from the dead and is ascended into heaven. (Unless their Mormon or JW, etc…)
The Catholic Church is 2, 000 years old. Words have been around for a long time. Sometimes meanings change. Know the history of a word before we butcher its use.
Most Protestant sects are young, less then 100-200 years old. Most all non-denominational denomination Protestant sects are no aloder than their preacher is when he started preaching what ever it is he preaches today! Say 25 years old or less on average?
How much does a word change in 25 years? 150 years? 2,000 years? Do some generations today that are in their 70’s or 80’s use the same word to mean something different then say a 14 year old? What do these words mean to you: gay, rod, piece, scratch, queen, drag, etc… I tell you what they mean to my father (79) at the end.
You can also go to the USCCB website to see that it is just fine to worship Blessed Mary so long as it is done to admire and venerate her, but you can only use it for God when you give Him adoration.
So what did you think those words meant? Here is how I used them: gay (happy), rod (car or gun), piece (gun), scratch (money), queen (wife of a king), drag (puff on a ciggerette)
). She was unable to “hear” anything anymore. It did not help that her mother insisted to come to every youth group (bad experience the year before) but did not go to any of the other youth functions with her.