"Daily, daily sing to Mary Sing, my soul, her praises due;
All her feasts, her actions worship, With the heart’s devotion true.
She is mighty to deliver; Call her, trust her lovingly;
When the tempest rages round thee, She will calm the troubled sea.
Gifts of heaven she has given, Noble Lady, to our race;
She the Queen who decks her subject, With the light of God’s own grace." (Baltimore Catechism No.1, 63)
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If Roman Catholics do not worship Mary, then why does line three say to worship her?
Line #3 does not say “Worship her”. It says “all her feasts and actions worship”. “Worship” in this sense is not the worship due to God Alone that is forbidden to be given to anyone else, it is the veneration or honor of the feast days of Mary and all that Mary did for us. Remember, the only way God became man was through Mary and through her saying yes to God.
Take in consideration that in Rev.19:10, it says, “And I fell at his feet to worship him [the angel of God], And he said unto me, See thou do it not: I am thy fellow-servant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God:”
The angel knew that John fell down to adore the angel as God, and with the idolatry present to worship the Roman Emperor Nero as a deity at that time. Remember the Roman Emperors before Constantine all claimed to be “God”.
These titles of idolerty are added to Mary by the catholic church over 1700 years.
Not one title in the litanies quoted below are idolatrous and claim Mary to have a Divine Nature.
"Ark of the Covenant
She bore Jesus Christ who is the New Covenant
Seat of wisdom
Morning star
The burning bush
Jacob’s ladder
Benefactress
Advocate
Helper
Guide
Foundation of the Church
Sign of hope
Restorer of life
Majestic cloud that led Israel
Mary was not created until the time of Jesus
Jesus, God the Son existed from all eternity, he had no beginning.
she is creation and did not in any way exist before the birth of Christ.
The Church has never claimed she has.
In the Giving of the titles the church is climing that Mary is God.
No. If the Church officially teaches Mary is God it would be stated somewhere, like in the Nicene Creed or any decree from any Ecumenical Council or the Pope.
each one of the titles are titles of God this is blasphemy and idolery.
God can have the same titles as human beings- like “King” and “Lord”. The words given to describe Mary are actually not “titles”.
The Catholic Church teaches that all graces flow through Mary; therefore, she is present in all the sacraments.
If not for Mary no grace would have ever come into this world. it is because she said yes to God that He was born into this world- therefore since He came through Mary then all comes through Mary. To deny this is to deny the Christian faith.
That means, if a Christian attends mass or prays with a Catholic, he must join with the spirit of idolatry, who claims to be able to give the grace that God alone can give. Now we have Mary taking the place of the Holy Spirit! What blasphemy!
WRONG. Note how you say “Mary is giving the grace” but the official teachings say the grace comes “through” her… like it is coming from someone else- given to her to dispense so to say.
“WHEN DOES A PERSON SIN BY SUPERSTITION? - A person sins by superstition when he attributes to a creature a power that belongs to God alone to another.”