Do we worship Mary?

[Huiou_Theou]

By virtue of her divine motherhood and status as Queen of Heaven and earth, she is owed a minimum level of reverence and veneration.

As the Mediatrix of Grace and co-Redemtrix, we owe her a minimum level of gratitude.

Such is hers by right.

-Tim-

Hail Mary, Full of Grace; Thank you for your fiat, aid us through your intercession, visit with us on our journey through this veil of tears.
Our Father in Heaven, holy is your name. Give us this day, also, our mother; that she may mother us again. Give us your son, that he may feed us. And lead us not into temptation to Adore anyone but the Most holy Trinity. May we not worship in the American sense of the word, anyone but you.
Amen, Alleluia.

 

[rdscheirer]

…and ask Blessed Virgin Mary and all the angels and saints, and you my brothers and sisters to pray for me to the Lord our God.

From the Mass

 

[PJM]

=ProVobis;9613553]Depends on how the Latin colere is translated. The Vatican website actually translates it as “worship” but it could mean “honor” or “respect” as well. The general idea of “cultivate, till, tend” should be conveyed IMO. Whatever, the honor we bestow Mary should be distinguished from the one that we bestow on God.

NO WE DO NOT!

From the Catholic Catechism:

2135 “You shall worship the Lord your God” (Mt 4:10). Adoring God, praying to him, offering him the worship that belongs to him, fulfilling the promises and vows made to him are acts of the virtue of religion which fall under obedience to the first commandment.

266 “Now this is the Catholic faith: We worship one God in the Trinity and the Trinity in unity, without either confusing the persons or dividing the substance; for the person of the Father is one, the Son’s is another, the Holy Spirit’s another; but the Godhead of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit is one, their glory equal, their majesty coeternal” (Athanasian Creed: DS 75; ND 16).

971 “All generations will call me blessed”: “The Church’s devotion to the Blessed Virgin is intrinsic to Christian worship.”** 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.” The liturgical feasts dedicated to the Mother of God and Marian prayer, such as the rosary, an “epitome of the whole Gospel,” express this devotion to the Virgin Mary**.** SEE Luke 1: 26-55**

2096 Adoration is the first act of the virtue of religion. To adore God is to acknowledge him as God, as the Creator and Savior, the Lord and Master of everything that exists, as infinite and merciful Love. “You shall worship the Lord your God, and him only shall you serve,” says Jesus, citing Deuteronomy

**2132 The Christian veneration of images is not contrary to the first commandment which proscribes idols. Indeed, “the honor rendered to an image passes to its prototype,” and “whoever venerates an image venerates the person portrayed in it.” The honor paid to sacred images is a “respectful veneration,” not the adoration due to God alone:

Religious worship is not directed to images in themselves, considered as mere things, but under their distinctive aspect as images leading us on to God incarnate. The movement toward the image does not terminate in it as image, but tends toward that whose image it is. **

God Bless,
Pat /PJM

 

[ProVobis]

NO WE DO NOT!

From Fulgens Corona:

1. It is therefore, a pleasure for us, a full century having passed since the Pontiff of immortal memory, Pius IX, solemnly proclaimed this singular privilege of the Virgin Mother of God, to summarize the whole doctrinal position and conclude in these words of the same Pontiff, asserting that this doctrine “vouched for in Sacred Scripture according to the interpretation of the Fathers, is handed down by them in so many of their important writings, is expressed and celebrated in so many illustrious monuments of renowned antiquity, and proposed and confirmed by the greatest and highest decision of the Church” (Bull Ineffabilis Deus), so that to pastors and faithful there is nothing "more sweet, nothing dearer than to worship, venerate, invoke and praise with ardent affection the Mother of God conceived without stain of original sin. (Ibidem.)
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2. But where - as is the case in almost all dioceses, there exists a church in which the Virgin Mother of God is worshipped with more intense devotion, thither on stated days let pilgrims flock together in great numbers and publicly and in the open give glorious expression to their common Faith and their common love toward the Virgin Most Holy. We have no doubt that this will be done in an especial manner at the Grotto of Lourdes, where there is such ardent devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary conceived without stain of sin.
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3. But let this holy city of Rome be the first to give the example, this city which from the earliest Christian era worshipped the heavenly mother, its patroness, with a special devotion…

I still say this is a translation problem. (Document wasn’t written in English.)