Lets talk about Mary

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mymamamary said:
Excuse me, We do worship JESUS CHRIST as the Sovereign KING OF KINGS, Our EUCHARISTIC LORD, WHO died for us and our sins on Calvary and has Risen and is now seated at the Right HAND of OUR HEAVENLY FATHER, but, We Honor Our Mother, Queen, Mistress and Lady, Who does nothing but bring us closer to Her SON. She NEVER hogs attention. She is the handmaid of the LORD. So don’t insult my Momma!! I am a momma’s boy!! :mad::mad:
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Well said!!!👍
 
Never be afraid to have a fearless devotion to Our Lady, Mother, Queen and Mistress, the Ever Virgin Mary. She as the humble handmaid of the LORD (Imagine, You become the GOD Bearer and You call yourself a handmaid, just imagine the humility) would NEVER hog the attention and devotion displayed to Her. I once read from Our Parish Priests; book on Our Lady, that whenever we say “Mary”, She says “JESUS”. She always takes that devotion, purifies it, and hands it to Her DIVINE SON, Our GOD and LORD, WHO is all too pleased to accept a Devotion from HIS most pure Mother.

This world needs a radical, filial devotion to Our Lady, as She will bring us back to JESUS. She will/would never hog us for Herself. She would give us back. Do not be afraid to Love Her!!

Love You MAMMA MARIA!!
 
I love threads on Our Lady. They are so uplifting and encouraging. Like I could take on the world, with Her holding my hand as her child.
 
mymamamary said:
Excuse me, We do worship JESUS CHRIST as the Sovereign KING OF KINGS, Our EUCHARISTIC LORD, WHO died for us and our sins on Calvary and has Risen and is now seated at the Right HAND of OUR HEAVENLY FATHER, but, We Honor Our Mother, Queen, Mistress and Lady, Who does nothing but bring us closer to Her SON. She NEVER hogs attention. She is the handmaid of the LORD. So don’t insult my Momma!! I am a momma’s boy!! :mad::mad:
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I would find it surprising if someone would say that Mary would “hog” attention from the Lord. Mary, in all of her humility, considers herself a speck of dust; she would never consider to “hog” attention from anyone, let alone the Lord.

I, too, love our Mother Mary. 😃
 
I call upon her name “Mary”. I also use the Immaculata with it’s ties to Lordes Her name given “The Immaculate Conception.”

I also love Mary very much, and I try my best to fight for Her honor.

And Mary keeps nothing for herself but gives everything immediately to Christ.
 
mymamamary said:
Excuse me, We do worship JESUS CHRIST as the Sovereign KING OF KINGS, Our EUCHARISTIC LORD, WHO died for us and our sins on Calvary and has Risen and is now seated at the Right HAND of OUR HEAVENLY FATHER, but, We Honor Our Mother, Queen, Mistress and Lady, Who does nothing but bring us closer to Her SON. She NEVER hogs attention. She is the handmaid of the LORD. So don’t insult my Momma!! I am a momma’s boy!! :mad::mad:
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Did I miss something in the post by “thesacrifice”? Could you point out where he insulted our Lady?

I agree with all you say above and it is important that everyone know this lest they think that we re dividing our loyalties.
However - if we regard a positive statement on the Glory of God and our King as somehow a negative statement toward our Lady…well…That doesn’t really look good…
Of course - maybe I did miss something. So if there is an insult in the referenced post, please do point it out to me.

That said, I do agree with “ThatOrthodoxGuy” that the two posts by “thesacrifice” are off topic in this thread.

Peace
James
 
I love threads dedicated to the Theotokos. She’s my mother, she loves me, and she brought me back to Christ. <3 She’s known as the “Softener of evil hearts” and even has an icon named that in her honor.

True Theotokos, we magnify thee!
 
MysticalSelah said:
I love threads dedicated to the Theotokos. She’s my mother, she loves me, and she brought me back to Christ. <3 She’s known as the “Softener of evil hearts” and even has an icon named that in her honor.

True Theotokos, we magnify thee!
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Me too. 😃

I refer to her as the Star of the Sea.
 
What I admire about Mary is that she is so holy and yet so lowly. She carries out what her son said, “he who is greatest among you will be your servant” or something close to this. And she is the model of this, so loving and caring of the poor, especially the poorest of the poor, being refuge of sinners.

My favorite views of Mary are of Mother/child at bethlehem, and of Mother/child at calvary.
How loving and faithful to her son, carrying him always in her heart. Always in the background supporting him. The model of the quiet way.

O Mary, how good you are to carry us in your heart, thank you.
 
Tomorrow I will make a Holy Hour and pray to what outwardly looks like a wafer. I’m sure there are many levels of reservations about Catholic practice in general. Reservations about devotion to the Blessed Virgin as out of proportion to the adoration of Jesus Christ, her divine Son, generally never account for the countless hours of Masses, prayer and adoration, like Perpetual Adoration going on around the clock, 24 hours a day, at chapels throughout the world. So Marian devotion seems skewed in relation to what is misperceived as paltry attention paid to Jesus. Even the Rosary is attributed to Mary though being a meditation on the life of Christ through the eyes of His mother, a kind of Everywoman representing all believers.

The titles of Mary and most particularly Marian dogma are ultimately reflexive definers of Jesus Christ. “Mother of Perpetual Help” is about the Virgin Mother’s perpetual intercession with Jesus, our Perpetual Help. Hundreds of titles of Mary are from her many apparition sites. I have a friend that was class valedictorian and became a top Tupperware sales lady. Then she turned her heart to Christ and now is gung ho to conform to all Christ teaches and, in prayer and praise, to relentlessly bring others to love Him. So with Our Lady. All those brains as evinced by her Magnificat hymn of praise voiced to her cousin, Elizabeth, each line referencing Holy Writ; and all that loving obedience, remaining faithful to the cross of Christ. And that terrible charism: “You shall be pierced with a sword of sorrow that the thoughts of all may be revealed.”

The parallel titles showing the Genesis 3:15 relationship of Woman & Seed as Christ and His mother is seen in the centuries-old revelations to mystics from St. Gertrude to Sister Faustina, Christ’s begging us to beg Him for mercy before He comes as the Lord of Judgment. This is characterized under the title of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, and was explicitly given as a salvific opportunity for France and her king that was never fully adopted. Centuries later our Lady appeared at Fatima. “God wishes to establish in the world devotion to my Immaculate Heart.” This never fully caught on. So I examine God’s wish and comply with His desire and pray the Rosary daily for peace as urged at Fatima by “Our Lady of the Rosary.” I devote myself to her Immaculate Heart in the only way possible: emulation. I check myself for purity of intent and lovingly marvel at her perfect, trusting child-like obedience to God’s terrible will for her and ask for such trust and loving obedience for myself. And I pray:

**Immaculate Heart, Blessed Virgin Mary, pierced with a sword of sorrow that the thoughts of all may be revealed, expose all thoughts and cleanse them in the fire of love which is your Son Jesus Christ’s Sacred Heart. AMEN **

The Woman & Seed, objects of the enmity of Satan and his minions, will triumph after much persecution, including that of we, her “other children” seen in John’s Apocalpyse 12. May we remain faithful and true by Mary’s intercession and Christ’s mercy. “The Spirit and the Bride say, ‘Come.’” Spotless Bride of the Holy Spirit, preserve us for Christ’s return for His Bride He makes spotless, the Church.
 
I did the Montfort Consecration, enrolled and always wear the Brown Scapular, pray the Rosary daily, and I call her in her title, “Our Lady of Mount Carmel”.
 
Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. Deu 6:4-5

If a prophet, or one who foretells by dreams, appears among you and announces to you a miraculous sign or wonder, and if the sign or wonder of which he has spoken takes place, and he says, “Let us follow other gods” (gods you have not known) “and let us worship them,” you must not listen to the words of that prophet or dreamer. The LORD your God is testing you to find out whether you love him with all your heart and with all your soul. It is the LORD your God you must follow, and him you must revere. Keep his commands and obey him; serve him and hold fast to him. Deu 13:1-4

Jesus replied: "‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ Mat 22:37

I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Son may bring glory to the Father. You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it. “If you love me, you will obey what I command. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever-- the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you. I will not leave you as orphans;*** I will come to you***. Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live. On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you. Whoever has my commands and obeys them, he is the one who loves me. He who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love him and show myself to him.” Then Judas (not Judas Iscariot) said, “But, Lord, why do you intend to show yourself to us and not to the world?” Jesus replied, "If anyone loves me, he will obey my teaching. My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him. He who does not love me will not obey my teaching. These words you hear are not my own; they belong to the Father who sent me. "All this I have spoken while still with you. Jhn 14:12-25

Give all the glory, devotion, prayer, worship, and offerings of thanksgiving to Jesus Christ, who alone shed his blood on the cross and was risen to heaven
 
Saint Michael the Archangel
Defend us in battle…

Holy Mother
Save us through Your Immaculate Heart’s
Flame of love

“Mary’s Heart”

O Mary, Mother of Jesus,
Give me your heart
That I might receive Jesus

Give me your heart
So beautiful,
so pure So immaculate,
so full of love and humility

Give me your heart,
To love Him as you loved Him
And serve Him as you served Him
In the distressing disguise of the poorest of the poor

In the Bread of Life
In the poorest of the poor,
In distressing disguise
In Christ our Lord

(Lyrics for “Mary’s Heart” © The Mother Teresa Center, exclusive licensee throughout the world of the Missionaries of Charity for the works of Mother Teresa, used with permission, and Danielle Rose Skorich, published by World Library Publications. Music written by Danielle Rose, Copyright © 2007 Danielle Rose Skorich, published by World Library Publications, www.wlpmusic.com. 3708 River Rd, Suite 400, Franklin Park, IL 60131-2158. All rights reserved.)
 
thesacrifice said:
Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. Deu 6:4-5

If a prophet, or one who foretells by dreams, appears among you and announces to you a miraculous sign or wonder, and if the sign or wonder of which he has spoken takes place, and he says, “Let us follow other gods” (gods you have not known) “and let us worship them,” you must not listen to the words of that prophet or dreamer. The LORD your God is testing you to find out whether you love him with all your heart and with all your soul. It is the LORD your God you must follow, and him you must revere. Keep his commands and obey him; serve him and hold fast to him. Deu 13:1-4

Jesus replied: "‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ Mat 22:37

I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Son may bring glory to the Father. You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it. “If you love me, you will obey what I command. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever-- the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you. I will not leave you as orphans;*** I will come to you***. Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live. On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you. Whoever has my commands and obeys them, he is the one who loves me. He who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love him and show myself to him.” Then Judas (not Judas Iscariot) said, “But, Lord, why do you intend to show yourself to us and not to the world?” Jesus replied, "If anyone loves me, he will obey my teaching. My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him. He who does not love me will not obey my teaching. These words you hear are not my own; they belong to the Father who sent me. "All this I have spoken while still with you. Jhn 14:12-25

Give all the glory, devotion, prayer, worship, and offerings of thanksgiving to Jesus Christ, who alone shed his blood on the cross and was risen to heaven
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Nice post - Not one person here would disagree with anything you say in it…but again…it is off topic to this thread. If you have something to offer that fits with “Let’s talk about Mary” then I’m sure we would all love to here it. Otherwise…

Now - if you wish to debate matters related to Marion devotion, might I suggest you either look up one of the recent threads on that subject, or start a new one.

Thank you kindly.

Peace
James
 
nordskoven said:
Tomorrow I will make a Holy Hour and pray to what outwardly looks like a wafer. I’m sure there are many levels of reservations about Catholic practice in general. Reservations about devotion to the Blessed Virgin as out of proportion to the adoration of Jesus Christ, her divine Son, generally never account for the countless hours of Masses, prayer and adoration, like Perpetual Adoration going on around the clock, 24 hours a day, at chapels throughout the world. So Marian devotion seems skewed in relation to what is misperceived as paltry attention paid to Jesus. Even the Rosary is attributed to Mary though being a meditation on the life of Christ through the eyes of His mother, a kind of Everywoman representing all believers.

The titles of Mary and most particularly Marian dogma are ultimately reflexive definers of Jesus Christ. “Mother of Perpetual Help” is about the Virgin Mother’s perpetual intercession with Jesus, our Perpetual Help. Hundreds of titles of Mary are from her many apparition sites. I have a friend that was class valedictorian and became a top Tupperware sales lady. Then she turned her heart to Christ and now is gung ho to conform to all Christ teaches and, in prayer and praise, to relentlessly bring others to love Him. So with Our Lady. All those brains as evinced by her Magnificat hymn of praise voiced to her cousin, Elizabeth, each line referencing Holy Writ; and all that loving obedience, remaining faithful to the cross of Christ. And that terrible charism: “You shall be pierced with a sword of sorrow that the thoughts of all may be revealed.”

The parallel titles showing the Genesis 3:15 relationship of Woman & Seed as Christ and His mother is seen in the centuries-old revelations to mystics from St. Gertrude to Sister Faustina, Christ’s begging us to beg Him for mercy before He comes as the Lord of Judgment. This is characterized under the title of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, and was explicitly given as a salvific opportunity for France and her king that was never fully adopted. Centuries later our Lady appeared at Fatima. “God wishes to establish in the world devotion to my Immaculate Heart.” This never fully caught on. So I examine God’s wish and comply with His desire and pray the Rosary daily for peace as urged at Fatima by “Our Lady of the Rosary.” I devote myself to her Immaculate Heart in the only way possible: emulation. I check myself for purity of intent and lovingly marvel at her perfect, trusting child-like obedience to God’s terrible will for her and ask for such trust and loving obedience for myself. And I pray:

**Immaculate Heart, Blessed Virgin Mary, pierced with a sword of sorrow that the thoughts of all may be revealed, expose all thoughts and cleanse them in the fire of love which is your Son Jesus Christ’s Sacred Heart. AMEN **

The Woman & Seed, objects of the enmity of Satan and his minions, will triumph after much persecution, including that of we, her “other children” seen in John’s Apocalpyse 12. May we remain faithful and true by Mary’s intercession and Christ’s mercy. “The Spirit and the Bride say, ‘Come.’” Spotless Bride of the Holy Spirit, preserve us for Christ’s return for His Bride He makes spotless, the Church.
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This is an excellent post! 🙂
 
Wow I’m so happy this has become of my post I’m currently reading TREATISE ON TRUE DEVOTION TO THE BLESSED VIRGIN St. Louis de Montfort. It really is a great read.

May the wonderous Virgin Mary bless us all and may more people hear and accept the call to a religious life. Amen.
 
I refer to her as “dear Mother Mary” and pray the Rosary every day.

When I pray to the holy family I just say “dear Jesus, Mary and Joseph”
 
The opening prayer for the rosary I learned starts " Queen of the holy Rosary…" so thats pretty much how I address her since the rosary is what I typically do to honor her. I have started the 3 hail Marys recently
 
I LOVE Mary. She always brings me back to Christ, when I stray from Him and my spiritual life is dry, I can always turn to her. She is the first, best Christian and a role model to us all. Her love, her grace, her peacefulness, her kindness, her heart reaches out to me.

And I think she is working on the heart of my wife. My wife loves her too, and I can tell Our Lady is working on her heart.

I heard a story once on Ave Maria radio, one of those stories from the heart. I’ll paraphrase:

A very devoted woman, who prayed her rosary daily, and loved the Holy Mother died and went to heaven. When she got to heaven, all the angles and saints welcomed her. They were all very excited, it happened to be a feast day for Our Lady and there was going to be a big celebration in heaven that day for the Blessed Mother.

However, the woman who died and just arrived in heaven was ashamed, because she had no gift to give Mary. So at the celebration, she ducked and hid away from Our Lady in shame that she had no gift to give her. All the angles and saints presented the Blessed Mother presents, and the woman felt worse and worse that she had nothing to give. Finally, at the very end the angles presented Mary a wooden box, and called the woman forward. She shamefully came, and apologized that she had no gift. The angles said nonsense, this is your gift to Mary right here, and they pointed to the wooden box. The Blessed Mother opened the box, and exclaimed with joy. She said it was the best gift she could receive. The woman was confused, she had no gift to give the Holy Mother. Then Mary called her forward, and showed the box to all those who had gathered. Inside were all the prayers, and Hail Marys and Rosaries that the woman had said to her through her life. And it filled the box and was overflowing. Mary said to the woman “My child, this is the best gift you could ever give me.”

Obviously, that’s just a story. But I love that story because I can relate. I have nothing to give to Mary, she gives me everything. I just hope my prayers and devotion and love can be a gift for her.

😃
 
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