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There’s this really mean Lady in our neighborhood who is telling my family that we whorship Mary. Can anyone help, so I can put Mrs. Mean Lady in her place?
I know but that’s what she tells me, she also tells me that I belive Mary is going to save me, all because I kiss her statue! She opens her bible and tells me what I believe, I don’t like her. Mrs. Mean Lady!!!We, as Catholics, do NOT worship Mary! We venerate her, but do not worship her. All you have to do is tell her that you don’t worship Mary. How can she tell YOU what YOU do?
Invite 50 friends over with lighted candles to stand around the statue on the evening of December 8th in prayer. That will shut her up! She will porbably pack up and move out of the neighborhood!There’s this really mean Lady in our neighborhood who is telling my family that we whorship Mary. Can anyone help, so I can put Mrs. Mean Lady in her place?
I know your pain, I’m having a debate right now over the Saints.There’s this really mean Lady in our neighborhood who is telling my family that we whorship Mary. Can anyone help, so I can put Mrs. Mean Lady in her place?
Not knowing your circumstances, or Mrs Mean Lady’s, my advice is probably not worth much. But something that worked for me once with a “Mr Born-Again Robot” was to invite him to our church. And at first he refused, but I hung on like a drowning man, and kept on treating this guy with all of the christian charity I could, always keeping my poker-face and responding to his vitriol with kindness and respect. I stayed firm to one thing, and that was to always say, ‘You’ve never set foot in a Catholic Church, and never seen with your own eyes what we do when we come together on the Lord’s Day, so how come you are so sure you are right?’ And finally, he did come to church with our family, and kept coming for quite a while. I don’t know if the man ever converted or anything, but he never bothered anyone again, and he stopped being so mean… I even saw him smile now and again.There’s this really mean Lady in our neighborhood who is telling my family that we whorship Mary. Can anyone help, so I can put Mrs. Mean Lady in her place?
Some years back before I moved, there was a wonderful priest, Father John, who would gather a group of us ladies after we had counted the Sunday collection on Monday and take us to different people’s homes. Often we didn’t know who they were. Anyway, we would all stand there and Father John would knock on the front door. When the homeowner opened the door he would smile and ask them if they had an intention that they would like us to pray about for them. Of course, everyone had some problem or another going on in their life so immediately responded with a “YES”. No one ever turned us down. Many weren’t Catholics nor religious at all, and some of them were people who were known in town as being not nice or happy or were sick…We, as Catholics, do NOT worship Mary! We venerate her, but do not worship her. All you have to do is tell her that you don’t worship Mary. How can she tell YOU what YOU do?
Better yet, have a Rosary procession around the neighborhood at night, with the statue, candle and all…Invite 50 friends over with lighted candles to stand around the statue on the evening of December 8th in prayer. That will shut her up! She will porbably pack up and move out of the neighborhood!
U R right, I’m just going to ignore Mrs. Mean Lady for now… And I will laugh as she tells me what I believe.Tell Mean Lady you will:
Sell everything you have and give her all the money,
cut her grass and do all her housework everyday for 20 years,
If she can produce one official Catholic document over the past 2000 years that instructs Catholics to worship Mary.
Tell her I will kick in $10,000 on top of the reward if she can find the said document.
The dictionary must be used to tell the difference between “worship” and “venerate”, and a Greek dictionary to tell the difference between dulia, hyperdulia, and latria. Anti-Catholics don’t have dictionaries, or they use them for door-stops.
Anti-Catholics are not interested in what the Church teaches, they are only interested in what deceivers and liars teach, because anti-Catholicism is more an enterprise or a commodity than it is a set of misunderstandings. Find out who told Mean Lady that lie. It might be Dave Hunt or Jack Chick or some other slick businessman who has an extra 30 pieces of silver in his bank account.If Mean Lady has a computer, tell her there is not one “bible-Christian” web site that tells the truth about the Catholic Church. Not one. Then you can challenge her to find one Catholic web site that tells lies about bible-Christians.(there aren’t any:nope: ) Tell her to start here so she can see for herself how much she has been lied to. I have 30 more personal favorite web sites if you need them. www.catholicoutlook.com click on objections. It’s the best formatting for anti-Catholics I have yet found because it is so easy to navigate, and has a neat list of objections for them to click on.
Whatever you do, don’t waste your time reinforcing such empty-headed bigotry and prejudice with fruitless arguments. :banghead: Mean Lady has to want to know first or you risk making things worse. If befriending Mean Lady is out of the question, the best thing is to avoid any discussions about religion, and keep a safe distance and a close prayer watch.
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