Help me out here. What did Jesus tell Pharisees in John 10:37-38 about His works?
I be thinking JustAsking4 just committed a Thomas Didymus?
Yes, I certainly do.
CM,Yes, I certainly do.
Have you heard of St. Alphonsus de Liguori? He is a “doctor” of the catholic church and wrote a book that is endorsed by your church called --The Glories of Mary. In this book Ligori writes this — “At the command of Mary all obey, even God.”Yes, I certainly do.
CM,
I checked out your blog and thought you did a pretty good job with it.
Now if I can just get you to be a Calvinist you might be able to replace Jimmy White…
Not much chance of that my friend, but thanks for the compliment. Hey, I was Southern Baptist at one point aren’t they pretty much Calvinists?Gee… lemme see here, St. Alphonsus de Liguori was a pretty cool guy, and pretty smart, but lessee here…
His name doesn’t seem to listed as one of the popes…and His book is a devotional work that is approved by the Church, but it is not considered infallible teaching…Based on the Blessed Virgin’s interaction with Our Lord in John 2:1-11, there certainly appears to be a case for her to have a little special “pull” with Our Lord…so…how to phrase this so you understand it?I have read much of this book and could fill pages and pages of this kind of quote. That quote and many like it in that book clearly shows his beliefs about her.
If you do read it i would be interested in what you think. Catholic teaching is more than just the catechism or what popes and councils pronounce. Looking at what Ligori and others say about Mary for example helps to shed light on what the catholic church teaches. Something doesn’t have to be declared “infallible” to be true. The mere fact your church endorses something indicattes it is true.
Gee… lemme see here, St. Alphonsus de Liguori was a pretty cool guy, and pretty smart, but lessee here…
I stand by my statement.
[SIGN]I believe everything that the Catholic Church teaches.[/SIGN]
Since this is not something that the Catholic Church teaches, and understanding that I do not read more into the quoted statement than I believe that holy doctor of the Church really was saying…
I have no problems with it. In fact, since I haven’t read it yet, if I can find a copy, I’ll pick it up and do so.
I know what the Catholic Church teaches about the Blessed Virgin, and I agree with it. There’s nothing to not agree with.
This is the problem when a church goes beyond what is written in the Scriptures. What you are saying here is specualtion since the scriptures don’t tell us who or what kind of relationships are going on in heaven.
Is the context of this heaven? If it is i don’t know how to answer this since i don’t know how these things would work out in heaven. We can speculate but that does not mean its true.
Again your premises here are speculative since we don’t know what heaven is like in this regards.
Bunkum…
No… actually it’s NOT, but you wish…
marys-touch.com/Glories/contents.htm
But that she is so is evident from the fact, that whatever the Mother asks for, the Son never denies her; and this was revealed to St. Bridget, who one day heard Jesus talkinig with Mary, and thus address her: “Ask of me what thou wilt, for no petition of thine can be void” (“Pete quod vis a me; non enim inanis potest esse petition tua”). As if he had said, “My Mother, thou knowest how much I love thee; therefore ask all that thou wilt of me; for it is not possible that I should refuse thee anything.” And the reason that he gave for this was beautiful: “Because thou never dist deny me anything on earth, I will deny thee nothing in heaven” (“Quia tu mihi Nihil negasti in terra, ego tibi Nihil negabo in coelo”—Rev. l. 6, c. 23; l. 1, c. 24). My Mother, when thou wast in the world, thou never didst refuse to do anything for the love of me; and now that I am in heaven, it is right that I should deny thee nothing that thou askest. Mary, then, is called omnipotent in the sense in which it can be understood of a creature who is incapable of a divine attribute. She is omnipotent , because by her prayers she obtains whatever she wills.Based on the explanation that I have bolded in dark green, I see no reason to be distressed by this. John 2 certainly shows that this kind of relationship was evident even then, and I know of no place where it can be asserted that the Blessed Virgin might have “abused” this grace.