Strange Marian Devotion

[Nevermore22]

So I was looking around the web when I found a website full of beautiful pictures of Mary. But something about it didn’t feel right. Then I saw the Hail Mary along the side:

Hail Mary, Fount of Grace, All Godhead is within Thee. Blessed art Thou by & above all maidens, & blessed is the Fruit of Thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, shelter & save us, Thy humble children, now & at the hour of our death. Amen.

It just didn’t float well with me. I am all for Marian devotion unless it stumbles along, or across the line of pure Worship.
I googled the first line and found this website (mods: feel free to remove it if you feel the need): mother-god.com/index.html

A little from it:

She was called Mother of God - an extraordinary title which logically implies that She is antecedent to, and the Cause of, any other Divinity.

Within the strict patriarchal economy of Christianity, the Blessed Virgin Mary cannot be recognised as God; but in Her iconography, her titles and Her devotional cultus (none of which have a great deal to do with the biblical and historical Mary), She is clearly God the Mother.

The websites version of the rosary makes me want to cry because of what is in it!

For devotees of Our Mother God it would not, indeed be a mistake simply to call this the Catholic Rosary, for the word “Catholic” means “Universal”, and this is the Universal devotion, the Universal story of the creation, preservation and redemption of the universe, the Universal return to the original Truth of all religion, the love of Our Mother God.

So how do you feel to see people actually worship Mary? They reject God, and turn to Mary, a creature (the greatest of all created beings, but still created), and make her the creator? How can we, as Catholics help change their minds and help them be guided back to Our Lord?

In Christ,
Never

 

[1believer1]

First I want to commend you for realizing that " there was something wrong with the site" and it’s contents. I have stumbled across this same site while doing research and found it disturbing. Those that have posted this information have a distorted view of " The Blessed Mother " and have allowed their own emotions and feelings to skew their thinking. Some of this IMHO comes from feminist thought that came from the early 60’s to the 70’s. While I will not go into all that transpired during those times, some of the misguided thoughts have been brought into today’s world. Mary,
The Blessed Mother is not a goddess. She is worthy of respect and ( if I may )
a certain amount of adoration. She is and was the Ark of the Covenant and for that reason was set above all other women, but not as a goddess. I hope that as you continue your studies that you will look at **The Blessed Mother **as one to emulate. Peace and blessings on your journey.

 

[Edwin78]

Yeah I’ve stumbled upon this site years ago, and it made my skin crawl. I mean, just the heading that greets those who stumble upon it:

Welcome to this place of learning and worship of our Mother God

made both my eyebrows shoot up and my fingers reflexively moving towards Ctrl-F4.

Our Queen and Mother deserves all the honor and adoration we can give her as Mother of God and Queen of the Universe…but nothing more. Worshiping her as “Mother-God” would be both an insult to God and the Blessed Virgin.

 

[MarianD]

May God save them from such blasphemy, and my the true Mother Mary show them that all glory is due to God and God alone, and that she is only a Representative and not the King Himself.

 

[Monica4316]

Nevermore,

that is definitely NOT a Catholic website. There are some people who do worship Mary as a goddess (not Catholics) but this is not Catholic teaching or belief… we call her the Mother of God because Christ’s human and divine natures can’t be separated, and this was decided in an early Church council. We don’t believe she’s the cause of God’s divinity

the website’s name, “mother-god”, gives it away… it sounds like it’s a website about Collyridianists, not Catholics - Collyridianism was an early heresy where they worshipped Mary. It’s certainly not Catholic and was condemned by the Catholic Church

The ‘Hail Mary’ that you posted is also one that Collyridianists pray… the real Hail Mary is very pleasing to God and His Mother though

God bless!