What did Mary go through? - the Seven Sorrows

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just because we meditate on Mary and her seven sorrows does not make her a God anymore than praying the rosary does.
 
water said:
Did somebody open the case about Mary being God? Could you read clearly the topic again?

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Instead of several Catholics ganging up on one Protestant again to force their rhetoric upon them, why don’t you just take what I said at face value. Is Mary so important you that it overshadows our Lord and Savior? Get it… Jesus is God, Mary is not.
 
Good_Fella said:
The most painful experience of any mother is to watch her child die. I think you had better realize that Mary is the mother of the One who had died for us. I find it hard to believe that anyone so indifferent and offensive to our Lord’s mother as you are can be in God’s grace. :nope:
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And I think that you are being very offensive to our Lord by ignoring his sufferrings to focus upon Mary’s feelings and emotions. It sounds more like the Oprah show then it does correct Biblical history.
 
churchcamefirst said:
And without Mary, or the Blessed Mother as I like to call her, after all, she did say “All nations will call me Bless-ed”.
Without Mary, there would be no Jesus, hence no saving of our sins. So, before you go and treat Jesus’s mother as if she’s the girl next door, be careful ,in that she carried our Savior for nine months in her womb, bore Him with no complaints, and taught Him, was his mother, and played a significant role in the birth of our Lord. What would of happened if Mary the Blessed Virgin simply said to the Archangel Gabriel, no?
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This is a lie. Nothing hinged upon Mary, nothing! Mary was chosen by God. God sent us his son to be our Savior. If not Mary, God would have surely chosen someone else or some other way. The whole notion of Mary’s “yes” being the new Eve and world resounding is an overblown bunch of rubbish. Sorry about that, but Jesus is the focus, not Mary.
 
SIA said:
This is a lie. Nothing hinged upon Mary, nothing! Mary was chosen by God. God sent us his son to be our Savior. If not Mary, God would have surely chosen someone else or some other way. The whole notion of Mary’s “yes” being the new Eve and world resounding is an overblown bunch of rubbish. Sorry about that, but Jesus is the focus, not Mary.
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And how would you know he would of chosen another? Are you like God? You know everything?
 
SIA said:
I’m not quite sure if it is more worthy of laughter or tears that Mary is probably shaking her head in disgust that all of this adoration is coming her way instead of to our Lord and Savior.
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Are you saying that Mary is aware of what we are doing?
 
SIA said:
I’m not quite sure if it is more worthy of laughter or tears that Mary is probably shaking her head in disgust that all of this adoration is coming her way instead of to our Lord and Savior.
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**You have this obsession with the Virgin Mary, it may be a good thing. :rolleyes: **
 
SIA said:
And I think that you are being very offensive to our Lord by ignoring his sufferrings to focus upon Mary’s feelings and emotions. It sounds more like the Oprah show then it does correct Biblical history.
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What offends our Lord is your cold indifference to his mother. He is not so jealous of her as you make him out to be. When we contemplate on our Blessed Mother’s spiritual sufferings, we are drawn through her to a contemplation of the physical sufferings of our Lord. We reflect on our Lord’s sufferings together with her just as John had at the foot of the cross. And we are reminded by Mary’s spiritual pain how much we should love her Son as she did. On the cross Jesus gave us his mother to be our spiritual mother. So our Lord expects us to honour her feelings as well in union with his sufferings.

If you step into a Catholic church you will find an altar at the front and behind it an image of Jesus hanging on the cross. Encircling the interior of a church are fourteen fixtures that comprise the Stations of the Cross used for devotional ceremonies and practices. One cannot help but focus on the Passion and Death of Christ while in a Catholic church. I can’t say much for Reformed Fundamentalist churches that have nothing but bare walls resembling lecture rooms where people gather just to think about Jesus while listening to a long drawn sermon intermingled with a few hymns. At Holy Mass we ‘worship’ the Lamb of God who is really present body blood soul and divinty in the Eucharist. In the celebration of the Eucharist we become absorbed in our Lord’s Passion and Death much more than any Protestant can ever hope to be by just sitting in his pew licking his index finger and flipping pages back and forth as the pastor spouts his rhetoric for over an hour.

Calvin launched a blitzkrieg in which his rabble stormed into Catholic churches and tore down and demolished the sacred images of our Lord on the cross. The mobs went so far as to desecrate the Holy Eucharist - the body and blood of Christ . It goes to show what little reverence he had for our suffering Lord. He tried to remove Jesus from the corrupt physical world and contain him in his own mind as an individual alone and apart from the rest of the world. A gnostic gesture. Just hearing and thinking about Jesus is not really worshipping him. You can sit there in your pew and just think about Jesus for what it’s worth. I prefer to kneel before him at the altar and adore his real presence before I receive Him body blood soul and divinity.

PAX :bowdown:
 
Psalm 102:20-21. “Bless the Lord, all ye his angels: you that are mighty in strength, and execute his word, hearkening to the voice of his orders. Bless the Lord, all ye his hosts: you ministers of his that do his will.”

Look, the Bible is telling you to pray to angels! Idolatry! 😛
 
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