What does Mary do for the world today?

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Is she in constant battle with the evil one over protecting us? Did God give her special privileges in our time on earth? As a mother is her primary job to care for us as our own loving mothers would?
 
God is pleased to pour out graces on us through her intercession. We should ask for those graces.

She is called the queen of heaven (regina caelorum) and lady of the angels (domina angelorum). When we walk and pray the rosary in front of the abortion clinic I ask her to send her legions of angels into the clinic to fight the influence of Satan and to aid the guardian angels of the people inside to influence them to repent of the abortions and to choose to do God’s will.
 
Claire_from_DE said:
God is pleased to pour out graces on us through her intercession. When we walk and pray the rosary in front of the abortion clinic I ask her to send her legions of angels into the clinic to fight the influence of Satan and to aid the guardian angels of the people inside to influence them to repent of the abortions and to choose to do God’s will.
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What a great answer, and such a fine and confident prayer. Wonderful.
 
dfp42 said:
Is she in constant battle with the evil one over protecting us? Did God give her special privileges in our time on earth? As a mother is her primary job to care for us as our own loving mothers would?
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I suspect her main role has to do with Purgatory, and the souls therein.
 
dfp42 said:
Is she in constant battle with the evil one over protecting us? Did God give her special privileges in our time on earth? As a mother is her primary job to care for us as our own loving mothers would?
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Yes she is in constant battle against evil just as all the saints and all the faithful are.
No God has not given her “special privileges in our time…”, she excerizes the same privilages that God has always given to her.
As our Blessed Mother her primary job is to Love us and yes to care for us, but always under the direction of and submission to God’s plan for us.

Peace
James
 
I’d love to see though someday exactly what she does. I’m sure there are things going on that we can’t see with our eyes and I’m sure it has something to do with change of hearts and protection of souls. I wish they had a take your son or daughter to work day so I could see this in action. 😦
 
She is the Mother of all. - Our Lady appears in Medjugorje. Read some of the messages, they do give you hope and inspiration.
 
Bob_Crowley said:
I suspect her main role has to do with Purgatory, and the souls therein.
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I don’t know what exactly her role in purgatory would consist of.

On the other hand, her role in this world seems to be that of interceding for and encouraging us to “do whatever He tells you” as she did at Cana. God gives us many graces through her intercession.

In Paris she showed St. Catherine Laboure the image for the miraculous medal (medal of the Immaculate Conception). It shows Mary with outstretched hands and rays of light coming from rings on her fingers. But there was no light coming from some of the rings. When Catherine asked about that, Mary told her that the rays represented the graces God gives to souls through her. The rings without rays represented the graces for which nobody asked.
 
dfp42 said:
I’d love to see though someday exactly what she does. I’m sure there are things going on that we can’t see with our eyes and I’m sure it has something to do with change of hearts and protection of souls. I wish they had a take your son or daughter to work day so I could see this in action. 😦
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dfp42 said:
I’d love to see though someday exactly what she does. I’m sure there are things going on that we can’t see with our eyes and I’m sure it has something to do with change of hearts and protection of souls. I wish they had a take your son or daughter to work day so I could see this in action. 😦
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*You know, I believe she does take us to work with her every day.
Actually I believe it is more like we are her work.
 
I recently had a dream that Mary and I were hugging 🙂 🙂 That’s one thing she’s done for me.

Other than that, she brings the Holy Spirit into our hearts. When it comes to defeating Satan, the Holy Spirit is to us what spinach is to Popeye 😃
 
Are the demons more scared of her then Jesus Christ? I heard something about how when Mary intercedes during exorcisms it works every time. It’s amazing to know that our mother has some serious power of the evil one. 🙂 What a great thing too. Mothers know best 🙂
 
dfp42 said:
Are the demons more scared of her then Jesus Christ? I heard something about how when Mary intercedes during exorcisms it works every time. It’s amazing to know that our mother has some serious power of the evil one. 🙂 What a great thing too. Mothers know best 🙂
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St. Louis de Montfort alleged that the devil hates Mary more than God:

“I will place enmities between you and the woman, between your race and her race; she will crush your head and you will lie in wait for her heel” (Gen. 3:15).

God has established only one enmity - but it is an irreconcilable one - which will last and even go on increasing to the end of time. That enmity is between Mary, his worthy Mother, and the devil, between the children and the servants of the Blessed Virgin and the children and followers of Lucifer.

Thus the most fearful enemy that God has set up against the devil is Mary, his holy Mother. From the time of the earthly paradise, although she existed then only in his mind, he gave her such a hatred for his accursed enemy, such ingenuity in exposing the wickedness of the ancient serpent and such power to defeat, overthrow and crush this proud rebel, that Satan fears her not only more than angels and men but in a certain sense more than God himself. This does not mean that the anger, hatred and power of God are not infinitely greater than the Blessed Virgin’s, since her attributes are limited. It simply means that Satan, being so proud, suffers infinitely more in being vanquished and punished by a lowly and humble servant of God, for her humility humiliates him more than the power of God.

Treatise on the True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, paragraphs 51-52

Of course, this has no official Magisterial backing, but neither is there a condemnation for it.

God bless!
 
dfp42 said:
Are the demons more scared of her then Jesus Christ? I heard something about how when Mary intercedes during exorcisms it works every time. It’s amazing to know that our mother has some serious power of the evil one. 🙂 What a great thing too. Mothers know best 🙂
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I think God has told the devil that Mary is “off-limits” and He will not tolerate the Devil blaspheming her. It’s a bit like a strong man who doesn’t car what you say about him personally, but it’s a different story if you ridicule his mother. God will not tolerate the Devil blaspheming the “Woman”, prefigured in Genesis, and the portent in heaven in Revelation 12. I don’t think it’s so much a case of the devil being afraid of Mary as the fact God has set a limit, “or else”. Which makes me wonder what happens when some of these hard-line protestants front up for judgement, and are asked to explain their cavalier attitude to Mary, calling our faith in her intercession “blasphemous”.

During the interview with Father Paul Barrajon as detailed in the link below, he is quoted as saying -

"At the end, the priest says to the demon, “Go away! Disappear!” The demon usually answers, “No, I don’t want to.” It rebels and revolts. Sometimes it says “You have no power over me. You are nothing to me.” But after a while, its resistance weakens. This usually happens after the invocation of the Holy Mother, she’s very important for that. No demon ever dares to insult her during an exorcism. Never.

Does he have more respect for Mary than for God himself?

Apparently. Otherwise no holds are barred, and everyone is insulted: the priests, everyone present, the bishops, the Pope, even Jesus Christ. But never the Virgin Mary. It’s an enigma."

signandsight.com/features/530.html
 
dfp42 said:
Are the demons more scared of her then Jesus Christ? I heard something about how when Mary intercedes during exorcisms it works every time. It’s amazing to know that our mother has some serious power of the evil one. 🙂 What a great thing too. Mothers know best 🙂
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These kinds of things bother me to an extent because I feel they begin to blurr the line between creator and creature…
I do not say this in any way to demean our blessed mother but any power that Mary has is granted her by God, and Christ, being God incarnate, is surely a more frightening prospect for a demon than Mary.

That said, I think that the demons and Satan himself hate and fear ALL the saints pretty much equally since the saints have acheived that which the demons can never have and never want. The Beatific vision. And the saints wills are all so perfectly united with God’s will that they can all intercede perfectly. The strength of one or the other saint might flow more from our personal devotions to a specific saint. In other words the bond that we feel with a given saint - the connectivity.

Just my thoughts on the matter

Peace
James
 
I believe that Satan fears of God, he must fear of God because he acknowledge that God has the power to eradicate him in one blink of the eyes. But the Devil hate the Virgin and scare of her much more not because she has any super power that is higher than God, but because of her humility and obedience. Mary is the stark contrast of what Satan is not, Mary is the representation of a simple human who can defeat Satan. In Mary, Satan sees his plan is overthrown. Through Mary, Satan can sees the most vivid picture of Jesus.
 
Sometimes when I read de Montfort, I think, man, he is overstating the case! But then, he tucks in the key idea that unlocks the apparent overstatement–I can totally see how Satan would be more enraged by the merely human, humble, obedient, faithful Virgin conquering him (only through Christ of course–not on her own), than being conquered by the superior, omnipotent, omniscient, powerful God. Totally makes sense.

I heard that St Louis Marie Grignon de Montfort is going to be named a doctor of the church. I hope so.
 
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