I can understand your sentiments. I think the important devotion and ‘embrace’ of Mary by Catholics is to first acknowledge her as a unique mother to all of us who follow her Son, to believe she was not merely His biological mother but His dearest disciple, and to believe in the Church’s Teachings as from her Son. It actually does harm to have an outward devotion to Mary yet pick and choose what to follow from Apostolic faith (the Sacred Scriptures and the Catechism).
She is just as alive as me and you, if not more!
She holds the most holy petition to Jesus of all mankind
This is true.
You probably don’t mind that Washington, Lincoln, and Martin Luther King Jr. get holidays set aside for them, although they were human just like everyone else. Do Protestants do as much for Mary, who in the history of the human race certainly holds a more regal place in our hearts. The Catholic Church has several days of each year dedicated to the most important person who ever said “Thy will be done.”
Mary is the Queen of a Heaven ,she is very much alive and is the mediatrix ibetween us and her Son.While Mary was human and in as much need of a Savior as all of us,God chose to preemptivey cleanse her of original sin through her Immaculate Conception.
She is a Hidden Treasure… seek and ye shall find .
I believe her faithfulness merited our love and honor, not merely bearing Jesus in her womb. Didnt Jesus say, “Rather, blessed are those who hear the Word of God and obey it.”
Yes,you are correct!I had forgotten that!I believe her faithfulness merited our love and honor, not merely bearing Jesus in her womb. Didnt Jesus say, “Rather, blessed are those who hear the Word of God and obey it.”
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Gebriah,the biblical term used for the Queen Mother,as is was common practice that the people would go to her imploring her to intercede to her son,the King.The same holds true for our Mother Mary.Again,for the umpteenth time,re this issue in other threads.Christ performed his first miracle at Cana at his mother’s request.He refuses his mother nothing.
Yes, her “co-mediatrix” can be taken as contradicting 1Tim 2:5 if not understood in genuine faith. And I will admit that BOTH protestants and Catholics can abuse the Truth behind it. The answer lies in the fact that Christ is also truly a mystical body which is one unified family of many members. Mary’s motherhood is a unique role in some ways, but not entirely different than all believers. We can all cooperate in Jesus’ sole mediation to God when we do His will. We are doing the work of Christ. We can all make intercession to God for others by prayer and honoring our prayers by our obedience to Him in our lives. Mary was first in cronological order and in order of grace given to her by her proximity to Him, in which she maintained until the end.
Agree!I think it’s mainly ignorance…Martin Luther held our Blessed Mother in much the same way as Catholics do…even John Wesley believed in the perpetual virginity of Mary…yet over time as Protestantism moved farther away from the Catholic faith misunderstanding and straight out false teaching about Catholicism grew…I think it is especially more so today among Evangelical/Fundamentalist Protestants…I wonder how some Protestants will react when they get to heaven if our Lord were to ask them what they think of his mother…" well…it’s like this Lord…she may be have been chosen by your father (God) out of all his created beings to give birth to you…his son and our Savior…and she…the one who all generations shall call blessed… your mother…but to me she meant…and means nothing"…I wonder how that would go down with Jesus