Why is it wrong to love Mary? -2

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I would like to share to everyone what happened to me last year. Perhaps, you may realize how important praying to the Blessed Mother (and Her Rosary) is to me.

I was born and lived in a province since childhood, but after getting a job in Manila, Philippines (9 years ago), I started living a sinful life. If I had died earlier, I would surely have plunged into the burning sulfur of hell without any doubt or question.

I sinned and sinned, and didn’t even bother to pray, stayed away from God, forgot God, worked myself to death, focused on my career, increased my knowledge by going to a graduate school and increased my wealth and worldy possessions.

However, our Lord God had mercy on my soul and started calling me back, thru the Blessed Mother Mary:

1st Call: Two years ago, my college friend died. He was my classmate, same age as mine (32), with the same promising career as a chemical engineer. He and his career is gone now, at a very young age. I was shocked and felt fear. What if it was I who died?

Effect : I only felt fear, but did nothing to repent.

2nd Call: Last year, I received an email from my college friend that our dearest and most intelligent professor died at the age of 40+. He and his intelligence is gone now, also at a very young age.

Effect : My fear increased, but did not repent.

3rd Call: In August of last year, my very rich boss suddenly died of cancer at the age of 49. Her money and enormous wealth did not save her.

Effect : This time I was really struck hard, started to pray a little and started reflecting on my life, but did not repent.

4th Call: Last year again, I was bed ridden for a week due to kidney problem. The pain I had, felt like I was gonna die. I started praying hard to God, to forgive me for my transgressions. But after few weeks of being healed, I went back to my sinful life.

5th and Final Call: One week after celebrating the 75th birthday of my mother last year, she became very ill. She was brought to the hospital and was struggling between life and death. The hospital bills have drained all my savings, and left me with loans. After two months of struggle, and with no more resources to fight for her life, she died before Christmas, and so we had the most sorrowful Christmas ever.

This recent events moved me to change my life. It made me realize many things:
  1. First, our life is very short, and death which seems to be far away is really approaching to each one of us.
  2. Second, What is professional career for, if God takes away my life right now.
  3. Third, Worldy intelligence will be blotted out once the Lord God called us back.
  4. Fourth, Money and Wealth cannot save us from death, once the Lord has retrieved the life He gave us.
  5. Fifth, not to invoke the Lord God to anger, for His hands are mighty and powerful.
  6. Lastly, that I should be thankful to the Lord and the Blessed Mother in bringing me back to grace.
But, the temptation is very strong. It seems like a magnet pulling me down. And the Wretched One does not want me to lead a better life. So, I realized going back to grace is a gift from Heaven. But remaining in grace is another hard thing to accomplish.

So what I did is I prayed the 15 mysteries of the Holy Rosary everyday. I told the Blessed Mother sincerely that I will pray Her 15 mysteries everyday, in return for the favor of protecting me and not abandoning me especially in times of trouble. And she did, now I am completely changed. The Blessed Mother showered bountiful graces upon me which I do not deserve. And everytime I look back at my past, I felt sorrow for having mislead my life for so long and for having hurt God with my sins.

The spiritual battle is still ON and the temptations are still lurking around. But I guess it will never end while I am alive. But the most important thing is I have the Blessed Mother by my side now thru the Holy Rosary. I also have Jesus by my side, thru the Sacred Heart and Divine Mercy Chaplet (which gives me so much peace) and the Holy Eucharist (which is the food of my soul).

And we have all the angels and saints by our side who desires as much to save our souls.

Now, these are the reasons why I am praying the Rosary and why I love Mary, and why I am urging others to do so also.
 
I want to add my thanks for the lovely picture.

The substance of this thread reminds me of something I heard a while back on EWTN. I don’t know who the speaker was beyond the fact it was a priest. He was speaking about the imagery often associated with Mary in works of art. In paintings of Mary, she is frequently associated with the moon, whereas Jesus is frequently associated with the sun.

Part of this is straight out of the Bible. Jesus is the Light, Mary is portrayed in Revelation associated with the moon, etc. Another part of this speaks to their different roles. Jesus is the Light, He is the source of the Light, just as the Sun is the source of Light. In contrast, the moon is not the source of Light, it merely REFLECTS the Light.

Jesus is the Light, and is represented by the Sun

Mary reflects the Light, but is not the source of the Light, and is represented by the Moon.

Similarly, we pray to Jesus, we worship Him. We don’t pray to Mary or worship her, but we do ask for her prayers for us.
 
This passage from Solomon’s *Song of Songs (Canticle of Canticles) [6:10] *is sometimes attributed to the Blessed Virgin Mary and adopted by various Marian devotional groups. I believe St. Bernard of Clairvaux was one of the first to give it Marian connotations:

“Who is she that cometh forth like the dawn, as fair as the moon, as bright as the sun, as terrible as an army set in battle array?”

(…looks like the battle is indeed ON franjos).

Although in the previous post’s analogy Mary is not the source of Light (sun) but merely reflects that light (moon), she is also called the dawn because she precedes (or quietly announces) the approach of the morning light…just as chronologically she preceded the incarnation…Christ came to us through her.

Although the Blessed Virgin may not be the souce of “Light”, in one respect, she is the souce of Christ’s Precious Blood…the Blood shed on Calvary…the Blood that saves us,washes us, makes us whole again. She conceived without human intervention. This means that Christ’s Precious Blood drew its biological identity out of the blood of his Mother.
 
NeedImprovement said:
This passage from Solomon’s *Song of Songs (Canticle of Canticles) [6:10] *is sometimes attributed to the Blessed Virgin Mary and adopted by various Marian devotional groups. I believe St. Bernard of Clairvaux was one of the first to give it Marian connotations:

“Who is she that cometh forth like the dawn, as fair as the moon, as bright as the sun, as terrible as an army set in battle array?”

Although in the previous post’s analogy Mary is not the source of Light (sun) but merely reflects that light (moon), she is also called the dawn because she precedes (or quietly announces) the approach of the morning light…just as chronologically she preceded the incarnation…Christ came to us through her.

Although the Blessed Virgin may not be the souce of “Light”, in one respect, she is the souce of Christ’s Precious Blood…the Blood shed on Calvary…the Blood that saves us,washes us, makes us whole again. She conceived without human intervention. This means that Christ’s Precious Blood drew its biological identity out of the blood of his Mother.
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From the anonymous hymn ‘Mary the Dawn’:

Mary the Dawn, Christ the Perfect Day;
Mary the Gate, Christ the Heavenly Way!

“She is our mother - the mother of our life, the mother of our incarnation, the mother of our light. As the Apostle says of our Lord, he became for us by God’s power our wisdom and justice, and holiness and redemption. She, then, as mother of Christ, is the mother of our wisdom and justice, and holiness and redemption. She is more our mother than the mother of our flesh. Our birth from her is better, for from her is born our wisdom and justice our sanctification and redemption.”
From a sermon by St. Aelred, abbot

But the Lord’s messenger called to him from heaven, “Abraham, Abraham!” "Yes, Lord, " he answered "Do not lay your hand on the boy, " said the messenger. “Do not do the least thing to him. I know now how devoted you are to God, since you did not withold from me your own beloved son.” As Abraham looked about, he spied a ram caught by its horns in the thicket. So he went and took the ram and offered it up as a holocaust in place of his son.
{Genesis 22, 11-13}

“It is the passover of the Lord. For on this same night I will go through Egypt, striking down every firstborn of the land, both man and beast, and executing judgment on all the gods of Egypt - I the Lord! But the blood will mark the houses where you are. Seeing the blood, I will pass over you.” {Exodus 12, 11-13}

They are justified freely by his grace through the redemption of Christ Jesus, whom God set forth as an expiation, through faith, by his blood, to prove his righteousness because of the forgiveness of sins previously committed, through the forbearance of God - to prove his righteousness in the present time, that he might be righteous and justify the one who has ‘faith’ in Jesus. {Romans 3, 24-26}

Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the chosen sojourners of the dispersion…, in the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification by the Spirit, for ‘obedience’ and sprinkling with the blood of Jesus Christ, may grace and peace be yours in abundance.
{1 Peter 1, 1-2}

The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Behold the Lamb of God, who takes the away the sin of the world.”
{John 1, 29}

To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood…to him be glory and power forever. {Revelation 1, 5-6}

And Simeon blessed them and said to Mary his mother, “Behold, this child is destined for the fall and rise of many in Israel, and to be a sign that will be contradicted, and you yourself a sword shall pierce so that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed.” {Luke 2, 34-35}

When the wine ran short, the mother of Jesus said to him, “They have no wine.” {John 2, 3}

“There is one Physician of flesh and of spirit, begotten and unbegotten, God in man, true life in death, son of Mary and son of God, first suffering and then beyond suffering, Jesus Christ our Lord.”
Ignatius of Antioch (A.D. 110)

Pax vobiscum
Good Fella :cool:
 
** My letter (prayer) to Mary**
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*Dear Mary,

You are the Mother of God and my mother too. You were the perfect Mother and the perfect disciple. Mary, you were the one chosen (handpicked) by God from all time and all woman to be the Mother of God.

You are the precious vessel and the way my Lord entered the world.

You have always done the “will of our heavenly Father” and are by Jesus’ definition, His “brother, and sister, and mother” (His loyal servant, follower and disciple).

Please pray for me that I may always be a loyal follower of your Son, as you are. You have shown me how to Love your Son.

You are the Mother of God and Jesus’ disciple. You are the only person who ever lived that was with Jesus from the beginning, until the end at the foot of His cross.

You held the baby Jesus in your arms, loving Him and protecting Him, never letting Him go, until he was taken from you at the Cross. You never denied him or left Him. You remained quite because you knew that you would have to suffer so that the rest of mankind might be saved.

You were there in the upper room during Pentecost!

As for your name in scripture, there exists not a single word against you. There is no finer example of a person who has completely surrendered himself to the will of God, as you Mary.

You were truly, madly in love with your Son Jesus and who from the beginning; you knew He was “God with us”. Your perfect expression of surrender, “May it be done to me according to your word” is the source of my strength.

Mary, you kept many things in your heart and reflected on them, you truly knew the Lord before any of the apostles and He knew you.

When you brought the baby Jesus to Simeon, His destiny was revealed to you; before any other disciples knew, you knew!

“A sword pierced your own heart, so that the thoughts of many hearts would be known”. I can only imagine how you suffered and the strength you must have needed to continue on to the very end, to the foot of the cross.

I love you Mary, thank you.

You encouraged Him at the wedding at Cana, the point in which your Son Jesus and our Lord began His ministry, you sad, “do as He says”, may these words always be a reminder to me to, “do as He says”

You loved Jesus with all of your heart, all of your soul, all of your mind and all of your strength. Has there been anyone as devoted to my Lord, as you? Blessed Mary, the Lord is with you, you are blessed among all women and all generation will consider you blessed. You have been reunited with your Lord, how sweet that must be. Mary, my mother, please pray for me that the Lord have mercy on me a sinner and that one day I can come home to the Lord.

Thank you Mary and pray for me that I may always think of your great example of love, sacrifice and surrender. One cannot think about you, Mary without thinking about your son Jesus. I am madly in love with you and I am madly in love with your son, my lord Jesus Christ. May my focus allows be on Christ, as you were always focused on Him.

Your son and Christ’s loyal follower,

Jimmy B.*
 
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Jimmy_B:
Are you aware of some of the statements made by popes in history abour Mary? There is nothing wrong with loving the most important woman in the history of the world. She was also the greatest woman who ever lived. I don’t think anyone can contest that. But elevating Mary to diety status as the Catholic church has is wrong and contradicts Scripture. Here are some things that popes of the past have declared about Mary.

Pope Pius XII Happy we are to repeat before your throne that hymn which is sung today around your altar.
God crowned you queen of the Universe. O crystal fountain of faith bathe our minds with eternal truths.
 
NeedImprovement said:
You bring up a point that I forget far too often Good Fella (great post btw); it’s something I’d heard in sermons initially: That from antiquity, in the Old Testament, the honor of queen belonged to the mother of the king and not his wife.
The following website provides some solid scriptural foundation bearing out that fact: home.inreach.com/bstanley/queen.htm

In a different twist, It was the emperor Constantine who restored the title of “Augustus” to his mother (325 AD) after his father Constantius Chlorus, Caesar of the Western Roman Empire had died. Constantius Chlorus had divorced Constantine’s mother (293 AD) as ordered by Diocletian in order to marry Theodora and then qualify as Caesar of the Western Roman Empire.

Constantine’s mother is of course St. Helen, who is accredited with finding the original Cross of Christ.
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So it could be simply Jesus wanting to do for his mother the same thing any of us would do for ours if we could.

I’ve always found Matthew Chapter 20: 20-28 to be very thought provoking. Generally this passage is understood to warn against ambition as it relates to the Kingdom of God. But after the Mother of Zebedee’s sons - James and John asks Jesus, “Promise me that these sons of mine will sit, one at your right hand and the other at your left, in your kingdom”; the first part of Jesus’ answer could apply to all of us - “You do not know what you are asking…” , because none of us has yet seen heaven so we wouldn’t know either.

But it’s that second part of our beloved Lord’s answer that gets me thinking :"…But sitting at my right hand or my left is not mine to give. That is for those to whom it has been reserved by my Father." In my limited opinion Jesus is saying that the Father has reserved a special place of honor in heaven…so…if not for the Blessed Virgin Mary - the Mother of God…then for whom ??

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Jimmy_B said:
Why is it wrong to love Mary? -2

Original thread here.
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I would like to hear the “official” non-Catholic, Protestant and/or “former Catholic” response to this, if there is one, my guess is that there are many different Protestant “twists” on this subject.

Is anyone here afraid of being guilty of the sin of apostasy or heresy?

Why so some Protestant, non-Catholics and some “former Catholics” have a “problem” with Mary?
Luke 2:33-35

33 The child’s father and mother were amazed at what was said about him;
34 and Simeon blessed them and said to Mary his mother, “Behold, this child is destined for the fall and rise of many in Israel, and to be a sign that will be contradicted
35 (and you yourself a sword will pierce) 11 so that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed.”
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Mary the Mother of God - in the Bible

Genesis 3:15
Revelation 1:1-17
Isaiah 7:14
Luke 1:27-38
Matthew 1:18-25
Luke 1:39-45
Luke 1:46-56 (song of Mary)
Luke 2:5-7
Luke 2:16-20
Luke 2:48-51
John 2:1-12
Mark 6:3-5
Matthew 13:55-58
Matthew 1;16,17
Matthew 2:11,12
John 19: 25-27
Acts 1:12–14
 
Jimmy I was listening to a program yesterday that I recorded a while ago from “Christ in the City” on EWTN with Father George Rutler in New York. He spoke, in part, about Mary being “Our Mother”.

He noted that we Catholics are blessed to have 3 Mothers ~
  1. Our natural Mother, who gave birth to us, to whom we should give great respect
  2. Mary, Our Mother, who Jesus gave to all of us on the cross, and
  3. Our Mother the Church who nurtures us in our faith and has done so for 2000 years
One of the more remarkable stories that Fr. Rutler told in the program I viewed concerned fussy babies at baptism. Since I am the grandmother of a recently born “fussy baby” this got my attention. His experience has shown that fussy babies quiet down when they are given the chance to view our Holy Mother Mary.

Now isn’t that remarkable? There’s a connection, one that the baby cannot explain and most likely will not remember later, but the phenomenon has been observed repeatedly by Fr. Rutler, sufficiently often for him to conclude that babies RECOGNIZE Mary and are pacified just by seeing her.

My conclusion from his observations, although he did not make this point in the program, is that if babies can make the connection to our Holy Mother Mary, what’s wrong with the rest of us if we cannot? Jesus gave Her to us. This was not idle talk. As Fr. Rutler pointed out, when you are being crucified, you choose your words carefully.

Jesus said “This is Your Mother”. The meaning is pretty plain. If She is Our Mother, we have obligations to Her, and we know that She will always be Our Advocate, as our mother would always be. It’s right to love Her.

I cannot imagine the reason anyone would have to malign the Mother of God. If Jesus honors Her, and He does, then isn’t it a bad idea for us to do anything less?
 
MelanieAnne said:
He noted that we Catholics are blessed to have 3 Mothers ~

One of the more remarkable stories that Fr. Rutler told in the program I viewed concerned fussy babies at baptism. Since I am the grandmother of a recently born “fussy baby” this got my attention. His experience has shown that fussy babies quiet down when they are given the chance to view our Holy Mother Mary.

Now isn’t that remarkable? There’s a connection, one that the baby cannot explain and most likely will not remember later, but the phenomenon has been observed repeatedly by Fr. Rutler, sufficiently often for him to conclude that babies RECOGNIZE Mary and are pacified just by seeing her.
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Melanie Anne, congratulations upon the recent birth of your grandchild. He or she is luckier than I am, having four living mothers, if we include grandmothers. 😉

Often when I’m praying or offering devotion before the Blessed Sacrament at my parish late in the afternoon, this woman enters with a little boy who immediately darts about shouting and laughing as he takes in the place. But as soon as he arrives at the statue of Our Lady at the right hand side of the altar, he suddeny stops and quietly gazes at the image waiting for his mother to catch up. This has happened more than once.

Pax vobiscum
Good Fella 🙂
 
Revelation 12 1-17****

1 1 A great sign appeared in the sky, a woman 2 clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars.
2 She was with child and wailed aloud in pain as she labored to give birth. 3
3 Then another sign appeared in the sky; it was a huge red dragon, 4 with seven heads and ten horns, and on its heads were seven diadems.
4 Its tail swept away a third of the stars in the sky and hurled them down to the earth. Then the dragon stood before the woman about to give birth, to devour her child when she gave birth.
5 She gave birth to a son, a male child, destined to rule all the nations with an iron rod. 5 Her child was caught up to God and his throne.
6 The woman herself fled into the desert where she had a place prepared by God, that there she might be taken care of for twelve hundred and sixty days. 6
7 7 Then war broke out in heaven; Michael 8 and his angels battled against the dragon. The dragon and its angels fought back,
8 but they did not prevail and there was no longer any place for them in heaven.
9 The huge dragon, the ancient serpent, 9 who is called the Devil and Satan, who deceived the whole world, was thrown down to earth, and its angels were thrown down with it.
10 Then I heard a loud voice in heaven say: “Now have salvation and power come, and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Anointed. For the accuser 10 of our brothers is cast out, who accuses them before our God day and night.
11 They conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony; love for life did not deter them from death.
12 Therefore, rejoice, you heavens, and you who dwell in them. But woe to you, earth and sea, for the Devil has come down to you in great fury, for he knows he has but a short time.”
13 When the dragon saw that it had been thrown down to the earth, it pursued the woman who had given birth to the male child.
14 But the woman was given the two wings of the great eagle, 11 so that she could fly to her place in the desert, where, far from the serpent, she was taken care of for a year, two years, and a half-year.
15 The serpent, 12 however, spewed a torrent of water out of his mouth after the woman to sweep her away with the current.
16 But the earth helped the woman and opened its mouth and swallowed the flood that the dragon spewed out of its mouth.
17 Then the dragon became angry with the woman and went off to wage war against the rest of her offspring, those who keep God’s commandments and bear witness to Jesus. 13 (18) It took its position 14 on the sand of the sea.
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In much artwork, as well as in the passage of Revelation that Jimmy quotes, Mary is found with the image of the Moon. In contrast Jesus is often found with the image of the Sun. This is not a play on words (sun/son) because that only works in certain languages.

Jesus is the Light. Just as the sun is our source of light, so is Jesus the ultimate source of all Light because He IS the Light.

In contrast, Mary, often represented by the Moon, is NOT the Light, nor the source of the Light, but She reflects the Light to us, just as the Moon reflects the light of the Sun. Mary is not the Light, She is not the source of the Light, but She does reflect the Light to us.
 
Jimmy_B said:
I would like to hear the “official” non-Catholic, Protestant and/or “former Catholic” response to this, if there is one, my guess is that there are many different Protestant “twists” on this subject.

Is anyone here afraid of being guilty of the sin of apostasy or heresy?

Why so some Protestant, non-Catholics and some “former Catholics” have a “problem” with Mary?

Mary the Mother of God - in the Bible

Genesis 3:15
Revelation 1:1-17
Isaiah 7:14
Luke 1:27-38
Matthew 1:18-25
Luke 1:39-45
Luke 1:46-56 (song of Mary)
Luke 2:5-7
Luke 2:16-20
Luke 2:48-51
John 2:1-12
Mark 6:3-5
Matthew 13:55-58
Matthew 1;16,17
Matthew 2:11,12
John 19: 25-27
Acts 1:12–14
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Martin Luther and the early so-called Reformers rejected the Book of Judith, the Jewish heroine who prefigures Mary, although the following passage from this book contains a striking parallel with the Book of Genesis and the Gospel of Luke, which have been retained in the Protestant Bible. I invite everyone to observe Judith 13, 18-20.

Then Uzziah said to her, "Blessed are you daughter , by the Most High God, above all the women on earth; and blessed be the Lord God , creator of heaven and earth, …

“Most blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb.”
Luke 1, 42

…"who guided your blow at the head of the chief of our enemies.

“I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed. She will strike at your head , while you strike at her heel.”
Genesis 3, 15

"Your deed of hope will never be forgotten by those who tell of the might of God.

“Behold, from now all generations will call me blessed. The Mighty One has done great things for me, and holy is his name.”
Luke 1, 48-49

“May God make this redound to your everlasting honour, rewarding you with blessings, because you risked your life when your people were being oppressed, and you diverted our disaster, walking uprightly before our God.” And all the people answered, “Amen! Amen!”

“Blessed are you who believed that what was spoken to you by the Lord would be fulfilled.”
Luke 1, 45

And Mary said, “My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord, my spirit rejoices in God my saviour.”
Luke 1, 46

Protestants who claim that Holy Scripture speaks very little of Mary should look again, and while they are at it, they should take a peak in the Deuterocanonical Books. Scripture isn’t silent with regard to Mary, who plays a vital role in our salvation, assisting Christ. The first prophecy about the Messiah is the Protoevangelium in Genesis 3, 15. This prophecy makes it clear that a woman will play an essential role, by the will of God, in the redemption of mankind, for it was a woman who contributed to the fall of man.

Pax vobiscum
Good Fella :cool:
 
Jimmy_B said:
Why is it wrong to love Mary? -2

Original thread here.
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This question has a simple answer: **It’s not wrong to love Mary. **
To those who think it is I ask:
Are we, as Christians, supposed to be followers of Christ? “Yes”
Didn’t He ask us to imitate Him? “Yes”
Didn’t He love His own Mother? “Yes”
Shouldn’t we imitate Him in loving Her too? “Yes”
Is there any possible way that we could end up loving Her more than Jesus does? “No, because He is Perfect and loves with a Perfect love which we are not yet capable of as we have not yet been perfected.”
 
Jimmy_B said:
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Why is it wrong to love Mary?

My letter (prayer) to Mary​

Dear Mary,
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*You are the Mother of God and my mother too. You were the perfect Mother and the perfect disciple. Mary, you were the one chosen (handpicked) by God from all time and all woman to be the Mother of God. You are the precious vessel and the way my Lord entered the world. *​

*You have always done the “will of our heavenly Father” and are by Jesus’ definition, His “brother, and sister, and mother” (His loyal servant, follower and disciple). Please pray for me that I may always be a loyal follower of your Son, as you are. You have shown me how to Love your Son. You are the Mother of God and Jesus’ disciple. *​

*You are the only person who ever lived that was with Jesus from the beginning, until the end at the foot of His cross. You held the baby Jesus in your arms, loving Him and protecting Him, never letting Him go, until he was taken from you at the Cross. You never denied him or left Him. You remained quite because you knew that you would have to suffer so that the rest of mankind might be saved. You were there in the upper room during Pentecost! *​

*As for your name in scripture, there exists not a single word against you. There is no finer example of a person who has completely surrendered himself to the will of God, as you Mary. You were truly, madly in love with your Son Jesus and who from the beginning; you knew He was “God with us”. Your perfect expression of surrender, “May it be done to me according to your word” is the source of my strength. *​

*Mary, you kept many things in your heart and reflected on them, you truly knew the Lord before any of the apostles and He knew you. When you brought the baby Jesus to Simeon, His destiny was revealed to you; before any other disciples knew, you knew! “A sword pierced your own heart, so that the thoughts of many hearts would be known”. *​

*I can only imagine how you must have suffered and the strength you must have needed to continue on to the very end, to the foot of His cross. I love you Mary, thank you. You encouraged Him at the wedding at Cana, the point in which your Son, Jesus and our Lord began His ministry, you said, “do as He says”, may these words always be a reminder to me to, "do as He says "You loved Jesus with all of your heart, all of your soul, all of your mind and all of your strength. Has there been anyone as devoted to my Lord, as you? *​

*Blessed Mary, the Lord is with you, you are blessed among all women and all generations will consider you blessed. You have been reunited with your Lord, how sweet that must be. Mary, my mother, please pray for me that the Lord have mercy on me a sinner and that one day I can come home to the Lord. *​

Thank you Mary and pray for me that I may always think of your great example of love, sacrifice and surrender. One cannot think about you, Mary without thinking about your son Jesus. I am madly in love with you and I am madly in love with your son, my lord Jesus Christ. May my focus allows be on Christ, as you were always focused on Him.
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Your son and Christ’s loyal follower,
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Jimmy Brousseau
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Have you ever read Luke 11:27-28?
 
Good_Fella said:
Protestants who claim that Holy Scripture speaks very little of Mary should look again, and while they are at it, they should take a peak in the Deuterocanonical Books. Scripture isn’t silent with regard to Mary, who plays a vital role in our salvation, assisting Christ. The first prophecy about the Messiah is the Protoevangelium in Genesis 3, 15. This prophecy makes it clear that a woman will play an essential role, by the will of God, in the redemption of mankind, for it was a woman who contributed to the fall of man.

Pax vobiscum
Good Fella :cool:

Genesis 3:15 is talking about Eve! She was referred to as “the woman” a lot in Genesis; Mary never was.
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