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The Perfection of Mary
When Catholics surrendered to the Protestants in the Wars of Religion that were threatening their very survival, certain conditions were agreed upon and implemented at the Council of Trent. One of these conditions would be to say that Catholics do not worship Mary, but that we venerate Her. The same was to be in our surrender of the Saints – that we do not pray ‘to’ them but ‘with’ them.
Of course all such non-sense is word play. Certainly the Protestants would have rather seen every Catholic dead, but since the Papists kept up at least some level of fight, the Prots were amendable to compromise.
However, the Catholics, negotiating from duress, were certainly not being sincere. Afterall, though the brain may be able to distinguish, between “worship” and “venerate”, I do not believe that the Heart can split hairs that fine. For instance, take the Love of a Mother for her baby – is not such a love as infinite as it can be? There is no love greater than the love of a mother for her Baby. Now, are we to blame that mother if she can find in her heart not a greater love for God. No! But would God recent the Equality? Such is the case of Our Love for Mary. The Protestants expect us, on the conditions of our surrender at Trent, to hold back something of our Love for Mary. The Heart does not work like that. And God does not resent our love for His Highest Creation.
Praying to the Saints, was also an odd surrender in word play only. In fact Catholics do Pray to the Saints. When we lose our car keys, we pray to St. Anthony to find them for us. We do not ask St. Anthony to go off and bother Christ about such a trivial thing. That would be ridiculous! But, if St. Anthony is not too busy, or can delegate an Angel for the job, then we would really prefer to have our car keys back and would be so very grateful, Amen. Christ does not need to be bothered about everything, particularly when the Saints have proven that enough Grace can flow through them from Heaven to satisfy much of our Spiritual and Material needs.
Much of Protestant Hatred for Mary and the Saints comes from a cultivated ignorance. Mary is nothing but Totally Obedient to God. She reigns as Queen of Heaven entirely at God’s Pleasure and in utter submission to His Will. The Way it works is that God the Creator delegates His Authority and Graces. Anyone familiar with the Bible already knows that God is Providential through the Agency of His Angels. So, in exercising Authority over His Creation, He has appointed The Highest Creature, Mary, to be Mediatrix of All Grace. Being Mediatrix goes both ways – Love of God flows from God through Her to us, and our Love of God flows through Her to God. As a medium for Love Mary is the quintessential Superconductor – She offers absolutely no resistance.
The Saints, in their Life Times have proven that they had opened a channel within themselves to the Holy Spirit. Why should this Channel close up simply because they die? Their Souls do not die. If a Saint still wishes to be Helpful, why should we hate that? Why should we adopt doctrines that place Our Saints into segregated ghettos where all communication must necessarily be cut off? It is only in the interest of Satan that all these Saints be rendered useless.
At the practical level every Protestant would understand Marian Devotion if they were just to do one Rosary. It starts with the Creed, then an Our Father Prayer, then 3 Hail Mary’s, then a Glory be to the Father Son and Holy Spirit, and then five decades consisting each of another Our Father, 10 more Hail Mary’s, and another Glory Be… and since 1917 the added pray “O My Jesus, forgive us our sins, save us from the fires of Hell, and lead all souls to Heaven, especially those in most need of thy mercy” – Mary, at Fatima Portugal had insisted that this prayer be added to each decade. So, if Protestants would open their minds only a crack they would see that Marian Devotion is inextricably bound up in Her Queenship of God’s Heaven, and Her acknowledgment that All Created Beings must bow before The Holy Trinity of God.
Protestants pretend that it does no harm to bypass Mary. Actually it does. Mary is the Woman of Revelations 12 – ‘dressed in the splendor of the Sun, with a crown of 12 Stars’. She has appeared just this way in Her Appearances. She is to fulfill the Prophecy of crushing the head of the serpent with Her heel. Now, if we would all obey Her and coordinate our attack against Satan, we could be that ‘heel’ – we could be Her Army. But the majority of nominal Christians have exiled Our Lady to the Wilderness – also Revelations 12.
You must consider why you insist that Catholic should renounce Our Lady and why you maintain a hatred for Our Lady. You must examine your hearts and decide why it is that you hate the Saints. Protestants seem to want to go to Heaven while hating everybody who is already there. There reasoning is that Christ is sufficient. Yes, certainly, but as King of Kings Christ is far above us all and may certainly set up levels of Authority. The Old Testament was familiar enough with the concept of Angels being ‘messengers of God’. God has always been seen as the most Holy, Sacred, Highest and Most Transcendent Being – the Ultimate Unapproachable. So, what is it but Pride that thinks all of that Hierarchy can be brushed aside for their ‘personal relationship’. Is this not claiming an Equality with God? Now, certainly there have been Saints beloved of God, to whom Christ has shown great condescension. But these Saints were known rather for their Humility then for their Pride. It was by their bowing before the lowest Soul in Heaven , and, yes, praying to them, that Christ came to Love them so heartily.
When Catholics surrendered to the Protestants in the Wars of Religion that were threatening their very survival, certain conditions were agreed upon and implemented at the Council of Trent. One of these conditions would be to say that Catholics do not worship Mary, but that we venerate Her. The same was to be in our surrender of the Saints – that we do not pray ‘to’ them but ‘with’ them.
Of course all such non-sense is word play. Certainly the Protestants would have rather seen every Catholic dead, but since the Papists kept up at least some level of fight, the Prots were amendable to compromise.
However, the Catholics, negotiating from duress, were certainly not being sincere. Afterall, though the brain may be able to distinguish, between “worship” and “venerate”, I do not believe that the Heart can split hairs that fine. For instance, take the Love of a Mother for her baby – is not such a love as infinite as it can be? There is no love greater than the love of a mother for her Baby. Now, are we to blame that mother if she can find in her heart not a greater love for God. No! But would God recent the Equality? Such is the case of Our Love for Mary. The Protestants expect us, on the conditions of our surrender at Trent, to hold back something of our Love for Mary. The Heart does not work like that. And God does not resent our love for His Highest Creation.
Praying to the Saints, was also an odd surrender in word play only. In fact Catholics do Pray to the Saints. When we lose our car keys, we pray to St. Anthony to find them for us. We do not ask St. Anthony to go off and bother Christ about such a trivial thing. That would be ridiculous! But, if St. Anthony is not too busy, or can delegate an Angel for the job, then we would really prefer to have our car keys back and would be so very grateful, Amen. Christ does not need to be bothered about everything, particularly when the Saints have proven that enough Grace can flow through them from Heaven to satisfy much of our Spiritual and Material needs.
Much of Protestant Hatred for Mary and the Saints comes from a cultivated ignorance. Mary is nothing but Totally Obedient to God. She reigns as Queen of Heaven entirely at God’s Pleasure and in utter submission to His Will. The Way it works is that God the Creator delegates His Authority and Graces. Anyone familiar with the Bible already knows that God is Providential through the Agency of His Angels. So, in exercising Authority over His Creation, He has appointed The Highest Creature, Mary, to be Mediatrix of All Grace. Being Mediatrix goes both ways – Love of God flows from God through Her to us, and our Love of God flows through Her to God. As a medium for Love Mary is the quintessential Superconductor – She offers absolutely no resistance.
The Saints, in their Life Times have proven that they had opened a channel within themselves to the Holy Spirit. Why should this Channel close up simply because they die? Their Souls do not die. If a Saint still wishes to be Helpful, why should we hate that? Why should we adopt doctrines that place Our Saints into segregated ghettos where all communication must necessarily be cut off? It is only in the interest of Satan that all these Saints be rendered useless.
At the practical level every Protestant would understand Marian Devotion if they were just to do one Rosary. It starts with the Creed, then an Our Father Prayer, then 3 Hail Mary’s, then a Glory be to the Father Son and Holy Spirit, and then five decades consisting each of another Our Father, 10 more Hail Mary’s, and another Glory Be… and since 1917 the added pray “O My Jesus, forgive us our sins, save us from the fires of Hell, and lead all souls to Heaven, especially those in most need of thy mercy” – Mary, at Fatima Portugal had insisted that this prayer be added to each decade. So, if Protestants would open their minds only a crack they would see that Marian Devotion is inextricably bound up in Her Queenship of God’s Heaven, and Her acknowledgment that All Created Beings must bow before The Holy Trinity of God.
Protestants pretend that it does no harm to bypass Mary. Actually it does. Mary is the Woman of Revelations 12 – ‘dressed in the splendor of the Sun, with a crown of 12 Stars’. She has appeared just this way in Her Appearances. She is to fulfill the Prophecy of crushing the head of the serpent with Her heel. Now, if we would all obey Her and coordinate our attack against Satan, we could be that ‘heel’ – we could be Her Army. But the majority of nominal Christians have exiled Our Lady to the Wilderness – also Revelations 12.
You must consider why you insist that Catholic should renounce Our Lady and why you maintain a hatred for Our Lady. You must examine your hearts and decide why it is that you hate the Saints. Protestants seem to want to go to Heaven while hating everybody who is already there. There reasoning is that Christ is sufficient. Yes, certainly, but as King of Kings Christ is far above us all and may certainly set up levels of Authority. The Old Testament was familiar enough with the concept of Angels being ‘messengers of God’. God has always been seen as the most Holy, Sacred, Highest and Most Transcendent Being – the Ultimate Unapproachable. So, what is it but Pride that thinks all of that Hierarchy can be brushed aside for their ‘personal relationship’. Is this not claiming an Equality with God? Now, certainly there have been Saints beloved of God, to whom Christ has shown great condescension. But these Saints were known rather for their Humility then for their Pride. It was by their bowing before the lowest Soul in Heaven , and, yes, praying to them, that Christ came to Love them so heartily.
