Featured Today is the Feast Day of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Perhaps you need to read the other thread:

Congratulations! You are all evil sinners!

Mary was too: an evil, wicked, depraved sinner. Eight days after Christ was born she took Jesus to be circumcised and she presented a sin offering for herself, thus demonstrating to all that she was a sinner. In her own prayer to the Lord, she said: "I rejoice in God my Savior," again, admitting her need for a Savior and her admission that she is a sinner. In Acts chapter one, we find her as one out of 120, just one of them, an equal, no greater than any, praying to the Lord. They were all sinners praying to the Lord. This time they were sinners saved by grace, but sinners nevertheless.

God used Mary as a vessel for his purpose for one point in history, and that is all. He used his apostles for different purposes as well. And throughout history he has used others.
Mary is now dead. We don't pray to dead people. That is spiritism, an occult the delves into the paranormal. It is condemned in the Scriptures and is often connected with necromancy.

The suggestions that you make are blasphemous, anti-Biblical, and lauded by Satan.

 

That is a beautiful prayer! Let me say that although Catholic devotion to Mary may have gone overboard in the past, they do not worship Mary (neither do the orthodox, Lutherans or Anglicans for that matter). I will say it again, CATHOLICS DO NOT WORSHIP MARY!

This can be made abundantly clear by just attending one Mass. From the crucifix above the altar, to the "praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ," recited by the congregation after the reading of the Gospel, to the bread and wine that are consecrated to become the body and blood of our Lord, Catholic worship is focused totally on Christ. Indeed, except for the Penitential rite (where we ask Mary and the saints to pray for us) and the Creed (where we acknowledge Jesus was born of the Virgin Mary), Mary is hardly mentioned at all in the Mass.

I know that the Lutherans at the Lutheran Benedictine Monastery at Oxford, Michigan celebrated a Eucharist today in honor of the Virgin Mother of God. There are Protestants that attack Catholics, Anglicans, Lutherans, and the Orthodox for honoring Mary, saying she resembles the 'Queen of Heaven' worshipped by pagans. However, many non-Christians attack Jesus Christ in the same manner, saying that that the Gospel accounts resemble pagan Gods who died and came back to life (like Adonis, Osiris, etc.). However, both criticisms can be disarmed by the same argument. G. K. Chesterton wrote:

"If the Christian God made the human race, would not the human race tend to rumors and perversions of the Christian God? If the center of our life is a certain fact, would not people far from the center have a muddled version of that fact? If we are so made that a Son of God must deliver us, is it odd that Patagonians should dream of the sudden God? When learned skeptics come to me and say 'are you aware the Kaffirs have a sort of incarnation?' Speaking as an unlearned person, I don't know. But speaking as a Christian, I should be very much astonished if they hadn't."

 

The op shows otherwise.

 

As a Baptist, I considered that the Catholic doctrines regarding Mary gave her attributes that I felt belonged to Jesus alone. However, I never took the harsh anti-Mary attitude taken by some Baptists who regard her as nothing more than some 'packing crate' for the Messiah. Indeed, I was appalled when I read of certain apostate/heretic/infidel scholars or 'theologians' who wrote that Mary was simply an 'unmarried woman' or even a prostitute! As I am just becoming Catholic, it is taking some time for me to accept dogmas like the Immaculate Conception. However, I am now coming to believe that the Church's teachings on Mary are not only right and true, but downright necessary for the preservation of Christianity.

 

Maryolatry, which the OP is promoting, is a despicable practice that is promoted by the reprobate Roman Catholic false church and some ultra liberal groups.

True christians will not participate for obvious reasons. :tear:

 

Could you point to what in the op demonstraes that which you believe shows that she is 'worshipped' instead of honored?

 

Then you have been brain-washed. It is true that some of the anti-Mary things you heard were wrong, but not all of it. Mary was no different than any one of us. We all have a purpose to perform in this life. It is our duty to find out what that purpose is and do it to the best of our ability. Mary's purpose was special indeed. But that doesn't exalt her as a human above every other human. She was human, and as such awaits the resurrection, as all other dead people do. She is no different.

 

Sure:

Mary is neither a virgin (anymore) nor should there be a feast to her, Paul, Matthew, Mark, Luke, or John or anyone else in scripture. She is not above them in any manner or form. She, like us, was just a lowly servant. Raising her above that status is heretical.

 

Please show me in scripture where this is.

Did she give birth to God the Father? God the Holy Spirit?

 

Where did I say anything about Catholics keeping feast days?

Nope. He sure wasn't but celebrating the birth of Christ is not an equivalent comparison to Mary.

 

Please answer my question. Did Mary give birth to God the Father and God the Holy Spirit?

 

Whittenberger...

You accused me of...

What?

Nobody on this thread is "frothing at the mouth"

It apears to me that we are all commenting calmly and rationally.

But we ARE speaking the truth regarding Maryolatry.

We have no part in Maryolatry because it is inapropiate and in some cases EXTREMELY cultic.

This is simply the truth.

 

I don't see anything wrong with feast days in and of themselves. Anglicans have a calendar of saints as well as Roman Catholics.

Mary is not the Mother of God because God existed forever - long before Mary was even born. The only title that can be applied to her is Mother of Christ.