Serious Question For Catholics, the future for first-hand knowledge?
Just want to know —
I have often heard (and from what I've seen, it seems) that the prayer to Mary is an important part of their religion. Are there places (not necessarily in the church) where people sing to Mary, statues kiss her, or kneeling (or bow) in front of a statue of her (I guess this would be done while praying to it)? I've heard that happens, but you (as a Catholic) personally heard or seen this? What would you think that kind of behavior?
- Why not some Catholics think Catholics Worship Mary and idols?
- Why so many people think Catholics Worship Mary? And the Saints? As worshipers of idols?
- Why Catholics Brides Bouquet A Place In The Altar of the Virgin Mary at the end of a wedding?
- Please, Can a Catholic Speak Up?
- Why do Catholics Worship false gods (the Pope, statues, and the Virgin Mary)?
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Catholics do not understand "reading" the same way that Protestants do. Protestants tend to think that all prayer is an act of worship. Catholics do not believe that. There is a very different understanding as well as what "demand" of an individual. Let me say that this is very clear, the prayers to Mary, the Hail Mary are not acts of worship or worship.
Marian Prayers are an important part of Catholicism, because Mary is seen as the 2nd Eve, the Mother of Christ, Mother of the Church, the Mother of all Christians. Mary is seen as the most perfect human being and the ideal of what we will be in our humanity. Christ is a divine person … The man of God who is worthy to be worshiped and as Catholics to be more conformed to Christ are also becoming closer to being the Catholic ideal, which is Mary.
As for the things listed, I've seen them all. However, if it is not surprising, then you must be absolutely amazed at the way to worship Christ and the Trinity. Seriously, things Marian is meek in comparison to the way of acting towards Christ.
You're right, it is important. In fact, it is essential. It is part of the canon of the Mass all Catholics ask Mary's intercession, to be headed there the spiritual sacrifice to the Father.
I love her very much, because Jesus said, Behold Your Son. If Mary is to contemplate what it means you're always ready to love God's love. The same spirit of San Juan was in Mary and her son. This same spirit is according to John Paul II, a gift in its eternity. God the Holy Spirit has begotten in the womb of a woman, sharing the other fluids in the natural way. Jesus said that if we believe everything he said, while on the cross to be saved with all that implies in the entire Bible. (cf. Jn 3:10 ff)
So if Mary's love and can never see it. What would you do if you send a photo for you? You can do everything under the sun with it.
As a former Catholic, I can say that what you describe is accurate.
As for what I think of this behavior, as an atheist, I see no value in it, except that would make you feel good.
Personally, I have never heard or seen anything like that, but there is a statue of Mary in our church that speaks to me when I look. Several times I have felt the need to reach out and touch it.
I come from a large Catholic family.
I am now a fundamentalist Christian.
Worship of Mary is idolatry
Jesus is the only way to the Father.
Jesus is the one who answers prayers.
Mary has no authority over Jesus.
Romans 10
I am not Catholic, but I have noticed this many times.
At every wedding I attended, held in a Catholic church, the bride at one point, he approaches a statue of Mary and kneeling there while someone sings "Ave Maria" or the play on the organ.
I visited the Catholic Mission San Gabriel in San Gabriel, California in March and people look at their knees, praying at the foot of the statue of Mary.
There was a small altar where individuals have lit candles.
I think it is a violation of what God told us not to do in Exodus chapter 20.
4 "You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on earth beneath or in the waters below. 5 You shall not bow down to them nor serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of them that hate me, 6 but showing mercy thousand generations () for those who love Me and keep My commandments.
That's what I think.
Pastor Art
Yes, I do all these above actions myself. I love my Heavenly Mother. I show that love and honor of his physical acts of reverence, kneeling and kissing a statue that represents it. I show my deep appreciation and thanks for bringing my Savior in the world and being under great difficulties for me and my salvation. By her fiat, the Virgin refused Eve's disobedience. To that I always show my love and gratitude.
God is pleased with obedience, purity, and the presentation of his Mother to his will and is pleased with the honor. Satan hates because she will crush your head with his heel. Her name is "Mediatrix of all graces." Who loves and prays to his great talent for giving help and thank you closer to Christ. She points to her son and the sky and help you get there quickly, if he ventured on his own.
At Mass, it is possible that the statue of strange, but no one pays attention when they come here, and no part of the Mass to pray any but God. The Mass has nothing to do with sculpture. The statue of Mary is no where near the activity of the Mass, where I've seen, looks like a mere icon of Women victorious over Satan, as an image of the bride of Christ, represented in its most honored member.
No one is inclined to an even Crucifex. Some may see someone bow of the invisible God can realize something visible in that direction facing slope is not even conscious. Or one might mistake as a bow to the image of the Passion, it really is someone who sees, and after being swept in their minds to the cross, before the scene of Calvary, and waving as if present. Much is wrong.
In the Byzantine liturgy, we knelt down saying "Holy Holy Holy Lord Almighty," and all that follows. That is the highest point of the Mass, the only other point is the connection points of the Congregation for the Lord in his passion, and sharing with him in the Eucharist. Commending the divine Trinity is the greatest thing of all, Worship God be shared with the angels and saints in heaven. The highest points are for our sake, but to show the infinite honor of one of the Trinity in His infinite humiliation for us, the glory of infinite love and grace of the Trinity.
In the Byzantine liturgy, we must remain after the worship becomes God, and only after kneeling and there is no mention of the honor of those who have demonstrated their worship of God, beginning with Mary. N, where we are allowed to transfer to Mary.
At all Masses, we bow only to God. In the Latin Rite, the only times that the mention of Mary Mass when we ask each other, and Mary, and all the angels and saints to pray for us to God, after admitting he committed all the sins we have done deliberately even though the Scripture says to confess our sins one to another. There is evidence that this public confession never happened in any other way than this. (This is different from the apostolic successors Confession before and priests mentioned in 1 John and trhe end near the Gospel of John). Here, then, the only time that Mary (along with everyone in the room, and all the saints and angels) are directed, we are only forbade the others to prayer to God, which then follows.
Then, once or at most two times, Mary is mentioned at the top of a list of heroes of the faith, as someone who wishes to join the ranks of the sky as God's faithful saints and mentions that this cloud witnesses requested by us all. There is no direction of any saint in this.
I used to be a Catholic-hating bigot, but now I know the truth of all things.
Some Catholics are ignorant of Catholicism, and do forbidden things. For example, the Catechism prohibits images of the invisible God, and says that no more than historical representations of the Lord's humanity can be represented.
Those who break the rules tend to believe absurd things against the Pope, against the use of the current form of the liturgy, and against all Catholic prophecies but prefers only questionable assumption "oracles Marian". For example, while being quick to believe dubious "Marian prophecies, which are making the rounds, the same people often do not believe anything any prophet prophesied by Catholic since the first century through the Middle Ages, almost the present.
The authority of the Church is based on three pillars:
Scripture-The Bible is the inerrant word of God and should be read as the first Christians read: in the light of Tradition and under the guidance of those ordered to teach.
The tradition of the teachings that the Church has preserved and handed down from Christ, the apostles, and the unanimous teaching of the Fathers of the Church.
The Magisterium - The Magisterium of the Church under the guidance of the Holy Spirit.
The Church has 7 sacraments - "the outward signs of invisible grace" and the media of sanctifying grace. The Sacraments were given to us by Christ for us to receive His grace and become more like him. The seven sacraments are:
Baptism
Sacrament of Confirmation, the Seal of
Eucharist
Penance
Holy Matrimony
Holy Orders
Extreme Unction
The Church teaches to look not only Scripture, but in history and reading what the earliest Christians have written, what those who have sat in the chair of Peter has spoken consistently with Scripture and Tradition, and what been formally defined.
To believe that the Bible is our only source of Christian truth is unbiblical and illogical