This is intended to answer the question from one of my friends who used to be a Catholic but I did not have the correct answers.
Before.
Q: Why are you still being a Catholic? you are worshiping Mary, that's dangerous, the one that you should only worship is God. Open your bible and tell me which part does it tell to worship Mary.
A: No, Catholics don't worship Mary, we never do that . we pray for her as our mother, look before Jesus died on the cross, He told his disciples " She is your mother" and told Mary as well " This is Your son", pointing to his disciples. --> I knew we don't worship Mary but I was clueless about what i should have explained.
NOW. aha ! i have the answers.
Catholics defined worship as the sacrifice of the Body and Blood (refer to Jesus who died on the cross and sacrified Himself for us) and Catholics would never have offered a sacrifice of Mary on the altar. We sang songs to Mary, we petition Mary in prayer and preach about her but not on the mass, not on the altar ! That is not a worship.Catholics do not define worship as songs, prayers and sermons.
furthermore,
1. She is not a goddess - she is worthy of honour and veneration but not worthy of worship, which is to be given to God alone.
2. Mary was a creature uniquely fashioned by her Son as no other mother has ever been or will be.
3. Mary rejoiced in God her saviour because Jesus saved her from sin from the moment of conception.
4. Mary's title as Queen of Heaven was based on the honor of being the Mother of Jesus, the King of Kings and the Son of David. Jesus Himself, elevated his mother, Blessed Virgin Mary, to a throne at his right hand in heaven.
taken from Rome Sweet Home, Scott & Kimberly Hahn, 1993.
and no matter how hard you tried to pull me from being a Catholic, I would always be a Catholic. that is my only religion and will ever be.
5 comments:
wow ... cool!
heyy that's a really good find, Wen! I only scanned through the entry, but I will read it properly later when I get home. I'm in a tute now hahah..
miraaaa hauhauhaua nakal yah!! sini tante cubit !
Catholic til i die...
Cool BosWen.. since when u bcome religious?lol..
anyhow my comment is : we still shouldn't pray or say anything to Mary, as chatolic usually think (which included me ><) that Mary can send our message to our lovely Jesus, also it stated "..We sang songs to Mary, we petition Mary in prayer..".
as we know that we shouldn't and cannot talk to death people, in this statement, we see mary is just death women same like us. a little bit you know, that later mary got married with Joseph, and born few kids which is Jesus brother,the one who is also wrote a message in the bible is "James" as it stated half brother of Jesus. ^^
so what we actually should do to her is to put her to be our model in our life, which she obey and commitment to God even it risk her life, and suffer many pain's in heart and mind. also respecting.
but anyway we all do that which is "modelling and respecting" to every "God's Tools" (Moses,David,etc..)
sorry to say "tools".. as i sees we are all His beloved handsome and pretty tools.. as we want to commit n b obedient to Him.is that right?
So last but not least.. we all have to put our faith in the only one of our savior.. Jesus Christ! yay !!
as He said "I'm the way and the truth and the life. no one can come to Father except through me." (John 14:6)
so let our focus goes to our lovely cutety Daddy Jesus.. ^^
hehehe i think that's enough for breakfast lol =).. cabut dulu ya boswen.. wokewoke dah teparr nih~
doain sukses tugas akhir yo!
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