Jennifer Augustine
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Yes that one..I forgot that oneRecite the "Hail Mary" for us....right here in your answering post. That is a prayer to Mary.
Hail Mary - Prayers - Catholic Online (This is a Catholic site.)
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Yes that one..I forgot that oneRecite the "Hail Mary" for us....right here in your answering post. That is a prayer to Mary.
Hail Mary - Prayers - Catholic Online (This is a Catholic site.)
WProbably one of the wisest things I have heard you say.
is this literal or spiritual?and seek his face.
And yet you are still wrong. every religion on this earth can use the bible to justify there existence and yet they too are all wrong.
People use the bible to justify hate,
murder
slavery
for every thing a man wants he can find a bit in there to justify himself, and yet they all have nothing.
And when Christ comes for His church and you find yourself left behind, and you run to your priest and say "why" his only answer can be "your a catholic"
Yes that one..I forgot that one
This is what is wrong with it:And what is wrong with praying to Mary?
BTW - I don't know any Catholic who has plastered pictures of Mary everywhere on their items
Hmmmm.....so I THINK what you are saying is that each individual Church can practice/believe whatever they want?
Mary
No every one is wrong but Christ can HE help it He is the last on anybody goes to, prefer there preachers , teachers , religious leaders, religious doctriness etc etc to Him This bit.Ah right!
I understand.
Everyone is wrong except you.
OK. No point in further discusssion.
This is what is wrong with it:
There have been many images of Mary through the centuries. Some have derived from the Bible, such as the image from the book of Revelation showing Mary with a crown of 12 stars. She represents the early church with the 12 tribes of Israel represented by the stars.
There have been images of Madonna and child; Mary seated in a chair with the child on her lap. Some of these images look very similar to images that we know about from some of the pagan goddesses at the time.
Isis and Horus, from a statue in the Berlin Museum ©Madonna Enthroned by Fra Filippo Lippi, mid 1400s ©
Isis, for example, was seated in such a chair with the infant Horus on her lap in the same way.
When Christianity was spreading across the Empire, it's clear that it deliberately took images from the pagan world in which it lived and into which it spread and used those images. Old holy wells and shrines were turned into Christian shrines. In Egypt a shrine of Isis was deliberately and self-consciously re-created as a shrine of Mary.
One of the important cities for Mary was Ephesus, where the goddess Diana was worshipped. It's not surprising that Mary drew upon the imagery associated with the goddesses, because that was the imagery the people knew.
BBC - Religions - Christianity: Mary