The hardest thing for me to accept when I came back to the Catholic Church was saying the rosary. I had already made up my mine that the Holy Catholic Church is the one church which truely follows the Bible. So I prayed the rosary as the Church recommends and asked God to have mercy on me if I was wrong.
I learned that repeating the Our Father and Hail Mary is like quoting scripture. Except for the last part of the Hail Mary these prayers are almost direct quotes from the Bible. The angel Gabriel said " Hail, thou art highly favored, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou amoung women." This sounds like the Hail Mary I say. In luke 1:41 & 42 St. Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit and said " Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb."
The Hail Mary goes like this " Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb,Jesus. Holy Mary, mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death."
The scripture says in Luke 1:48 that Mary said "from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed". Catholics are fulfilling scripture when we say the Rosary. From generation to generation we are repeating, "Blessed art thou amoung women".
Remember the wedding, they ran out of wine and Mary told Jesus. John 2:4 "Jesus said unto her, Woman, what have I to do with thee? mine hour is not yet come." That's strange that Jesus would call his mother Woman, could she be the same woman of revelation ch. 12 Who is clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet,and upon her head a crown of twelve stars: What ever the reason, after telling her it was not His hour, He went ahead and changed the water into wine because He chose to honor His mother just as He commands us to honor our mothers. So we Catholics ask The Blessed Virgin Mary to intercede with her son Jesus for us to help us in our daily life here on earth. We know that it's hard for Him to say no to His mother and we also know She will not ask Him to do something that is against the Father's will.
Why all the anger against the Catholics for us praying to Mary. These so called Bible believers surly never read Luke 6:35 "Love you enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again". Jesus said that we will know them by their fruits. Jesus also said that not he who says unto me, Lord, Lord, but those that does the will of my Father will enter into the kingdom of heaven. If we, myself included, could just learn to forgive and love each other perhaps God would draw closer to us and grant us peace.
Genesis 5:23 "Enoch walked with God and he was not; for God took him. " 2 King 2:11 " Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven." These two men are thought to have gone to heaven while they were still alive. We believe that Mary died and was then taken up into heaven by God body and soul. Now we are criticized for this because it's not in the Bible. For the Catholic God has not quit speaking to His people. He speaks to us through the Church. For others God has not spoken again sent the scriptures were written, how odd.
I cannot and am not speaking officially for the Church. I might not be totally correct in representing the teaching of the Church. I Love God and His people so I wish to make you think ( outside the box). Don't follow blind men, meditate on the scriptures then do your best to follow them, praying always as Paul says. Trust that God will lead you in all good things. My journey back to the Holy Catholic church started when I tried my best to live by this scripture; St. Matthew 5:44 - 45 "But I say unto you,Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you: That you may be children of your Father which is in heaven" I said to myself that the Bible is either God's true words or not and by following this scripture I should be able to determine which one it was. May God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit bless you and give you peace.
I learned that repeating the Our Father and Hail Mary is like quoting scripture. Except for the last part of the Hail Mary these prayers are almost direct quotes from the Bible. The angel Gabriel said " Hail, thou art highly favored, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou amoung women." This sounds like the Hail Mary I say. In luke 1:41 & 42 St. Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit and said " Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb."
The Hail Mary goes like this " Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb,Jesus. Holy Mary, mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death."
The scripture says in Luke 1:48 that Mary said "from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed". Catholics are fulfilling scripture when we say the Rosary. From generation to generation we are repeating, "Blessed art thou amoung women".
Remember the wedding, they ran out of wine and Mary told Jesus. John 2:4 "Jesus said unto her, Woman, what have I to do with thee? mine hour is not yet come." That's strange that Jesus would call his mother Woman, could she be the same woman of revelation ch. 12 Who is clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet,and upon her head a crown of twelve stars: What ever the reason, after telling her it was not His hour, He went ahead and changed the water into wine because He chose to honor His mother just as He commands us to honor our mothers. So we Catholics ask The Blessed Virgin Mary to intercede with her son Jesus for us to help us in our daily life here on earth. We know that it's hard for Him to say no to His mother and we also know She will not ask Him to do something that is against the Father's will.
Why all the anger against the Catholics for us praying to Mary. These so called Bible believers surly never read Luke 6:35 "Love you enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again". Jesus said that we will know them by their fruits. Jesus also said that not he who says unto me, Lord, Lord, but those that does the will of my Father will enter into the kingdom of heaven. If we, myself included, could just learn to forgive and love each other perhaps God would draw closer to us and grant us peace.
Genesis 5:23 "Enoch walked with God and he was not; for God took him. " 2 King 2:11 " Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven." These two men are thought to have gone to heaven while they were still alive. We believe that Mary died and was then taken up into heaven by God body and soul. Now we are criticized for this because it's not in the Bible. For the Catholic God has not quit speaking to His people. He speaks to us through the Church. For others God has not spoken again sent the scriptures were written, how odd.
I cannot and am not speaking officially for the Church. I might not be totally correct in representing the teaching of the Church. I Love God and His people so I wish to make you think ( outside the box). Don't follow blind men, meditate on the scriptures then do your best to follow them, praying always as Paul says. Trust that God will lead you in all good things. My journey back to the Holy Catholic church started when I tried my best to live by this scripture; St. Matthew 5:44 - 45 "But I say unto you,Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you: That you may be children of your Father which is in heaven" I said to myself that the Bible is either God's true words or not and by following this scripture I should be able to determine which one it was. May God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit bless you and give you peace.
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