Doctrine of Devils Session 4

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Doctrine of DevilsSession 4
The Apparitions of Mary (The Queen of Heaven
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The Apparitions of Mary (The Queen of Heaven ?)
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The doctrine concerning Mary is an evolving one

• In 600 AD. Prayers directed to Mary, dead
  saints, and angels.
• In 1854 AD Immaculate Conception of Mary,
  proclaimed by Pope Pius IX.
• In 1922 AD Virgin Mary proclaimed co-redeemer
  with Jesus by Pope Benedict XV.
• 1950 AD Assumption of Virgin Mary into heaven,
  proclaimed by Pope Pius XII.

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Apparitions of Mary

• Titles given to Mary as a result of this
  apparition
• Holy Mary
• Ever Virgin
• Mother of God. 
• Patroness of North America
• Merciful Mother,
• Queen of Heaven.

Our Lady of Guadalupe Patroness of the
Americas Juan Diego
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Apparitions of Mary

• Importance of these apparitions
• The Miraculous Medal
• The Immaculate Conception
• Mother of God, her protection and
  encouragement great graces.

• St. Catherine Paris 1830
• Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal

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Apparitions of Mary

• Our Blessed Lady spoke over people swearing, not
  keeping the Sunday as a day of rest and
  disobeying Gods laws.
• Her words were very important and impressive If
  My people do not obey God, I shall be forced to
  let go of My Sons Hand.
• This statement points to the last days of the
  world. Our Blessed Lady's sad expression, her
  tears and words show us Her very real care for
  and sympathy with all people. . youll never
  be able to repay Me for what I have done for you.

La Salette 1846 Melanie Calvat and Maximin Giraud
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Apparitions of Mary

• The lady signaled, with her finger that
  Bernadette should come nearer.
• Bernadette was almost frozen to the ground. She
  spontaneously grabs her rosary, kneels down, and
  tries to make the sign of the cross.
• But she cannot do this until The Lady who is
  carrying a Rosary with a large shining Crucifix
  has made the sign of the cross.
• While Bernadet is praying the rosary she sees
  that The Lady is also letting her beads slide
  through her fingers, but without moving her lips.
  
• This vision lasts for about 15 minutes. The
  other girls saw nothing of this vision but
  Bernadette told them about it and thus the news
  is told to mother Soubirous.

Our Lady of Lourdes 1858 Bernadette Soubirous
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Apparitions of Mary

• Two or three hundred people have come together at
  the grotto.
• They see the face of Bernadette Soubirous looking
  very sad.
• She crawls on her knees over the ground stopping
  several times to mutter penance. penance..
  penance. She said that The Lady had asked her to
  do this as penance for the sinners.
• Hail Marypray for us sinners

Our Lady of Lourdes 1858 Bernadette Soubirous
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Apparitions of Mary

• Once again the grotto is full of people.
• The outward apparition of Bernadette Soubirous
  during this apparition is strange, due to what
  Mary is saying to her.
• " My daughter, I want to tell you, just for you
  and about you one last secret, which you must
  never tell anyone else.
• Now go and drink and wash at the spring and eat
  of the grass growing nearby.
• Mary points with Her finger to the grotto.
• Then Bernadet sees dirty muddy water, she cannot
  drink it. She tries three times to dig deeper and
  deeper.

Our Lady of Lourdes 1858 Bernadette Soubirous
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Apparitions of Mary

• On the fourth occasion she can drink it and
  washes herself with it.
• Then she eats the grass.
• Some of the people present say "she is mad".
• But after Bernadet dug in it the spring became
  enormous. It was to become a spring of 100,000
  litres a day.
• Many people call it the miraculous water.
• The tenth apparition took place in the presents
  of 800 people.

Our Lady of Lourdes 1858 Bernadette Soubirous
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Apparitions of Mary

• She asks The Lady, her name, repeating the
  question three times. The Lady smiles at her and
  then Bernadette gets the courage to ask The Lady
  her name for a fourth time! Now she is given THE
  ANSWER.
• I am the Immaculate Conception
• This statement from the Lady confirms the
  doctrine of Pope Pius 1X.
• She is "The Lady Clothed with the sun", The
  completely pure one.
• Our Lady announced Her Immaculate Conception to
  Sister Catharina Labouré during the apparitions
  at the Rue du Bac in 1830.
• .

Our Lady of Lourdes 1858 Bernadette Soubirous
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Apparitions of Mary

• She also taught Sister Catharina Labouré the
  following prayer.
• O Mary conceived without sin, pray for us who
  have recourse to Thee
• The miraculous medal was at first called "the
  medal of Mary of The Immaculate Conception".
• Bernadette Soubirous did not understand it, not
  even following her visit to the Parish Priest She
  started to understand it in the afternoon
  following her talk with Mr. Estrade, a learned
  man, that The Lady was The Virgin Mother.

Our Lady of Lourdes 1858 Bernadette Soubirous
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Apparitions of Mary

• The Lady of Lourdes had identified herself by
  referring to the Catholic dogma that had been
  defined by the church only four years before. On
  December 8, 1854, Pope Pius IX declared the
  Immaculate Conception to be an official dogma of
  the church.
• From his bull we read "We declare, pronounce
  and define that the most blessed Virgin Mary, at
  the first instant of her conception was preserved
  immaculate from all stain of original sin...."
  Obviously, by giving such a response the Lady of
  Lourdes was claiming to be the Blessed Virgin
  Mary -- the mother of Jesus Christ.

Our Lady of Lourdes 1858 Bernadette Soubirous
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Apparitions of Mary

• Our Lady shows us that She can hold back Her Sons
  Arm, if we listen to and obey Her Messages.
• Our Lady of Victories,
• Our Lady of Hope,
• (Pray my children.)
• The Holy and Immaculate Heart of Mary.

Lady of Pontmain Mother of Hope 1871 Eugene and
Joseph Barbadette,
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Apparitions of Mary

• See the graces which I shall
• pour out over all who wear it
• in trust of me and whilst
• spreading this devotion.
• Whilst so saying, She spread
• Her hands and rain fell very generously, within
  each drop clearly written was a grace health,
  trust, respect, love, holiness, all the graces
  which one could ever things of in greater or
  lesser amount. To this She added these graces
  are from My Son I take them out of His Heart. He
  can refuse me nothing

Our Lady of Pellevoisin Estelle Faguette 1876
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Scapulars

• The oldest and best known of the Marian scapulars
  is the brown scapular dedicated to Our Lady of
  Mount Carmel. Its origin is allegedly connected
  to a Marian apparition.
• The New Catholic Encyclopedia explains
  "According to Carmelite legend, Our Lady appeared
  to St. Simon Stock in Cambridge in 1251 and,
  showing him a brown scapular, declared that
  whoever wore it until death would be preserved
  from hell and on the first Saturday after his
  death would be taken by her to heaven."

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Apparitions of Mary

• Flying around the altar were several angels. The
  women called several other people to the church.
  They too saw the apparition.
• What they and thirteen others saw in the
  still-bright day was a beautiful woman, clothed
  in white garments, wearing a large brilliant
  crown. Her hands were raised as if in prayer.
• This woman was understood by all who saw her to
  be the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Mother of Jesus
  and the Queen of the Angels.
• Our Lady of Comfort, the Blessed Virgin, our
  Blessed Mother.

Our Lady of Knock 1879 Mary McLoughlin and Mary
Beirne Ireland
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Apparitions of Mary

• In his third and final apparition to the children
  in autumn 1916 in Fatima, the Angel gave them
  Holy Communion, and demonstrated the proper way
  to receive Our Lord in the Eucharist
• all three children knelt to receive Communion
  and Lucy was given the Sacred Host on the tongue
  and the Angel shared the Blood of the Chalice
  between Francisco and Jacinta.

Our Lady of Fatima 1917 Francisco Marto, Jacinta
Marto, Lucia Dos Santos
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Apparitions of Mary

• The second encounter took place on the Feast of
  St. Anthony of Padua. Our Lady asked the children
  to pray the Rosary daily. She promised to take
  Jacinta and Francesco to heaven soon.
• To Lucia, She gave the mission of remaining in
  the world to establish devotion to Her Immaculate
  Heart. She promised Lucia "My Immaculate Heart
  will be your refuge and the way that will lead
  you to God." On that occasion Our Lady gave the
  children another vision of God and revealed to
  the Her Immaculate Heart, surrounded by thorns,
  outraged by the sins of humanity, and seeking
  reparation for them.

Our Lady of Fatima 1917 Francisco Marto, Jacinta
Marto, Lucia Dos Santos
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Apparitions of Mary

• Lucia later revealed that as she spoke these
  words, Lady Mary opened her hands and rays of
  light from them seemed to penetrate the earth so
  that they saw a terrifying vision of hell, full
  of demons and lost souls amidst indescribable
  horrors.
• This vision of hell was the first part of the
  "secret" of Fatima, and was not revealed until
  much later.
• The children looked up to the sad face of the
  Blessed Virgin, who spoke to them kindly "You
  have seen hell where the souls of poor sinners
  go. To save them, God wants the devotion of My
  Immaculate Heart to be spread over the world and
  to increase.

Our Lady of Fatima 1917 Francisco Marto, Jacinta
Marto, Lucia Dos Santos
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Apparitions of Mary

• August 13th 1917 the children were in prison in
  Ourem, a few kilometres from Fatima. Jacinta, in
  tears offered everything for the conversion of
  sinners.
• The time that Our Blessed Lady would appear came
  and went.
• The twenty thousand people in Fatima saw and hear
  the rumble of thunder and a vividly brilliant
  flash of lightening in the clear blue sky.
• The sun grew pale and the whole atmosphere
  changed to a dull, sickly sort of yellow, while a
  light cloud, of beautiful shape, appeared and
  hovered a while over the oak tree and the place
  of the apparitions.

Our Lady of Fatima 1917 Francisco Marto, Jacinta
Marto, Lucia Dos Santos
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Apparitions of Mary

• On the 19th of August Lady Mary appeared in
  Fatima to the children in the area which is
  called Valinos, I want you to come to Cova da
  Iria on the thirteenth and continue to pray the
  rosary, at the last apparition, I shall do a
  miracle, so that all people may believe.
• When Lucie asked Our Lady to heal some sick
  people. Our Lady answered, During the next year
  I shall heal some.
• Pray! Pray! A lot and bring offers for the
  sinners, as a lot of souls go to hell because
  nobody offers themselves for these souls or prays
  for them.

Our Lady of Fatima 1917 Francisco Marto, Jacinta
Marto, Lucia Dos Santos
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Apparitions of Mary

• On a rainy day at October 13th of 1917 in Fatima
  the mystic Lady appeared for the sixth and last
  time to the children.
• More than 70.000 people in Fatima were present
  that evening.
• The children were still the only one who can seen
  her and she declared that she was the Holy Maria.
  
• She declared the children her three secrets and
  appeared then. Suddenly, the rain stops and the
  clouds drove away to reveal the sun. The sun
  began to turn around and seems to fall down !
  witnesses declared later.

Our Lady of Fatima 1917 Francisco Marto, Jacinta
Marto, Lucia Dos Santos
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Apparitions of Mary

• The people thought that the world ended but the
  sun resumed its normal position back to the sky.
• By tradition it is told that this phenomenon
  happened twice.

Our Lady of Fatima 1917 Francisco Marto, Jacinta
Marto, Lucia Dos Santos
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Apparitions of Mary

• The sun miracle which all these people had
  witnessed can best be described in the following
  words.
• After the long extensive rains, the sky became
  blue, people could easily look into the sun,
  which started to spin round like a wheel of fire
  which radiated wonderful shafts of light in all
  sorts of colours.
• The people, the hills, the trees and everything
  in Fatima seemed to radiate these marvellous
  colours.
• Then the sun stood still for a moment then the
  wonderful thing that had happened reoccurred. It
  was repeated for a third time.

Our Lady of Fatima 1917 Francisco Marto, Jacinta
Marto, Lucia Dos Santos
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Apparitions of Mary

• But now the sun broke loose from the heavens and
  came down to earth with a zigzagging movement.
• It became bigger and bigger and looked as though
  it would fall on the people and flatten them.
• All were frightened and fell to the ground while
  they prayed for mercy and forgiveness.
• The people prayed

Our Lady of Fatima 1917 Francisco Marto, Jacinta
Marto, Lucia Dos Santos
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Apparitions of Mary

• Our Lady showed us a great sea of fire which
  seemed to be under the earth. Plunged in this
  fire were demons and souls in human form, like
  transparent burning embers, all blackened or
  burnished bronze, floating about in the
  conflagration, now raised into the air by the
  flames that issued from within themselves
  together with great clouds of smoke, now falling
  back on every side like sparks in a huge fire,
  without weight or equilibrium, and amid shrieks
  and groans of pain and despair, which horrified
  us and made us tremble with fear. fear and terror.

Our Lady of Fatima 1917 Francisco Marto, Jacinta
Marto, Lucia Dos Santos
FATIMA First Secret is the vision of Hell
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Apparitions of Mary

• The demons could be distinguished by their
  terrifying and repulsive likeness to frightful
  and unknown animals, all black and transparent.
  This vision lasted but an instant.
• How can we ever be grateful enough to our kind
  heavenly Mother, who had already prepared us by
  promising, in the first Apparition, to take us to
  heaven. Otherwise, I think we would have died of
  fear and terror.

Our Lady of Fatima 1917 Francisco Marto, Jacinta
Marto, Lucia Dos Santos
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Apparitions of Mary

• We then looked up at Our Lady, who said to us so
  kindly and so sadly You have seen hell where
  the souls of poor sinners go.
• To save them, God wishes to establish in the
  world devotion to my Immaculate Heart.
• If what I say to you is done, many souls will be
  saved and there will be peace.
• The war is going to end but if people do not
  cease offending God, a worse one will break out
  during the Pontificate of Pius XI.

Our Lady of Fatima 1917 Francisco Marto, Jacinta
Marto, Lucia Dos Santos
Second Secret included Mary's instructions of
how to save souls from Hell and reconvert the
world to Christianity
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Apparitions of Mary

• Jacinta died soon afterwards 20th of February
  1920.
• Francesco had died the previous year on the 4th
  of April 1919.
• Eight years after the Fatima events, when Sister
  Lucy was living in a convent in Pontevedra,
  Spain, she experienced another apparition of Our
  Lady.
• On the 10th of December 1925 Our Blessed Lady
  appeared to her in Pontevedra, with Her Child in
  a cloud of light.

8 years after Fatima Apparition at Pontevedra
Lucia Dos Santos
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Apparitions of Mary

• The Child said "have mercy on the heart of your
  Blessed Mother, it is surrounded with thorns with
  which the ungrateful people still continue to
  pierce it.
• Continually piercing Her heart with nobody
  removing the thorns by acts of restitution".
• Then Our Blessed Lady said "My daughter, see My
  heart surrounded by thorns with which the
  ungrateful people pierce it with their
  blasphemous language and ungratefulness.

8 years after Fatima Apparition at Pontevedra
Lucia Dos Santos
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Apparitions of Mary

• You try to comfort me and to make it known, that
  all who have attended Mass on the first Saturday
  for five consecutive months, been to confession
  and received Holy Communion, prayed the rosary
  and kept Me company for fifteen minutes while
  meditating on the fifteen mysteries of the
  Rosary, with the intention of making reparation
  to My Immaculate Heart. and do this has
  restitution. I shall grant them the mercy which
  they will need in their hour of death".

8 years after Fatima Apparition at Pontevedra
Lucia Dos Santos
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Apparitions of Mary

• The Blessed Virgin appeared in Beauraing more
  than 30 times.
• "I shall convert the Sinners
• "I am the Queen of Heaven and the Mother of God
  pray always
• "Do you love My Son? Do you love Me? Then offer
  yourself up for Me!!
• "THE QUEENSHIP OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY
• The apparition identified herself as "the
  Immaculate Virgin," "the Mother of God," and "the
  Queen of Heaven."
• The apparitions were given the rare "positive
  affirmation" of the church. This is the fourth
  category

Our Lady of Beauraing Beauraing, Belgium
1932 Andree and Gilberte Degeimbre 15 and 9
years of age and Fernande, Golberte and Albert
Voisin
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Apparitions of Mary

• "I opened my eyes and stared at the image of the
  Madonna above the bedhead. To my great amazement
  I saw that the effigy was weeping. I called my
  sister-in-law Grazie and my aunt, Antonina
  Sgarlata, who came to my side, showing them the
  tears. At first they thought it was a
  hallucination due to my illness, but when I
  insisted, they went close up to the plaque and
  could well see that tears were really falling
  from the eyes of the Madonna, and that some tears
  ran down her cheeks onto the bedhead. Taken by
  fright they took it out the front door, calling
  the neighbors, and they too confirmed the
  phenomenon"

Weeping Madonna of Syracuse Mariette Beco
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Apparitions of Mary

• Several cases of weeping Rosa Mystica statues
  mentioned by Mehring S. Francisco Solano,
  Argentina, tears of blood since 1988. Many of
  these statues weep, sometimes even tears of
  blood.
• Our Lady requested that the desired devotion be
  realized, and said I have placed myself as the
  mediatrix between my Divine son and mankind,
  especially for the soul consecrated to God.

Rosa Mystica statue weeping. Mary speaks to
Pierina Gillio .
1988
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The doctrine concerning Mary is an evolving one

• Pope Benedict XV (1914-1922) wrote of Marys
  unique role in the redemption of mankind when he
  offered She renounced her mothers rights for
  the salvation of mankind and, as far as it
  depended on her, offered her Son to placate
  divine justice so we may say that with Christ
  she redeemed mankind.  

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The doctrine concerning Mary is an evolving one

• Pope John Paul II in his General audience of
  Wednesday, December 18, 1996 said Beginning
  with Simeons prophesy, Mary intensely and
  mysteriously unites her life with Christs
  sorrowful mission  she was to become her Sons
  faithful co-worker for the salvation of the human
  race. What Pope Benedict XV, Pope John Paul II
  and other theologians are saying is the Virgin
  Mary cooperated in our redemption under and
  subordinate to Christ and that God freely willed
  to associate the Blessed Mother in an intimate
  and direct way with her Son in the redemption of
  mankind.

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The doctrine concerning Mary is an evolving one

• Other quotations of Pope John Paul II expressing
  Marys role as co-redemptrix
• March 31, 1985 May Mary our Protectress, the
  Co-Redemptrix, to whom we offer our prayer with
  great outpouring, make our desire generously
  correspond to the desire of the Redeemer.

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The doctrine concerning Mary is an evolving one

• October 6, 1991 Birgitta looked to Mary as her
  model and support in the various moments of her
  life, She spoke energetically about the divine
  privilege of Marys Immaculate Conception.  She
  contemplated her astonishing mission as Mother of
  the Savior. She invoked her as the Immaculate
  Conception, Our Lady of Sorrows, and
  Co-Redemptrix, exalting Marys singular role in
  the history of salvation and the life of
  Christian people. (after Mass to honor the
  canonization of St. Birgitta).
• November 4, 1984 To Our Lady- the Co-Redemptrix-
  Charles (St. Charles Borromeo) turned with
  singularly revealing accents.

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The doctrine concerning Mary is an evolving one

• Mary as co-redemptrix
• Five cardinals have sent a letter inviting
  prelates worldwide to join them in petitioning
  Benedict XVI to declare a fifth Marian dogma they
  said would proclaim the full Christian truth
  about Mary.
• Over 500 Bishops Have Sent Their Request for
  This Solemn Definition
• The text includes the petition that asks the Pope
  to proclaim Mary as the Spiritual Mother of All
  Humanity, the co-redemptrix with Jesus the
  redeemer, mediatrix of all graces with Jesus the
  one mediator, and advocate with Jesus Christ on
  behalf of the human race.

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Is Worship of Mary Biblical?

• Facts about Mary in the Bible
• Not one prayer to Mary in the Bible
• Not one instance of her miraculously helping
  anyone
• Not one suggestion that she could or would help
  anyone miraculously or otherwise
• From Genesis thru Revelation it is established
• God not Mary is our refuge
• God not Mary is our help in times of trouble
• God not Mary is our salvation

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Is Worship of Mary Biblical?

• Facts about Mary in the Bible
• The Magi worshipped Jesus NOT Mary
• NIV Mat 22 and asked, "Where is the one who has
  been born king of the Jews? We saw his star in
  the east and have come to worship him."
• NIV Mat 211 On coming to the house, they saw the
  child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down
  and worshiped him. Then they opened their
  treasures and presented him with gifts of gold
  and of incense and of myrrh.

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Warnings from the Bible

• NIV 1Jo 41
• Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but
  test the spirits to see whether they are from
  God, because many false prophets have gone out
  into the world.

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Warnings from the Bible

• NIV Gal 18-9
• But even if we or an angel from heaven should
  preach a gospel other than the one we preached to
  you, let him be eternally condemned!
• As we have already said, so now I say again If
  anybody is preaching to you a gospel other than
  what you accepted, let him be eternally
  condemned!

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Warnings from the Bible

• No where in Scripture are we told to put our eyes
  upon anyone other than the Lord himself. We are
  told to fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and
  finisher of our faith.
• NIV Heb 122 Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the
  author and perfecter of our faith, who for the
  joy set before him endured the cross, scorning
  its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the
  throne of God.

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Warnings from the Bible
Though she was greatly blessed, and undoubtedly a
godly woman, she still needed a savior. Mary
said, "And my spirit has rejoiced in God my
Savior," (Luke 147). A sinless person does not
need a savior.
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Warnings from the Bible
Jesus said, "...You shall worship the Lord your
God, and serve Him only" (Matt. 410). The
incredible danger of Mary worship is warned about
in Exodus 204-5, "You shall not make for
yourself an idol, or any likeness of what is in
heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the
water under the earth. You shall not worship them
or serve them for I, the Lord your God, am a
jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers
on the children, on the third and the fourth
generations of those who hate Me."
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Warnings from the Bible
Where does it say that Mary was exalted above
angels and men second only to her son? This
would mean that Mary is just under Jesus, the
creator of the universe, in position. Vatican
II's comments are not biblical.
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Warnings from the Bible
Mother of God is a misleading term. Mary is
not the Mother of God in the sense that God, the
creator of the universe, had a mom. Rather,
Mary is the mother of the human nature of Jesus,
not the mother of the divine nature.
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Catholicism v.s. Christianity

• CATHOLIC MARY

• BIBLICAL MARY

• MOTHER OF GOD - Because she is the mother of
  Jesus, and Jesus is God, therefore Mary is the
  Mother of God. ("Catechism" 963, 971, 2677).

Mother of God is a misleading term. Mary is
not the Mother of God in the sense that God, the
creator of the universe, had a mom. Rather,
Mary is the mother of the human nature of Jesus,
not the mother of the divine nature.
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Catholicism v.s. Christianity

• CATHOLIC MARY

• BIBLICAL MARY

• The Pope officially gave Mary the title "Queen of
  Heaven" and established a feast day honoring
  Mary, Queen of Heaven.

• Humble and obedient. Calls herself "the handmaid
  of the Lord."

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Catholicism v.s. Christianity

• CATHOLIC MARY

• BIBLICAL MARY

• IMMACULATE CONCEPTION -- Mary was preserved from
  all stain of original sin from the first instant
  of her conception. ("Catechism" 490-492).

• Knew she needed a savior "And my spirit hath
  rejoiced in God my saviour." (Luke 147)

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Catholicism v.s. Christianity

• CATHOLIC MARY

• BIBLICAL MARY

• ALL-HOLY - Mary, "the All-Holy," lived a
  perfectly sinless life. ("Catechism" 411, 493)

• Romans 323 says "For all have sinned, and come
  short of the glory of God".

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Catholicism v.s. Christianity

• CATHOLIC MARY

• BIBLICAL MARY

• PERPETUAL VIRGINITY - Mary was a virgin before,
  during and after the birth of Christ.
  ("Catechism" 496-511)

• Matthew 124-25 says, "Then Joseph being raised
  from sleep did as the angel of the Lord had
  bidden him, and took unto him his wife And knew
  her not till she had brought forth her firstborn
  son and he called his name JESUS." "Till"
  (until) means that after that point, Joseph did
  "know" (have sexual relations with) Mary.

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Catholicism v.s. Christianity

• CATHOLIC MARY

• BIBLICAL MARY

• PERPETUAL VIRGINITY - Mary was a virgin before,
  during and after the birth of Christ.
  ("Catechism" 496-511)

• Matthew 1354-56 says,
• "And when he was come into his own country, he
  taught them in their synagogue, insomuch that
  they were astonished, and said, Whence hatch this
  man this wisdom, and these mighty works? Is not
  this the carpenter's son? Is not his mother
  called Mary? And his brethren, James, and Joses,
  and Simon, and Judas? And his sisters, are they
  not all with us?"

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Catholicism v.s. Christianity

• CATHOLIC MARY

• BIBLICAL MARY

• "Glorious Assumption" (Mary was bodily taken up
  into Heaven).
• ASSUMPTION - At the end of her life, Mary was
  taken up ("assumed") body and soul into Heaven.
  ("Catechism" 966, 974)

• If Mary had been supernaturally assumed into
  Heaven, wouldn't John (the disciple that Mary
  lived with) have mentioned it?
• When Enoch and Elijah were taken up to Heaven,
  the Bible recorded it. With Elijah it was
  recorded in some detail. (See Genesis 624 and 2
  Kings 21 18.)

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Catholicism v.s. Christianity

• CATHOLIC MARY

• BIBLICAL MARY

• Catholics are the adopted children of Mary.
  "Woman behold your son" (John 1926) is taken to
  apply literally to every Catholic.
• MOTHER OF THE CHURCH - Mary is the Mother of the
  Church. ("Catechism" 963, 975).

• Jesus told John to take Mary into his home and
  take care of her as if she was his own mother.

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Catholicism v.s. Christianity

• CATHOLIC MARY

• BIBLICAL MARY

• Sometimes pictured standing on a crescent moon,
  wearing a crown or with a circle of stars around
  her head.
• (as the goddess of heaven)

• Normal woman.

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Catholicism v.s. Christianity

• CATHOLIC MARY

• BIBLICAL MARY

• Supernatural (apparitions accompanied by miracles
  and healings).

• Normal woman.

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Catholicism v.s. Christianity

• CATHOLIC MARY

• BIBLICAL MARY

• Can make Jesus do things. A full page newspaper
  ad showing Mary and Jesus says, "He hasn't denied
  her anything in 2,000 years. What would you have
  her ask Him?" This is not official Catholic
  doctrine but it is a widespread attitude which is
  encouraged by pious literature.

• Points people to Jesus.
• Mary said, "Whatsoever he saith unto you, do
  it."  (John 25)

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Catholicism v.s. Christianity

• CATHOLIC MARY

• BIBLICAL MARY

• Apparitions of "Mary" have promised that if
  people wear certain objects (such as a Scapular
  or Miraculous Medal) or say certain prayers then
  they are guaranteed to go to Heaven. The Catholic
  Church has not officially approved of these
  practices, but it has also not discouraged them.

• Knew that she needed a savior. (Luke 147)

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DEVOTION TO MARY
When Pope John Paul II was shot, while the
ambulance was rushing him to the hospital, the
Pope was not praying to God or calling on the
name of Jesus. He kept saying, over and over,
"Mary, my mother!" When the Pope recovered, he
gave Mary all the glory for saving his life, and
he made a pilgrimage to Fatima to publicly thank
her. (Note 4)
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DEVOTION TO MARY
Jesus said, Where your treasure is, there will
your heart be also." (Luke 1234) Some statues
of Mary have real crowns made of gold. The
crowns on the original statues at Fatima and
Lourdes are real crowns made of real gold.
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DEVOTION TO MARY
Vast sums of money are spent on some special
statues of Mary. For example, the statue of Our
Lady of the Pillar in Saragossa, Spain has a
crown made of 25 pounds of gold and diamonds,
with so many diamonds that you can hardly see the
gold.
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Apparitions of Mary

• Pope John Paul II and the Roman Catholic Church
  have acknowledged that this has become the
  greatest religious event of our time.
• Mary offered a unique contribution to the Gospel
  of suffering, by embodying in anticipation, the
  expression of St. Paul she truly has a special
  title to be able to claim that she completes in
  her flesh what was lacking in the suffering of
  Christ

Concerning the Apparition of Mary to the children
of Medjugorje, Bosnia 1981
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The Marion faction

• The Marion faction throughout the Roman Catholic
  Church has repeatedly petitioned the Pope to
  confirm the traditions of Mediatrix and
  Coredemptrix and Advocate as Christian dogma.
• Note this could be the reason he chose the name
  Pope Benedict XVI

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Apparitions of Mary

• Starting in 1968, and continuing over a 2-3 year
  period, an apparition of the Virgin Mary appeared
  over the Coptic Church of Saint Mary in Zeitoun,
  Egypt.
• It was witnessed by millions of people of
  different religious beliefs, it was photographed
  and videotaped. Miraculous cures were also
  experienced. Investigations into the matter found
  no natural explanation. Time to start moving the
  goal posts?

Coptic Church of Saint Mary in Zeitoun, Egypt
1968
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The Common Link

• Apparitions of Mary are the common link that
  connects Islam and Hinduism to Roman
  Christianity.
• For the secret power of lawlessness is already at
  work but the one who now holds it back will
  continue to do so till he is taken out of the
  way. And then the lawless one will be revealed,
  whom the Lord Jesus will overthrow with the
  breath of his mouth and destroy by the splendor
  of his coming. The coming of the lawless one
  will be in accordance with the work of Satan
  displayed in all kinds of counterfeit miracles,
  signs and wonders, and in every sort of evil that
  deceives those who are perishing. They perish
  because they refused to love the truth and so be
  saved. For this reason God sends them a powerful
  delusion so that they will believe the lie and
  so that all will be condemned who have not
  believed the truth but have delighted in
  wickedness. 2 Th. 27-12

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