November 22, 2003
Mary Fights Back
In his vision of 1208, St. Dominic records The Fifteen Promises of Mary to Christians Who Recite the Rosary, including a promise that
"The rosary shall be a powerful armor against hell, it will destroy vice, decrease sin, and defeat heresies."
In case you've forgotten, or never learned: How to Pray the Rosary, if you are so inclined. Joe Convert says it well:
There's no way to talk about the Rosary without making any good Protestant more than a little uncomfortable. The Church's teaching about Mary was one of the hardest things for me to understand, let alone accept or embrace. Even after reaching the point where I was convinced of the Church's historical claims (and therefore of my need to become Catholic), I wrestled with what my Protestant perspective told me were additions to scripture. [permalink]
The permalink is broken; scroll down to his October 16th post. Anyhow, I was delightely amused when I ran across the following captioned image:
[A Saintly Salmagundi] Posted by Tom at November 22, 2003 05:18 PM
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"14. All who recite the Rosary are my son and brothers of my only son, Jesus Christ."
Um, last time I checked, Yeshua had brothers (and sisters)...
I belive it the opinion of the the Catholic church that the siblings listed in the Bible are cousins; I just stumbled across this fact while researching the Maronites, and wouldn't have known it otherwise.
...er, I mean: Begone, foul deconstructive texual analysist!
Posted by: Tom at November 23, 2003 05:54 PMPost a comment