Wednesday, 26 May 2021

OUR LADY AN OBSTACLE TO THE NEW WORLD CHURCH

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Basilica of Our Lady, Help of Christians, Turin 


"Yes, Our Lady is an obstacle to the globalist vision of a new World Church/religion. 

"What has occurred is a diminishment of the sense of the cruciality and regality of Our Lady's position in the Christian life. 

"A sense of 'ordinariness' has developed and intensified, even in the Catholic Church. How many Bishops, priests and lecturers have given talks on how 'ordinary' Our Lady was."

Matthew Walton of Palmerston North with his wife Teresa hold sway on this blog today as they comment further on the Memorial of Our Lady Help of Christians, which we'd naively expected to celebrate as usual, as New Zealand's patronal feast, on May 24.

"All Our Lady's titles and privileges are dependent on her having become the Mother of God, which Mary became when she accepted the angel's message at the Annunciation. We could indeed look upon her titles and consider that the greatest of these is "Mother". As we know however, Mary is the pre-eminent Mother, a mother with Divine Maternity. No other mother has Divine Maternity.

 

Madonna with the Child and Two Angels
Fra Filippo Lippi

     Titles are like truths which we can look to, which enlighten, guide and direct. A quote from the Divine Will writings may shed some light: " In these truths, I have placed all possible and imaginable goods, love that conquers, enraptures and moves the heart" - When The Divine Will Reigns in Souls, Luisa Piccaretta, Sept. 27, 1938.

      Regrettably, what has occurred in our own era has been a diminishment of the sense of the cruciality and regality of Our Lady's position in the Christian life. One could say a sense of 'ordinariness' has developed and intensified even in the Catholic Church.

How many Bishops, priests and lecturers have given talks on how 'ordinary' Our Lady was; invariably an 'ordinary' Jewish or Palestinian girl, surprised at what she was being asked at the Annunciation - which is reduced to her saying "Yes" to God. This has assisted at levelling out the core beliefs that differentiate us first from other Christians and then from other religions.

         Our Lady Help of Christians, May 24, was once N.Z.'s Patronal Feast Day. Admirable though the Feast of the Assumption is, which our Bishops made our new national Feast Day, it is particular to those who believe all the dogmas and Creeds that Catholics profess.

I believe it was a mistake to change it. For "Our Lady Help of Christians" carries a greater connotation of her being able to help all Christians. At the foot of the Cross, Jesus gave Mary to John - who is a figure of all Christians. In a future, united Christian Church Mary will be seen as a source of grace for the whole Christian Body.

          The Pope's move to take this day, "Our Lady Help of Christians" and rename it  "Mother of the Church" is really the peak of a long process of reducing Mary to being Mother, Catholic and 'ordinary'. What the Pope and many Catholic theologians really mean is 'Mother' in the ordinary human sense - no mention of Advocate, Mediatrix or Co-Redemptrix, for example.

          How many bishops, priests or teachers are able to teach the Marian dogmas, teachings and traditions? Why have the people lost the sense of Marian devotion ? It is as St Paul says: "They will not believe in Him unless they have heard of Him and they will not hear of Him unless they get a preacher" (Rom 10:14). This applies, in accordance with Catholic Mariology, to Our Lady as well as to Our Lord.

          Yes, Our Lady is an obstacle to the globalist vision of a new World Church/religion. So her impact has had to be diminished. Satan wants her played down, for Mary is the one who will crush his head. "I will put enmity between you and the Woman, between your seed and her seed; She will crush your head and you will strike her heel"(Gen. 3:15).

 


       The title, "Our Lady Help of Christians" was inserted into the Litany of Our Lady by Pope St Pius V, after the Christian victory over the Turkish (Muslim) fleet at the Battle of Lepanto in 1571. On May 24, 1814, Pius VII instituted the liturgical feast of "Our Lady Help of Christians".

 


         Our Lady, "Help of Christians", is the help of nations, communities and individuals. The nations of Europe had further reason to call for Our Lady's help in 1683 when the Turks (Muslims) were besieging Vienna. On September 12 they were defeated by an army led by Jan Sobieski, King of Poland. In perpetual memory of the event, Pope Innocent XI instituted the Confraternity of Our Lady Help of Christians. ('Mary, Mother and Model' - Fr James Alberione SSP, 1962.)

           So, at least twice in history, Our Lady has been called to the aid of Christian nations besieged by Turkish forces (which were both Islamic and secular in nature).  Is this why Pope Francis is trying to erase the memory of "Our Lady help of Christians"? In deference to dialogue with Islam ?

I have a friend from an Islamic nation and I know from conversations with him that they prefer robust dialogue. They don't have much respect for people who abandon their beliefs. Nor, as we know, do the best of people. 

              From the Mass of Our Lady, Help of Christians:

"O Mother of our Redeemer and Lord, O beautiful Virgin, we proclaim you the honour of Christians and their help in tribulations ... The Virgin, rendered powerful by God's right hand, is rich in heavenly gifts and wards off from her pious servants the diabolical attacks of the enemies."

           

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3 comments:

  1. Unknown31 May 2021 at 02:36

    There was no mary doctrine for 300 years after Jesus.then caesar constantine got the idea that he could bring the most popular pagan idolatory into christianity by telling them a lie, namely, that their idol ,a woman holding a baby was actually mary holding baby Jesus. This idol worship was " queen of heaven " and constantine put the christian church into buildings ,until then the churches met in homes.there is a verse in the Bible where Jesus totally dismissed his mother as anything special. HE was teaching in his house in Capernaum,crowded to the max,and a message came from the crowd listening outside "LORD,your mother and brothers and sisters want you to come out and see them" Jesus never moved, he looked at the disciples and said " who are my mother,brothers and sisters,? Only those who hear my words anb obey them "
    You have been lied to, only because you dont read your New Testament and find the truth.mary had several children with Joseph, after JESUS was born, therefore not "immaculat" She died like any human being, The Bible says nothing different.dont pray to mary, that is manipative witchcraft. Pray to Father GOD in The Name of Jesus, like JESUS told us to do.
    Martin Luther studied the BIBLE and found 95 points of error in r.c. doctrine from The Bible.in 1500's.only one has been dropped.

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  2. Julia du Fresne31 May 2021 at 15:08

    I say:
    I'm posting this comment for two reasons.
    First, it may open the eyes of some Catholic readers to read a little of the still-prevailing, ever-prevalent, tragic Protestant heresy on Mary the Mother of God.
    Second, I'm confident some reader will refute this anonymous contribution (I refrain from criticising it further for the present) and proudly sign his/her name to their profession of belief in the Marian doctrine of the One, Catholic and Apostolic Church before I have time to do so - I must attend a Requiem in Napier today.

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  3. Julia du Fresne1 June 2021 at 18:16

    I add:
    Let me have the honour of defending the Blessed Virgin Mary, Queen of Heaven and Earth, Queen of the Divine Will.
    The BVM, as Protestants must know by now, after several centuries of parroting the lie that Catholics worship Mary, is always only honoured by Catholics, and asked for her intercession with her Divine Son.
    Of course Mary was and is the ne plus ultra of those 'who hear my words anb (sic) obey them'. She is also the ne plus ultra exemplar of humility and I believe the only time Our Lord (out of respect for her humility) referred to her in public was from the Cross, when He called her not by name but as "Woman"- and "Mother", to indicate her role of Protectress of humanity.
    In speaking as He did to the crowd, Jesus was teaching us that nothing should deflect us from the service of God. He was giving us His example in that, and telling us that His Mother's chief virtue was her absolute and unswerving devotion to God's will ("Let it be done to me according to your word"). He might also have been referring to the Jews who did not do His will, and to the Gentiles who would in the future, in His Church - the Catholic Church, not the zillion Protestant churches which refused, and still refuse, to obey the Father.
    Nothing in the Gospels show Mary had other children. The Protoevanglium of James was written only 60 years after Mary's earthly life was ended to prove her eternal virginity. 1 Sam 1:11 proves it too, by way of Mary's mother Anne's words in devoting her child to God, as Samuel was dedicated in the same way by his mother.
    As for poor Martin Luther, his pride was such that on his own authority he deleted 7 books from the bible and slowly, and not surprisingly, went mad.

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