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Just who or what is this image, before which Cardinal John Dew knelt in prayer last Sunday, on the Solemnity of Mary Assumed into Heaven?
Well of course it's Our Lady, you say. You can tell by the halo.
But Our Lady isn't the only woman known to wear a halo in New Zealand. And watching the video of the ceremonious unveiling (uncloaking) of this image, readers of this blog were convinced that they beheld (although they'd much rather not) none other than Prime Minister Sinister Jacinda Ardern.
First, for the Vigil of the Assumption, Palmerston North's Cathedral of the Holy Spirit was transformed into a so-called 'surreal' and eerily Masonic sound and light display. https://juliadufresne.blogspot.com/2021/08/pn-cathedrals-surreal-light-show-looks.html
Then on the Solemnity itself this depiction, supposedly of the Blessed Virgin Mary, was unveiled with much reverence and many korowai in the sanctuary of St Mary of the Angels in Wellington.
https://www.facebook.com/catholicdiscovery.nz/videos/358944769104769
A packed congregation, on the feast of the Assumption, joined most of the country’s bishops at St Mary of the Angels, Wellington to rededicate New Zealand to Mary.
Bishop Jean Baptiste Pompallier and the early Marist fathers and brothers first dedicated the mission to New Zealand before they left France.
Then, after arriving, in 1938 they dedicated the country to Mary.
However, during the 2020 COVID lockdowns, many New Zealanders wrote to the Catholic bishops asking for them to dedicate the country to Our Lady.
Just like all those photo-shopped pix we see of Stalinda |
The bishops’ responded by commissioning an artwork of Mary and the child Jesus and agreed to re-dedicate New Zealand to Mary’s care.
Note CathNews' lower case 'c' for the Child Jesus.
“There was a strong hint in many of these requests that if we had done this early enough the pandemic would not have even started!’ said Cardinal John Dew.
Or, much more importantly, Mass Murderess Ardern might not have ushered in her latter-day Massacre of the Innocents via the Abortion Law Act.
“But, we know that Mary is not a magician!” Dew said on Sunday at the re-dedication Mass.
No, Mary is a miracle worker, your Eminence. She is Theotokos, Mother of God, and Co-Redemptrix. Lift your sights, your Eminence!,
However, Dew told the standing-room-only St Mary of the Angels congregation, that renewing the country’s dedication to Our Lady is about each of us.
And, surely, to do with Our Lady. And why is it standing-room only at SMOA for the unveiling of an artwork, but heaps of room for the Son of God, our Redeemer, in the Blessed Eucharist?
“It concerns our future,” he said.
“This is a day of hope for humanity.
“Even as we think of many sad situations, we can live in hope and hold out hope to others.
“Think today especially of women overwhelmed by the weight of life and the drama of violence; women who are slaves to the arrogance of the powerful; girls forced into inhumane work; women forced to surrender in both body and spirit to the greed of men.
Call it out, your Eminence! Call it abortion! Think of babies overwhelmed by the weight of death in their mothers' wombs and the drama of violence of their mothers and fathers!
“Our prayer today is for a life of peace, justice and love to reach these women in expectation of the day in which they finally feel gripped by hands that do not humiliate them, but lead them with tenderness into the presence of God.”
Our prayer today should surely be for a life of repentance, sacrifice and atonement, your Eminence! It is only repentance, sacrifice and atonement that will lead us into the presence of God. Unless of course you're talking about our particular judgment, when we may be banished from the presence of God and cast "into the furnace of fire: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth" (Mt 13:42).
Created by Rangiora artist Damien Walke, the artwork has left for Invercargill; the start of a hīkoi around the country.’
The hīkoi will end with the artwork’s return and permanent placement in St Mary of the Angels, which will become a national shrine.
Where pilgrims will come to kneel and pray, like Cardinal Dew, before an image that bears a remarkable resemblance to Prime Minister Stalinda Ardern.
For a Maori Mary, she's very pale. And - it has to be said - Maori Marys don't work. You can't make the Mother of God, the Theotokos, the Co-Redemptrix, a Galilean Hebrew woman, over into a Maori maiden. Mary is not a symbol. Mary is a fact. An historical fact. And she always wore a veil. Never would she have allowed her hair to be seen in public.
Even on Calvary, when she removed her veil to give it to Jesus to cover His nakedness as He was stripped for crucifixion, she kept her head covered by her cloak. Her modesty, her purity, demanded it. And the Church in New Zealand thinks they can strip the Mother of God of the symbol of the very virtue which above all others drew the Son of God down to earth to redeem mankind?
Auckland’s Bishop, Patrick Dunn was not well enough to travel.
https://cathnews.co.nz/2021/08/16/new-zealand-catholics-dedicate-mary/
What's wrong with Bishop Dunn? Is he perhaps suffering from that phenomenon, relatively unheard of before the invention of the experimental COVID 'vaccine' but now all too common, which is known as 'a medical event'? Bishop Dunn, like Cardinal Dew, has had the jab ...
That is not reassuring for the thousands, probably, of Catholics who have followed the NZ bishops' suit - who followed Jorge Mario Bergoglio's suit - and been yarded up like sheep to get the jab. Just like the Jews who were ushered into the showers at Auschwitz, at Dachau, at Bergen-Belsen.
We think that was evil. And after the war, we thought we'd never see such evil again. But we do see it, all around us, in the Great Reset and in the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church, and we don't recognise it. We're cognitively dissonant.
We need to have our noses rubbed in it. We need to hear of the Catacomb Pact, and Cardinal Helder Camara, and Klaus Schwab, and join the dots. But that's another story.
In the meantime we'll switch off the phones, ignore the latest lockdown, and pray pray pray:
St Helen, August 17 |
Ben Symonds says:
ReplyDeleteI know the artist, it is definitely just Mary.
Ben, it bears a huge resemblance to Jasinda. There is no doubt about that.
DeleteTheresa Rogers:
ReplyDeleteOh no! You’re right! It’s her 🙄🙄
Well…. You can have a Maori Mary. Most cultures have a version of Mary that resembles them. Just look at Our Lady of Akita.
But this one looks horribly like Ardern. And it will be a cold day in hell before I ever bow down in front of it.
How horrible. A permanent reminder of it…in our church of all places. 🤮
Theresa Rogers adds:
ReplyDeleteWhoever painted it obviously has a thing for Ardern.
He should be ashamed. That’s going to be in that church forever. Disgusting.
I believe there may be a subliminal thing going on here, for the artist. The image of Ardern has come to haunt the dreams and nightmares of all New Zealanders.
DeleteTheresa Rogers:
DeleteYes, I think I agree.
O well. I suppose it's an improvement a little. Remember the Marian Year? Was it 1988? Instead of Mary we got something looking like a Punga Fern. Icon-clasts!
ReplyDeleteAnon says:
ReplyDeleteJacinda as Mother Mary, without a veil? That's right, she only wears a veil when visiting a mosque.
Hannah Villanueva:
ReplyDeleteWeow. It's one to see non-Catholics dishonor Our Lady but fellow Catholics? Too much for me to see someone compare Our Lady to Jacinda Ardern, i'm unfollowing smh
Hannah, what has the Sydney Morning Herald to do with this ?
DeleteAn obvious question arises: “Did the original consecration of New Zealand to Our Lady have a time limit ? Was there a Use By or Best Before date of 2022 ?” I cannot support what tells us that Consecrations wear out. Once consecrated, always consecrated.
ReplyDeleteThe Bishop of Auckland will, almost certainly, be suffering from the ill-effects of Covid vaccination.
The “prayers” of CallMeJohn confirm the enthralment of our bishops to Feminism, which generated the resignation of Bishop Meeking.
And the overall drenching of the affair in Maori-ism just tops it off as a non-Catholic event.
I say:
DeleteBut note that what was a 'consecration' has now become a 'dedication'. 'Consecration' is so pre-Vat2, is it not?
Philippa O'Neill. Seems like it is so.
ReplyDeleteLinda CW:
ReplyDeleteIt is unbiblical and idolatry to worship or pray to Mary.The Bible says to pray to the Heavenly Father in Jesus Name. Read your Bible, please.
Ben Symonds:
The Bible also says:
"a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised."
and in the Bible Mary says "All generations shall call me Blessed"
Idolatry is when you let anything take the place of God, but we don't worship Mary as God, only mother of God.
I say:
We don't worship Mary period, even as Mother of God.
Brad Clifton:
Linda is it idolatry to ask your pastor to pray for you?
Jen Craggs:
Pastors you'd ask to pray for you aren't dead yet. Mary was highly favoured, but only Jesus intercedes between us (living humans) and God the Father.
Brad Clifton:
Jen Craggs 'I am the God of Abraham, Isaac and, Jacob. I am the God of the living, not the dead'
I say:
Jen, Mary was "full of grace". In other words, perfect. In other words, she is in heaven. Why should we not ask for her intercession?
Ben Symonds:
except if they aren't dead?
Ben Symonds:
you have a double standard.
Mary is in heaven, she is more alive than we are.
"God is a God of the living, not the dead."
Jesus even said Abraham was alive.
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ReplyDeleteBen Symonds:
ReplyDeleteJesus is God
Mary is Jesus' mother
Therefore Jesus is the mother of God.
Which one don't you believe:
That Jesus is God,
or that Mary is Jesus' mother?
No one is claiming that Mary came before God, or is more powerful than Him, or equal to Him, only that she was created to be the Mother of Jesus, and Jesus is God, this means that she is the mother of God.
Linda CW:
ReplyDeleteGod has no mother.
Mary said, "My spirit had rejoiced in God my Savior!"
Although she was obedient to the Law of Moses, she was still in need of salvation from sin, like wr all are. Matthew 1:21 "He shall save His people from their sins. " She was kneeling in prayer in the upper room in Acts chapter one, praying to Jesus to receive the Baptist of the Holy Ghost. She was one of the 120, in prayer. We must only pray to God, our Father through Jesus.
.ay the Lord bless you with peace and truth as you read the Word. For in it you'll find no mention of Mary being prayer to, neither any exhortation or command to do so.
Brad Clifton:
Linda are you a dualist? Was just a God or, was he truly incarnate? Fundamental Christian teaching.
As with Mary. Did she give birth to Jesus?
To deny one is to deny the other. Dualistic try to distinguish between physical and spiritual. Both are intrinsically linked. If I talk about by spirit or soul, I automatically am talking about my physical body too.
Theresa Rogers:
I’m sure the artist probably didn’t intend it to look like Ardern. But it’s pretty obvious it does. So I’d say it’s more likely to have been an influence on his painting unconsciously.
But. It still looks like her. And because of that I cannot stand it.
She has been idolised by NZ. And there are many pictures online that do have her in place of Mary in pictures. So to the ‘untrained’ eye. Ie. everyone except professional artists. It’s her.
And therefore, repulsive to the soul.
I say: Theresa shows an example on FB: a 'St' Jacinda image on a playing card.
Mata Kapi:
DeleteLinda, I agree.
I say: As would any Protestant. Denial of Mary as Theotokos (Mother of God) is probably the prime reason why there are thousands of different Protestant sects.
Mata Kapi:
ReplyDeleteTheresa, tell me about it even those that are close to me friends and family's they idolize her by agreeing what she's doing to this country with no idea at all so sad..
Mike Kuipers van Lande:
ReplyDeletePeople think she’s wonderful. So kind. I reply that someone capable of legislating for babies to be aborted to birth, along with no requirement for pain relief and medical assistance for failure, is capable of anything. Absolutely anything. To believe she has the best interests of humanity at heart is to be unbelievably ignorant and stupid.
It originated from the Law Commission.
ReplyDeletePaul Young:
ReplyDeleteMary assumed into heaven ... ha ha ha ...
Storm King:
Any worship of Mary is blasphemy against the lord. Catholics refer to the lord as a child 😏 somehow the lord's mother is more holy than he himself 😐🙄
I say:
Storm, Catholics agree with you: worship of Mary is blasphemy. Our Lord was once a Child (remember the Nativity?) but the Lord's Mother is not considered by Catholics to be more holy than He Himself.
Storm King:
DeletePerhaps, im as ignorant as any. Can you explain why they bow 2 idols such as mary, why they keep roasries, why do they go against the commandemnts of idolatry? Why is mary always with the lord in the pictures which represent catholicisim? Most of which bears importance to masses was not his life lived as a child, but his loyalty as an adult through temptation and long suffering displaying him as a child kind of gives the impression that he is as you call it naive
I say:
Catholics don't bow to Mary, who is not an idol. The Rosary is simply 'praying the Gospel' - totally Gospel-based. Mary isn't always present with the Lord in Catholic images but she was present with Him in His Passion and Death on the Cross and Our Lord gave her to us as our Mother. Jesus suffered His Passion and Death right from His Conception and all through His Childhood into adulthood, all His life. As the Son of God He knew what His fate would be. So the very opposite of 'naive'.
Storm King:
DeleteI'm sorry if I come across as being rude, please it's not my intention, Ignorant yes. St Mary's school is not to far from me they have a statue of Mary kneeling in prayer by their entrance way, I have watched them undergo a church service and a funeral service many times this statue gets paid tribute to on many occasions, people prayer kneeling to it, burning of incense candles I really don't understand why, Christ is our lord and savior we need not to acknowledge anything or anyone else before him, including popes and cardinals the only teachers Christ himself gave permission to were the authors of the books of the bible. I am a firm believer that every church/religion goes against the bible I am in no way bashing Catholics maybe more so the business suits behind every business organisation/church
Philippa O'Neill:
DeleteDo you have photos of your family that you cherish? Photos on your walls etc? Bit the same for me re Mary. Jesus gave us Mary to be our mother. We honour her as Jesus Mother. Check out the Catholic talk Show on You Tube. This will explain Mary's role better than I ever would. God bless.
Philippa O'Neill:Storm.... this their FB page... they are quite funny and easy to understand. The Mary one was quite a while back... might be best to go to their You Tube channel to find it quicker.
ReplyDeletehttps://m.facebook.com/.../a.7713994.../1396314000700518/...
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Piripi Thomas:
ReplyDeleteThere should be no confusion regarding the Catholic tradition of reverence to the Blessed Virgin Mary. As mother of Jesus Christ she is the instrument through whom our salvation is made possible. She was given to us by her Son, through the apostle, John, to be our spiritual Mother and - at Pentecost - to be the mother of her Son's infant church. What child, having been in receipt of the benevolence of his/her mother, does not return love and honour? I understand that the last recorded words of Mary in the gospels were delivered at the Marriage Feast at Cana -- "Do whatever he asks". Jesus worked the first recorded miracle at His mother's behest, signalling that He will refuse her naught. As a result, my understanding of Catholic teaching is that Mary is the Mediatrix of all graces, and that we should seek her aid in delivering our petitions to her Son. People should not confuse reverence with adoration, the latter being due to God alone. I trust that this explanation is easily understood by those willing to open the mind. That includes you, Paul (Young - ed).