AdeniyiA: Does Mary pray people? wouldn't it be better if Jesus prays instead?

hurricaneChris: Ave Maria mater Dei, Ora pro nobis peccatoribus.

Happy feast day.

*getting prepared for Dominic's mid day mass*

SalC: https://www.nairaland.com/1464338/thread-catholics/162
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Welcome already

FrancisTony:


Why?

damerry:

Damned if one does, damned if one doesn't.

We brought it raw, they cried for scriptural backup.

We brought scriptural backups they still cry foul.

where then does the truth lies?

Is it in the Quran or Torah? Under the deepest abýs of seas or on the summit of the everest?

Pentecostals and hypocrisy. Smh

THEHEALER: O Mary conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.

Sorrowful and Immaculate heart of Mary, Pray for us who have recourse to thee.

Remember O most gracious Virgin Mary,that never was it known that anyone who fled to your protection, implored your help or sought your intercession was left unaided. Inspired by this confidence, We fly unto thee, O Virgin Of Virgins, our Mother. To thee we come, before thee we stand, sinful and sorrowful. O Mother of the Word Incarnate, despise not our petitions, but in your Mercy hear and answer us. Amen
Blessed feast day to all!

SalC: Right from the early times, we have always read even in the scriptures, of those who walked with God and neither saw death nor did we read of their body decaying

The scriptures recorded of Enoch,
He spent his life in fellowship with God and then he disappeared because God took him. Gen 5:24

We also read of God taking away the prophet Elijah in 2kings 2:11

This has been a way God took away a selected few who walked in union with him. If you study Rev 12, you will notice God took the women to a place prepared for her.

Hope this helps.

outstandingsyll: If she ascended to the right hand of God, where did Jesus Christ ascend to? May God have mercy on you Catholics and open your eyes to the truth and accept it

outstandingsyll: If she ascended to the right hand of God, where did Jesus Christ ascend to? May God have mercy on you Catholics and open your eyes to the truth and accept it

outstandingsyll: If she ascended to the right hand of God, where did Jesus Christ ascend to? May God have mercy on you Catholics and open your eyes to the truth and accept it

haibe: but this is idolatry, you should cry to the Father, or at least Jesus who is the mediator between man and God.

wonda26:
Bro or babe, live and let live. I have chosen my faith. I love my catholic faith. You have your reasons for choosing your faith just as I have mine.

Do you know how many religions are in this world ? A lot with contradictory practices. Learn to accommodate people of other opinions different from yours.

Who are you to term my belief idolatry? Shey na you create life?

Janetozi: making reference to song 3:6, are u saying that Mary is the one Solomon is refferinq to? Is Mary Solomon's spouse & lover too?

Revelation 12 is clearly understood. Mary have to pass through a lot to bring Jesus into this world because the devil fought her to make sure it didn't happen but was defeated.

But what i don't understand is how Mary later turned out to be the Lover of Solomon!

Explain to me please, am intersected. But don't tell me what i know so i won't argue with u.

SalC: Celebrated every year on August 15, the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary commemorates the death of Mary and her bodily assumption into Heaven, before her body could begin to decay--a foretaste of our own bodily resurrection at the end of time. Because it signifies the Blessed Virgin's passing into eternal life, it is the most important of all Marian feasts and a Holy Day of Obligation.

Quick Facts:

• Date: August 15.

• Type of Feast: Solemnity; Holy Day of Obligation.

.  Readings: Revelation 11:19a, 12:1-6a, 10ab; Psalm 45:10, 11, 12, 16; 1 Corinthians 15:20-27; Luke 1:39-56

• Prayers: The Hail Mary

• Other Names for the Feast: The Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary; The Assumption of Mary Into Heaven; The Dormition of the Theotokos; The Falling Asleep of the Blessed Virgin Mary

History of the Assumption:

The Feast of the Assumption is a very old feast of the Church, celebrated universally by the sixth century. The feast was originally celebrated in the East, where it is known as the Feast of the Dormition, a word which means "the falling asleep." The earliest printed reference to the belief that Mary's body was assumed into Heaven dates from the fourth century, in a document entitled "The Falling Asleep of the Holy Mother of God." The document is written in the voice of the Apostle John, to whom Christ on the Cross had entrusted the care of His mother, and recounts the death, laying in the tomb, and assumption of the Blessed Virgin. Tradition variously places Mary's death at Jerusalem or at Ephesus, where John was living.

A Required Belief:

The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary into Heaven at the end of her earthly life is a defined dogma of the Catholic Church. On November 1, 1950, Pope Pius XII, exercising papal infallibility, declared in Munificentissimus Deus that it is a dogma of the Church "that the Immaculate Mother of God, the ever Virgin Mary, having completed the course of her earthly life, was assumed body and soul into heavenly glory." As a dogma, the Assumption is a required belief of all Catholics; anyone who publicly dissents from the dogma, Pope Pius declared, "has fallen away completely from the divine and Catholic Faith."

While the Eastern Orthodox believe in the Dormition, they object to the papal definition of the dogma, seeing it as unnecessary, since belief in Mary's bodily assumption, tradition holds, goes back to apostolic times.

Pope Pius XII, in the text explaining his definition of the dogma of the Assumption, refers repeatedly to the Blessed Virgin's death before her Assumption, and the consistent tradition in both the East and the West holds that Mary did die before she was assumed into Heaven. However, since the definition of the Assumption is silent on this question, Catholics can legitimately believe that Mary did not die before the Assumption.
http://catholicism.about.com/od/holydaysandholidays/p/Assumption.htm

tosscash1: MARY MOTHER OF GOD
PLEASE PRAY FOR ME A WRETCHED SINNER

FrancisTony:


Rule1- Please post on topic. Don't derail or tribalise a thread.

Btw, Good Morning.

bluerange: Just reminded me of Marian Shrine Maryland (St.Agnes Maryland,Lagos) Happy Feast day to us all!

Omexonomy: How proper is it to assume mary is in heaven?

haibe: oh sorry, I actually thought you were a Christian that was why I use the scriptural basis.

Lillyeean: Very funny... And they say they dont worship Mary... They just ' honor' her

Janetozi: If she ascended on the right hand of God, then Jesus is probably on the left hand.

Na here u go fear catholicsim. They are making the world of God to appear as a lie.