A Protestant Thinks about the Blessed Virgin Mary
Mary & The Saints - Catholics Come Home
Catholics believe that worship is due to God alone. Catholics do, however, venerate Mary. In other words, we honor our Blessed Mother with great reverence and ...
How I Embraced Mary as Mother - St. Paul Center
For Protestants, worship consists of songs, prayer, and a sermon. On a Marian feast day, since Catholics have songs about Mary, prayers to Mary, ...
Marian Dogmas: A Protestant Re-Construction - Women in Theology
It's just not something Protestants generally think about. Historically, we have placed greater emphasis on Jesus and viewed praise of Mary with ...
The Case for the Assumption of Mary | The Divine Mercy
Suffice it to say here that Catholics can be confident that the Our Lady of Guadalupe and the "woman" of Revelation 12 are one and the same. However, even all ...
Why I came to believe that Mary was conceived without sin
If theology demands Mary be sinless and Scripture shows that God can make people righteous well before Christ, then we can say that the story of ...
Does the Church of England celebrate the Assumption of Mary?
Today we mark the Feast of the #Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Like Mary, let each of us say our yes to God's call and trust the ...
Library : Martin Luther's Devotion to Mary - Catholic Culture
He also says that Mary is the spiritual mother of all Christians: "It is the consolation and the superabundant goodness of God, that man is able to exult in ...
Why We Must Venerate Mary - Exodus 90
This is why, when the catechism of the Catholic Church says things like, devotion to the blessed mother is essential to christian worship.
A True Story: The "Hail Mary" of a Protestant is Powerful
'Never again say it,' answered the mother.' it is a superstitious prayer of Catholics who adore idols and think Mary a goddess. After all, she is a woman like ...
Blessed Virgin Mary | The Lonely Pilgrim
Protestants are bothered by the idea of the Assumption because (and I know, because I felt this way, too) it seems to exalt Mary to a divine ...
Karl Rahner's 'Mary Mother of the Lord' - Georgia Bulletin
I've always been fascinated by the Blessed Virgin Mary. Mary possesses a mystery and allure that is particularly appealing to those ...
On Worshiping Mary and the Saints - Catholicism.org
If the Protestant tells us he has in the interior homage of contrition and real submission of himself a distinct and peculiar worship of God, we ...
Our Holy Mother Mary: A Pregnant Protestant's Perspective
As a child growing up in a Protestant denomination, my understanding of Mary was limited to her role as Jesus' mother. She only really entered ...
Mary, Mary, quite contrary - The Lutheran Witness
In the early years of the Church, there was no apparent devotion to the Virgin Mary. There was, however, a growing theological reflection upon ...
Danger – With all due respect, Protestants believe there is danger in how Catholics sometimes pray to Mary and how they think of her.
Mary and the Convert - The Marian Room
It was, when we came to think about it, a very curious expression. It amounted to saying that a Protestant must not call Mary “Our Lady,” but he ...
The Maculate Conception of Mary... or Mary, a Sinner
The point being they seek to find a way to protect the sinlessness of Jesus Christ (I understand this and don't mean to cast aspersion on the ...
What does the Bible say about the virgin Mary? | GotQuestions.org
As the earthly mother of Jesus, Mary should be respected, but she is not worthy of our worship or adoration. The Bible nowhere indicates that ...
Catholic 101: Do Catholics Worship Mary? - The Jesuit Post
Even among the saints Mary holds a special place because she is the Mother of God, the woman who chose, by her own free will, to say the great ...
How would you explain the Blessed Virgin Mary to Protestants?
Brother David, MIC, shares how he would explain the Blessed Virgin Mary to Protestants.