The veneration of Mary, the mother of Jesus, developed rapidly by 590 and led the adoption of the doctrines of her immaculate conception in 1854 and her miraculous assumption to heaven in 1950. The false interpretation of Scripture and the mass of miracles associated with Mary in the apocryphal gospels…
Catechism of the Catholic Church printed in 1994. This is the “official” teaching of the Catholic Church, with the introduction from John Paul himself. The catechism is numbered by individual teaching. Some examples follow: #493 “By the grace of God Mary remained free of every personal sin her whole life…
“This maternity of Mary in the order of grace began with the consent which she gave in faith at the Annunciation and which she sustained without wavering beneath the cross. This maternity will last without interruption until the eternal fulfillment of all the elect. For, taken up to heaven, she…
Pope Pius IX declared the Immaculate Conception of Mary an article of faith on December 8, 1854. According to his pronouncement in Ineffabilis Deus, Mary was given grace to be sinless at the instant of her conception. Sin was shut out of her. The teaching was controversial among Christians at…
“Taken up to heaven she did not lay aside this saving office but by her manifold intercession continues to bring us the gifts of eternal salvation… Therefore the Blessed Virgin is invoked in the (Roman Catholic) Church under the tiles of Advocate, Helper, Benefactress, and Mediatrix.” (CCC Para 969) By…
Roman Catholic doctrine teaches that Mary is a Mediatrix between Christians and Christ, and that she is the “dispenser of graces” by the power of the Holy Spirit – based upon the merits of her crucified Son. Thus there is a mediation: Mary places herself between her Son and mankind…
Dogma of Assumption – January 1951 The Pope, speaking ex cathedra, solemnly declared that the truth that the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God, was taken up body and soul into heaven is a truth revealed by God from the beginning of the Church and a truth that everybody who…
My child, my time as the Mother of Salvation, when I will work closely with my beloved Son, Jesus Christ, in His final act to salvage humanity has been firmly established. I will, as and from this day forward, do all that is required of me to respond to Him…
Mary is the perfect Orans (pray-er), a figure of the Church. When we pray to her, we are adhering with her to the plan of the Father, who sends His Son to save all men. Like the beloved disciple, we welcome Jesus’ mother into our homes, for she has…
