Indian Christians-Catholics are blessed to celebrate mass of Our lady of Assumption feast day on Indian Independence day on 15th August every year. That is why India is blessed -from 1947 till date by Mama Mary always.
@@bruceterhune3400Jesus has given us His Blessed Mother as our great Spiritual Mother.John 19:26-27. Revelation 12:17 reveals the Honor Jesus has bestowed on His Mother as Queen of Heaven., Our Heavenly Advocate who intercedes for us.
It was great honor for Mary to be selected by God as the mother of Jesus. We are told to pray to the Father and the Holy Spirit intercedes with groanings on our behalf. No other means are necessary to pray to God. Mary was chosen, and it was a great honor for her and the Jewish people. Praying to her is a needless waste of time and effort. Kneeling to Mary's statue and kissing it is actually breaking one of the ten commandments. (Graven image). Scripture backs up these things.@@SonicSnakeRecords
*I believe in The One True Catholic Apostolic Church and I truly believe in the Messiah through whom the salvation is..* ❤️❤️ Virgin Mary pray for us, sinners.
Not being "in the Bible" does not mean it isn't True. Catholic Tradition is also True. and the Bible itself says in the Gospel of John: not all things Jesus did are recorded in the Bible.
i wonder how and when he got the news and how much time it took for him to travel from india in those times. So we need to understand he opened the tomb after month or so. And thomas died in india so he came back to continue preaching
@@kenshiloh Dear Ken: Catholics compiled the Bible , about 400 years post the death of Our Lord Jesus Christ. You are very welcome to be on this site, if you have an open heart to Truth and are willing to learn. However, please do not attempt to contradict the teaching of the Church by trying to “convert”. We are all Faithful to the teachings and will not waiver. Please listen to all talks and ask any questions in comments. Remember , Our Lord said that whoever eats His body and drinks His blood will have everlasting life; those who do not, the opposite is true.
@@rlisis What comes first is it bible or tradition? When jesus went up into heavens, did he say read my book? He left us his teaching that is passed on the apostle to the early christians. The Catholic church have the scriptures, tradition and authority.
@@geoarchon7227 he said obey my words… How do we know those words? It was written down… Tradition is way too unreliable 80% of Catholic is not rooted in history despite the claims of historicity eg rosary is a 4th century invention
@@rlisis HE MENTIONED A SECTION OF THE REVELATION ABOUT THE WOMAN CLOTHE WITH THE SON , GIVING BIRTH TO A SON ? ! ISN 'T THAT ENOUGH, THEN NOTHING CAN.
you say : "Not everything is in the Bible". To then talk about in vitro fertilization is just rubbish. Does sacred tradition talk about in vitro fertilization? Non Roman Catholics do not claim everything we need to know is in the Bible. They say everything we need to know about Christian faith and doctrine is in the Bible. Your argument has more holes that a sieve.
Dear Garry, sorry but you missed the point. In vitro fertilization is not covered by Sacred Tradition.... but what does talk about in virtro fertilization? The Church. So our faith is based on the same three legs as the Jewish faith: scripture, Tradition, and the Magisterium. They knew you needed all three. Jesus talked about faith and morals, not just faith. So how do we address that? Every moral issue is covered in one of those three legs and that is why we need all three. Dogma, like Jesus being the Son of God, is covered in Scripture. The role of the priesthood as instituted by Christ is developed through Sacred Apostolic Tradition. And moral issues such as birth control, AI, in vitro (which are critical to living as a Christian and it is absurd to say it isn't and impossible to say it is in the Bible), is addressed by the Church because it wasn't addressed by the Bible nor by Sacred Tradition. So no, the argument is based on logic. Sorry you missed it. God bless.
I'm confused... the Assumption (if it did happen) would have been an event like the physical assumption of our Lord forty days after His resurrection. Supernatural and astounding. Why then do we not have a single narrative of this event by the apostles or anyone during that time? Also, why would Jesus entrust the care of His mother to John His apostle at the foot of the cross, when He knew Mary would not be around for too long after He resurrected? Just saying....
We know this through Sacred Apostolic Tradition. Scripture says not all things are in scripture. Jesus gave Mary to John because she was around a while after Christ died. God bless.
@@DivineMercy_Official I'd like to hope that is true but it would be like someone writing the history of New York around the turn of the century and completely ignoring the horrific events of 911in that city... highly unlikely!!!. Let us not assume out of emotional devotion, but what was given to us through written transmission of the apostles by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. God Bless.
@masedi__5120 St Paul wrote 1 Corinthians around 56 ce...Clearly you don't know what this refers to., so anything that was written after this would have to be rejected for Biblical Canon. Hence, John’s Gospel, Acts, Romans, 2 Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, Philemon, Titus, 1 & 2 Timothy, Hebrews, James, 1 & 2 Peter, 1, 2, & 3 John, Jude, and Revelation would all have to be jettisoned as non-authoritative.
Notice also that Jesus’ “brothers and sisters”are not mentioned as being at the cross. If he had biological brothers and sisters, wouldn’t Jesus have given his mother to them? OR, at least mention them.
Another video making Mary an idol. Just like the brazen serpent Moses had made that ended up being worshipped during Hezekiahs reign, it was smashed to pieces because it became a source of idolatry. It's amazing to me that Catholics always make Mary to be more important than Jesus. They light candles, burn incense, pray, kiss statues, all for Mary. Did not Jesus say ..John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. NOT MARY.
Dear Judo, please refrain from stating what Catholics teach and believe when it is clear you don't know. God commanded Moses to carve the serpent for the people to gaze upon to be healed. Why would God command that? Because they were not worshipping it. God used it as an instrument in the same way he commanded cherubim to be carved for the Ark of the Covenant. Images and statues are not prohibited by God - they are throughout scripture. Do you call a Nativity scene evil? Or that picture of your family on your desk? That is a graven image. The difference, hopefully, is that you don't worship the glass and the frame. It reminds you of your family and helps you to recall them. The same is done with religious statues. They are not worshipped. Please don't stated what we do when you don't know. Thank you. Also, please show in Catholic teaching and writings were Mary is taught to be more important than Jesus. That statement is quite uninformed. As for candles and incense, etc... have you read the book of Revelation? Do you know what it is about? It isn't about the Rapture or Anti-Christ. But what you will find is the exact same way of worship as the Catholic Mass. God bless. ruclips.net/video/06mgry1cPf4/видео.html
@@renesedonio3340 Those who opposed Moses in Numbers 16 claimed to be with God too. They were swallowed by the earth after they competed in offering sacrifice to God of Moses with Moses. Are you like them? Be with the ordained authority, don't make up yours or follow what people like Luther made. The creed talks of an Apostolic Church.
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Even in the Bible it states that " many signs and wonders which were Not Recorded Here ( there would not be enough paper to record these) This does not mean that the Bible is insufficient or lacking. It means that Not Everything would be in it. Tradition And Scripture are the 2 pillars of the Church. just because something is not explicitly mentioned in Scripture doesn't mean it didn't take place. The word Trinity does not appear and yet at the Transfiguration of Our Lord God, The Son, Jesus appears in full glory The Cloud is symbolic of the Holy Spirit and The Father's Voice is heard. God didn't just randomly pick a human to be the mother of Christ ( as Protestants assert) He Chose Mary to be the mother of Our Savior.
As a practicing Catholic I couldn’t help but notice that there is many nondenominational Christians that keep trying to slander mary and our faith I keep quoting verse such as Luke 1:28 and genesis 3:15 but it seems they keep ignoring these verses, as a Catholic what do we do when they keep ignorance, hubris and are blinded by it as I do not wish to overstep my bounds and stay within our doctrines
Awsome. I have had a thought. If Genesis, and revelations specificaly speaks of the lady standing on the sepants head and the discriptive about it... Our blessed mother showed us this image in the st juan Diegos Tilma in 1531 exactly as discribed in revelations long before she gifted the Tilma. Wow what does that say.... How exciting.. Thank you we love you Blessed mother Mary 💖😇🙏
Because the Church established by Christ has said so for almost 2,000 years. Sorry, but I'll go with that over your opinion :) God bless ruclips.net/video/IrDs9gPlXKw/видео.html
The Messiah says, "And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven." John 3:13. I have faith in the Messiah.
Are Marian Dogmas Biblical? Consider Lk. 1:28, “And he came to her and said, “Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with you.”, one can say with certainty that Mary is full of grace. The graces God fully bestows on her are not one, two, three, or many graces but full; so full that if these graces were to be added up, they would be equaled to “the Lord is with you (her).” These graces, to name but a few, have been identified by the Catholic Church as: To be the Mother of God; to be perpetual virgin in her virginal conception of Christ, in giving birth to Christ, and her continuing virginity after His birth; to be conceived without original sin; and to be assumed body and soul into heaven, and all other graces. In short, if there is a grace that the Lord did not bestow onto Mary, she would not be full of grace. Thus, the Assumption of Mary and all other Marian dogmas are biblical for their basis lies in Luke 1:28. By proclaiming these dogmas, all that the Catholic Church did was to make known to the world, especially the faithful the graces the Lord himself bestowed on Mary. Besides these dogmas, there are many other graces or great things which the Lord has bestowed on Mary, Lk. 1:49, “for he who is mighty has done great things for me, and holy is his name.” and these can be found in the Litany of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Man you had to jump through a lot of hypothetical hoops to justify this man made doctrine. With literally no evidence but inventions and dogma. I will pray for all catholics that God will open their eyes.😭
Jesus loved his mother Mary and so do Catholic Christians because we are her sons and daughters, Rev12:17. Thank you Fr Alar for another beautiful teaching about the mother of God and our mother Mary. God bless you.
@@relajado-fx5rf Sure it’s about Mary. All of Rev 12 is speaking about Jesus, his mother Mary, a queen with a crown and a battle where 1/3 of the angels are cast out of heaven with the devil and they go to war against mankind, the Queens children. Rev12:17 reads as follows, “Then the dragon was angry with the woman, and went off to make war on the rest of her offspring, on those who keep the commandments of God and bear testimony to Jesus.” Woman = Mary. The rest of her children who keep the commandments of God and bear testimony to Jesus = all humans, Christians.
@@Spiritof76Catholic It isn't, but lets say it was. That would mean that Mary still isn't assumed to heaven anyways, since it doesn't even talk about that
@@relajado-fx5rf It is true and Mary was because Jesus and the Catholic Church say so. Jesus and the Church are one, the pillar and bull work of truth and Christs body is the Church.
THERE ARE A WHOLE LOT OF THINGS NOT IN THE BIBLE MAN WROTE THE BIBLE PICKING AND CHOOSING WHAT THEY WANTED FROM WRITTEN TEXT FROM THAT TIME. GOD DIDN'T WRITE ANYTHING CHRIST DIDN'T WRITE ANYTHING REPEAT THAT OVER AND OVER AND OVER AD NAUSEUM..... THE BIBLE WAS WRITTEN BY M A N !!!!
The Bible says ALL have sinned and come short of the glory of God. Mary is part of all. Only Christ who is 100% God and 100% man has not sinned. I really have trouble with this doctrine of a sinless Mary. The blood of the mother and child don't mix so Mary would not have to be sinless for Jesus to be sinless. If Mary was sinless wouldn't her mother have to be sinless and so on? The doctrine doesn't make sense to me. I am trying to become a Catholic but this one is the biggest stumbling block for me.
Thank you but did you study Greek and Hebrew, the language of the original scriptures? The word used is different.And regarding Mary having sin or not, in Genesis 3:15, both Jesus and Mary are said to be in a state of "enmity" against the serpent, which in the original Hebrew means "complete and radical opposition" to Satan. It is for this reason that it is not likely that God would have permitted Mary to inherit the condition of "original sin" from Adam and Eve. Any participation by her in the disorder and corruption of the soul that the rest of us inherit from Adam and Eve would place the Mother of Jesus at least partially under the sway of Satan and evil, and thereby contradict the complete "enmity" between Mary and Satan prophesied in Genesis 3. She still needed a savior to preserve her from sin in the first place because Jesus could not have co-existed with sin in the womb of a woman who had any sin.
@@DivineMercy_Official Friend thank you for your reply. As you eluded, the enmity was put between the seed of the woman (Jesus) and the serpent (satan). This was a prophecy of Christ's 1st coming and victory. Although the devil struck the heal of Jesus via the crucifixion, Jesus crushed the devils head by His Resurrection. I know some refer to Mary as the 2nd Eve but that doesn't make sense to me either given that Christ is the second Adam and Mary was his Mother (not his wife). Hebrew and Greek are readily available if I need to look up an original word. Please tell me what word you are saying is different? Once forgiven by God for our sins we become sinless in His eyes. However, it is not by our efforts nor was it by Mary's. I will gladly concede that once Mary obtained righteousness by faith (Be it unto me as you have said...) that she was forgiven for all her sins. But the theology that she was born sinless is against many other verses even though Pope Pius IX declared it in 1854. You said "it is not likely" but that does not prevent it from being possible. If Mary was born with sin that does not correlate to Jesus being infected by iniquity. Many other versus refer to the "iniquity of the fathers". With Jesus's Father being God he had no iniquity.
“For there is one God and one mediator between God and mankind, the man Christ Jesus.” 1Timothy 2:5. Mary the mother of Jesus is NOT an interceder or mediator to God only Jesus is the Bible is very clear regarding that and nowhere does the Bible tell us to pray to her or pray the rosary, Scripture is clear about praying to the dead, praying to the dead is strictly forbidden in the Bible. Deuteronomy 18:11 Nowhere in the Bible are we told this false doctrine which is heresy. Mary continued to have children … “Isn’t this the carpenter? Isn’t this Mary’s son and the brother of James, Joseph, Judas and Simon? Aren’t his sisters here with us?” And they took offense at him. Mark 6:3. Mary needed a saver like ALL humanity… “and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior, Luke 1:4, Mary was not sinless and had her sins forgiven at the cross “It is Finished” …John 19:30. Hebrews 12:2 “looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God”. "John 19:26-27 When Jesus saw his mother there, and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to her, “Woman here is your son,” 27 and to the disciple, “Here is your mother.” From that time on, this disciple took her into his home." Take note Jesus called his mother "WOMAN"...WHY DO YOU THINK? MAYBE SO THE WORLD WOULD NOT CALL HER THE MOTHER OF God?? Idolatry the worship of someone or something other than God as though it were God. The first of the biblical Ten Commandments prohibits idolatry: “You shall have no other gods before me. Idolatry the worship of someone or something other than God as though it were God. The first of the biblical Ten Commandments prohibits idolatry: “ Read your Bible. “For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, 2 Timothy 4:3
Yes, Jesus is the only way to the Father. Mary doesn't lead us to the Father. She leads us to Jesus. Andrew brought Peter to Jesus. Philip brought Nathanael to Jesus. That is a form of mediation. In proclaiming Christ the one mediator (cf. I Tim 2:5-6), the text of St. Paul's Letter to Timothy excludes any other parallel mediation, but not subordinate mediation. In fact, before emphasizing the one exclusive mediation of Christ, he urges "that supplications, prayers, intercessions and thanksgivings be made for all men" (2:1). If subordinate mediation is not allowed, please don’t ask anyone to pray for you because prayers are a form of mediation. Moreover, the Greek word used for "one" that St. Paul used here in I Tim 2:5-6 in the phrase "one mediator" is not monos, which would mean "sole," but eis, which can mean "one" in the sense of "principal," or "first in a series." Jesus is the principal Mediator who enables many other sub-mediators to transmit the grace of God to others. Again, faithful Christians act as sub-mediators in Christ when they pray for their neighbors, share the Gospel with the lost, and serve the poor. The Bible says that our growth in faith and holiness is aided by the intercessions of the other members of the Body of Christ (Eph 6:18; I Thess 3:11-13; I Tim 2:1-4), and there’s no better intercession than that of Jesus’ own mother. Jesus comes from the line of David an in the Davidic Kingdom the role of the Queen Mother was important (1Kings2:19). Read about how she had the function of "counselor" to the king in regards to all matters. God blesss.
Hold up if we aren't using the bible to decide what hqppened during jesus' time what are we using? And if we are using church traditions of that time why isnt the gospel of Thomas seen as acceptable to follow. If we are to trust this story coming from Thomas why wouldnt we include his gospel in the bible. What makes this theory infallible (only starting in the 50s) but his gospel heretical? Lastly if she was taken into heaven why is it that no one near her (especially John) saw her but Thomas who was in India did? And why wouldnt he have written about it in his gospel?
Thank you but the gospel of Thomas was not written by Saint Thomas. They just use his name such as the same situation with Mary and Peter. Those gospels were not written by Mary or by Peter. They were written by anybody and everybody with no authority. That's why we need a church to discern what is inspired by the Holy Spirit and what is not. God bless
Where is Saint Thomas's account of the tomb being empty recorded? Is it in the bible? That is the only argument that you used here, that could lead me to believe that maybe this is true. All your other arguments are based on man made doctrine. God does not care about man made doctrine or what we believe "only makes sense". How can you prove that Mary was born without original sin? That is not in the bible either. Jesus is the only one born without sin and he is the only one that lived without sin. We know this to be true, because the bible does tell us that. Mary was highly favored by God and she is blessed among women, but she was/is not a deity. I don't believe that we should pray to her. We do not need the intercession of Mary or the saints, because Jesus was the intercessor!!! That is what he came here for. (No one shall come to the father, EXCEPT through me.) Devotion to Mary takes the focus off our one true savior, Jesus Christ! You have not convinced me. (Respectfully, from one that is truly seeking the truth on this matter.)
Dear Lisa, thank you but with all due respect, your arguments have long long be disproven. Where in the bible does it saying everything is in the bible? The paragraph of John says it isn't. Nobody said Mary is a deity, so please refrain from stating was is not Catholic teaching. Thank you. Plus, what the Church teaches is Sacred Apostolic tradition, not man-made tradition. Please learn the difference (see 2Thes2:15). God bless.
Yes, Jesus is the only way to the Father but there are many ways to Jesus. Have you ever brought anyone to Jesus? If not, you should. If you have, then why can you but not Jesus' own mother? Andrew brought Peter to Jesus. Philip brought Nathanael to Jesus. I brought my family to Jesus... but there's no intermediator b/n Jesus and man? In proclaiming Christ the one mediator (cf. I Tim 2:5-6), the text of St. Paul's Letter to Timothy excludes any other parallel mediation, but not subordinate mediation. In fact, before emphasizing the one exclusive mediation of Christ, he urges "that supplications, prayers, intercessions and thanksgivings be made for all men" (2:1). If subordinate mediation is not allowed, please don’t ask anyone to pray for you because prayers are a form of mediation. Moreover, the Greek word used for "one" that St. Paul used here in I Tim 2:5-6 in the phrase "one mediator" is not monos, which would mean "sole," but eis, which can mean "one" in the sense of "principal," or "first in a series." Jesus is the principal Mediator who enables many other sub-mediators to transmit the grace of God to others. Again, faithful Christians act as sub-mediators in Christ when they pray for their neighbors, share the Gospel with the lost, and serve the poor. The Bible says that our growth in faith and holiness is aided by the intercessions of the other members of the Body of Christ (Eph 6:18; I Thess 3:11-13; I Tim 2:1-4), and there’s no better intercession than that of Jesus’ own mother. Jesus comes from the line of David an in the Davidic Kingdom the role of the Queen Mother was important (1Kings2:19). Read about how she had the function of "counselor" to the king in regards to all matters. God bless.
Regarding Mary having sin or not, in Genesis 3, both Jesus and Mary are said to be in a state of "enmity" against the serpent, which in the original Hebrew means "complete and radical opposition" to Satan. It is for this reason that it is not likely that God would have permitted Mary to inherit the condition of "original sin" from Adam and Eve. Any participation by her in the disorder and corruption of the soul that the rest of us inherit from Adam and Eve would place the Mother of Jesus at least partially under the sway of Satan and evil, and thereby contradict the complete "enmity" between Mary and Satan prophesied in Genesis 3. She still needed a savior to preserve her from sin in the first place because Jesus could not have co-existed with sin in the womb of a woman who had any sin.
I'm a proud Catholic but totally confused 😕 🫤 😐, to many religious freedoms taken on this matter, literally 🤔 just thought of by men, am I wrong? I hope so.....
Nice try. You quote scripture. But fall back on " tradition ". That defines the Catholic church. That is the downfall of it too. Great question that no priest can answer by quoting scripture.
Catholicism began as a legit God worship church but it's nothing but a political power now and even hypocritical more than ever. Your NOT Apostolic even! I'm still wanting to know how the church bypasses Romans chap1 when it comes to same sex practice, how?
Thank you but there is no need for you to shout at us with capital letters and exclamation points. First of all, only the Catholic Church can trace back its existing bishops and priests through apostolic succession. Yes the Orthodox can as well but they're no longer in union with the Chair of Peter. Thus, please see what the meaning of apostolic is. There's an unbroken line in the Papacy that goes directly to Peter. Secondly, please don't state falsities about Catholic teaching. There is nothing in Catholic Church teaching that supports same-sex activity. God bless and keeping you in prayer.
Please do not use the sacred name so easily. Remember every knee bends! Use Christ,Our Lord,Son ofGod etc,show some piety and reserve the sacred name for sacred use. Thank you
So Mary fled into the wilderness and God fed her for 1260 days? I would like to know why she fled into the wilderness? Rev 12:6. And why was Mary persecuted by the dragon? Rev 12:13. If Mary is eternally virgin why the Bible says she has other offspring? Rev 12:17.
Thank you but your arguments were disproven over 1,500 years ago. There is no word in the original biblical language for biological brothers, and the word use can mean any close relative, cousin, step brother, etc. This video answers all your questions plus a lot more. If you care to learn, I hope you watch. God bless ruclips.net/video/WceJ9GtEY50/видео.html
@@DivineMercy_Official if that is the case so Joseph did not marry Mary? If no, the how can you marry someone and not to have sex with her your whole entire life? please explain to me. 24 Then Joseph being raised from sleep did as the angel of the Lord had bidden him, and took unto him his wife: 25 And knew her not till she had brought forth her firstborn son: and he called his name Jesus. Mathew 1:24-25 KJV
It means that Jesus "brothers" were most likely cousins, step siblings, or other close relatives. Most all scholars agree to this. Jesus was the "firstborn". That term (again you have to study Greek and Hebrew to understand) means Jesus was the first born but that doesn't mean there were any after him. Regarding no sex in marriage, this was not uncommon for the Jews. Moses did it. It is now called a Josephite marriage. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephite_marriage
@@lucasmaagi Its clear the bible said jesus had brothers and sisters. The catholic church says its not true . They cant admit the bible means what is says, other wise, its like pulling a little thread and eventually the whole catholic church becomes unraveled.
My issue isn’t that her assumption isn’t in the Bible. But that Catholics say that the mysteries are all biblically based. The mysteries are a summation of the gospels. And I totally agree with that, except for the assumption of Mary, which only justification biblically is a vague poetic/symbolic verse. All the other mysteries are in clear story format, but her assumption and crowning are implied.
The Muslims have RUclips videos out showing Mary’s “burial site.” They don’t like me much over there. 😉 Thank you for your blessing, as always, Father Alar. You are so loved and needed today more than ever! Seeing you on EWTN at Mass this morning was certainly a wonderful surprise! Your homily was so inspiring and there was much chat about it in the “live chat” forum! Forgiveness is a choice. We need to just do it and stick to it. It can be extremely uplifting in one’s soul. Then we need to work on forgetting because the persistent dwelling on how we were wronged, even though we say we’ve forgiven just not forgotten, is like bad penny. It’s part of satan’s stronghold of pride to use over us, so our souls will remain in jeopardy. Let go and let God certainly applies to forgive and forget. If Jesus forgave us all for what our sins did to Him in His Passion and Crucifixion, how dare we not forgive others? 💙🙏🏻💙
Theblessdmother never died because she never sinned and never had Original Sin I want to know where they think they found the blessemother's grave our blessed mother i the new perfect Eve sin and death came into e into the world through Adam and Eve
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The appeal to Revelation 12 is really quite bad. It was not held among the early Christians or church fathers that the "woman" in Revelation was Mary, but represented either Israel or the Church. To assert that it refers to Mary and present this as evidence for the Assumption borders upon deception. The retort that "not everything in the Bible" is completely insufficient to the question here. The Church of Rome claims that the Assumption MUST be believed for salvation -- it is an essential part of the Gospel. Yet we have no evidence whatsoever that Jesus, the apostles, or the early Church believed or required belief in the Assumption for salvation. THAT is the problem. If you want to say "we believe X" and here is why, that is fine. Even, "to be a part of our group, you must believe X" is okay. But belief in the Assumption and its necessity for salvation is clearly a late innovation and found nowhere in the early Church records.
Some say the "woman" is a symbol of Israel and the Church, the New Israel. Yes, she has a crown of 12 stars, symbolizing the 12 tribes of Israel, and the 12 apostles. So which interpretation is correct? Both are correct! The ancient Fathers saw no contradiction It was not uncommon in ancient Jewish literature to use a double-symbol: an historical individual used to symbolize a whole group of people. For example, it is quite likely that in Isaiah 53 about the sufferings of the Messiah ("He was despised and rejected of men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief," etc.) is also meant to symbolize the vocation of suffering of the whole people of Israel. They suffered like Jesus! In a similar way, Mary, the Mother of the Church, is used in the book of Revelation to symbolize the fulfillment of the vocation of Israel in the new people of God, the Church. Hope of heaven! The Church made the connection b/n Psalm 132:8 and the mystery of the heavenly woman-ark. "Arise, O Lord, and go to Thy resting place, Thou and the ark of Thy might." After the Lord "arose' from the dead, He took with Him into heavenly glory the true "ark" of the New Covenant, the body of His mother Mary. For just as the ancient Israelites believed that the original ark was made from incorruptible wood, so this passage foreshadows the bodily incorruption given to Mary as new Ark by Her Risen Son.
@@DivineMercy_Official, thank you for your comment. However, toward the end of it, you are simply repeating the contested claim without any evidence to support it. That is unhelpful. If you wish to believe the Assumption, that is your freedom. What I am looking for is EVIDENCE that it is actually true. I don't see any, and simply repeating the claim is not evidence.
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The biggest presumption the Catholic church makes is the assumption of Mary. It is a pity nobody told Mary herself. She is absent from the body and present with the Lord just like all other believers in the Lord Jesus Christ who have passed on.
Thank you but it may be a bit presumptuous thinking you know better than 2,000 years of Church teaching from the Church established by Christ :) God bless.
@@DivineMercy_Official That is the second biggest presumption that the Catholic church makes. The Roman Catholic church is NOT the church which was established by Christ. We get our teaching from the Bible not from the Catholic system. Anyone who is indwelt by the Holy Spirit of Truth knows that the Rock is the fact that Christ is the Son of the Living God. It was revealed to Peter by God the Father that the man standing in front of Him was God manifest in human form, and therefore the Rock which the Old Testament talked about. You should go back to being the Church assembly at Rome with the teaching of the apostle Paul in his letter to the Romans. At least then you would get your foundations correct and scriptural.
@@smeatonlighthouse4384 Dear SL, do you know who determined what books went into the Bible? Who did the Holy Spirit guide to select the books we have today? At the time the bible was canonized in the Fourth century, there were many "gospels" in circulation: the gospel of Peter, the gospel of Thomas, the gospel of Mary, etc. So who decided these books were not inspired, but Matthew, Mark, Luke and John were? The answer is the Catholic Church at the councils of Carthage and Hippo in 393 and 397AD. You can accept the Bible and reject the authority (guided by the Holy Spirit) from which it came. Do you know where the Catholic faith comes from? It comes from the Jews, who had the same three legs of their faith as we do: Scripture, Tradition and a Magisterium. The Bible itself does not proclaim Sola Scriptura and in fact speaks against it in the last paragraph of the Gospel of John. Paul emphasized that we are to hold fast to the traditions being taught, both oral and written. These are Apostolic traditions, not man-made traditions. You also cannot accept the Bible and reject the authority from which it came. God bless. This talk will help explain things for you... ruclips.net/video/sx-qIvG-c9M/видео.html
@@smeatonlighthouse4384 Sola Scriptura is not in the Bible but Apostolic Tradition is (2Thes2:15). Jesus said he was starting a church, but if Jesus didn't start the Catholic Church, what church did he start? There was only the Catholic Church for 1500 years until Martin Luther went into schism. And if you claim Jesus didn't start Catholicism, then who did start it in 33AD, when the first Masses were said? God bless.
Mary had parents then she had Jesus when she was virgin also had Jesus brothers and sisters afterwards, only person who was immaculate conceived was Jesus, by God Gabriel the angel of Lord who came to her
The Bible does not say that Mary Had other children. The Bible says that Jesus had brothers and sisters and the Hebrew word for brothers "ah" and the Greek word for brothers or sisters called "adelphos" can mean simply a near relative or close relative, like a cousin, not necessarily or usually a sibling. God bless
Thank you but Regarding Mary having sin or not, in Genesis 3:15, both Jesus and Mary are said to be in a state of "enmity" against the serpent, which in the original Hebrew means "complete and radical opposition" to Satan. It is for this reason that it is not likely that God would have permitted Mary to inherit the condition of "original sin" from Adam and Eve. Any participation by her in the disorder and corruption of the soul that the rest of us inherit from Adam and Eve would place the Mother of Jesus at least partially under the sway of Satan and evil, and thereby contradict the complete "enmity" between Mary and Satan prophesied in Genesis 3. She still needed a savior to preserve her from sin in the first place because Jesus could not have co-existed with sin in the womb of a woman who had any sin.
Respectfully Should any tradition of man elevate any human being above Christ? Should we worship anyone but God? Doesn’t the Bible speak against the traditions of man? The Apostles written and verbal teachings were of Christ Jesus and God the Father alone, most especially the Apostle Paul. The mother of Christ Jesus lived in the time of the apostles and there has been no written scriptures left for our admonition to lead a Christian of faith in the God of Abraham to elevate Mary to be worshipped or deified. The holy scriptures tells us that the Holy Spirit leads all who believe in Christ Jesus and the God of Abraham to all Truth, if they obey God’s laws. The CHURCH is nothing individually or collectively without the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. We love the mother Mary for giving birth to the Christ Jesus as we should. King David, Moses, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Daniel, Ruth, Naomi, etc. all the blessed men and women God chose to carry out his wonderful plan of redemption for sinful humanity. Praise and worship the one true God of Heaven and learn from those whom he used in his plan for our example and be humbled and blessed by their lives.
Thank you but who is elevated above Christ? Who worships Mary? Certainly not Catholics. That has never been Catholic teaching and never will be. There is no encyclical, papal bull, or any kind of magisterium statement in the history of the Church that says to worship Mary. So please be careful of the sin of slander in saying something very damaging that is not true. "To pray to" doesn't necessarily mean "to worship" but "to ask." Haven't you ever asked anyone to help you? We ask Mary to help her lead us to her son. To bow doesn’t necessarily mean worship either. Japanese businessmen bow when receiving your business card as a sign of honor. Are they worshipping you? Certainly not. God bless ruclips.net/video/oh7gDmjX-XU/видео.html
@George Vazquez no one following Catholic Church teaching prays to Mary for salvation. That is not Catholic teaching on intercessory prayer. You do not understand Catholic Church teaching so please refrain from stating incorrect comments about our faith. God bless
THE ASSUMPTION AND QUEENSHIP OF MARY IN THE BIBLE: REV 12: 1 A great sign appeared in the heavens, a woman clothed with the sun, the moon under her feet, and on her head a CROWN (signifying a Queen) of 12 stars. The woman of REV 1 2 is the woman who gives birth to the male child who will rule the nations, so we know she is MARY.
@@lucasmaagi YA so what? Picking ONE scripture that (seems to) suit your agenda, does not "Cancel out" the scripture that I showed here, no matter how much you want it to. The one I hav e shown here IS STILL VALID. The same protestants who sneer at the idea of an infallibke Pope, who was given authority by JESUS, somehow think that THEY THEMSELVES are infallble, even though JESUS never gave authority to protestantism, and protestantism comes from MEN.BTW T h e bible is not your property, it came from the Catholic church and the protestant version was altered by Luther. ➨ JESUS gives authority of the Church TO PETER (NOT TO CONSTANTINE, Not to Luther, not Calvin, not Ellen White or any other "reformer" ) ✦ MATT 16:13-19: Jesus gives keys of the Kingdom to PETER and builds his church upon PETER. ✦ ACTS 15:7-12: "After much debate had taken place, PETER got up and said to them, “My brothers, you are well aware that from early days God made his choice among you THAT THROUGH MY MOUTH THE GENTILES WOULD HEAR THE WORD OF THE GOSPEL AND BELIEVE." ✦ JOHN 21:15-19: Jesus tells PETER to "Feed my sheep" ➨ The body of PETER now lies under the altar of St Peter's basilica. Evidence is even shown by unbiased secular media giants National Geographic, A&E & a book: "The Bones of St Peter" ➨The True Church is a TEACHING CHURCH: (To TEACH is to impart knowledge that is not oresently known....not in writing) ✦JOHN 14:26-31 26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall TEACH you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you. ✦JOHN 16:14: "When the Spirit of truth comes He will guide you to all truth." ✦ Acts 8:26-40 King James Version (KJV) 30 And Philip ran thither to him, and heard him read the prophet Esaias, and said, Understandest thou what thou readest? 31 And he said, How can I, except some man should guide me? And he desired Philip that he would come up and sit with him.
@@cynthiax56 so we must keep quiet when Roman Catholic church killed William Tyndale who translated the Bible from original Greek and Hebrew. What about John Huss? Roman Catholic Church under Papacy is the Anti-Christ. All reformers agreed with that.
The Bible wasn't written until decades after Jesus died. How did the Christians then learn their faith? Sacred Apostolic Tradition. The Bible itself says not everything is in the bible. Sola Scriptura is not in the Bible. But 2Thes2:15 says Sacred Apostolic Tradition is. That is where the Church of 2,000 years established by Christ knows a bit more about it than you... no offense :) God bless.
@@DivineMercy_Official of course not everything, but when it comes to faith the Bible says 2 Timothy 3:15 ESV 15 and how afrom childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus so what do the Apostles teach us, I Cor. 4:6.. don't go beyond what is written Now, question.. Where in the Bible can you read that Mary hears your prayers in heaven? Is she in heaven right now, how about the Apostles, the canonized saints? again, don't go beyond what is written.
@@jackoliver7024 Yes we do because like the Jewish faith from which we came, there are three legs to the stool, which includes Magisterium and Sacred Tradition. God can communicate to man through only the written word? You are limiting him and saying he cannot communicate to man by spoken word handed down through Apostolic Tradition? Limiting God to only being able to write is not what the Bible says (2Thes2:15). Plus, Jesus didn't write anything down, so how do it get into the Bible decades later? Through Sacred Tradition and Oral Tradition. That same tradition for 2,000 years has pointed out the role of Mary and the Saints. Thank you but I am unable to continue this discussion. God bless.
@@DivineMercy_Official Wrong, it was the will of God ro let His words be weitten, and if there was a tradition before it was alsow written. Now, if you don't believe that the New Testament is inspired by God then why do you think that it is insufficient? It may be written many years after the death of Christ, but Christians just like the former nation of God knows the command of God to write his words. (Jer. 20:2) And in the new testament, God forbids and will punish anyone adding or dsducting from the words of God written in the scripture, do you still needs the verse? Now, going back to Mary, where did you base your tradition or doctrine that Mary is in heaven as your mediator to God?
"just because something isn't directly in the Bible doesn't make it false doctrine", and yet Roman Catholics rightly reject decision theology and believer only baptism, neither of which are in the Bible. They also rightly reject the "sinner's prayer", which is also not in scripture. Yet this doctrine not found in scripture is somehow true? Maybe Hus was right?
2Thessalonians 2:15 is here again taken out of context. The passage does not say TRADITION, as in things that you perform as a ritual, but rather TEACHINGS or ORDINANCES, just as the greek word PARADOSEIS suggests it. The We have to remember that “Faith comes from hearing, and hearing from the WORDS OF CHRIST”. Meaning we should always be attentive to the Word of God, and what he gave His disciples. Nowhere has Christ or His disciples said that Mary went up into heaven. Such an important event would have been so important, why would the disciples just ommit that?
The Assumption has been TRADITION in the teaching of the Church established by Christ for centuries before there was ever another Christian religion other than Catholicism. That is what TRADITION is all about. Nobody mentioned rituals. Please don't take things out of context. God bless.
@@DivineMercy_Official the Assumption of Mary was established by Christ? Where? How? When? Tradition, in 2thessalonians 2:15, does not means teachings. And there are no recorded teachings of Christ directly or indirectly referring to Mary as a MEDIATRIX or anything like that. It does say it, if we twist scripture and only use imagery. But Biblical exegesis is more than just using imagery, unfortunately.
Revelation Chapter 12 refers to a woman clothed with the sun and the moon under her feet wearing a crown. I always thought it referred to the Virgin Mary.
Dear Antonio, 2,000 years teaching of the Church established by Christ disagree with you. No offense, but most would go with their authority from Christ rather than your opinion. God bless.
Dear Father Chris. re The Assumption: The Bible, or even the Church, doesn't say much about Mary after the Resurection, but was Mary still alive at the time of the Assumption? It would make sense if Mary had passed and was raised body and soul. However, it would make for a great miracle to have Assumed in life.
Thank you George. As mentioned in the video (and as I will talk about on Saturday) the Church has never stated if Mary died or not, but there is fittingness to say she didn't.
The Church was intended to guide us to salvation, but unfortunately in this madness has succumbed to man by following these ridiculous covid rules! WHERE is the faith of the bishops? They seem to be trusting in man!!
"the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses" (Jude 1) How much more then should we expect that the Mother of God was also assumed? "Give place: for the maid is not dead, but sleepeth" (Matthew 9) How much more sure then can we be of the dormition of the Immaculate Mother of God, the Handmaiden of the Lord? "a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars... and to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly" (Revelation 12) "At Your right hand stands the queen in gold from Ophir" (Psalm 45) Peace be with you!
Sorry I do NOT accept that the tissue of ASSUMPTIONS just voiced have any validity at all. Nor do i accept that believing all these dogmas about Mary are necessary for our salvation, which was accomplished by CHRIST's sacrifice.
@@DivineMercy_Official No, and no intention of becoming so. I'm not a hypocrite and the Marian dogmas, none of which have any basis in Scripture apart from Mary's virginal pregnancy, stick in my Protestant craw.
Catholics don’t claim that salvation is through Mary, never, ever, but they claim she has a big role in God’s plan of salvation by her intercession for sinners and by her apparitions to invite those who are away from her son to come back to Him, making way for her son’s second coming. Mary is the model of a loving and tender mother. I’m really sorry that you’re not able to penetrate into the mysticism of Mary, the Mother of God.
Three further comments. 1) The absence of any given object does not prove its non-existance. SO no Marian relics , in fact, proves nothing. 2) St. Thomas was supposed to have been martyred and buried in India. In which case he could not possibly have arrived wherever Mary died at all. An interesting side-light. There is an Italian cathedral which claims to have a forearm bone of St. Thomas. (In fact, it is a HUMERUS, not either forearm bone.) This was made available for study, and proved to be of probable Galilean origin, containing some Druze genes. The Druze only closed their community around 400 AD. So Israelite-Druze intermarriage was possible until then. This bone was brought from India; it could be Thomas's bone. 3) Any VALID "dogmatic revelation" MUST be fully compatible with Scripture.
@@margueritelangton6362 Thank you but first, Faith does not have to have scientific proof and evidence of the existence of the relics. That is why faith is called faith. Second, this event happened before Thomas returned to India and died. Third, it is compatible with scripture. God bless.
Genesis 5:24 Enoch God took him away. Because Enoch lived in fellowship with God! Who is Mary? Mother of our Lord Jesus! Kings 2 Chapter 2:11,12 The prophet Elijah was taken into heaven. So why on earth Jesus knowing that his blessed Mother was immaculate sinless, why would he be careless with his Mother and leave her here on earth? Is Enoch and Elijah more holy than Mary? I don't think so! Revelations Chapter 12 Then a great and mysterious sight appeared on the sky. There was a woman, whose dress was the sun and who had the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head. Need I say more! peace!
There is a problem in the ancient Churches of Christendom (and I say this as one who holds an MA in Theology from the Catholic university of America) in taking an undiscriminating view with in regard to Sacred Tradition (such as it is), and allowing into that Sacred Tradition many pious speculations of saints and popes which are either Scripturally, historically or logically problematic, and should not have conferred upon them the sanction of dogmatic imprimatur. The word "dogma" means that which is absolutely certain, and while this video points to possible reasons for believing that Mary was assumed bodily into heaven, it is a matter of which we cannot be certain absent some divine communication which was not revealed in the Word of God. Yes, we may piously believe that she was assumed, we have some passages of Scripture which (or may not) be indicative that such had been the case, but the truth of the matter is that the dormition narratives are nothing more than pious pseudepigrapha dating to post apostolic times, centuries afterward in fact, and therefore have no claim to dogmatic certitude on the part of the faithful. I don't know why the Catholics and the Orthodox have to raise every matter of pious belief or theological speculation to an issue of dogmatic certitude. The Trinity, the Incarnation, the Resurrection, these are matters of dogma. Mary's assumption is a matter not spoken of in the Gospel, and while it is licit to hold pious beliefs about the matter, to proclaim as dogma that which cannot possibly be dogma (i.e. known and believed to be certain) places the intelligent and educated amongst us in the position of having to take our thinking caps off to please overly devotional sensibilities in regard to the Mother of God, many of which are flat out heresy, such as the Co-Redemptrix blasphemy, borne out of an excessive devotion to the Virgin Mother, as if she who needed a Savior (Lk 1:47) was a co-Savior along with Christ, such that she herself saved herself! These needless doctrinal accretions played no small part in the Protestant revolt against SACRED TRADITION in favor of the simple gospel (with Luther and Calvin's attendent distortions, unfortunately). It is not enough for many Catholics for Mary to be the Mother of God (incarnate), the Mother of the Church, the Mother of the Body of Christ, the Mother of the faithful, to be our most gracious advocate, she has to assume all of Christ's mediatory functions as her own, and displacing Him as the one mediator between God and man (cf. 1 Tim 2:5), she has to be magnified with divine titles such as Co-Redemptrix, she has to be included in Christ's sacrifice as supposedly offering her Son to the Father as a spotless victim at the foot of the cross (intruding her into the redemptive activity of the Trinity itself!), she has to be a Mediatrix of all graces (when the Book of Acts absolutely refutes such a teaching, inasmuch as the apostles neglected Mary's interecession when invoking Christ to heal the sick and raise the dead). People whose personalities are shaped by a devotional sensibility should not be trusted with the proclamation of dogmas, because their intellects are clouded by their feelings, and they are not capable of looking outsode of themselves when assessing matters of objective truth, and it is objective truth alone which should constitute the criterion of dogmatic definition.
Just wanted to say for any Catholic that doesn’t believe that Mary died or that she went into a dormition. Just read munificentissimus deus 20. It says “ the holy fathers and the great doctors, in the homilies and sermons they gave the people on this feast day, did not draw their teaching from the feast itself as from a primary source, but rather they spoke of this doctrine as something already known and accepted by Christ faithful. They presented it more clearly. They offered more profound explanations of its meaning and nature, bringing out into sharper light the fact that this feast shows, not only that the dead body of the blessed Virgin Mary remained incorrupt, but that she gained a triumph out of death, her heavenly glorification after the example of her only begotten son”. This clearly shows that pope pius Xii believed that she died, also Jesus also died on the cross so did Jesus inherit original sin? So the Virgin Mary dying would not mean she was not immaculate.
Saying the assumption isn’t in the Bible doesn’t make it true either. AI and invetro didn’t exist at the time of the bible, but Mary did. So, if the assumption of Mary were true and is of importance as Catholicism claims, it would be in the Bible.
Mother of God erroneous You assume jesus is God thats mot true. In ghis matter you lie. When was it. Those are thoughts God never was in a body. You can make that claim No remains as fair hut no gospel truth.
So Mary gave birth to Jesus in heaven too? The sign showed up in heaven, it does not mean Mary was or is in heaven today. Read the Bible correctly people. Study the word by yourselves to show yourselves approved to God. Worship God, not a Church.
I hope someone can answer this. Because Mary was preserved without sin she didn’t suffer the consequences of death. However, in Revelation 12:1-2 it says she felt the pangs of childbirth and that is an effect of original sin. I always thought Mary would not have had labour pain but this scripture says she did. I would love to hear feedback on this so I can get it straight.
I have also seen prophecy of the woman and child actually being, Saturna with the rebirth of Hermes. Are these two being confused in the Catholic church as far as some statues that are seen in churches? A woman with 7 stars around her head with a small child.
It is definitely in the bible. Jesus tells us to honor our mother and father, surely we HONOR our lords mother. We know from genesis, that labor pain was given due to sin. The bible tells us in Matthew and luke that she gave birth without labor or pain. An angel came down from heaven and said, hail mary full of grace. The angel hailed her, gave her honor. Same with Elizabeth, she was humbled by Mary's presence upon her visit, and stated blessed is the fruit of your womb. Mary stated herself. She is a servent of God and that generations will call her blessed from now on. An angel is a servent of God as well, and we see Angel's doing God's will alot in the bible. Why would mother mary not be also considered capable of this? She is. Mary intercedes for jesus, she wants to bring people to her son. Mary is the new arc of the covenant. We honor mary, we do not worship anyone but God!
@@vazgl100 you stated that jesus is the only intercessor for God..right. noone claimed otherwise. Mother mary intercedes for jesus. Her entire purpose is to do God's will, and bring people closer to her son. If you looked at the rosary, the entire rosary all you do it meditate on what jesus did for us. All the mysteries are about jesus and his life.
@@vazgl100 you're incorrect. You meditate on jesus and his life. You can look at any "rosary instructors book" and every "mystery" you meditate on is about jesus and his life. For example the sorrowful mysteries are about jesus's stations of the cross and what we went through to redem our souls. I'm not being rude, but what you said just isn't true. I have definitely been brought closer to jesus through the rosary, as the entire meaning of the rosary is about jesus, but given to us by his mother, which was God's will. I will never reject more opportunities to become closer to my savior, and I'm glad i began saying the rosary. I hope you gain a better understanding of it, because you seem to have huge misconceptions about the rosary.
@@vazgl100 you can not get to God without the son. The bible tells us that. Mary is not a lawyer, or like a lawyer. She is God's servant. She states this. You should read the story of david, and see how king Solomon's mother was treated. When she became the queen mother. Do you not think they would show jesus's mother the same honor in heaven? The bible tells us how queen mothers were treated and honored. The king himself NEVER denied his queen mother, and it states that in the bible as well. Have you seen the story of the catholic preist who died and went to judgement? He was to be damned to hell, but the queen of heaven, asked her son to give the presit another chance? The catholic priest who died and was saved through mother mary. You should look into that. I don't know about you, but i want all the help i can get at judgement day lol
Indian Christians-Catholics are blessed to celebrate mass of Our lady of Assumption feast day on Indian Independence day on 15th August every year. That is why India is blessed -from 1947 till date by Mama Mary always.
And Patron Saint of India is St.Thomas who asked to open the Tomb of Mother Mary
We are not Mary's children. That is crazy and false teaching. It's simply not Biblical.
Jesus from the Cross: "Behold your mother". Johnson represented all disciples as all early Christianity taught.
@@bruceterhune3400Jesus has given us His Blessed Mother as our great Spiritual Mother.John 19:26-27.
Revelation 12:17 reveals the Honor Jesus has bestowed on His Mother as Queen of Heaven., Our Heavenly Advocate who intercedes for us.
It was great honor for Mary to be selected by God as the mother of Jesus. We are told to pray to the Father and the Holy Spirit intercedes with groanings on our behalf. No other means are necessary to pray to God. Mary was chosen, and it was a great honor for her and the Jewish people. Praying to her is a needless waste of time and effort. Kneeling to Mary's statue and kissing it is actually breaking one of the ten commandments. (Graven image). Scripture backs up these things.@@SonicSnakeRecords
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Virgin Mary pray for us, sinners.
Well said bless you
Not being "in the Bible" does not mean it isn't True. Catholic Tradition is also True. and the Bible itself says in the Gospel of John: not all things Jesus did are recorded in the Bible.
Even if it's not there i don't need evidence to believe. Cause Jesus son of God was born of our blessed Virgin Mary who was chosen by God.
Thomas was in India evangelizing and he wept bitterly because he was late getting there.
i wonder how and when he got the news and how much time it took for him to travel from india in those times. So we need to understand he opened the tomb after month or so. And thomas died in india so he came back to continue preaching
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On same day India got independence, it's not a coincidence but a divine coincidence .
Did Jesus say to his disciples, Go throughout the whole world and preach the gospel of the whole world 🌎 not only India, thank you 🙏
@@drendaparfitt7417 did he explain
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@@kenshiloh Dear Ken: Catholics compiled the Bible , about 400 years post the death of Our Lord Jesus Christ.
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Amazing Father! Not only you clarified the Assumption, you also emphasized
the importance of the Church and apostolic tradition.
He does speak eloquently but he bases everything he says on tradition with no biblical truth just tradition of church ..so sad
@@JulezOfficial94 When someone does not share your beliefs..he or she is not a hater..you have to be more open minded.
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What comes first is it bible or tradition? When jesus went up into heavens, did he say read my book? He left us his teaching that is passed on the apostle to the early christians. The Catholic church have the scriptures, tradition and authority.
@@geoarchon7227 he said obey my words…
How do we know those words? It was written down…
Tradition is way too unreliable
80% of Catholic is not rooted in history despite the claims of historicity eg rosary is a 4th century invention
@@rlisis HE MENTIONED A SECTION OF THE REVELATION ABOUT THE WOMAN CLOTHE WITH THE SON , GIVING BIRTH TO A SON ? ! ISN 'T THAT ENOUGH, THEN NOTHING CAN.
you say : "Not everything is in the Bible". To then talk about in vitro fertilization is just rubbish. Does sacred tradition talk about in vitro fertilization? Non Roman Catholics do not claim everything we need to know is in the Bible. They say everything we need to know about Christian faith and doctrine is in the Bible.
Your argument has more holes that a sieve.
Dear Garry, sorry but you missed the point. In vitro fertilization is not covered by Sacred Tradition.... but what does talk about in virtro fertilization? The Church. So our faith is based on the same three legs as the Jewish faith: scripture, Tradition, and the Magisterium. They knew you needed all three. Jesus talked about faith and morals, not just faith. So how do we address that? Every moral issue is covered in one of those three legs and that is why we need all three. Dogma, like Jesus being the Son of God, is covered in Scripture. The role of the priesthood as instituted by Christ is developed through Sacred Apostolic Tradition. And moral issues such as birth control, AI, in vitro (which are critical to living as a Christian and it is absurd to say it isn't and impossible to say it is in the Bible), is addressed by the Church because it wasn't addressed by the Bible nor by Sacred Tradition. So no, the argument is based on logic. Sorry you missed it. God bless.
I'm confused... the Assumption (if it did happen) would have been an event like the physical assumption of our Lord forty days after His resurrection. Supernatural and astounding. Why then do we not have a single narrative of this event by the apostles or anyone during that time?
Also, why would Jesus entrust the care of His mother to John His apostle at the foot of the cross, when He knew Mary would not be around for too long after He resurrected?
Just saying....
We know this through Sacred Apostolic Tradition. Scripture says not all things are in scripture. Jesus gave Mary to John because she was around a while after Christ died. God bless.
@@DivineMercy_Official I'd like to hope that is true but it would be like someone writing the history of New York around the turn of the century and completely ignoring the horrific events of 911in that city... highly unlikely!!!.
Let us not assume out of emotional devotion, but what was given to us through written transmission of the apostles by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit.
God Bless.
@Divine Mercy 1 Corinthians 4:6 ... "Do not go beyond what is written"
@masedi__5120 St
Paul wrote 1 Corinthians around 56 ce...Clearly you don't know what this refers to., so anything that was written after this would have to be rejected for Biblical Canon. Hence, John’s Gospel, Acts, Romans, 2 Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, Philemon, Titus, 1 & 2 Timothy, Hebrews, James, 1 & 2 Peter, 1, 2, & 3 John, Jude, and Revelation would all have to be jettisoned as non-authoritative.
Notice also that Jesus’ “brothers and sisters”are not mentioned as being at the cross.
If he had biological brothers and sisters, wouldn’t Jesus have given his mother to them? OR, at least mention them.
Another video making Mary an idol. Just like the brazen serpent Moses had made that ended up being worshipped during Hezekiahs reign, it was smashed to pieces because it became a source of idolatry. It's amazing to me that Catholics always make Mary to be more important than Jesus. They light candles, burn incense, pray, kiss statues, all for Mary. Did not Jesus say ..John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. NOT MARY.
Dear Judo, please refrain from stating what Catholics teach and believe when it is clear you don't know. God commanded Moses to carve the serpent for the people to gaze upon to be healed. Why would God command that? Because they were not worshipping it. God used it as an instrument in the same way he commanded cherubim to be carved for the Ark of the Covenant. Images and statues are not prohibited by God - they are throughout scripture. Do you call a Nativity scene evil? Or that picture of your family on your desk? That is a graven image. The difference, hopefully, is that you don't worship the glass and the frame. It reminds you of your family and helps you to recall them. The same is done with religious statues. They are not worshipped. Please don't stated what we do when you don't know. Thank you. Also, please show in Catholic teaching and writings were Mary is taught to be more important than Jesus. That statement is quite uninformed. As for candles and incense, etc... have you read the book of Revelation? Do you know what it is about? It isn't about the Rapture or Anti-Christ. But what you will find is the exact same way of worship as the Catholic Mass. God bless. ruclips.net/video/06mgry1cPf4/видео.html
Not just Catholics but also Orthodox and Anglican Christians follow this 🙏🏽
Which Christians are christians?
you can answer your own question based on your own views@@koppite9600
@@koppite9600Those who know and believe in Christ, the little Christs called Christians.😇😇😇
@@renesedonio3340 Those who opposed Moses in Numbers 16 claimed to be with God too. They were swallowed by the earth after they competed in offering sacrifice to God of Moses with Moses.
Are you like them?
Be with the ordained authority, don't make up yours or follow what people like Luther made. The creed talks of an Apostolic Church.
@@koppite9600 I believe we are one in the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church. By the mention of creed, we are one.🙏😇❤️❤️❤️😇🙏
THANK YOU FATHER ALAR!
I had a classmate at the LA SALETTE elementary school 50 years ago in kindergarten thru 6th grade - her name is 💙ASSUMPTA!!!☺️☺️☺️ how beautiful it is!!!!!
OUR LADY OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION, PLEASE STAY WITH US AND I CANNOT WAIT TO SEE YOUR IMMACULATE HEART ❤️ and OUR SACRED HEART ❤️ OF JESUS TRIUMPH in this EVIL world SOON!!!!!!
Amen ❤️
One of my Italian Grandmothers was named "Assunta" but her Americanized name was Cynthia! God Bless you Grandma, you are my hero!❤
wow!
Thanks so much for this video. I wish priests today would discuss topics like this in sermons instead of climate change.
Even in the Bible it states that " many signs and wonders which were Not Recorded Here ( there would not be enough paper to record these)
This does not mean that the Bible is insufficient or lacking. It means that Not Everything would be in it.
Tradition And Scripture are the 2 pillars of the Church.
just because something is not explicitly mentioned in Scripture doesn't mean it didn't take place.
The word Trinity does not appear and yet at the Transfiguration of Our Lord
God, The Son, Jesus appears in full glory
The Cloud is symbolic of the Holy Spirit and The Father's Voice is heard.
God didn't just randomly pick a human to be the mother of Christ ( as Protestants assert)
He Chose Mary to be the mother of Our Savior.
As a practicing Catholic I couldn’t help but notice that there is many nondenominational Christians that keep trying to slander mary and our faith I keep quoting verse such as Luke 1:28 and genesis 3:15 but it seems they keep ignoring these verses, as a Catholic what do we do when they keep ignorance, hubris and are blinded by it as I do not wish to overstep my bounds and stay within our doctrines
Awsome. I have had a thought. If Genesis, and revelations specificaly speaks of the lady standing on the sepants head and the discriptive about it... Our blessed mother showed us this image in the st juan Diegos Tilma in 1531 exactly as discribed in revelations long before she gifted the Tilma. Wow what does that say.... How exciting.. Thank you we love you Blessed mother Mary 💖😇🙏
After Jesus Christ birth Mary was not remain vergin, by Joseph she had children, so how can you say that she was vergin,
Because the Church established by Christ has said so for almost 2,000 years. Sorry, but I'll go with that over your opinion :) God bless ruclips.net/video/IrDs9gPlXKw/видео.html
I am over joy about this amazing message mysterious sight about the the Mother of Jesus Christ,
..." No original sin". That's all you had to say 😊
Thank you and God bless you but that is a different Dogma
Thank you Father Chris! Love these vignettes that help us to explain our Catholic Faith. God Bless you always.
The Messiah says, "And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven." John 3:13. I have faith in the Messiah.
Are Marian Dogmas Biblical?
Consider Lk. 1:28, “And he came to her and said, “Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with you.”, one can say with certainty that Mary is full of grace. The graces God fully bestows on her are not one, two, three, or many graces but full; so full that if these graces were to be added up, they would be equaled to “the Lord is with you (her).” These graces, to name but a few, have been identified by the Catholic Church as: To be the Mother of God; to be perpetual virgin in her virginal conception of Christ, in giving birth to Christ, and her continuing virginity after His birth; to be conceived without original sin; and to be assumed body and soul into heaven, and all other graces. In short, if there is a grace that the Lord did not bestow onto Mary, she would not be full of grace. Thus, the Assumption of Mary and all other Marian dogmas are biblical for their basis lies in Luke 1:28. By proclaiming these dogmas, all that the Catholic Church did was to make known to the world, especially the faithful the graces the Lord himself bestowed on Mary. Besides these dogmas, there are many other graces or great things which the Lord has bestowed on Mary, Lk. 1:49, “for he who is mighty has done great things for me, and holy is his name.” and these can be found in the Litany of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Love these segments so much - always amazing info to help defend our Catholic faith!! Thank you Father Chris - God bless you & keep you safe 🙏
@@artie6410 always praying for you Artie 🙏
Always positive Paryse... love and care...
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@@jackbauer7613 Jack I feel the same about your posts!!! My love to you and God bless you my brother ❤️✝️
@@gerir8634 love you sister ❤️
Amen. I hope Humberto learned the truths from this video.
The assumption of the blessed virgin Mary is in the Bible. In Luke 2. when she assumed Jesus was with his earthly father.
Thank you Father Chris
Man you had to jump through a lot of hypothetical hoops to justify this man made doctrine. With literally no evidence but inventions and dogma. I will pray for all catholics that God will open their eyes.😭
Jesus loved his mother Mary and so do Catholic Christians because we are her sons and daughters, Rev12:17. Thank you Fr Alar for another beautiful teaching about the mother of God and our mother Mary. God bless you.
Revelation 12 isn't about Mary 😪
@@relajado-fx5rf Sure it’s about Mary. All of Rev 12 is speaking about Jesus, his mother Mary, a queen with a crown and a battle where 1/3 of the angels are cast out of heaven with the devil and they go to war against mankind, the Queens children. Rev12:17 reads as follows, “Then the dragon was angry with the woman, and went off to make war on the rest of her offspring, on those who keep the commandments of God and bear testimony to Jesus.” Woman = Mary. The rest of her children who keep the commandments of God and bear testimony to Jesus = all humans, Christians.
@@DeezNailzcowardly comment.
@@Spiritof76Catholic It isn't, but lets say it was. That would mean that Mary still isn't assumed to heaven anyways, since it doesn't even talk about that
@@relajado-fx5rf It is true and Mary was because Jesus and the Catholic Church say so. Jesus and the Church are one, the pillar and bull work of truth and Christs body is the Church.
THERE ARE A WHOLE LOT OF THINGS NOT IN THE BIBLE
MAN WROTE THE BIBLE PICKING AND CHOOSING WHAT THEY WANTED FROM WRITTEN TEXT
FROM THAT TIME.
GOD DIDN'T WRITE ANYTHING
CHRIST DIDN'T WRITE ANYTHING
REPEAT THAT OVER AND OVER
AND OVER AD NAUSEUM.....
THE BIBLE WAS WRITTEN
BY M A N !!!!
The Bible says ALL have sinned and come short of the glory of God. Mary is part of all. Only Christ who is 100% God and 100% man has not sinned. I really have trouble with this doctrine of a sinless Mary. The blood of the mother and child don't mix so Mary would not have to be sinless for Jesus to be sinless. If Mary was sinless wouldn't her mother have to be sinless and so on? The doctrine doesn't make sense to me. I am trying to become a Catholic but this one is the biggest stumbling block for me.
Thank you but did you study Greek and Hebrew, the language of the original scriptures? The word used is different.And regarding Mary having sin or not, in Genesis 3:15, both Jesus and Mary are said to be in a state of "enmity" against the serpent, which in the original Hebrew means "complete and radical opposition" to Satan. It is for this reason that it is not likely that God would have permitted Mary to inherit the condition of "original sin" from Adam and Eve. Any participation by her in the disorder and corruption of the soul that the rest of us inherit from Adam and Eve would place the Mother of Jesus at least partially under the sway of Satan and evil, and thereby contradict the complete "enmity" between Mary and Satan prophesied in Genesis 3. She still needed a savior to preserve her from sin in the first place because Jesus could not have co-existed with sin in the womb of a woman who had any sin.
@@DivineMercy_Official Friend thank you for your reply. As you eluded, the enmity was put between the seed of the woman (Jesus) and the serpent (satan). This was a prophecy of Christ's 1st coming and victory. Although the devil struck the heal of Jesus via the crucifixion, Jesus crushed the devils head by His Resurrection. I know some refer to Mary as the 2nd Eve but that doesn't make sense to me either given that Christ is the second Adam and Mary was his Mother (not his wife). Hebrew and Greek are readily available if I need to look up an original word. Please tell me what word you are saying is different? Once forgiven by God for our sins we become sinless in His eyes. However, it is not by our efforts nor was it by Mary's. I will gladly concede that once Mary obtained righteousness by faith (Be it unto me as you have said...) that she was forgiven for all her sins. But the theology that she was born sinless is against many other verses even though Pope Pius IX declared it in 1854. You said "it is not likely" but that does not prevent it from being possible. If Mary was born with sin that does not correlate to Jesus being infected by iniquity. Many other versus refer to the "iniquity of the fathers". With Jesus's Father being God he had no iniquity.
The wage of sin is death.
Then why is Enoch and Elijah bodily assumed.
Paul is making a different point than the one often repeated as a proof text
“For there is one God and one mediator between God and mankind, the man Christ Jesus.” 1Timothy 2:5.
Mary the mother of Jesus is NOT an interceder or mediator to God only Jesus is the Bible is very clear regarding that and nowhere does the Bible tell us to pray to her or pray the rosary, Scripture is clear about praying to the dead, praying to the dead is strictly forbidden in the Bible. Deuteronomy 18:11 Nowhere in the Bible are we told this false doctrine which is heresy. Mary continued to have children … “Isn’t this the carpenter? Isn’t this Mary’s son and the brother of James, Joseph, Judas and Simon? Aren’t his sisters here with us?” And they took offense at him. Mark 6:3. Mary needed a saver like ALL humanity… “and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior, Luke 1:4, Mary was not sinless and had her sins forgiven at the cross “It is Finished” …John 19:30. Hebrews 12:2 “looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God”.
"John 19:26-27 When Jesus saw his mother there, and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to her, “Woman here is your son,” 27 and to the disciple, “Here is your mother.” From that time on, this disciple took her into his home." Take note Jesus called his mother "WOMAN"...WHY DO YOU THINK? MAYBE SO THE WORLD WOULD NOT CALL HER THE MOTHER OF God?? Idolatry the worship of someone or something other than God as though it were God. The first of the biblical Ten Commandments prohibits idolatry: “You shall have no other gods before me. Idolatry the worship of someone or something other than God as though it were God. The first of the biblical Ten Commandments prohibits idolatry: “ Read your Bible. “For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, 2 Timothy 4:3
Yes, Jesus is the only way to the Father. Mary doesn't lead us to the Father. She leads us to Jesus. Andrew brought Peter to Jesus. Philip brought Nathanael to Jesus. That is a form of mediation. In proclaiming Christ the one mediator (cf. I Tim 2:5-6), the text of St. Paul's Letter to Timothy excludes any other parallel mediation, but not subordinate mediation. In fact, before emphasizing the one exclusive mediation of Christ, he urges "that supplications, prayers, intercessions and thanksgivings be made for all men" (2:1). If subordinate mediation is not allowed, please don’t ask anyone to pray for you because prayers are a form of mediation. Moreover, the Greek word used for "one" that St. Paul used here in I Tim 2:5-6 in the phrase "one mediator" is not monos, which would mean "sole," but eis, which can mean "one" in the sense of "principal," or "first in a series." Jesus is the principal Mediator who enables many other sub-mediators to transmit the grace of God to others. Again, faithful Christians act as sub-mediators in Christ when they pray for their neighbors, share the Gospel with the lost, and serve the poor. The Bible says that our growth in faith and holiness is aided by the intercessions of the other members of the Body of Christ (Eph 6:18; I Thess 3:11-13; I Tim 2:1-4), and there’s no better intercession than that of Jesus’ own mother. Jesus comes from the line of David an in the Davidic Kingdom the role of the Queen Mother was important (1Kings2:19). Read about how she had the function of "counselor" to the king in regards to all matters. God blesss.
Hold up if we aren't using the bible to decide what hqppened during jesus' time what are we using? And if we are using church traditions of that time why isnt the gospel of Thomas seen as acceptable to follow. If we are to trust this story coming from Thomas why wouldnt we include his gospel in the bible. What makes this theory infallible (only starting in the 50s) but his gospel heretical? Lastly if she was taken into heaven why is it that no one near her (especially John) saw her but Thomas who was in India did? And why wouldnt he have written about it in his gospel?
Thank you but the gospel of Thomas was not written by Saint Thomas. They just use his name such as the same situation with Mary and Peter. Those gospels were not written by Mary or by Peter. They were written by anybody and everybody with no authority. That's why we need a church to discern what is inspired by the Holy Spirit and what is not. God bless
Thank you Father for telling my favourite story about the Assumption.🙏✝️💞
Should have had Jesus made Sinless the same way as Mary was right ?
Where is Saint Thomas's account of the tomb being empty recorded? Is it in the bible? That is the only argument that you used here, that could lead me to believe that maybe this is true. All your other arguments are based on man made doctrine. God does not care about man made doctrine or what we believe "only makes sense". How can you prove that Mary was born without original sin? That is not in the bible either. Jesus is the only one born without sin and he is the only one that lived without sin. We know this to be true, because the bible does tell us that. Mary was highly favored by God and she is blessed among women, but she was/is not a deity. I don't believe that we should pray to her. We do not need the intercession of Mary or the saints, because Jesus was the intercessor!!! That is what he came here for. (No one shall come to the father, EXCEPT through me.) Devotion to Mary takes the focus off our one true savior, Jesus Christ! You have not convinced me. (Respectfully, from one that is truly seeking the truth on this matter.)
Dear Lisa, thank you but with all due respect, your arguments have long long be disproven. Where in the bible does it saying everything is in the bible? The paragraph of John says it isn't. Nobody said Mary is a deity, so please refrain from stating was is not Catholic teaching. Thank you. Plus, what the Church teaches is Sacred Apostolic tradition, not man-made tradition. Please learn the difference (see 2Thes2:15). God bless.
Yes, Jesus is the only way to the Father but there are many ways to Jesus. Have you ever brought anyone to Jesus? If not, you should. If you have, then why can you but not Jesus' own mother? Andrew brought Peter to Jesus. Philip brought Nathanael to Jesus. I brought my family to Jesus... but there's no intermediator b/n Jesus and man? In proclaiming Christ the one mediator (cf. I Tim 2:5-6), the text of St. Paul's Letter to Timothy excludes any other parallel mediation, but not subordinate mediation. In fact, before emphasizing the one exclusive mediation of Christ, he urges "that supplications, prayers, intercessions and thanksgivings be made for all men" (2:1). If subordinate mediation is not allowed, please don’t ask anyone to pray for you because prayers are a form of mediation. Moreover, the Greek word used for "one" that St. Paul used here in I Tim 2:5-6 in the phrase "one mediator" is not monos, which would mean "sole," but eis, which can mean "one" in the sense of "principal," or "first in a series." Jesus is the principal Mediator who enables many other sub-mediators to transmit the grace of God to others. Again, faithful Christians act as sub-mediators in Christ when they pray for their neighbors, share the Gospel with the lost, and serve the poor. The Bible says that our growth in faith and holiness is aided by the intercessions of the other members of the Body of Christ (Eph 6:18; I Thess 3:11-13; I Tim 2:1-4), and there’s no better intercession than that of Jesus’ own mother. Jesus comes from the line of David an in the Davidic Kingdom the role of the Queen Mother was important (1Kings2:19). Read about how she had the function of "counselor" to the king in regards to all matters. God bless.
Regarding Mary having sin or not, in Genesis 3, both Jesus and Mary are said to be in a state of "enmity" against the serpent, which in the original Hebrew means "complete and radical opposition" to Satan. It is for this reason that it is not likely that God would have permitted Mary to inherit the condition of "original sin" from Adam and Eve. Any participation by her in the disorder and corruption of the soul that the rest of us inherit from Adam and Eve would place the Mother of Jesus at least partially under the sway of Satan and evil, and thereby contradict the complete "enmity" between Mary and Satan prophesied in Genesis 3. She still needed a savior to preserve her from sin in the first place because Jesus could not have co-existed with sin in the womb of a woman who had any sin.
I'm a proud Catholic but totally confused 😕 🫤 😐, to many religious freedoms taken on this matter, literally 🤔 just thought of by men, am I wrong? I hope so.....
Happy Feast of Assumption! Here is another addition to my Playlist - Defending Mary! Thank you Fr. Chris!
Thanks for teaching about Mother Mary.
Nice try. You quote scripture. But fall back on " tradition ". That defines the Catholic church. That is the downfall of it too. Great question that no priest can answer by quoting scripture.
1Tim2:15
Catholicism began as a legit God worship church but it's nothing but a political power now and even hypocritical more than ever. Your NOT Apostolic even! I'm still wanting to know how the church bypasses Romans chap1 when it comes to same sex practice, how?
Thank you but there is no need for you to shout at us with capital letters and exclamation points. First of all, only the Catholic Church can trace back its existing bishops and priests through apostolic succession. Yes the Orthodox can as well but they're no longer in union with the Chair of Peter. Thus, please see what the meaning of apostolic is. There's an unbroken line in the Papacy that goes directly to Peter. Secondly, please don't state falsities about Catholic teaching. There is nothing in Catholic Church teaching that supports same-sex activity. God bless and keeping you in prayer.
Martin Luther believed that Mary was in heaven.
Such an amazing explanation! Bless you Farher.
Am so enlightened Father Chris may our Lord continue strengthening you as you Shephard His Flock for His glory
Please do not use the sacred name so easily. Remember every knee bends! Use Christ,Our Lord,Son ofGod etc,show some piety and reserve the sacred name for sacred use. Thank you
So Mary fled into the wilderness and God fed her for 1260 days? I would like to know why she fled into the wilderness? Rev 12:6. And why was Mary persecuted by the dragon? Rev 12:13. If Mary is eternally virgin why the Bible says she has other offspring? Rev 12:17.
Thank you but your arguments were disproven over 1,500 years ago. There is no word in the original biblical language for biological brothers, and the word use can mean any close relative, cousin, step brother, etc. This video answers all your questions plus a lot more. If you care to learn, I hope you watch. God bless
ruclips.net/video/WceJ9GtEY50/видео.html
@@DivineMercy_Official if that is the case so Joseph did not marry Mary? If no, the how can you marry someone and not to have sex with her your whole entire life? please explain to me.
24 Then Joseph being raised from sleep did as the angel of the Lord had bidden him, and took unto him his wife:
25 And knew her not till she had brought forth her firstborn son: and he called his name Jesus.
Mathew 1:24-25 KJV
It means that Jesus "brothers" were most likely cousins, step siblings, or other close relatives. Most all scholars agree to this. Jesus was the "firstborn". That term (again you have to study Greek and Hebrew to understand) means Jesus was the first born but that doesn't mean there were any after him. Regarding no sex in marriage, this was not uncommon for the Jews. Moses did it. It is now called a Josephite marriage.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephite_marriage
@@lucasmaagi Its clear the bible said jesus had brothers and sisters. The catholic church says its not true . They cant admit the bible means what is says, other wise, its like pulling a little thread and eventually the whole catholic church becomes unraveled.
Fr, Catherine Anne Emmerick revealed about the assumption of Mother Mary.its beautiful, how she explained
My issue isn’t that her assumption isn’t in the Bible. But that Catholics say that the mysteries are all biblically based. The mysteries are a summation of the gospels. And I totally agree with that, except for the assumption of Mary, which only justification biblically is a vague poetic/symbolic verse. All the other mysteries are in clear story format, but her assumption and crowning are implied.
Sola scriptura is built on vaugueness .
Excellent Fr. Chris ! Thank you!
I wish these videos were in Spanish.
Thank you Fr Chris praying for you and all the Marion priests and helpers. 🙏🙏
Might I ask what did she assume?
The Muslims have RUclips videos out showing Mary’s “burial site.”
They don’t like me much over there. 😉
Thank you for your blessing, as always, Father Alar. You are so loved and needed today more than ever! Seeing you on EWTN at Mass this morning was certainly a wonderful surprise! Your homily was so inspiring and there was much chat about it in the “live chat” forum!
Forgiveness is a choice. We need to just do it and stick to it. It can be extremely uplifting in one’s soul. Then we need to work on forgetting because the persistent dwelling on how we were wronged, even though we say we’ve forgiven just not forgotten, is like bad penny. It’s part of satan’s stronghold of pride to use over us, so our souls will remain in jeopardy.
Let go and let God certainly applies to forgive and forget. If Jesus forgave us all for what our sins did to Him in His Passion and Crucifixion, how dare we not forgive others?
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Thank you Miriam and God bless you
Theblessdmother never died because she never sinned and never had Original Sin I want to know where they think they found the blessemother's grave our blessed mother i the new perfect Eve sin and death came into e into the world through Adam and Eve
I have heard this too. Albeit they can’t prove it. No has found her body for thousands of years and now suddenly they have found it 🤔 suspicious.
Islam is Antichrist
Read koran chapter 5 verse 51
Chapter 98 verse 6
Chapter 2 verse 191
Chapter 9 verse 29
It's very much wrong to look for Islam for answers
@@francisfernandes5615 I don’t think anyone is looking to Islam for answers.
The assumption of Mary is nothing more than an unsubstantiated assumption...
Dear NB, faith is not based on things "substantiated." If you watch the video, you see why the Church teaches what she does. God bless.
@@DivineMercy_Official You assume we are supposed to believe everything the CC says.
The appeal to Revelation 12 is really quite bad. It was not held among the early Christians or church fathers that the "woman" in Revelation was Mary, but represented either Israel or the Church. To assert that it refers to Mary and present this as evidence for the Assumption borders upon deception.
The retort that "not everything in the Bible" is completely insufficient to the question here. The Church of Rome claims that the Assumption MUST be believed for salvation -- it is an essential part of the Gospel. Yet we have no evidence whatsoever that Jesus, the apostles, or the early Church believed or required belief in the Assumption for salvation. THAT is the problem.
If you want to say "we believe X" and here is why, that is fine. Even, "to be a part of our group, you must believe X" is okay. But belief in the Assumption and its necessity for salvation is clearly a late innovation and found nowhere in the early Church records.
Some say the "woman" is a symbol of Israel and the Church, the New Israel. Yes, she has a crown of 12 stars, symbolizing the 12 tribes of Israel, and the 12 apostles. So which interpretation is correct? Both are correct! The ancient Fathers saw no contradiction
It was not uncommon in ancient Jewish literature to use a double-symbol: an historical individual used to symbolize a whole group of people. For example, it is quite likely that in Isaiah 53 about the sufferings of the Messiah ("He was despised and rejected of men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief," etc.) is also meant to symbolize the vocation of suffering of the whole people of Israel. They suffered like Jesus! In a similar way, Mary, the Mother of the Church, is used in the book of Revelation to symbolize the fulfillment of the vocation of Israel in the new people of God, the Church. Hope of heaven! The Church made the connection b/n Psalm 132:8 and the mystery of the heavenly woman-ark. "Arise, O Lord, and go to Thy resting place, Thou and the ark of Thy might." After the Lord "arose' from the dead, He took with Him into heavenly glory the true "ark" of the New Covenant, the body of His mother Mary. For just as the ancient Israelites believed that the original ark was made from incorruptible wood, so this passage foreshadows the bodily incorruption given to Mary as new Ark by Her Risen Son.
@@DivineMercy_Official, thank you for your comment. However, toward the end of it, you are simply repeating the contested claim without any evidence to support it. That is unhelpful. If you wish to believe the Assumption, that is your freedom. What I am looking for is EVIDENCE that it is actually true. I don't see any, and simply repeating the claim is not evidence.
Gracias Padre!! Ojalá ponga sus programas en español, usted enseña la palabra de Dios muy bien y mucha gente latina necesitamos estas gran enseñanzas! Dios lo bendiga!!
love my Mother Mary!
my mother loves Mary
and all the mothers before her
loves Mary forever and ever
Amen!
why did the Cathlic Church change the commandments
THey didn't Floyd. Please watch a few minutes of this video starting at 18:25 God bless. ruclips.net/video/06mgry1cPf4/видео.html
No one changed it lmao
The biggest presumption the Catholic church makes is the assumption of Mary. It is a pity nobody told Mary herself. She is absent from the body and present with the Lord just like all other believers in the Lord Jesus Christ who have passed on.
Thank you but it may be a bit presumptuous thinking you know better than 2,000 years of Church teaching from the Church established by Christ :) God bless.
@@DivineMercy_Official That is the second biggest presumption that the Catholic church makes. The Roman Catholic church is NOT the church which was established by Christ. We get our teaching from the Bible not from the Catholic system. Anyone who is indwelt by the Holy Spirit of Truth knows that the Rock is the fact that Christ is the Son of the Living God. It was revealed to Peter by God the Father that the man standing in front of Him was God manifest in human form, and therefore the Rock which the Old Testament talked about. You should go back to being the Church assembly at Rome with the teaching of the apostle Paul in his letter to the Romans. At least then you would get your foundations correct and scriptural.
@@smeatonlighthouse4384 Dear SL, do you know who determined what books went into the Bible? Who did the Holy Spirit guide to select the books we have today? At the time the bible was canonized in the Fourth century, there were many "gospels" in circulation: the gospel of Peter, the gospel of Thomas, the gospel of Mary, etc. So who decided these books were not inspired, but Matthew, Mark, Luke and John were? The answer is the Catholic Church at the councils of Carthage and Hippo in 393 and 397AD. You can accept the Bible and reject the authority (guided by the Holy Spirit) from which it came. Do you know where the Catholic faith comes from? It comes from the Jews, who had the same three legs of their faith as we do: Scripture, Tradition and a Magisterium. The Bible itself does not proclaim Sola Scriptura and in fact speaks against it in the last paragraph of the Gospel of John. Paul emphasized that we are to hold fast to the traditions being taught, both oral and written. These are Apostolic traditions, not man-made traditions. You also cannot accept the Bible and reject the authority from which it came. God bless. This talk will help explain things for you... ruclips.net/video/sx-qIvG-c9M/видео.html
@@smeatonlighthouse4384 Sola Scriptura is not in the Bible but Apostolic Tradition is (2Thes2:15). Jesus said he was starting a church, but if Jesus didn't start the Catholic Church, what church did he start? There was only the Catholic Church for 1500 years until Martin Luther went into schism. And if you claim Jesus didn't start Catholicism, then who did start it in 33AD, when the first Masses were said? God bless.
@@johnpaton6498 No.... they removed themselves from the Petrine Authority established by Christ.
Mary had parents then she had Jesus when she was virgin also had Jesus brothers and sisters afterwards, only person who was immaculate conceived was Jesus, by God Gabriel the angel of Lord who came to her
The Bible does not say that Mary Had other children. The Bible says that Jesus had brothers and sisters and the Hebrew word for brothers "ah" and the Greek word for brothers or sisters called "adelphos" can mean simply a near relative or close relative, like a cousin, not necessarily or usually a sibling. God bless
Thank you but Regarding Mary having sin or not, in Genesis 3:15, both Jesus and Mary are said to be in a state of "enmity" against the serpent, which in the original Hebrew means "complete and radical opposition" to Satan. It is for this reason that it is not likely that God would have permitted Mary to inherit the condition of "original sin" from Adam and Eve. Any participation by her in the disorder and corruption of the soul that the rest of us inherit from Adam and Eve would place the Mother of Jesus at least partially under the sway of Satan and evil, and thereby contradict the complete "enmity" between Mary and Satan prophesied in Genesis 3. She still needed a savior to preserve her from sin in the first place because Jesus could not have co-existed with sin in the womb of a woman who had any sin.
Respectfully
Should any tradition of man elevate any human being above Christ? Should we worship anyone but God? Doesn’t the Bible speak against the traditions of man? The Apostles written and verbal teachings were of Christ Jesus and God the Father alone, most especially the Apostle Paul. The mother of Christ Jesus lived in the time of the apostles and there has been no written scriptures left for our admonition to lead a Christian of faith in the God of Abraham to elevate Mary to be worshipped or deified.
The holy scriptures tells us that the Holy Spirit leads all who believe in Christ Jesus and the God of Abraham to all Truth, if they obey God’s laws. The CHURCH is nothing individually or collectively without the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. We love the mother Mary for giving birth to the Christ Jesus as we should. King David, Moses, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Daniel, Ruth, Naomi, etc. all the blessed men and women God chose to carry out his wonderful plan of redemption for sinful humanity. Praise and worship the one true God of Heaven and learn from those whom he used in his plan for our example and be humbled and blessed by their lives.
Thank you but who is elevated above Christ? Who worships Mary? Certainly not Catholics. That has never been Catholic teaching and never will be. There is no encyclical, papal bull, or any kind of magisterium statement in the history of the Church that says to worship Mary. So please be careful of the sin of slander in saying something very damaging that is not true. "To pray to" doesn't necessarily mean "to worship" but "to ask." Haven't you ever asked anyone to help you? We ask Mary to help her lead us to her son. To bow doesn’t necessarily mean worship either. Japanese businessmen bow when receiving your business card as a sign of honor. Are they worshipping you? Certainly not. God bless ruclips.net/video/oh7gDmjX-XU/видео.html
@George Vazquez no one following Catholic Church teaching prays to Mary for salvation. That is not Catholic teaching on intercessory prayer. You do not understand Catholic Church teaching so please refrain from stating incorrect comments about our faith. God bless
THE ASSUMPTION AND QUEENSHIP OF MARY IN THE BIBLE:
REV 12: 1 A great sign appeared in the heavens, a woman clothed with the sun, the moon under her feet, and on her head a CROWN (signifying a Queen) of 12 stars. The woman of REV 1 2 is the woman who gives birth to the male child who will rule the nations, so we know she is MARY.
False. Did Mary flee into the wilderness? Rev 12:6. What are the offspring of Mary then? Rev 12:13.
@@lucasmaagi YA so what? Picking ONE scripture that (seems to) suit your agenda, does not "Cancel out" the scripture that I showed here, no matter how much you want it to. The one I hav e shown here IS STILL VALID.
The same protestants who sneer at the idea of an infallibke Pope, who was given authority by JESUS, somehow think that THEY THEMSELVES are infallble, even though JESUS never gave authority to protestantism, and protestantism comes from MEN.BTW T h e bible is not your property, it came from the Catholic church and the protestant version was altered by Luther.
➨ JESUS gives authority of the Church TO PETER (NOT TO CONSTANTINE, Not to Luther, not Calvin, not Ellen White or any other "reformer" )
✦ MATT 16:13-19: Jesus gives keys of the Kingdom to PETER and builds his church upon PETER.
✦ ACTS 15:7-12: "After much debate had taken place, PETER got up and said to them, “My brothers, you are well aware that from early days God made his choice among you THAT THROUGH MY MOUTH THE GENTILES WOULD HEAR THE WORD OF THE GOSPEL AND BELIEVE."
✦ JOHN 21:15-19: Jesus tells PETER to "Feed my sheep"
➨ The body of PETER now lies under the altar of St Peter's basilica. Evidence is even shown by unbiased secular media giants National Geographic, A&E & a book: "The Bones of St Peter"
➨The True Church is a TEACHING CHURCH:
(To TEACH is to impart knowledge that is not oresently known....not in writing)
✦JOHN 14:26-31
26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall TEACH you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
✦JOHN 16:14:
"When the Spirit of truth comes He will guide you to all truth."
✦ Acts 8:26-40 King James Version (KJV)
30 And Philip ran thither to him, and heard him read the prophet Esaias, and said, Understandest thou what thou readest?
31 And he said, How can I, except some man should guide me? And he desired Philip that he would come up and sit with him.
@@lucasmaagi Protestantism has nothing to do with Jesus and has no authority from Jesus either.
@@lucasmaagi WE CATHOLICS....THE CHURCH....are her children. YOU are the children of the dragon who wages war against her REV 12:17
@@cynthiax56 so we must keep quiet when Roman Catholic church killed William Tyndale who translated the Bible from original Greek and Hebrew. What about John Huss? Roman Catholic Church under Papacy is the Anti-Christ. All reformers agreed with that.
Don't go beyond what is written. When people die they remain dead until the 2nd coming of Christ.
The Bible wasn't written until decades after Jesus died. How did the Christians then learn their faith? Sacred Apostolic Tradition. The Bible itself says not everything is in the bible. Sola Scriptura is not in the Bible. But 2Thes2:15 says Sacred Apostolic Tradition is. That is where the Church of 2,000 years established by Christ knows a bit more about it than you... no offense :) God bless.
@@DivineMercy_Official
of course not everything, but when it comes to faith the Bible says
2 Timothy 3:15
ESV
15 and how afrom childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus
so what do the Apostles teach us, I Cor. 4:6.. don't go beyond what is written
Now, question.. Where in the Bible can you read that Mary hears your prayers in heaven? Is she in heaven right now, how about the Apostles, the canonized saints?
again, don't go beyond what is written.
@@jackoliver7024 Yes we do because like the Jewish faith from which we came, there are three legs to the stool, which includes Magisterium and Sacred Tradition. God can communicate to man through only the written word? You are limiting him and saying he cannot communicate to man by spoken word handed down through Apostolic Tradition? Limiting God to only being able to write is not what the Bible says (2Thes2:15). Plus, Jesus didn't write anything down, so how do it get into the Bible decades later? Through Sacred Tradition and Oral Tradition. That same tradition for 2,000 years has pointed out the role of Mary and the Saints. Thank you but I am unable to continue this discussion. God bless.
@@DivineMercy_Official
Wrong, it was the will of God ro let His words be weitten, and if there was a tradition before it was alsow written.
Now, if you don't believe that the New Testament is inspired by God then why do you think that it is insufficient?
It may be written many years after the death of Christ, but Christians just like the former nation of God knows the command of God to write his words. (Jer. 20:2)
And in the new testament, God forbids and will punish anyone adding or dsducting from the words of God written in the scripture, do you still needs the verse?
Now, going back to Mary, where did you base your tradition or doctrine that Mary is in heaven as your mediator to God?
Oh ok now I know.
"just because something isn't directly in the Bible doesn't make it false doctrine", and yet Roman Catholics rightly reject decision theology and believer only baptism, neither of which are in the Bible. They also rightly reject the "sinner's prayer", which is also not in scripture. Yet this doctrine not found in scripture is somehow true? Maybe Hus was right?
2Thessalonians 2:15 is here again taken out of context. The passage does not say TRADITION, as in things that you perform as a ritual, but rather TEACHINGS or ORDINANCES, just as the greek word PARADOSEIS suggests it. The We have to remember that “Faith comes from hearing, and hearing from the WORDS OF CHRIST”. Meaning we should always be attentive to the Word of God, and what he gave His disciples. Nowhere has Christ or His disciples said that Mary went up into heaven. Such an important event would have been so important, why would the disciples just ommit that?
The Assumption has been TRADITION in the teaching of the Church established by Christ for centuries before there was ever another Christian religion other than Catholicism. That is what TRADITION is all about. Nobody mentioned rituals. Please don't take things out of context. God bless.
@@DivineMercy_Official the Assumption of Mary was established by Christ? Where? How? When?
Tradition, in 2thessalonians 2:15, does not means teachings. And there are no recorded teachings of Christ directly or indirectly referring to Mary as a MEDIATRIX or anything like that. It does say it, if we twist scripture and only use imagery. But Biblical exegesis is more than just using imagery, unfortunately.
Amen!
Revelation Chapter 12 refers to a woman clothed with the sun and the moon under her feet wearing a crown. I always thought it referred to the Virgin Mary.
Yes and before that (REV 11:19) John saw the Ark in heaven and The Ark of the New Covenant is Mary because she carried the Lord God Jesus in her womb
Its false revelation is referring to Israel not Mary. you are wrong.
Dear Antonio, 2,000 years teaching of the Church established by Christ disagree with you. No offense, but most would go with their authority from Christ rather than your opinion. God bless.
God bless you Father for so perfect 👍 information ,you light our way in Faith 🙏
Traditions. Believing just because it was a tradition is dangerous. Just because it's a tradition dosent mean its right. Really port argument.
Sacred Apostolic tradition has been a part of Christ's Church for 2,000 years. What is dangerous is to ignore it. God bless
@@DivineMercy_Official its dangerous to accept man made conclusions over the bible.
Dear Father Chris. re The Assumption: The Bible, or even the Church, doesn't say much about Mary after the Resurection, but was Mary still alive at the time of the Assumption? It would make sense if Mary had passed and was raised body and soul. However, it would make for a great miracle to have Assumed in life.
Thank you George. As mentioned in the video (and as I will talk about on Saturday) the Church has never stated if Mary died or not, but there is fittingness to say she didn't.
Thank you so much For. Chris, God bless and protect you and your Ministry always 💖💖💖
Mother Mary intercede for me
The Church was intended to guide us to salvation, but unfortunately in this madness has succumbed to man by following these ridiculous covid rules! WHERE is the faith of the bishops? They seem to be trusting in man!!
"the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses" (Jude 1)
How much more then should we expect that the Mother of God was also assumed?
"Give place: for the maid is not dead, but sleepeth" (Matthew 9)
How much more sure then can we be of the dormition of the Immaculate Mother of God, the Handmaiden of the Lord?
"a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars... and to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly" (Revelation 12)
"At Your right hand stands the queen in gold from Ophir" (Psalm 45)
Peace be with you!
Sorry I do NOT accept that the tissue of ASSUMPTIONS just voiced have any validity at all. Nor do i accept that believing all these dogmas about Mary are necessary for our salvation, which was accomplished by CHRIST's sacrifice.
Dear ML, it is dogmatic revelation. Are you Catholic?
@@DivineMercy_Official No, and no intention of becoming so. I'm not a hypocrite and the Marian dogmas, none of which have any basis in Scripture apart from Mary's virginal pregnancy, stick in my Protestant craw.
Catholics don’t claim that salvation is through Mary, never, ever, but they claim she has a big role in God’s plan of salvation by her intercession for sinners and by her apparitions to invite those who are away from her son to come back to Him, making way for her son’s second coming. Mary is the model of a loving and tender mother.
I’m really sorry that you’re not able to penetrate into the mysticism of Mary, the Mother of God.
Three further comments. 1) The absence of any given object does not prove its non-existance. SO no Marian relics , in fact, proves nothing. 2) St. Thomas was supposed to have been martyred and buried in India. In which case he could not possibly have arrived wherever Mary died at all.
An interesting side-light. There is an Italian cathedral which claims to have a forearm bone of St. Thomas. (In fact, it is a HUMERUS, not either forearm bone.) This was made available for study, and proved to be of probable Galilean origin, containing some Druze genes. The Druze only closed their community around 400 AD. So Israelite-Druze intermarriage was possible until then.
This bone was brought from India; it could be Thomas's bone.
3) Any VALID "dogmatic revelation" MUST be fully compatible with Scripture.
@@margueritelangton6362 Thank you but first, Faith does not have to have scientific proof and evidence of the existence of the relics. That is why faith is called faith. Second, this event happened before Thomas returned to India and died. Third, it is compatible with scripture. God bless.
Genesis 5:24 Enoch God took him away. Because Enoch lived in fellowship with God! Who is Mary? Mother of our Lord Jesus! Kings 2 Chapter 2:11,12 The prophet Elijah was taken into heaven. So why on earth Jesus knowing that his blessed Mother was immaculate sinless, why would he be careless with his Mother and leave her here on earth? Is Enoch and Elijah more holy than Mary? I don't think so! Revelations Chapter 12 Then a great and mysterious sight appeared on the sky. There was a woman, whose dress was the sun and who had the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head.
Need I say more! peace!
This is great explanation 👏
There is a problem in the ancient Churches of Christendom (and I say this as one who holds an MA in Theology from the Catholic university of America) in taking an undiscriminating view with in regard to Sacred Tradition (such as it is), and allowing into that Sacred Tradition many pious speculations of saints and popes which are either Scripturally, historically or logically problematic, and should not have conferred upon them the sanction of dogmatic imprimatur. The word "dogma" means that which is absolutely certain, and while this video points to possible reasons for believing that Mary was assumed bodily into heaven, it is a matter of which we cannot be certain absent some divine communication which was not revealed in the Word of God. Yes, we may piously believe that she was assumed, we have some passages of Scripture which (or may not) be indicative that such had been the case, but the truth of the matter is that the dormition narratives are nothing more than pious pseudepigrapha dating to post apostolic times, centuries afterward in fact, and therefore have no claim to dogmatic certitude on the part of the faithful.
I don't know why the Catholics and the Orthodox have to raise every matter of pious belief or theological speculation to an issue of dogmatic certitude. The Trinity, the Incarnation, the Resurrection, these are matters of dogma. Mary's assumption is a matter not spoken of in the Gospel, and while it is licit to hold pious beliefs about the matter, to proclaim as dogma that which cannot possibly be dogma (i.e. known and believed to be certain) places the intelligent and educated amongst us in the position of having to take our thinking caps off to please overly devotional sensibilities in regard to the Mother of God, many of which are flat out heresy, such as the Co-Redemptrix blasphemy, borne out of an excessive devotion to the Virgin Mother, as if she who needed a Savior (Lk 1:47) was a co-Savior along with Christ, such that she herself saved herself!
These needless doctrinal accretions played no small part in the Protestant revolt against SACRED TRADITION in favor of the simple gospel (with Luther and Calvin's attendent distortions, unfortunately). It is not enough for many Catholics for Mary to be the Mother of God (incarnate), the Mother of the Church, the Mother of the Body of Christ, the Mother of the faithful, to be our most gracious advocate, she has to assume all of Christ's mediatory functions as her own, and displacing Him as the one mediator between God and man (cf. 1 Tim 2:5), she has to be magnified with divine titles such as Co-Redemptrix, she has to be included in Christ's sacrifice as supposedly offering her Son to the Father as a spotless victim at the foot of the cross (intruding her into the redemptive activity of the Trinity itself!), she has to be a Mediatrix of all graces (when the Book of Acts absolutely refutes such a teaching, inasmuch as the apostles neglected Mary's interecession when invoking Christ to heal the sick and raise the dead).
People whose personalities are shaped by a devotional sensibility should not be trusted with the proclamation of dogmas, because their intellects are clouded by their feelings, and they are not capable of looking outsode of themselves when assessing matters of objective truth, and it is objective truth alone which should constitute the criterion of dogmatic definition.
Great indeed is MARY!
With love , i encourage everyone to read and meditate on the word of God.
John 14:6
1 Timothy 2:5
Hebrews 4: 14-16
Amazing thank you Father I like the explanation I know in my heart Mother Mary is on heaven how she got their I don’t care
Just wanted to say for any Catholic that doesn’t believe that Mary died or that she went into a dormition. Just read munificentissimus deus 20. It says “ the holy fathers and the great doctors, in the homilies and sermons they gave the people on this feast day, did not draw their teaching from the feast itself as from a primary source, but rather they spoke of this doctrine as something already known and accepted by Christ faithful. They presented it more clearly. They offered more profound explanations of its meaning and nature, bringing out into sharper light the fact that this feast shows, not only that the dead body of the blessed Virgin Mary remained incorrupt, but that she gained a triumph out of death, her heavenly glorification after the example of her only begotten son”. This clearly shows that pope pius Xii believed that she died, also Jesus also died on the cross so did Jesus inherit original sin? So the Virgin Mary dying would not mean she was not immaculate.
Thank you Fr. Chris for all you do in explaining the catholic faith. Prayers for you, your mom and your family...Arsie
Thank you Father Alar! May God continue to bless you and all MIC for all you do to clarify our Roman Catholic faith!🙏❤️🌹
Saying the assumption isn’t in the Bible doesn’t make it true either. AI and invetro didn’t exist at the time of the bible, but Mary did. So, if the assumption of Mary were true and is of importance as Catholicism claims, it would be in the Bible.
Mother of God erroneous
You assume jesus is God thats mot true.
In ghis matter you lie.
When was it.
Those are thoughts
God never was in a body.
You can make that claim No remains as fair hut no gospel truth.
It is NOT in the Word of God
Thank you it's not always best to comment without watching the video. God bless you
So Mary gave birth to Jesus in heaven too? The sign showed up in heaven, it does not mean Mary was or is in heaven today. Read the Bible correctly people. Study the word by yourselves to show yourselves approved to God. Worship God, not a Church.
I hope someone can answer this. Because Mary was preserved without sin she didn’t suffer the consequences of death. However, in Revelation 12:1-2 it says she felt the pangs of childbirth and that is an effect of original sin. I always thought Mary would not have had labour pain but this scripture says she did. I would love to hear feedback on this so I can get it straight.
Souce: trust me bro. Rome is right bro. Everyone else is wrong bro.
Muh tradition!!!!
Wonderful
In the book of Matthew 3:13-17 Baptism of Jesus the Trinity is told to us!
Thank you father for your explanation.looking forward for another story about God.🙏🏻♥️♥️♥️
I have also seen prophecy of the woman and child actually being, Saturna with the rebirth of Hermes. Are these two being confused in the Catholic church as far as some statues that are seen in churches? A woman with 7 stars around her head with a small child.
It is definitely in the bible. Jesus tells us to honor our mother and father, surely we HONOR our lords mother. We know from genesis, that labor pain was given due to sin. The bible tells us in Matthew and luke that she gave birth without labor or pain. An angel came down from heaven and said, hail mary full of grace. The angel hailed her, gave her honor. Same with Elizabeth, she was humbled by Mary's presence upon her visit, and stated blessed is the fruit of your womb. Mary stated herself. She is a servent of God and that generations will call her blessed from now on. An angel is a servent of God as well, and we see Angel's doing God's will alot in the bible. Why would mother mary not be also considered capable of this? She is. Mary intercedes for jesus, she wants to bring people to her son. Mary is the new arc of the covenant. We honor mary, we do not worship anyone but God!
@@vazgl100 you stated that jesus is the only intercessor for God..right. noone claimed otherwise. Mother mary intercedes for jesus. Her entire purpose is to do God's will, and bring people closer to her son.
If you looked at the rosary, the entire rosary all you do it meditate on what jesus did for us. All the mysteries are about jesus and his life.
@@vazgl100 you're incorrect. You meditate on jesus and his life. You can look at any "rosary instructors book" and every "mystery" you meditate on is about jesus and his life. For example the sorrowful mysteries are about jesus's stations of the cross and what we went through to redem our souls.
I'm not being rude, but what you said just isn't true. I have definitely been brought closer to jesus through the rosary, as the entire meaning of the rosary is about jesus, but given to us by his mother, which was God's will. I will never reject more opportunities to become closer to my savior, and I'm glad i began saying the rosary. I hope you gain a better understanding of it, because you seem to have huge misconceptions about the rosary.
@@vazgl100 you can not get to God without the son. The bible tells us that. Mary is not a lawyer, or like a lawyer. She is God's servant. She states this.
You should read the story of david, and see how king Solomon's mother was treated. When she became the queen mother. Do you not think they would show jesus's mother the same honor in heaven? The bible tells us how queen mothers were treated and honored. The king himself NEVER denied his queen mother, and it states that in the bible as well.
Have you seen the story of the catholic preist who died and went to judgement? He was to be damned to hell, but the queen of heaven, asked her son to give the presit another chance? The catholic priest who died and was saved through mother mary. You should look into that. I don't know about you, but i want all the help i can get at judgement day lol
@@wouldntyouliketoknow1496 no. the rosary is all about prayers and devotion, supplications to Mary.
Thank you Fr.Chris Alar for your enlightening teaching wow.God bless great ministry
How sad, our poor Catholic neighbors, believe such religious fairy tales.