I feel like your prayer came directly from my lips. I was a Protestant for many years and have recently become Catholic. My husband doesn’t understand why everyone can’t receive communion so he won’t convert and my poor kids who are older are confused. I can explain to my husband until I’m blue in the face how confession has healed me, how I can feel Jesus’ heart in the Eucharist replacing my hard heart, how I feel closer to Him then I’ve ever felt before and how I can feel Mary’s love, but without the faith it falls on deaf ears. I will continue to pray that my family and I will be united again and not for me because I would walk it alone as long as I had my King, but for what He will do for them!! Holy Mother pray for us! It seems that there are A LOT of people converting from Protestant to Catholic…God is always working♥️
Welcome home!!! We came into the church 2 years ago, me a revert, led by my husband, a convert. Keep praying to our Lady and just keep loving your family. Love covers a multitude of wrongs. Have books about Catholic conversions at your home. Rome Sweet Home convinced me. God bless you!
@@aprill9958 - even Catholics cannot receive the Eucharist if they are not properly disposed and are not in a state of sanctifying grace( no mortal sins) . It also sacrilege to receive our Lord if you JUST think it’s a SYMBOL. St Paul warns precisely for this reason in 1 Corinthians 13 - So then, whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an UNWORTHY manner will be “GUILTY of sinning” against the body and blood of the Lord. 28Everyone ought to examine themselves before they eat of the bread and drink from the cup. 29For those who eat and drink without discerning the body of Christ eat and drink judgment on themselves. 30That is why many among you are weak and sick, and a number of you are DEAD. This is not a mere symbol as scripture and the Early Church Fathers attests. I recommend you give him Scott Hahn book for Christmas- The Lambs Supper - the Mass as heaven on Earth. Dr Brant Pitre book The Jewish Roots of the Eucharistic. Both have talks on RUclips too. Pax Christi
Please tell your husband that the reason the Church does not allow non-catholics to receive Holy Communion is to prevent them from being labelled hypocritical or lying. We Catholics say Amen when we literally receive the Real Presence in the Eucharist. If your husband did this but did NOT believe, he would, like Paul proclaimed in the Gospel, be guilty of profaning the Body of the Lord. Prayers to both of you. God Bless.
@@nightshade99 Why would I venerate them? I would honor the saints because they deserve it and they are more motivation I need. Christ is the inspiration but seeing my fellow humans who lived holy lives in his Name is inspirational. They are our victorious brothers and sisters with the Big Brother, Our Lord Jesus. I will call his Mother my mother and his Father my God. The communion of the Saints is a gift of many that the Church is laden with by God. We should use them.
"Behold your mother". I am a revert to the Catholic church. Thank you for mentioning our lady of Guadalupe. She was instrumental in leading me back to her son, our lord and savior Jesus Christ. Godbless you sister.
You talk about Mary so beautifully. It's touching my heart. I'm a cradle Catholic from a country which has been very much devoted to the Mother of God. She even has a special title in my country: The Most Holy Virgin Mary, Queen of Poland. This title comes from the 16th century and is related to the Counter-Reformation and was used by the Polish people through centuries. The pope, Saint Pius X, officially allowed to add this title at the end of the Litany of Loreto.
I'm dabbling into Catholicism, after a short stint deep-diving into E. Orthodox as well! Thank you for your sweet video. I have only been doing research so far, but I have yet to go to mass. I have a devoted, Christian husband, but I haven't broached the subject yet with him.
I’m in the same boat, maybe a few steps ahead. I go to mass during the week. My husband is a devout reformed Christian. I am resolved to petition Mary and all the saints to intercede on our behalf.
I am Byzantine Eastern Catholic (Ruthenian rite). Look into Byzantine Catholicism. We are Orthodox in full communion with Rome. We venerate both St. Gregory of Pallamas of the east and St.Thomas of the West.
"Mother Mary, as You carried your dear Son in your immaculate womb, you also carried Him in your heart. Pray for me, this Advent, that I may surrender myself to the will of the Father in imitation of you. You said “Yes” to all that God asked of you and never hesitated to fully embrace His divine will. Pray that I may imitate your perfect example so as to share a deeper union with you and your divine Son. Come, Lord Jesus! Amen." 🙏🕯
Such a good video. I grew up Protestant. It was challenging getting used to the idea of there being a mother within the church and in the family of God. On the one hand, it made perfect sense. Why would God design the family to be any different than His own? If Christ’s father is now my father, then why should His mother not also be my mother? Despite this and the great points you make here, i still had a reluctance praying the rosary or addressing Mary in any meaningful way; that was of course until I noticed one interesting consequence of the rosary: the death of sin. I couldn’t really explain it, but for some unknown reason, the more I prayed the rosary the less I was inclined to sin. The effect was undeniable. Mary began to somehow provide a grace in my life. I have since entered the church about two years ago and have continued to pray the rosary every day. My life has never been the same. I know to other Protestants the subject of Mary and the saints can be very off-putting, but I promise you, it is the truth.
Believe it or not for some people it is more instant than others. The saying "your mileage may vary" applies. There are millions of conversion stories... they nearly all differ. So placing such an inflexible statement is not fair. Look at St. Paul.... bam your Catholic!!! You left out her experience on her feeling... that the rosary causes you to sin less... she got this through grace... maybe your was a slower path? Like most of us. 'Tis the most powerful weapon like you said... the Devil hates it... the demons probably place thoughts of dislike of the rosary in our separated members... among other things... but in us too... why pray rosary today... skip it. Maybe that is more the world talking... anyways you get the point.
@@nightshade99She’s not only the Queen of Heaven and Earth, but The New Eve, the Theotukus. This is the Ancient and Apostolic beliefs of the Christian faith.
@@nightshade99 Who sits at the right hand of Davidic king? Its the Gebirah (aka Queen Mother). Read 1 kings 2:19. Its followed throughout the history of Judah kingdom. (Jeremiah 13:18 etc). Its the mother who is crowning the King (Song of Solomon 3:11) So far good? Is there a queen in heaven at the right hand of the King? Psalms says yes. Is Jesus a Davidic king? Yes, he is sitting on the throne of David, the last king from Judah tribe. Hope you are following. And then there is a Queen in Rev 12. The Mother of the eternal King who rules the heavens and earth by iron rode. Anything wrong with this perspective? Its very fitting to call Mary the queen of heaven as she is the Gebirah in NT. This is the reason why Elizabeth called her "Mother of my Lord'.
@@nightshade99 - Sure I can TYPOLOGICALLY but before that can you prove EXPLICITLY from Scripture Sola Fide, Sola Scriptura, Trinity, Rapture, Incarnation, Altar Call etc or even the word Bible from the Bible.
Thank you for this beautiful testimony! One of the best things about being a Catholic is that we can continue to grow in this maternal relationship with Our Lady as we follow her Son. You should consider sharing your testimony at The Journey Home, the Coming Home Network.
Tear* ❤😢 Mama Mary gets me through motherhood especially with a mother who lost her son when he was 7 making it hard for her to show me true unconditional love, her saying Yes and knowing what her son would go through has been my strength ❤
All Christians should study John 19:25-27 and ask themselves “why on earth did Jesus say that?” For Protestants, it’s yet another verse they have to ignore and overlook, because it doesn’t fit in with their “accept Jesus into your heart and that’s it” paradigm. For Catholics (and the Orthodox), those verses hold massive significance. Great video! Everyone should read Dr. Brant Pitre’s books!
I would add: Not only Catholics and Orthodox, but also other ancient churches such as the Syro-Malabar Church, in India, part of the Church of the East (evangelized by Saint Thomas, the apostle), is devoted to Mary. This shows how ancient and natural being devolted to Mary was for first Christians. I could also mention the Armenians, Copts, Assyrians, etc. It is a very ancient practice. The "Maryphobia" is something new (from the 16th century onward).
@EmbracingTradition100 I did!!! How lovely! I love Our Lady of Guadalupe so much! ❤ She's my favourite among all the stories of our mother's apparitions, which, by the way, demonstrate what we see in Revelations: she can't forget her little ones. She's always coming back. I'm so happy you get to know, experientially, the POWER of Our Lady's intercession. The Lord is so generous with his saints. He loves granting their requests, because they were so obedient to him on earth, and none more than his own mother. The maronites say thar so many miracles are granted through the intercession of St. Charbel, because, "the Lord denies him nothing in heaven, because St. Charbel denied him nothing on earth." And this is truest of his own mother! I hope other Christians can come to know this for themselves as well.
@@EmbracingTradition100 St. Charbel is credited with the most healing miracles of any saint. He is revered in the East and the West and even among muslims.
Oh my love that book of Dr. Brant Pitre is an eye opening to me, the ties to Mary and the Old testament add so much credibility to having a reverence (not worship) to Mary, Mother of God. Thank you to this video. My God bless you and your channel 💕🙏
Great video! Brant's book was incredibly helpful for me as well. I can TOTALLY relate to hang ups on Mary when going from protestant to Catholic. Keep up the wonderful videos! God bless! 🙏
I was brought into the world by a Protestant mother and an atheist dad. Let me say first that I loved them both with a great, deep love and they were both good people. And I know they loved me too. However, I never bought into their beliefs. The Blessed Mother, Mary Most Holy, called me herself to love her and to love and join the Catholic Church. This was when I was 7years old and I’ve loved her ever since. I couldn’t actually convert until I was an adult. My point is simply that I cannot comprehend how others had to “get over the hurdle of Mary” when they wanted to come into the Church.
Thank you for the wonderful and concise explanation about Mary. I feel more comfortable about asking her intercession for myself and those i regularly pray for.
Thank you for another great testimony of your faith! Following the Rabbinical teaching method, we can simply ask 2 questions: (1) What do you think happens to an entire culture which, while keeping the Father, throws away the Mother? What will this culture and those who live in it become? (2) What do you think our Lord meant when he said to the Sadducees: "He is not God of the dead, but of the living; you are quite wrong." So, what does it mean to really LIVE? But they did not understand because they were sad - you see :)
I can attest to the fact that as a Catholic revert who was Protestant for many years, communion of the saints (especially Mary) was one of the biggest hurdles to get over. Like you, I avoided that topic for a while after I returned to the Church.
Thank your, God bless you and your family. I am listening your videos with pleasure❤ I am catholic i was born catholic, i admit at the beginning i didn’t understand rosary , it was hard at the beginning but now i am praying rosary everyday.multiple times during the day at work , in the car any free time I can see how it changes me. As a father and husband I pray a lot to St Joseph he helped me manage my marriage through very very difficult time, save my family and we stayed married for 32 years and keep getting better. During covid I lost job, very quickly i found new one. Now ii am working in St Joseps Hospital in Toronto :) Coincidence ? I know it was Him 👍
“Virgin mother, daughter of your Son, more humble and sublime than any creature, fixed goal decreed from all eternity, you are the one who gave to human nature so much nobility that its Creator did not disdain His being made its creature. That love whose warmth allowed this flower to bloom within the everlasting peace-was love rekindled in your womb; for us above, you are the noonday torch of charity, and there below, on earth, among the mortals, you are a living spring of hope. Lady, you are so high, you can so intercede, that he who would have grace but does not seek your aid, may long to fly but has no wings. Your loving-kindness does not only answer the one who asks, but it is often ready to answer freely long before the asking. In you compassion is, in you is pity, in you is generosity, in you is every goodness found in any creature.” Dante, Paradiso, XXXIII
Ok, here’s the story of the fall of angels as it is told with regards to the Incarnation and Mary. I’ll make the post here as it is a long one and others may be interested. But first a few things about angels themselves as it’s important for the story. Angels, spiritual beings, were created with intellect and free will, so we share that part with them. Even though we have these commonalities, angels’ intellects are extremely powerful - we are no match for them. Angels were also infused from their creation with the full and complete knowledge of things material and spiritual. So unlike us who have to struggle to acquire knowledge over our lifetimes, each angel from his creation has full and perfect knowledge of the universe according to his specific purpose. Our scientific knowledge for instance is child’s play compared to theirs. This why we read in Scriptures how powerful they are with the forces of nature; even appearing as humans with the appearance of having flesh is no big deal to them. By the way, it’s the reason why the Church always says to never get into mental intellectual debates with demons when attacked spiritually or even within the physical realm - they retain those powers even after their fall - but recourse to God for protection, as well as to protection of good angels. There are nine choirs of angels - Cherubims, Seraphims, Powers, Virtues, Archangels, Angels, etc. They are extremely different from each other in their abilities, knowledge, powers and purpose - some praise and adore God, some battle with the demons, others literally hold the universe together by being its law-keepers, some look after us humans and places like guardian angels, who belong to the lowest choir in their hierarchy - Angels. Kids, by the way, love to hear and know that a guardian angel is always close to them keeping them safe and they love to pray to him thanking for being there and looking after the . We also pray often to Michael the Archangel - he’s the one who defeated Satan in Heaven. He’s a very powerful protector. Just as we pray to other archangels and angels known to us like Raphael, Gabriel and others. There is an extra angel assigned to each priest for protection, there are angels who guard and protect churches, cathedrals, dioceses and even entire countries. More important people (like bishops) and places get more powerful angels, often more than one and sometimes even from higher choirs. But even within one choir each angel is so unique that I heard exorcist priests say each angel is his own species! - as different to us as a dog is different from a horse, from a bear and from a bird. They say there are more angels, including the fallen ones, than there are humans that ever lived. So it’s a whole big wide world out there and there is a constant battle going on - much of it protecting us and helping us in all kinds of ways. It’s important to know that when angels had to make a decision at the time of the fall whether to serve God or disobey, this decision is irreversible and was made for all eternity. It’s to do with the nature of angels. Unlike our nature we may waver and change our minds depending on how we feel and what we know as we go through life. Angels, on the other hand, have full knowledge from the beginning and use the full power of their intellects and wills instantly so there is nothing that can affect their decision once made. I’ve heard some christians say if we pray to God for Satan hard enough and long enough he may convert. Silly and wastwful idea. It’s literally impossible. So what was the knowledge they acquired that forced them to make the decision? We know they had full knowledge from the start so how is it possible? The only way it is possible is if it has something to do with the temporal world, our world and what happened in it - their knowledge of the eternity being full and complete according to their purpose was not changed or have been added anything. This is why the story that Lucifer “one day” just made up his mind and decided to disobey God and to be like God himself out of his pride makes absolutely no sense at all. Which nicely brings us to our story, and why I think it is a true story - the only one that makes total sense. Don’t ask how I know it - I’m catholic :))) - i heard it from a nun or a priest or read it somewhere. So the story goes something like this. When God revealed to angels that He will take up the human flesh and become incarnate on Earth, some of the angels, including and especially Lucifer, the Light Bearer, the most powerful, beautiful and the greatest angel of his choir, were in disbelief and filled with indignation: “How can such a great and almighty God become man?! That is so far below His dignity. Man is not even a match to angels, let alone God Himself.” Then God revealed that He will be born of a woman and that woman will become the Queen of Heaven and THEIR QUEEN. This was the final straw, they were outraged and could not take it any more. I would add that it probably felt to them like the whole of the order of Creation was turning on its head, the entire hierarchy of created beings being violated. And by who - by God himself?). And so Lucifer said “I will not serve!” And many other angels said the same thing and followed him. Then a battle ensued in Heaven. Of course, this was not a physical battle with fists and swords, but with intellects using the power of the laws of Creation. The name Michael literally means Who-is-like-God - that was his battle cry with which he defeated Satan. It does not refer to himself but to a question he posed out of humility which Satan could not match and was defeated and thrown out of Heaven along with other rebels. It’s quite obvious that after the fall Satan made it his goal to bring down humanity, to subjugate it to him so that he can perpetually torture and degrade humans to show how worthless we are - to prove to himself and to God that he was right in the first place. He absolutely hates and abhors human beings, and especially Mary - the instrument of God’s incarnation and the reason of his fall. And so Mary will forever be the one he will hate the most and she forever will be crushing all his efforts to destroy humanity (as we read in protoevangelium in Genesis). I’m wondering if protestants know or heard this story and what they think of it. A third of the angels don’t just rebel against God for no reason - just because they were bad or something, like you hear often. They weren’t bad. God created them all perfect. But He gave them free will to chose so that their love and obedience to God will be perfected through their own choice and He gave them a test, just like he gives us a test. And a third of them could not handle what they saw as humiliation of God Himself and also of them, their entire world as they knew shattered (in their eyes) and so they revolted. What I’m wondering about is how can protestants say that the veneration of Mary comes from Satan. It just defies all reason and sanity. In fact by all logic it would only follow that Satan would try and separate us from her, bring us as far away from her as possible as he knows she is the one who will crush him, to persuade us to think nothing of her, to even ridicule the very thought of venerating her. Demons, if you ask an exorcist, are legalists. They are still bound by the same laws of creation and order and must strictly obey God’s order of things, same goes for their own strict hierarchy which they retain from before the fall. So even though they are fallen, technically and legally speaking, Mary is still their Queen (just like in a kingdom all people are king’s subjects, regardless if they break or obey the law or even recognize the king as such), which means she has compete power over them, whether they accept it or not, and that’s why they absolutely hate her on the one hand, and tremble with fear upon hearing her name on the other and flee at the first sight of her. I hope this was interesting. Sorry about the long post. God bless.
I grew up with some Jewish friends. The first thing a Jewish mother would say when they met someone was, have you met my son or do you know my son? The first-born son is their heir. How much more would Mary say this knowing her son is God? Do Protestants treat their own mother like Mary. God chose Mary and chose her as an essential aspect of His plan for our salvation. To deny Mary is to deny Jesus. When the angel Gabriel, God's messenger, speaks to Mary at the annunciation, he is speaking the words of God. How dare anyone belittle the Mother of God. Mary = Mother of Jesus = Jesus is God. It really is sad.
@jbloe Yes, Jesus is God. But He addresses God as His father. That's why you cannot say 'Mother of God'! AND: All born again Christians are God's children and therefore God's heirs. Romans 8 😇❤!
@@christianemutter2952if Jesus is God, and Mary is his mother, why can you not call her “Mother of God”? Ancient Christians all called her this. It was not a title that demonstrated Mary’s divinity, but was used to demonstrate Christ’s humanity/divinity.
@@christianemutter2952 You are embracing the heresy of Nestorianism, which was setted at the Council of Ephesus in 431 A.D. You cannot separate Jesus into 2 persons, God and human. Mary gave birth to Jesus, one person with 2 natures. They are inseparable. One does not give birth to a nature, but a person, and in Mary’s case, she gave birth to 1 person, fully divine and fully human. She is the Theotokos, God bearer and Mother of God. A woman giving birth is a mother and to deny her as "Mother of God" is to deny Jesus' divinity. Everything about Mary is based on her Son, Jesus Christ. Why tie yourself in knots trying to explain away the obvious. It really is common sense. I truly hope you don't play these mental gymnastics with your own mother. Why is everything in Protestantism always either/or? That really is the fatal flaw of Protestantism...taking Scripture out of context, not knowing the historical Church, and applying a modern interpretation to something settled 1500 years ago. Please read the Catechism of the Catholic Church to at least understand the why's of our faith. Peace to you.
@@christianemutter2952 You cannot deny the title "Mother of God" without falling into heresy. Mary as the Mother of God is the result of logical reasoning to that conclusion; rather than starting with the title and then trying to find some justification for it. You just haven't followed the reasoning path yet.
“There are not one hundred people in the United States who hate the Catholic Church, but there are millions who hate what they wrongly perceive the Catholic Church to be.” -Ven. Fulton John Sheen I used to be one of those haters. I received my sacraments in 2009.
18:30 In honour of Our Lady of Guadalupe: ruclips.net/video/LO1xFFVnISA/видео.html The Protestants saying She "is demonic" are a miniature of Jews saying Christ converting the Gentiles from Baal, Osiris, Zeus, Odin (or Thor or Frey, depending on preference), and prior to Islam, some from the worship of Marduk as well "is demonic" ...
Bravissimo! And just wait until you/husband include St. Joseph in your prayers for family/employment/marital challenges and prayers to Both for child-rearing and God-centered family-direction ("...you will have trouble in this world..." John 16:33 ). Prayers to the Holy Family to help your family are powerful and efficacious (James 5:16) - they indeed interceded to God to 'move mountains' for my family! Doing a Family Consecration to Jesus thru Mary and Joseph (the Holy Family) is like 'boarding the Ark' as Noah once did, for our day & age (".... take them not out of this world, BUT protect them from the Evil one..." John 17:15). Blessings to you and your family!
I love telling people about the Byzantine Rite. Even though I'll (probably)never leave the Roman Rite. Girl I love your story, as an atheist it was Mary who led me to her Son.
As a recent convert, I appreciate the points you made. As a person who was raised in the Wesleyan tradition in the midwest, Catholicism seemed 'foreign ' to me. Never did I hear or read of 'The Woman' in Revelation or of typology of Mary as an Ark of the Covenant as she carried Christ in her womb. These points added a deeper understanding for me as Mary as the Mother of God and that she is a work of God in The Incarnation. Additionally, I am interested in the painting/picture which you have in the background. Could you let me know a bit about it, title, artist, where you got it?
I am currently still a Protestant who has come around a lot on Mary and the saints, and had the privilege of attending a Catholic mass today for the third time. After a six year journey of incrementally working through each of the hurdles, one of the final hurdles is the papacy, for if the papacy is true, then the Marian dogmas are true whether I agree with them being dogmas or not. Having said all that, I am thankful that I do not have to accept the Marian apparitions, because I would absolutely not become Catholic if I had to. Unlike what you are saying, the Marian apparitions at Guadalupe demanded honor and glory for itself. You say they only pointed to Jesus and glorified Him, but this is not true, and nowhere does the apparition tell Juan Diego or the people to repent and believe in the Lord Jesus Christ. The first time it shows up, it tells Juan Diego to build a church in "her" honor. Further apparitions appear in order to insist that it is accomplished and prove its identity, not that Jesus Christ is glorified. Please, dear Catholic brethren, earnestly seek God's discernment regarding these apparitions. Even if the real Mary is to be honored, ( and she is) even if we can ask the saints to pray for us, and even if all the dogmas are true, these apparitions do not seek to point only to Jesus Christ, but rather a false Mary that does seek honor and glory for itself. The true Mary will always proclaim, "My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior." Many of these apparitions demand the opposite, and often the one who is honored and glorified the most at these apparition sites is a false Mary, not the Lord Jesus Christ. May God bless you and grant you great discernment in these matters, dear sister.
Thank you for sharing your experience! I encourage you to look into the lady of Guadalupe from a Catholic perspective. She definitely presented the truth of Christ to the Aztecs and they stopped worshiping their demon gods and became Catholic. 💁🏻♀️
After three years at a local Bible college I decided I was still a Catholic. I wrote this song as a protestant, but still play it in prisons. ruclips.net/video/sTHY35AoPho/видео.htmlsi=VhrNCuvt5MlKjWdv
Five OT women who point to Mary. King David's mother. *O Lord, for I am thy servant: I am thy servant, and the son of thy handmaid. Thou hast broken my bonds:* in Latin: *O **_Domine,_** quia ego servus tuus; ego servus tuus, et filius **_ancillae tuae._** Dirupisti vincula mea* Psalms 115:16. Somewhat "ecce ancilla Domini" I'd say. But even more. Another translation lets king David say "I serve you just as my mother did" (meaning she had already died by this time, for "did"). If David sometimes sinned, but quickly repented and nearly all of his life served the Lord, the same is true of his unnamed mother. If the Son of David, Son of Abraham NEVER sinned .... the same is true of Mary. Four more. Blessed: Ruth for marrying the much older Obed (Joseph was a widower and old) Abigail for holding back King David from killing an Israelite (we should think ... all generations ... of not provoking Christ, but just in case we do, have confidence in Her) Blessed among women: Jael for killing Sisera Judith for killing Holophernes. And these two clearly prove that Mary is indeed the woman of Genesis 3:15. Because the only Sisera or Holophernes She was destroying in any way, was Satan. This again means She was sinless.
Also read about Feto-maternal microchimerism, that's science. Basically it's been discovered that human mothers carry cells from their offspring for a long time after birth, potentially all their lives. The implications of that scientific fact for Mary would easily prove Marian dogmas
All the ancient churches are devoted to Mary. Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox Churches, Oriental Orthodox Churches, Churches of the East, Armenian Church (the first country to become Christian), etc. This hate on Mary is something "new"... 16th century onwards.
Next research Theosis If we want to understand how individual saints can be one with God and us as Christ prayed in the John 17 Prayer, we can explore "Theosis": "As you, Father, are in me and I am in you, may they also be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me. 22 The glory that you have given me I have given them, so that they may be one, as we are one, 23 I in them and you in me, that they may become completely one, so that the world may know that you have sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me." ' 1 Peter 4:13 "Partakers in Christ" "but rejoice inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ’s sufferings, that, when His glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy." 2 Peter 1:4 Be a Parttaker of the Divine Nature " by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust" Theosis is the missing key
I guess I will never understand protestant mind. To me Mary as the Mother of God and as our mother and the Queen of Heaven has always been so natural, just like the mother each one of us has. The only way I can think of to try and understand protestants is to imagine a horrible future where all children will be grown in glass tubes in labs with random seeds from unknown parents, raised and educated by the state and someone telling them that there is (or was long time ago in a more civilized age) such a thing as a mother to each child and they’ll be accusing and cursing you of horrific, superstitious paganism that goes against all modem science and all personal freedoms like being a subject to the tyranny of such horrible thing of the dark ages as “parents”. That’s all I can think of....
I think the difficulty lies in that we’ve been taught since birth most of the time that the Catholic position on Mary is demonic. It is difficult to undo the teaching that’s been drilled into you on all sides from birth. 🙂
It’s very interesting what you say that protestants believe veneration of Mary (worship as they say), her unspeakable significance in the story of salvation, holding her in the highest regard of all human beings - all comes from Satan. Have you heard the story of Lucifer and other angels’ revolt and fall as it is told with regards to Mary? It’s quite remarkable and very real-life as opposed to most stories that basically say that Lucifer was so proud and wanted to be God,?
@@V14-x6n I have not heard that version of the fallen angels. As for angels they aren’t talked about at all. Unless they come up during a certain text in a sermon they were ignored. I once heard a pastor say that in revelation angels were actually the pastor. 🤦🏻♀️
For you former Protestants who are just now learning about Catholicism: the things of God are not logical. They were not made for us to understand meticulously with our brains, but to believe with our hearts. How can we logically explain the Holy Trinity? The problem with Protestants is that they try to involve logic in everything. We are small and will never be able to explain God. God's actions and the kingdom of God do not come from this world. The things that God does here in this world, since the beginning of time, have always been mystical and supernatural. If you read the Bible, things have always happened this way. God works in mysterious ways. For those of you who are just learning about Catholicism and the true church, I HIGHLY HIGHLY recommend studying the life of St. Pio of Pietrelcina, the Sacred Heart of Jesus, the Divine Mercy of Jesus, Guadalupe, Lourdes, La Salette and Fatima. This is just the beginning! I hope that the Holy Spirit continues to set your hearts on fire and that Our Lady continues to guide your steps to Her Son. Amen!
I don’t really find anything wrong about respecting and loving the mother of our Lord Jesus. Jesus commanded us to love God first with all our might and will all our heart. Loving God foremost is being obedient to His commandments , following His will, being like Him, this is the most honor we can give to our Father. Besides, the really best way to serve God is loving one another. Jesus said whatever you do to the least of my brother, you do it to me. Loving God is actually loving others. Then, if it’s about respect and love and being a member of the Family of God, giving respect and loving His mother will make God happy. True disciples of Jesus projects love and sacrifice for one another. It is God’s commandment that if we have to love Him, we follow His commandments, do not rebel and disobey and we love and respect each other, that we are one big happy family. Peace on earth to men of goodwill.
Hi Candice - hoping you have time to listed to this video from Fr.Alar about the Family - ruclips.net/video/2y-mBikB6DI/видео.html Our family did this Family Consecration (with the AFC Family Apostolate) 18 years ago and I can't help but wish your family also receive the same Graces we've experiences these last 18 years! God Bless!
As explained in Genesis Mary is the woman who will crush the serpents head. So how could she be demonic when Satan scatters away at the saying of the Hail Mary. She brings heaven to earth with the birthing of her Son and there is no place for Satan in God's kingdom.
Because the Bible says it is insufficient. The Bible tells us to pray for one another, and to carry one another’s burdens. We were never meant to do this alone.
@@vermontmike9800pray simply means a request. We are requesting that they (saints) pray for us just like you would offer a prayer request from your brothers at church.
“IN ALL TRUTH we acknowledge ourselves UNWORTHY to turn to her, to pray to her, to fall at her feet, in order not to become similar to the proud Lucifer.” +St. Maximilian M. Kolbe (her littlest knight), ora pro nobis
I feel like your prayer came directly from my lips. I was a Protestant for many years and have recently become Catholic. My husband doesn’t understand why everyone can’t receive communion so he won’t convert and my poor kids who are older are confused. I can explain to my husband until I’m blue in the face how confession has healed me, how I can feel Jesus’ heart in the Eucharist replacing my hard heart, how I feel closer to Him then I’ve ever felt before and how I can feel Mary’s love, but without the faith it falls on deaf ears. I will continue to pray that my family and I will be united again and not for me because I would walk it alone as long as I had my King, but for what He will do for them!! Holy Mother pray for us! It seems that there are A LOT of people converting from Protestant to Catholic…God is always working♥️
I will pray for you and for your husband and children! ☺️ May our Lady and the Lord comfort you on your journey!
Welcome home!!! We came into the church 2 years ago, me a revert, led by my husband, a convert. Keep praying to our Lady and just keep loving your family. Love covers a multitude of wrongs.
Have books about Catholic conversions at your home. Rome Sweet Home convinced me.
God bless you!
Thank you, Ladies♥️it means so much!
@@aprill9958 - even Catholics cannot receive the Eucharist if they are not properly disposed and are not in a state of sanctifying grace( no mortal sins) .
It also sacrilege to receive our Lord if you JUST think it’s a SYMBOL. St Paul warns precisely for this reason in 1 Corinthians 13 -
So then, whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an UNWORTHY manner will be “GUILTY of sinning” against the body and blood of the Lord. 28Everyone ought to examine themselves before they eat of the bread and drink from the cup. 29For those who eat and drink without discerning the body of Christ eat and drink judgment on themselves. 30That is why many among you are weak and sick, and a number of you are DEAD.
This is not a mere symbol as scripture and the Early Church Fathers attests. I recommend you give him Scott Hahn book for Christmas- The Lambs Supper - the Mass as heaven on Earth. Dr Brant Pitre book The Jewish Roots of the Eucharistic. Both have talks on RUclips too.
Pax Christi
Please tell your husband that the reason the Church does not allow non-catholics to receive Holy Communion is to prevent them from being labelled hypocritical or lying. We Catholics say Amen when we literally receive the Real Presence in the Eucharist. If your husband did this but did NOT believe, he would, like Paul proclaimed in the Gospel, be guilty of profaning the Body of the Lord. Prayers to both of you. God Bless.
The saying “I got friends in High places” rings true for Catholics who venerate the Saints above
@@nightshade99 Why would I venerate them? I would honor the saints because they deserve it and they are more motivation I need. Christ is the inspiration but seeing my fellow humans who lived holy lives in his Name is inspirational. They are our victorious brothers and sisters with the Big Brother, Our Lord Jesus.
I will call his Mother my mother and his Father my God.
The communion of the Saints is a gift of many that the Church is laden with by God. We should use them.
O'Mary conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee 🙏
@@nightshade99 Amen!
"Behold your mother". I am a revert to the Catholic church. Thank you for mentioning our lady of Guadalupe. She was instrumental in leading me back to her son, our lord and savior Jesus Christ. Godbless you sister.
Thank you for your comment! She is my favorite Marian apparition. So glad to hear she helped you find your way back to the church. 🙂
My conversion was miraculous. It began at the grotto at Lourdes.
Ex mormon here. Catholic now ❤
So awesome! Thank you for sharing!
@@Lovecatholicfaith W
You talk about Mary so beautifully. It's touching my heart.
I'm a cradle Catholic from a country which has been very much devoted to the Mother of God. She even has a special title in my country: The Most Holy Virgin Mary, Queen of Poland. This title comes from the 16th century and is related to the Counter-Reformation and was used by the Polish people through centuries. The pope, Saint Pius X, officially allowed to add this title at the end of the Litany of Loreto.
That is so beautiful! ❤️
I'm dabbling into Catholicism, after a short stint deep-diving into E. Orthodox as well! Thank you for your sweet video. I have only been doing research so far, but I have yet to go to mass. I have a devoted, Christian husband, but I haven't broached the subject yet with him.
I’m in the same boat, maybe a few steps ahead. I go to mass during the week. My husband is a devout reformed Christian. I am resolved to petition Mary and all the saints to intercede on our behalf.
That’s great! I encourage you to try a mass. I’ll pray for you as God leads you on your path! ☺️
I am Byzantine Eastern Catholic (Ruthenian rite). Look into Byzantine Catholicism. We are Orthodox in full communion with Rome. We venerate both St. Gregory of Pallamas of the east and St.Thomas of the West.
Yes, it worked! How exciting! Thank you, Jesus, for sharing your mother with us!
Thank you young lady
Thank you for your kind comment ☺️
"Mother Mary, as You carried your dear Son in your immaculate womb, you also carried Him in your heart. Pray for me, this Advent, that I may surrender myself to the will of the Father in imitation of you. You said “Yes” to all that God asked of you and never hesitated to fully embrace His divine will. Pray that I may imitate your perfect example so as to share a deeper union with you and your divine Son. Come, Lord Jesus! Amen." 🙏🕯
Beautiful prayer! 🙏
Such a good video. I grew up Protestant. It was challenging getting used to the idea of there being a mother within the church and in the family of God. On the one hand, it made perfect sense. Why would God design the family to be any different than His own? If Christ’s father is now my father, then why should His mother not also be my mother?
Despite this and the great points you make here, i still had a reluctance praying the rosary or addressing Mary in any meaningful way; that was of course until I noticed one interesting consequence of the rosary: the death of sin. I couldn’t really explain it, but for some unknown reason, the more I prayed the rosary the less I was inclined to sin. The effect was undeniable. Mary began to somehow provide a grace in my life. I have since entered the church about two years ago and have continued to pray the rosary every day. My life has never been the same. I know to other Protestants the subject of Mary and the saints can be very off-putting, but I promise you, it is the truth.
Thank you for sharing such an awesome experience! I am so encouraged by your testimony and the power of the rosary! Just amazing! ❤️
It isn't instant, but yes, it i a great spiritual weapon.
Believe it or not for some people it is more instant than others. The saying "your mileage may vary" applies.
There are millions of conversion stories... they nearly all differ.
So placing such an inflexible statement is not fair. Look at St. Paul.... bam your Catholic!!!
You left out her experience on her feeling... that the rosary causes you to sin less... she got this through grace... maybe your was a slower path? Like most of us.
'Tis the most powerful weapon like you said... the Devil hates it... the demons probably place thoughts of dislike of the rosary in our separated members... among other things... but in us too... why pray rosary today... skip it. Maybe that is more the world talking... anyways you get the point.
Love to listen to Mother Mary's
topic.
BEAUTIFUL VIDEO ❤ GOD BLESS HIS ONE AND ONLY CATHOLICH CHURCH ✝️
Thank you! God bless! ❤
She is the queen ❤
@@nightshade99She’s not only the Queen of Heaven and Earth, but The New Eve, the Theotukus. This is the Ancient and Apostolic beliefs of the Christian faith.
@@nightshade99 Read Psalms 45. And 1 Kings 2. And Rev 12.
@@nightshade99 Who sits at the right hand of Davidic king? Its the Gebirah (aka Queen Mother). Read 1 kings 2:19. Its followed throughout the history of Judah kingdom. (Jeremiah 13:18 etc). Its the mother who is crowning the King (Song of Solomon 3:11) So far good?
Is there a queen in heaven at the right hand of the King? Psalms says yes. Is Jesus a Davidic king? Yes, he is sitting on the throne of David, the last king from Judah tribe. Hope you are following.
And then there is a Queen in Rev 12. The Mother of the eternal King who rules the heavens and earth by iron rode. Anything wrong with this perspective? Its very fitting to call Mary the queen of heaven as she is the Gebirah in NT. This is the reason why Elizabeth called her "Mother of my Lord'.
@@nightshade99 - Sure I can TYPOLOGICALLY but before that can you prove EXPLICITLY from Scripture Sola Fide, Sola Scriptura, Trinity, Rapture, Incarnation, Altar Call etc or even the word Bible from the Bible.
@@nightshade99 Is Jesus King of Heaven and earth?
Thank you for this beautiful testimony! One of the best things about being a Catholic is that we can continue to grow in this maternal relationship with Our Lady as we follow her Son. You should consider sharing your testimony at The Journey Home, the Coming Home Network.
Thank you so much for your kind words! I would love to but I don’t even know how to go about doing that. 😌
Tear* ❤😢 Mama Mary gets me through motherhood especially with a mother who lost her son when he was 7 making it hard for her to show me true unconditional love, her saying Yes and knowing what her son would go through has been my strength ❤
God bless you! I pray our Mother comforts you and fills your life with peace! ❤️
All Christians should study John 19:25-27 and ask themselves “why on earth did Jesus say that?” For Protestants, it’s yet another verse they have to ignore and overlook, because it doesn’t fit in with their “accept Jesus into your heart and that’s it” paradigm. For Catholics (and the Orthodox), those verses hold massive significance. Great video! Everyone should read Dr. Brant Pitre’s books!
Thank you for your comment! 😊
I would add: Not only Catholics and Orthodox, but also other ancient churches such as the Syro-Malabar Church, in India, part of the Church of the East (evangelized by Saint Thomas, the apostle), is devoted to Mary.
This shows how ancient and natural being devolted to Mary was for first Christians. I could also mention the Armenians, Copts, Assyrians, etc. It is a very ancient practice. The "Maryphobia" is something new (from the 16th century onward).
✝️🕊⛪️❤️🙏🏻 AMEN pray for Us Blessed Mother of God 😊We adore our you
Ooo!!!! Can't wait to see this!!!! ❤❤❤❤❤
I hope you enjoy! 😉 ☺️
@EmbracingTradition100 I did!!! How lovely! I love Our Lady of Guadalupe so much! ❤ She's my favourite among all the stories of our mother's apparitions, which, by the way, demonstrate what we see in Revelations: she can't forget her little ones. She's always coming back. I'm so happy you get to know, experientially, the POWER of Our Lady's intercession.
The Lord is so generous with his saints. He loves granting their requests, because they were so obedient to him on earth, and none more than his own mother. The maronites say thar so many miracles are granted through the intercession of St. Charbel, because, "the Lord denies him nothing in heaven, because St. Charbel denied him nothing on earth." And this is truest of his own mother! I hope other Christians can come to know this for themselves as well.
@ thank you so much for your awesome comment! ☺️ I will have to read up about Saint Charbel. I’m still working my way through all the saints.
@@EmbracingTradition100 St. Charbel is credited with the most healing miracles of any saint. He is revered in the East and the West and even among muslims.
God bless you. the salt of the earth.
Thank you! God bless you too!
Oh my love that book of Dr. Brant Pitre is an eye opening to me, the ties to Mary and the Old testament add so much credibility to having a reverence (not worship) to Mary, Mother of God. Thank you to this video. My God bless you and your channel 💕🙏
Thank you so much! 😊
Great video! Brant's book was incredibly helpful for me as well. I can TOTALLY relate to hang ups on Mary when going from protestant to Catholic. Keep up the wonderful videos! God bless! 🙏
Thank you! 😊 I love his books. The Eucharist one was really good too! 😁
Beautiful ❤🌹
Thank you! 😊
I was brought into the world by a Protestant mother and an atheist dad. Let me say first that I loved them both with a great, deep love and they were both good people. And I know they loved me too.
However, I never bought into their beliefs.
The Blessed Mother, Mary Most Holy, called me herself to love her and to love and join the Catholic Church. This was when I was 7years old and I’ve loved her ever since. I couldn’t actually convert until I was an adult.
My point is simply that I cannot comprehend how others had to “get over the hurdle of Mary” when they wanted to come into the Church.
that was beautiful, thank you
Thank you!😊
Thank you for the wonderful and concise explanation about Mary. I feel more comfortable about asking her intercession for myself and those i regularly pray for.
Wht about the wedding at cana? She interceded there.
@@nightshade99Where in the Sola scriptura that Jesus said I'm God worship me? that is impossible..😅
@@nightshade99 John 2:1-11
Thank you for another great testimony of your faith! Following the Rabbinical teaching method, we can simply ask 2 questions: (1) What do you think happens to an entire culture which, while keeping the Father, throws away the Mother? What will this culture and those who live in it become? (2) What do you think our Lord meant when he said to the Sadducees: "He is not God of the dead, but of the living; you are quite wrong." So, what does it mean to really LIVE? But they did not understand because they were sad - you see :)
Thank you 🙏
You’re welcome 😊 thank you for your support!
I can attest to the fact that as a Catholic revert who was Protestant for many years, communion of the saints (especially Mary) was one of the biggest hurdles to get over. Like you, I avoided that topic for a while after I returned to the Church.
1st and 2nd century catacombs have hundreds of prayers to saints.
Thank your, God bless you and your family.
I am listening your videos with pleasure❤
I am catholic i was born catholic, i admit at the beginning i didn’t understand rosary , it was hard at the beginning but now i am praying rosary everyday.multiple times during the day at work , in the car any free time
I can see how it changes me.
As a father and husband I pray a lot to St Joseph he helped me manage my marriage through very very difficult time, save my family and we stayed married for 32 years and keep getting better.
During covid I lost job, very quickly i found new one.
Now ii am working in St Joseps Hospital in Toronto :)
Coincidence ?
I know it was Him 👍
Thank you! God bless you!
@@donhaddix3770 this is just ignorant. Demons don’t lead people closer to Christ.
Very inspiring testimony. Thanks.
Thank you!😊
You’re really good at editing your videos.
Thank you so much! 😊
“Virgin mother, daughter of your Son,
more humble and sublime than any creature,
fixed goal decreed from all eternity,
you are the one who gave to human nature
so much nobility that its Creator
did not disdain His being made its creature.
That love whose warmth allowed this flower to bloom
within the everlasting peace-was love
rekindled in your womb; for us above,
you are the noonday torch of charity,
and there below, on earth, among the mortals,
you are a living spring of hope.
Lady, you are so high, you can so intercede,
that he who would have grace but does not seek
your aid, may long to fly but has no wings.
Your loving-kindness does not only answer
the one who asks, but it is often ready
to answer freely long before the asking.
In you compassion is, in you is pity,
in you is generosity, in you
is every goodness found in any creature.”
Dante, Paradiso, XXXIII
Powerful!
Many thanks, good video!
Thank you! 😊
Ok, here’s the story of the fall of angels as it is told with regards to the Incarnation and Mary. I’ll make the post here as it is a long one and others may be interested. But first a few things about angels themselves as it’s important for the story. Angels, spiritual beings, were created with intellect and free will, so we share that part with them. Even though we have these commonalities, angels’ intellects are extremely powerful - we are no match for them. Angels were also infused from their creation with the full and complete knowledge of things material and spiritual. So unlike us who have to struggle to acquire knowledge over our lifetimes, each angel from his creation has full and perfect knowledge of the universe according to his specific purpose. Our scientific knowledge for instance is child’s play compared to theirs. This why we read in Scriptures how powerful they are with the forces of nature; even appearing as humans with the appearance of having flesh is no big deal to them. By the way, it’s the reason why the Church always says to never get into mental intellectual debates with demons when attacked spiritually or even within the physical realm - they retain those powers even after their fall - but recourse to God for protection, as well as to protection of good angels.
There are nine choirs of angels - Cherubims, Seraphims, Powers, Virtues, Archangels, Angels, etc. They are extremely different from each other in their abilities, knowledge, powers and purpose - some praise and adore God, some battle with the demons, others literally hold the universe together by being its law-keepers, some look after us humans and places like guardian angels, who belong to the lowest choir in their hierarchy - Angels. Kids, by the way, love to hear and know that a guardian angel is always close to them keeping them safe and they love to pray to him thanking for being there and looking after the . We also pray often to Michael the Archangel - he’s the one who defeated Satan in Heaven. He’s a very powerful protector. Just as we pray to other archangels and angels known to us like Raphael, Gabriel and others. There is an extra angel assigned to each priest for protection, there are angels who guard and protect churches, cathedrals, dioceses and even entire countries. More important people (like bishops) and places get more powerful angels, often more than one and sometimes even from higher choirs. But even within one choir each angel is so unique that I heard exorcist priests say each angel is his own species! - as different to us as a dog is different from a horse, from a bear and from a bird. They say there are more angels, including the fallen ones, than there are humans that ever lived. So it’s a whole big wide world out there and there is a constant battle going on - much of it protecting us and helping us in all kinds of ways.
It’s important to know that when angels had to make a decision at the time of the fall whether to serve God or disobey, this decision is irreversible and was made for all eternity. It’s to do with the nature of angels. Unlike our nature we may waver and change our minds depending on how we feel and what we know as we go through life. Angels, on the other hand, have full knowledge from the beginning and use the full power of their intellects and wills instantly so there is nothing that can affect their decision once made. I’ve heard some christians say if we pray to God for Satan hard enough and long enough he may convert. Silly and wastwful idea. It’s literally impossible. So what was the knowledge they acquired that forced them to make the decision? We know they had full knowledge from the start so how is it possible? The only way it is possible is if it has something to do with the temporal world, our world and what happened in it - their knowledge of the eternity being full and complete according to their purpose was not changed or have been added anything. This is why the story that Lucifer “one day” just made up his mind and decided to disobey God and to be like God himself out of his pride makes absolutely no sense at all. Which nicely brings us to our story, and why I think it is a true story - the only one that makes total sense. Don’t ask how I know it - I’m catholic :))) - i heard it from a nun or a priest or read it somewhere.
So the story goes something like this. When God revealed to angels that He will take up the human flesh and become incarnate on Earth, some of the angels, including and especially Lucifer, the Light Bearer, the most powerful, beautiful and the greatest angel of his choir, were in disbelief and filled with indignation: “How can such a great and almighty God become man?! That is so far below His dignity. Man is not even a match to angels, let alone God Himself.” Then God revealed that He will be born of a woman and that woman will become the Queen of Heaven and THEIR QUEEN. This was the final straw, they were outraged and could not take it any more. I would add that it probably felt to them like the whole of the order of Creation was turning on its head, the entire hierarchy of created beings being violated. And by who - by God himself?). And so Lucifer said “I will not serve!” And many other angels said the same thing and followed him. Then a battle ensued in Heaven. Of course, this was not a physical battle with fists and swords, but with intellects using the power of the laws of Creation. The name Michael literally means Who-is-like-God - that was his battle cry with which he defeated Satan. It does not refer to himself but to a question he posed out of humility which Satan could not match and was defeated and thrown out of Heaven along with other rebels.
It’s quite obvious that after the fall Satan made it his goal to bring down humanity, to subjugate it to him so that he can perpetually torture and degrade humans to show how worthless we are - to prove to himself and to God that he was right in the first place. He absolutely hates and abhors human beings, and especially Mary - the instrument of God’s incarnation and the reason of his fall. And so Mary will forever be the one he will hate the most and she forever will be crushing all his efforts to destroy humanity (as we read in protoevangelium in Genesis).
I’m wondering if protestants know or heard this story and what they think of it. A third of the angels don’t just rebel against God for no reason - just because they were bad or something, like you hear often. They weren’t bad. God created them all perfect. But He gave them free will to chose so that their love and obedience to God will be perfected through their own choice and He gave them a test, just like he gives us a test. And a third of them could not handle what they saw as humiliation of God Himself and also of them, their entire world as they knew shattered (in their eyes) and so they revolted.
What I’m wondering about is how can protestants say that the veneration of Mary comes from Satan. It just defies all reason and sanity. In fact by all logic it would only follow that Satan would try and separate us from her, bring us as far away from her as possible as he knows she is the one who will crush him, to persuade us to think nothing of her, to even ridicule the very thought of venerating her. Demons, if you ask an exorcist, are legalists. They are still bound by the same laws of creation and order and must strictly obey God’s order of things, same goes for their own strict hierarchy which they retain from before the fall. So even though they are fallen, technically and legally speaking, Mary is still their Queen (just like in a kingdom all people are king’s subjects, regardless if they break or obey the law or even recognize the king as such), which means she has compete power over them, whether they accept it or not, and that’s why they absolutely hate her on the one hand, and tremble with fear upon hearing her name on the other and flee at the first sight of her.
I hope this was interesting. Sorry about the long post. God bless.
Thank you for taking the time to share! I’ve never heard that but it is super interesting!
I heard this too in a retreat here in India
I grew up with some Jewish friends. The first thing a Jewish mother would say when they met someone was, have you met my son or do you know my son? The first-born son is their heir. How much more would Mary say this knowing her son is God? Do Protestants treat their own mother like Mary. God chose Mary and chose her as an essential aspect of His plan for our salvation. To deny Mary is to deny Jesus. When the angel Gabriel, God's messenger, speaks to Mary at the annunciation, he is speaking the words of God. How dare anyone belittle the Mother of God. Mary = Mother of Jesus = Jesus is God. It really is sad.
@jbloe Yes, Jesus is God. But He addresses God as His father. That's why you cannot say 'Mother of God'!
AND: All born again Christians are God's children and therefore God's heirs. Romans 8 😇❤!
@@christianemutter2952if Jesus is God, and Mary is his mother, why can you not call her “Mother of God”?
Ancient Christians all called her this. It was not a title that demonstrated Mary’s divinity, but was used to demonstrate Christ’s humanity/divinity.
@@christianemutter2952 You are embracing the heresy of Nestorianism, which was setted at the Council of Ephesus in 431 A.D. You cannot separate Jesus into 2 persons, God and human. Mary gave birth to Jesus, one person with 2 natures. They are inseparable. One does not give birth to a nature, but a person, and in Mary’s case, she gave birth to 1 person, fully divine and fully human. She is the Theotokos, God bearer and Mother of God. A woman giving birth is a mother and to deny her as "Mother of God" is to deny Jesus' divinity. Everything about Mary is based on her Son, Jesus Christ. Why tie yourself in knots trying to explain away the obvious. It really is common sense. I truly hope you don't play these mental gymnastics with your own mother. Why is everything in Protestantism always either/or? That really is the fatal flaw of Protestantism...taking Scripture out of context, not knowing the historical Church, and applying a modern interpretation to something settled 1500 years ago. Please read the Catechism of the Catholic Church to at least understand the why's of our faith. Peace to you.
@@christianemutter2952 That is an extremely old heresy. She is the Mother of God or else Jesus is not God.
@@christianemutter2952 You cannot deny the title "Mother of God" without falling into heresy. Mary as the Mother of God is the result of logical reasoning to that conclusion; rather than starting with the title and then trying to find some justification for it. You just haven't followed the reasoning path yet.
“There are not one hundred people in the United States who hate the Catholic Church, but there are millions who hate what they wrongly perceive the Catholic Church to be.” -Ven. Fulton John Sheen
I used to be one of those haters. I received my sacraments in 2009.
11:41 It's also a horrible misunderstanding of the sin of necromancy.
18:30 In honour of Our Lady of Guadalupe:
ruclips.net/video/LO1xFFVnISA/видео.html
The Protestants saying She "is demonic" are a miniature of Jews saying Christ converting the Gentiles from Baal, Osiris, Zeus, Odin (or Thor or Frey, depending on preference), and prior to Islam, some from the worship of Marduk as well "is demonic" ...
"Aurora del Nuevo Sol,"
How different from the Aztek "old Sun" ...
Bravissimo! And just wait until you/husband include St. Joseph in your prayers for family/employment/marital challenges and prayers to Both for child-rearing and God-centered family-direction ("...you will have trouble in this world..." John 16:33 ). Prayers to the Holy Family to help your family are powerful and efficacious (James 5:16) - they indeed interceded to God to 'move mountains' for my family! Doing a Family Consecration to Jesus thru Mary and Joseph (the Holy Family) is like 'boarding the Ark' as Noah once did, for our day & age (".... take them not out of this world, BUT protect them from the Evil one..." John 17:15).
Blessings to you and your family!
Thank you for your kind comment! God bless you! 😊
I love telling people about the Byzantine Rite. Even though I'll (probably)never leave the Roman Rite.
Girl I love your story, as an atheist it was Mary who led me to her Son.
Sorry is the Roman Rite different than the Latin Rite?... I have not heard of the Roman Rite... just wondering out loud??....
Yes! I want to visit a Byzantine rite some day. 😊 That’s an awesome conversion story! Thanks for sharing!
@richardcastro1276 it is no. The Latin Rite is more accurate. Thanks for that correction
@EmbracingTradition100 I'm blessed enough to have a Catholic Byzantine Parish and a licit Latin Mass under a proper Bishop in my city.
@@jd3jefferson556 that’s awesome! 😊
As a recent convert, I appreciate the points you made. As a person who was raised in the Wesleyan tradition in the midwest, Catholicism seemed 'foreign ' to me. Never did I hear or read of 'The Woman' in Revelation or of typology of Mary as an Ark of the Covenant as she carried Christ in her womb. These points added a deeper understanding for me as Mary as the Mother of God and that she is a work of God in The Incarnation.
Additionally, I am interested in the painting/picture which you have in the background. Could you let me know a bit about it, title, artist, where you got it?
Thank you for your comment! 😊 I’m not sure which picture you’re referring to. The thumbnail?
@@EmbracingTradition100 The painting behind you, presumably of the Blessed Virgin.
@@toddemery8218 It is a painting of Our Blessed Virgin Mary as Our Lady of Perpetual Help.
@@toddemery8218 oh yes. I’m sorry I misunderstood, it’s an icon of the lady of perpetual help. 😀
@@EmbracingTradition100 Thanks.
Thou didth protest to much. Glad you are home.
Thank you! 😊
I am currently still a Protestant who has come around a lot on Mary and the saints, and had the privilege of attending a Catholic mass today for the third time.
After a six year journey of incrementally working through each of the hurdles, one of the final hurdles is the papacy, for if the papacy is true, then the Marian dogmas are true whether I agree with them being dogmas or not.
Having said all that, I am thankful that I do not have to accept the Marian apparitions, because I would absolutely not become Catholic if I had to.
Unlike what you are saying, the Marian apparitions at Guadalupe demanded honor and glory for itself.
You say they only pointed to Jesus and glorified Him, but this is not true, and nowhere does the apparition tell Juan Diego or the people to repent and believe in the Lord Jesus Christ.
The first time it shows up, it tells Juan Diego to build a church in "her" honor.
Further apparitions appear in order to insist that it is accomplished and prove its identity, not that Jesus Christ is glorified.
Please, dear Catholic brethren, earnestly seek God's discernment regarding these apparitions.
Even if the real Mary is to be honored, ( and she is) even if we can ask the saints to pray for us, and even if all the dogmas are true, these apparitions do not seek to point only to Jesus Christ, but rather a false Mary that does seek honor and glory for itself.
The true Mary will always proclaim, "My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior."
Many of these apparitions demand the opposite, and often the one who is honored and glorified the most at these apparition sites is a false Mary, not the Lord Jesus Christ.
May God bless you and grant you great discernment in these matters, dear sister.
Thank you for sharing your experience! I encourage you to look into the lady of Guadalupe from a Catholic perspective. She definitely presented the truth of Christ to the Aztecs and they stopped worshiping their demon gods and became Catholic. 💁🏻♀️
After three years at a local Bible college I decided I was still a Catholic. I wrote this song as a protestant, but still play it in prisons. ruclips.net/video/sTHY35AoPho/видео.htmlsi=VhrNCuvt5MlKjWdv
Five OT women who point to Mary.
King David's mother.
*O Lord, for I am thy servant: I am thy servant, and the son of thy handmaid. Thou hast broken my bonds:*
in Latin:
*O **_Domine,_** quia ego servus tuus; ego servus tuus, et filius **_ancillae tuae._** Dirupisti vincula mea*
Psalms 115:16.
Somewhat "ecce ancilla Domini" I'd say.
But even more. Another translation lets king David say "I serve you just as my mother did" (meaning she had already died by this time, for "did").
If David sometimes sinned, but quickly repented and nearly all of his life served the Lord, the same is true of his unnamed mother.
If the Son of David, Son of Abraham NEVER sinned .... the same is true of Mary.
Four more.
Blessed:
Ruth for marrying the much older Obed (Joseph was a widower and old)
Abigail for holding back King David from killing an Israelite (we should think ... all generations ... of not provoking Christ, but just in case we do, have confidence in Her)
Blessed among women:
Jael for killing Sisera
Judith for killing Holophernes.
And these two clearly prove that Mary is indeed the woman of Genesis 3:15. Because the only Sisera or Holophernes She was destroying in any way, was Satan. This again means She was sinless.
Thank you for sharing! 😊
@@EmbracingTradition100 my pleasure!
Also read about Feto-maternal microchimerism, that's science. Basically it's been discovered that human mothers carry cells from their offspring for a long time after birth, potentially all their lives. The implications of that scientific fact for Mary would easily prove Marian dogmas
All the ancient churches are devoted to Mary. Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox Churches, Oriental Orthodox Churches, Churches of the East, Armenian Church (the first country to become Christian), etc.
This hate on Mary is something "new"... 16th century onwards.
Next research Theosis
If we want to understand how individual saints can be one with God and us as Christ prayed in the John 17 Prayer, we can explore "Theosis":
"As you, Father, are in me and I am in you, may they also be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me. 22 The glory that you have given me I have given them, so that they may be one, as we are one, 23 I in them and you in me, that they may become completely one, so that the world may know that you have sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me."
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1 Peter 4:13
"Partakers in Christ"
"but rejoice inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ’s sufferings, that, when His glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy."
2 Peter 1:4
Be a Parttaker of the Divine Nature
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by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust"
Theosis is the missing key
That’s a great idea. Theosis is one of the main things that drew me in!
I guess I will never understand protestant mind. To me Mary as the Mother of God and as our mother and the Queen of Heaven has always been so natural, just like the mother each one of us has. The only way I can think of to try and understand protestants is to imagine a horrible future where all children will be grown in glass tubes in labs with random seeds from unknown parents, raised and educated by the state and someone telling them that there is (or was long time ago in a more civilized age) such a thing as a mother to each child and they’ll be accusing and cursing you of horrific, superstitious paganism that goes against all modem science and all personal freedoms like being a subject to the tyranny of such horrible thing of the dark ages as “parents”. That’s all I can think of....
I think the difficulty lies in that we’ve been taught since birth most of the time that the Catholic position on Mary is demonic. It is difficult to undo the teaching that’s been drilled into you on all sides from birth. 🙂
It’s very interesting what you say that protestants believe veneration of Mary (worship as they say), her unspeakable significance in the story of salvation, holding her in the highest regard of all human beings - all comes from Satan.
Have you heard the story of Lucifer and other angels’ revolt and fall as it is told with regards to Mary? It’s quite remarkable and very real-life as opposed to most stories that basically say that Lucifer was so proud and wanted to be God,?
Oh, a quick follow up. Do you know anything about angels? I know protestants don’t venerate angels or pray to them or invoke them.
@@V14-x6n I have not heard that version of the fallen angels. As for angels they aren’t talked about at all. Unless they come up during a certain text in a sermon they were ignored. I once heard a pastor say that in revelation angels were actually the pastor. 🤦🏻♀️
For you former Protestants who are just now learning about Catholicism: the things of God are not logical. They were not made for us to understand meticulously with our brains, but to believe with our hearts. How can we logically explain the Holy Trinity? The problem with Protestants is that they try to involve logic in everything. We are small and will never be able to explain God. God's actions and the kingdom of God do not come from this world. The things that God does here in this world, since the beginning of time, have always been mystical and supernatural. If you read the Bible, things have always happened this way. God works in mysterious ways. For those of you who are just learning about Catholicism and the true church, I HIGHLY HIGHLY recommend studying the life of St. Pio of Pietrelcina, the Sacred Heart of Jesus, the Divine Mercy of Jesus, Guadalupe, Lourdes, La Salette and Fatima. This is just the beginning! I hope that the Holy Spirit continues to set your hearts on fire and that Our Lady continues to guide your steps to Her Son. Amen!
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I don’t really find anything wrong about respecting and loving the mother of our Lord Jesus. Jesus commanded us to love God first with all our might and will all our heart. Loving God foremost is being obedient to His commandments , following His will, being like Him, this is the most honor we can give to our Father. Besides, the really best way to serve God is loving one another. Jesus said whatever you do to the least of my brother, you do it to me. Loving God is actually loving others. Then, if it’s about respect and love and being a member of the Family of God, giving respect and loving His mother will make God happy. True disciples of Jesus projects love and sacrifice for one another. It is God’s commandment that if we have to love Him, we follow His commandments, do not rebel and disobey and we love and respect each other, that we are one big happy family. Peace on earth to men of goodwill.
Hi Candice - hoping you have time to listed to this video from Fr.Alar about the Family - ruclips.net/video/2y-mBikB6DI/видео.html
Our family did this Family Consecration (with the AFC Family Apostolate) 18 years ago and I can't help but wish your family also receive the same Graces we've experiences these last 18 years! God Bless!
As explained in Genesis Mary is the woman who will crush the serpents head. So how could she be demonic when Satan scatters away at the saying of the Hail Mary. She brings heaven to earth with the birthing of her Son and there is no place for Satan in God's kingdom.
Read Gospel of Mark Chapter 9 paying attention to verse 7! God says this is MY SON LISTEN TO HIM,
Mary always points to her Son as well. ☺️
Why isn’t it sufficient to pray directly to God alone?
Do you ask other people to pray for you? I pray to God and I pray to saints. I ask the saints to pray for me.
Because the Bible says it is insufficient. The Bible tells us to pray for one another, and to carry one another’s burdens. We were never meant to do this alone.
@ to pray FOR another is fine. Where does it say to pray TO another?
@@vermontmike9800pray simply means a request. We are requesting that they (saints) pray for us just like you would offer a prayer request from your brothers at church.
Praying does not mean worship
“THE MI: human participation in her mission (of the IMMACULATA).” +SMMK•HLK, o.p.n.
“IN ALL TRUTH we acknowledge ourselves UNWORTHY to turn to her, to pray to her, to fall at her feet, in order not to become similar to the proud Lucifer.” +St. Maximilian M. Kolbe (her littlest knight), ora pro nobis