Insult the Blessed Mother and I'll insult your entire lineage. Mary is the Mother of God! Are you an Arian? Jesus=God. Jesus was before Mary being eternal but stooped down to earth through Mary to save mankind. #Catholic
"When the bases of the interior life are considered, we cannot discuss the action of Christ, the universal Mediator, on His mystical body without also speaking of the influence of Mary Mediatrix. Many persons delude themselves, maintaining that they reach union with God without having continual recourse to our Lord, who is the way, the truth, and the life. Another error would consist in wishing to go to our Lord without going first to Mary. Protestants have fallen into this last error. . . We lack humility if we neglect the mediators whom God has given us.
The prophets and priests of the Old Testament may be called mediators, and also the priests of the New Testament, as ministers of the true Mediator. There is nothing to prevent there being mediators below Christ, subordinated to Him as secondary mediators.
Is not Mary in her quality as Mother of God completely designated to be the universal mediatrix? She is, indeed, much below God and Christ because she is a creature, but much above all men by the grace of her divine maternity, and by the plenitude of grace received at the moment of her Immaculate Conception.
The free consent that she gave on Annunciation day was necessary for the accomplishment of the Incarnation. By this free fiat, she cooperated in the sacrifice of the cross. She cooperated in it also by offering her Son in the Temple - more enlightened than Simeon she offered her Son, and began to suffer deeply with Him when she heard the holy man tell her that He would be a sign which would be contradicted and that a sword would pierce her soul.
Her charity surpassed that of the greatest saints. At the moment when her Son was about to die on the cross, she did not cease for a moment to believe that He was the Word made flesh, the Savior of the world, who would rise as He had predicted. This was the greatest act of faith and hope ever made.
She was thus the co-redemptrix, in this sense, that with Christ, through Him, and in Him, she bought back the human race. All that Christ merited for us on the cross in strict justice, Mary merited for us by congruous merit, based on the charity that united her to God. Christ alone, as head of the human race, could strictly merit to transmit divine life to us.
Mary is called in all Greek and Latin tradition the new Eve, Mother of all men in regard to the life of the soul, as Eve was in regard to the life of the body. It stands to reason that the spiritual mother of all men ought to give them spiritual life, not as the principal physical cause (for God alone can be the principal physical cause of grace), but as the moral cause by merit de congruo, merit de condigno being reserved to Christ.
This teaching of tradition itself rests in part on the words of Christ, related in the Gospel. Seeing 'His mother and the disciple standing whom He loved, He saith to His mother: Woman, behold thy son. After that, He saith to the disciple: Behold thy mother. And from that hour the disciple took her to his own.' The literal meaning of these words, “Behold thy son,” points to St. John, but for God, events and persons signify others; here St. John represents spiritually all men purchased by the sacrifice of the cross.
Mary truly appears in Scripture as the distributor of graces. Through Mary, Jesus sanctified the Precursor when she went to visit her cousin Elizabeth. Through His mother, Jesus confirmed the faith of the disciples at Cana, by granting the miracle that she asked.
It is expedient to frequently use the prayer of mediators, that is, to begin our prayer by a trusting, filial conversation with Mary, that she may lead us to the intimacy of her Son, and that the holy soul of the Savior may then lift us to union with God, since Christ is the way, the truth, and the life." - Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange
Fr. Spirago, The Catechism Explained (1899)
"The Jewish religion was of divine institution, but it was only preparatory and temporary. It was like the morning star which heralds the rising sun, or the scaffolding which is removed when the building is finished."
"The Synagogue rejected the Messias when He came; hence it forfeited its rights, and the Church of Christ took its place."
"The so-called Reformed Churches are not one, but many, and those many are continually splitting up into fresh sects... Luther, Calvin, Henry VIII, and others introduced errors which have led to endless divisions."
"Protestants have no sacrifice, no real priesthood, no sacramental confession, no religious orders, no infallible teaching authority—hence they cannot claim to be the Church of Christ."
"Mohammedanism is a mixture of Judaism, Christianity, and paganism. It denies the divinity of Christ and the Blessed Trinity, and teaches many errors which lead souls to perdition."
"The Koran contains contradictions and absurdities; it promises a sensual paradise, which appeals to the lower nature of man, but gives no help to the soul in its struggle against sin."
"The pagan religions are full of idolatry and immorality. Their gods are either deified men or personifications of natural forces"
"Paganism led to the grossest vices: human sacrifices, impurity, divination, and magic were common among the heathen."
Brother, if you believe that you must die, that there is an eternity, that you can die only once, and that if you then err your error will be forever irreparable, why do you not resolve to begin at this moment to do all in your power to secure a good death?
-St. Alphonsus