Category: Blessed Virgin Mary
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Catholic Prayers to Mary: When Quoting Devotional Language Is Mistaken for Refuting Catholic Doctrine
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in Apologetics, Biblical Exegesis, Blessed Virgin Mary, Catholic Apologetics, Catholic Doctrine, Catholic Prayers, Catholic Theology, Catholic–Protestant Debate, Church Fathers, Communion of Saints, Devotional Theology, Intercession of the Saints, Marian Devotion, Marian Doctrine, Protestant Objections, Sacred TraditionA Catholic Rebuke of Answering Catholics on Marian Prayer, the Intercession of the Saints, the Glories of Mary, and the Unique Mediation of Jesus Christ Patrick O’Brien’s Answering Catholics has published an article entitled “Catholic Prayers To Mary.” The article begins by appealing to passages commanding believers to call upon God in times of trouble.…
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From the Tree of Eden to the Tree of Calvary
The Divine Mystery of Sin, Sacrifice, and Redemption How the disobedience of the first Adam was overcome by the perfect obedience of Jesus Christ, the New Adam—and how the Cross became the Tree of Eternal Life. “For as by the disobedience of one man, many were made sinners: so also by the obedience of one,…
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Beneath Her Mercy: What Christianity’s Oldest Surviving Marian Prayer Reveals About the Early Church
Long before Gothic cathedrals, medieval rosaries, Renaissance Madonnas, or the great Marian shrines of Europe, Christians were already turning to the Blessed Virgin Mary in prayer. One of the clearest witnesses to this ancient devotion is a short Greek prayer commonly known by its Latin title, Sub Tuum Praesidium—“Under Thy Protection.” Preserved on a damaged…