Pope Benedict XVI marked 2012’s Solemnity of Mary the Mother of God with a proclamation of the peace that is found in her son Jesus Christ.
“As Saint Paul says, ‘He is our peace,’ and at the same time the ‘way’ by which individuals and peoples can reach this goal to which we all aspire,” the Pope said in his homily on the Jan. 1 feast day, which coincided with the Church’s 45th annual World Day of Peace.
The Pope welcomed pilgrims, Church leaders, and international dignitaries to St. Peter’s Basilica for the year’s first public Papal Mass. He told them that peace, “in the highest and fullest sense, is the sum and synthesis of all blessings” given by God.
“The Church too, on the first day of the year, invokes this supreme good in a special way,” he explained. “She does so, like the Virgin Mary, by revealing Jesus to all.”
“Jesus is a way that can be traveled, open to everyone,” the Pope said. “He is the path of peace. Today the Virgin Mary points him out to us, she shows us the way. Let us walk in it!”
“Thus do we begin the new year 2012 with our gaze fixed on the face of God, revealed in the child of Bethlehem,” he said, “and on his mother Mary, who with humble submission accepted the divine plan.”
Through Mary’s acceptance of God’s will, “the true light which enlightens everyone came into the world, and the path of peace was reopened.”
Pope Benedict invited all people “to have the patience and constancy to seek out justice and peace, to cultivate a taste for what is just and true.”
He noted that peace was “never a quality that can be fully achieved, but a goal to which we must all aspire and for which we must all work.”
“Let us pray that the leaders of nations may renew their willingness and commitment to accept and support this irrepressible desire of humanity,” he urged, entrusting this hope to Mary as “the mother of the ‘King of Peace.’”
He noted that the Gospels “present Mary as the supreme model of prayerful meditation on the mysteries of Christ’s life,”which the Church continues to practice through the Rosary.
Joseph, meanwhile, taught Jesus his own “quiet fidelity to work, prayer and observance of the precepts of the law.”
Source: CNA.
My comment:
There are so many blasphemies in this messages from the Pope, that we need to take them one by one. The Pope’s statements are numbered in bold.
1. “She does so (bring peace), like the Virgin Mary, by revealing Jesus to all.”
The scriptures reveals the Messiah to all. Only He brings peace.
Matthew 2:5
“In Bethlehem in Judea,” they replied, “for this is what the prophet has written:
I am sure the mother of Jesus was a wonderful Law obeying Jewess. A young virgin, who did not have sex before after she gave birth to Jesus.
But there is hardly any records in the Bible of the life of this Jewish lady. She does not have any teachings of her own. No letter of hers have ever been found and accepted as genuine.
After the second chapter of the book of Acts, there is no trance of the mother of Jesus. The Apostle Paul does not even take her name, but do mention and honor other female sisters in the true faith.
The gospel writers and the Apostles told us to focus on God. Not created beings. To go beyond what is written, is a betrayal of the Messiah. After His baptism, Jesus did not follow His mother. He did the Fathers will, regardless of what His earthly family felt and thought about his actions.
Matthew 26:24
The Son of Man will go just as it is written about him. But woe to that man who betrays the Son of Man! It would be better for him if he had not been born.”
The mother of Jesus did not prepare the way for the Son of Man. It was John the Baptist who prepared the way for the Messiah.
Matthew 11:10
This is the one about whom it is written: “‘I will send my messenger ahead of you, who will prepare your way before you.’2. “He is the path of peace. Today the Virgin Mary points him out to us, she shows us the way. Let us walk in it!”
The Jewish mother of Jesus do not point Him out to us. Neither does she show us the way. Jesus the Messiah IS the way, and there is no other. He is the author of the Prophetic Word. The mother of Jesus did not write anything. Neither did she die for our sins. No created being is the ‘Resurrection and life”.
Isaiah 2:3
Many peoples will come and say, “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the temple of the God of Jacob. He will teach us his ways, so that we may walk in his paths.” The law will go out from Zion, the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.3. Through Mary’s acceptance of God’s will, “the true light which enlightens everyone came into the world, and the path of peace was reopened.”
The Jewish virgin could not block God’s plan for saving the World. Had this young female refused to obey, God of the Bible would have found another young Jewess who were a virgin. The virgin of Zion has many daughters, who obey the Law.
The Bible explains that the Jewish mother of Jesus, needed to be saved.
Luke 2: 34-35.
Then Simeon blessed them and said to Mary, his mother: “This child is destined to cause the falling and rising of many in Israel, and to be a sign that will be spoken against, so that the thoughts of many hearts will be revealed. And a sword will pierce your own soul too.”4. “Let us pray that the leaders of nations may renew their willingness and commitment to accept and support this irrepressible desire of humanity,” he urged, entrusting this hope to Mary as “the mother of the ‘King of Peace.’”
That the Pope entrust the hope for “peace” to Catholic Mary, is yet another example of who is in control in the Vatican. “The Queen of Heaven” control her son, and is presented as co-redeemer and co-matrix.
If you search the online Bible using two words “Mary + Peace”, you will get zero hits. The message of the Pope is a fiction, based on doctrines taught by demons.
5. He noted that the Gospels “present Mary as the supreme model of prayerful meditation on the mysteries of Christ’s life,”which the Church continues to practice through the Rosary.
There is not a single line in the Bible, that present “Catholic Mary” as a “supreme model”. This Jewish young virgin was a sinner like all other women in Israel. She found favor with God, but shall not be elevated above other women. She was blessed among women. The Roman Catholic Rosary who “hail Mary” is a mockery and pure blasphemy.
“Catholic Mary” and the Jewish mother of Jesus are two different beings. The claims of the Pope is built on lies, fabrications and falsehood.
Written by Ivar
ivarfjeld.com 
Shalom Ivar.
You say Mary was a sinner like all other women in Israel.
The Bible says ‘judge not, lest ye be judged’.
What the Bible does say about her is that she found favour in the sight of God.
Clearly there was something about Mary for God to choose her.
The error lies in us, or more specifically a certain church elevating her higher than God did.
It is interesting that the Bible mentions people who ‘find favour in the sight of God’ while they are of use to God and, willing to do His work.
Daniel for instance was given the ability to describe Nebuchadnezzers dream, then having done that he was told to write everything down, seal up the book and get on with his life.
We don’t hear about him again as far as I know, until the night of the fall of Babylon when the writting appeared on the wall.
He served God and then faded into the background.
Mary served God, it is interesting that at the wedding where Jesus changed water into wine, He said ‘my time is not yet come’, Mary ignored Jesus and told the servants to do whatever Jesus told them to do.
Mary knew it was time for Jesus to start work – then she fades into the background.
John the Baptist also, knew he had a job to do, he then sent his disciples to report back what Jesus was doing. He knew that the prophets had foretold that Jesus would give sight to the blind and set the captives free. Johns disciples reported back that the blind could see and the lame could walk. Jesus was also preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom of God, setting the captives of Phariseical Judaism free.
John knew that his time was done that the Saviour was in business.
Praise God for obedient servants. Learn from them but don’t deify them.
“for ALL have sinned and fall short of the glory of God – Romans 3:23
“Therefore, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men, because ALL sinned” – ROMANS 5:12
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Saying “Mary was a sinner like all other women in Israel” is not judging her, just pointing to the fact that God says all of us have sinned and need Christ to save us
What is your problem?
Mary was found favour with God that HIS LIVING WORD should dwell in her womb. God found her to be the best of all creation to entrust HIS SON to her care.
In the OLD TESTAMENT the WORD of GOD in tablet was put in wood and metal called ARK of the COVENANT. And it was considered HOLY by God’s people. The Ark of the Covenant was put inside the HOLY of HOLIES and no naked eye can stare at it (wood and metal with two cherubim on top spreading their wings together). Thought the ARK of the COVENANT was made by wood and metal and the Word of God was inscribed in STONE (tablets) but IT WAS HOLY. God made it (material things) to be HOLY and that God consecrated those materials things to be abode of holiness.
MARY in the NEW TESTAMENT is God’s own creation in the image and likeness of HIM. And MARY was made the NEW ARK of the COVENANT for making HER WOMB to be the dwelling place of the LIVING WORD of GOD becoming FLESH. Mary is not made up of stone and metals. She is FLESH and patterned according to the LIKENESS and IMAGE of GOD.
If the wood and stone and the tablet made of rocks was considered holy and revered to the highest form, HOW ABOUT MARY?
If the Jewish people pray before the ARK of the COVENANT, why cant we pray before MARY, who is the NEW ARK OF THE COVENANT?
There you missed the whole point in our SALVATION HISTORY!!! May God have mercy on your soul.
One of the main problems with Catholicism is their absolute faith in Popes & what their “mother church” says instead of leaning on the incorruptible word of God..they would rather go with what their fallen human popes says even when its contrary to what the scriptures say. They will defend their church to the very end even when its clear there is every manner of deception in that institution.
They claim Peter (their first pope) was the “rock” on which the church would be built upon yet deep in Vatican its well known fact that the term “rock” that Christ used was in reference to Peter was “a little stone” and Christ Himself was the “Rock” on which the gates of hell would not prevail against.
The man that runs the whole show in Vatican is not Pope Ratzinger as many would think but the “black” pope who is in control and behind the scenes. Black because he wears black costumes and not coz of his race and he is a free mason.
http://chick.com/reading/comics/0112/0112_allinone.asp
Who said the wood was holy?? His presence is holy. You missed the point of the ark.
I no longer debate religion with people who have little knowledge of, or interest in, the early history and writings of the Christian faith. Suffice it to say that when you place all your faith in the Bible, you have already submitted yourself entirely to the judgement of the Catholic Church (a term that merely means “universal” and is used without further explanation by Ignatius of Antioch around 110 A.D.). The Bible didn’t drop, bound in leather, from the sky. It was the Church, in a series of councils in late antiquity that separated the divinely inspired from the chaff. So, welcome to the Church founded by Jesus Christ for just this purpose and more. You’ve accepted its authority, I pray that one day you’ll take it to heart.