“Kneel down before your beds each night and pray a Hail Mary. I did this and it helped me a lot.”
This is the advice of Archbishop of Milan, Cardinal Angelo Scola.
A new book gathers reflections from Pope Benedict on the Virgin Mary to encourage children in devotion to the Blessed Mother.
The 48-page book titled “Mary, The Mother of Jesus,” was published in Italian by La Piccola Casa Editrice and begins with an introduction by the new Archbishop of Milan, Cardinal Angelo Scola.
Pope Benedict speaks of one Byzantine image in particular which “shows the child Jesus with his face cheek-to-cheek with his Mother’s,” Cardinal Scola said.
Cardinal Scola noted that the Pope explains how Mary “teaches us not to be discouraged about things that don’t work out or that affect us, or about our mistakes, if we have the humility to admit them and to ask for forgiveness.”.
His introduction ends with a suggestion to children on how to trust in Mary: “Kneel down before your beds each night and pray a Hail Mary. I did this and it helped me a lot.”
Source: CNA
My comment:
To use the departed soul of Miriam as a medium to reach to God, is not Biblical. Regardless of how many priests, bishops and Cardinals who would tell you to do so.
The Jewish virgin Miriam was a Torah obedient Jewess. It would be a grave sin for her, to take any glory away from God of Israel, her Father in Heaven. That will also be to disobey her Son, the Messiah.
The Bible says that there is only one mediator between God and man, and He is Jesus the Messiah. So even to pray the “Hail Mary” is a grave sin. Only lawless men will encourage you to sin, and claim this to be “holiness”. Eternal condemnation will be their destination.
1 Timothy 2:5
For there is one God and one mediator between God and mankind, the man Christ Jesus.
Since we have direct access to God through Jesus the Messiah, you make a mockery of Him, when you do not listen to His instructions.
Jewish Miriam was a sinner, a created being. Those who worship created beings, have been lead into an idolatrous life. If such people to not repent, they will all perish. Those you will find in the Kingdom of Heaven, have all lived by faith in Him.
If you still wounder why there are so many homosexual priests in the Roman Catholic Church, you better read these verse from the Jewish Apostle Paul:
Romans 1:24-26
Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.
Catholics who read this and do not get it, will probably never be able to understand. Their priests have put a curse on their head, and God of the Bible is not willing to lift it. So what can I do?
Their blood shall at least not come on my hands.
Written by Ivar
ivarfjeld.com 
Ezekiel 3:17 KJV
Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me.
Amen very good ! not the article….but the Scriptural Response..
Fool:
Asking Mary to intercede for me is the same as asking someone in my church to pray for me.
Dear Walt
Fool:
Asking Mary to intercede for me is the same as asking someone in my church to pray for me.
My comment:
I did not know, that Catholic Mary is present in your Church. And not only in yours: In 200.000 Catholic Churches all over the World. She is the omnipresent pagan “Queen of Heaven”. She has no regards for the God of her forefathers. She is an unclean lawless spirit, and a copy-cat of a Jewish virgin named Miriam.
JESUS TO CALL NO MAN A FOOL WITHOUT DIRE CONSEQUENCES. YOU HAVE DISOBEYED HIM. REPENT! THE WORD OF GOD–JESUS–SAYS, “PRAY FOR ONE ANOTHER,” James 5:16. Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. ALL CHRISTIANS ARE ALIVE, HERE OR PASSED ON. THE ELDERS IN HEAVEN ARE PICTURED HOLDING THE PRAYERS OF OTHER SAINTS IN HEAVEN, AND ALL…PRAYERS…ARE PICTURED GETTING TO GOD! REPENT OF YOUR UNBIBLICAL VIEW. “HAIL MARY, FULL OF GRACE! THE LORD IS WITH THEE…” IS SCRIPTURE. “PRAY FOR US SINNERS,” IS SCRIPTURAL, ASKING A FELLOW BELIEVER TO PRAY… SHE IS NOT BEING PRAYED “TO,” SHE IS…BEING…ASKED TO PRAY. WE…ALL…LIVING HERE OR WITH CHRIST IN HEAVEN…ARE ENJOINED, “PRAY ONE FOR ANOTHER”… “WE ARE SURROUNDED BY A CLOUD OF WITNESSES,” WHEREVER WE ARE, CATHOLIC CHURCH, OR NOT. BIBICALLY: THIS COMMENT IS ABSOLUTELY ON-TARGET BIBLICALLY, AND YOURS IS NOT. CONSIDER YOUR WAYS! ACKNOWLEDGE WHAT IS TRUE BEFORE YOU WEED OUT WHAT IS FALSE… REPENT OF YOUR WICKEDNESS IN CALLING WHAT IS GOOD, EVIL, AND CLARIFY YOUR TERMS, IN TRUTH! <3+W
Thank you for this article, Ivar. You spoke the truth when you said:
“To use the departed soul of Miriam as a medium to reach to God, is not Biblical. Regardless of how many priests, bishops and Cardinals who would tell you to do so. The Bible says that there is only one mediator between God and man, and He is Jesus the Messiah. So even to pray the “Hail Mary” is a grave sin. Only lawless men will encourage you to sin, and claim this to be “holiness”. Eternal condemnation will be their destination.”
For there is one God and one mediator between God and mankind, the man Christ Jesus. (1 Tim 2:5)
It is shocking that Roman Catholics (and those who support them) can’t see that praying to “mary” via the Rosary is a “damnable heresy”. Those who do this and those who say — “praying the rosary is not going to send anyone to hell” — are LIARS and enemies of the truth. They would rather follow the lying “traditions” of men who are controlled by demons then to be accounted “worthy” when they stand before our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ one day soon.
It makes you wonder what kind of brainwashing has taken place in their minds — the deceived followers of the devil — when they adamantly deny that praying the Rosary “is not praying to mary.” Have they ever actually read or understood the truth about what the Rosary represents? SURELY THEY HAVE! Yet to your face, they will tell you that the Rosary is not about praying to “mary”.
WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE?
This is blatantly obvious. The only explanation is that these people have been turned over to a reprobate mind due to rejecting God and the truth — in favor of partaking in the sins and lies of the devil.
“God will NOT accept any worship that includes Mary or anyone else. Roman Catholics foolishly and sinfully ADD Mary to the list. If a doctrine doesn’t fit within the parameters of the Bible, then it is heresy. If you don’t like this, then it is only because you do NOT believe the Bible.
“Catholicism is as heathen as can be. I recently watched a bunch of nuns chanting the rosary on EWTN (the Eternal Word Television Network for Catholics). They just kept chanting…
Mary, Queen of Heaven…we pray to thee
Mary, Queen of all saints…we pray to thee
Mary, Queen of angels…we pray to thee
Mary, Queen of the holy rosary…we pray to thee
And so on…it lasted for several minutes.
“Do NOT be deceived by the devil. Roman Catholicism is straight out of the pits of hell. Jesus Christ is the ONLY Way to heaven, not the “blessed virgin mary.” Furthermore, Mary did not remain a virgin (contrary to the perpetual virginity teachings of the Catholic religion).
“Do NOT be deceived by the double-talk of Catholics. In one breath they admit that Mary is not the way to heaven, yet they teach that praying the rosary to Mary guarantees heaven. God does not play games like Catholics do.”
Read More About the Lies of the Rosary:
From: http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/False%20Religions/Roman%20Catholicism/rosary_is_blasphemy.htm
Dear JM
Sabbath Shalom.
You wrote:
“Do NOT be deceived by the devil. Roman Catholicism is straight out of the pits of hell.
My comment:
This is a clear message, and a stern warning. We have Roman Catholics visiting this site in the hundreds every day. Do not forget to be kind to them, and lead the on the path to the truth. He, the King of the Jews is Truth.
Dear Ivar,
Nice to talk with you again. You are right. Telling the truth and exposing error IN LOVE to those who have been deceived by the Roman Catholic church is a manifestation of God’s love. It is pure and undefiled in its intent and could never be misconstrued as unkind because it comes from the Lord Jesus Christ. His LOVE is passionate and jealous. He will NOT share His Glory with another.
It is heartbreaking to not be able to reach those we love with the truth because they have rejected us, slandered us, and blocked us from contacting them. The truth is that the RCC is a “religion” of Satan and should be renounced COMPLETELY — not just in small parts here and there — still holding on to “some” of it.
There are those who claim to stand up for truth, yet cling to “rotting pieces” of Catholicism, refusing to take a stand against ALL OF IT. They will tell you that THEY personally do not pray to “saints” — but will say “doing so will not cause anyone to end up in hell.”
They tell you that THEY personally do not attend Catholic “mass” — but will say, “doing so will not cause anyone to end up in hell.” They hold on to secret, rotting, decaying, poisonous doctrines of the Roman Catholic church while at the same time announcing that they have renounced it and are following ONLY JESUS. This makes them hypocrites and liars.
This is the truth:
“The deviation by Catholicism from biblical Christianity goes to the heart of the faith, to salvation itself, and thus affects the ETERNAL DESTINY of those who are deceived thereby. Roman Catholicism rejects salvation by faith and preaches a false gospel of works that cannot save. Salvation is not in Christ but in the Church through submission to its edicts and sacraments. The Basic Catechism of Christian Doctrine calls the sacraments “the chief means of our salvation.”
http://www.reachingcatholics.org/cult-cult.html
May the Lord Jesus Christ convict those who still refuse to let go of ALL the lies of the Roman Catholic church.
Search our hearts O’ Lord, and correct any error in our ways. Burn away anything not of YOU until we are purified as silver and gold. Expose our hidden faults and false doctrines. May we be counted worthy to escape all these things that will come to pass and stand before the Son of Man.
Dear JM, according to the Holy Scriptures not many sheep shall go to heaven, but the majority (but also not so many because the gates are narrow) by the grace of Christ, in case they lived worthily and according to the Laws of the Only One God YHWH, Jehovah (Yahweh), shall be allowed to enter the Kingdom of God. It shall be this only begotten son of God, who shall judge the people when he returns to the earth. Afterwards he shall hand over this Kingdom back to his Father who sits next to him.
It is a pity but also in many protestant denominations we do find a lot of pagan rituals. The coming Feast of Christmas would be like that also such an abomination in the eyes of God.
Dear Christadelphians
Shalom.
After a quick study of your website, I got my first sense confirmed.
From your statement of faith:
• Accepting Jesus hold also in that we recognise who Jesus is and what he has done for us.:Reasons that Jesus was and is not God.
My comment:
There are a lot sects and religious movements, who believe in some kind of gnostic copies of “Jesus”. You are obviously from one of them, rejecting the divinity of Jesus. If you reject that Jesus is God, He will simply not save you. Because God can not deny Him self, or renounce Him self. Father, Son and Spirit is One God, three in One. Always in agreement.
Presently Mary is in the place wherever she belongs. But the pervert & spiritually bankrupt people make such propagation into false beliefs.
People just want their prayers answered. There are countless MANDIR / temples, in India where diamonds, precious stones, gold,silver,etc. etc is offered, on daily basis, WHY? People do not care of eternal life with OUR CREATOR, Nor are they interested in knowing The TRUTH.
FAITH is a gift of God,,just as much as a mustard seed.
But an individual has to endeavor and have fortitude. But people want shortcut,
I can only pray & do whatsoever, for them to come out darkness to LIGHT.
será realmente o papa o falso profeta do apocalipse?
Louis Francoise, Obrigado. Você é a primeira vez que ouvi Português isso – por favor, espalhar a palavra para que mais pessoas vão conhecer e sair da
awesome statement there louis françois says:…if he is not, he’ll do till the real one gets here!!
Pray to Mary who is our teacher??
Hmmm!! just what does she teach?? That to get to Heaven is like a narrow, winding, path of trials in order to complete the race and win the crown from the Master’s Hands (Yeshua HaMashyiach) … or …
that it’s a wide and smooth road where you can just take your Mercedes, Porshe etc… and drive right through into the dark realm of no return??
THIS ARTICLE IS NOT SAYING MARY IS OUR TEACHER, BUT SIMPLY THAT HER EXAMPLE TEACHES US, UNLESS ONE IS LOOKING FOR STRIFE, WHICH IS UNBIBLICAL AND WORTHY OF HELL–LOOK IT UP, IN THE KING JAMES–. THE MESSIAH IS OUR TEACHER, JESUS SAYS, AND JESUS SAYS, THE HOLY-SPIRIT BRINGS TO MIND ALL THAT HE SAYS! DO NOT LOOK FOR AN ARGUMENT… HOWEVER, WE HAD ALL BETTER MAKE CLEAR THAT PRAYING FOR A BELIEVER TO…PRAY…FOR…US, IS DIFFERENT THAT PRAYING…TO…A BELIEVER!! ONE IS JUST AND A COMMANDMENT OF SCRIPTURE, THE OTHER NOT! <3+W
All those who prefer to pray to the omnipresent pagan “Queen of Heaven” do injustice to the virgin Mary (Miryam/Miriam/Maria) and her son Jesus/Jeshua. Both knew their Scriptures very well and were aware that there is Only One God, Elohim Hashem Jehovah, to be honoured and prayed to.
It is just by accepting the words of this son of God who is conceived on a special way, that when he said to pray to His Father like he did likewise, that we really can come to his Father and our Father who is in heaven.
If we want to become partakers of the Kingdom of God we do have to accept what Jesus told us about his Father, and to believe what his Father told us how to live and behave.
Praying to Jesus, Mary on anybody else would be denying the fact that Jesus liberated us to go straight ahead to our Father.
Christadelphians,
You go astray because you do not know the scriptures.
John 14: “Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know.
Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way?
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.
Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us.
Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?
Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works. Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works’ sake. Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.
Whatsoever you ask in ‘MY NAME’, that will ‘I DO’, that the father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask anything IN ‘MY NAME’, ‘I WILL DO IT’.”
How much clearer can it get than that last sentence?
God saw Mary blessed among women..to bring his son to this world to die shed his blood that we may be saved he died alone..not Mary…when the people ask how to pray he said are father who are in heaven….. he did not say Mary ever ..his shed blood saved her also……