The reason protestants can't distinguish between our love of Our Lady and our adoration of God is that they don't adore God properly; that is to say, they do not offer sacrifice.
We offer the sacrifice of the Mass: and that is completely beyond anything that protestants can offer to God. They can only offer praise: so when we praise Our Lady, they see us offering to her what they offer to God, and think we are idolatrous.
20 May – St. Aurea, “Golden Girl” of Ostia, and a link to St. Augustine’s
mother, Monnica
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Today is the feast of St. Aurea of Ostia, a martyr from the 2nd century
about whom we know nothing for sure, except that she worked miracles,
refused to sa...
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2 comments:
That's a good point - I hadn't thought of it that way before!
Yes, despite my strident opposition to false ecumenism, I do believe that striving to understand our separated brethren is valuable: so that we may dispel their ignorance and misapprehensions about Christ's Church. (Or maybe that's not 'despite' but the cause of my opposition to false ecumenism!)
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