Immaculate Conception Of Mary (8/12) general version

A. Back ground:

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(1) why Judaism still not believing the messiah has come?
God in His wisdom,shows us a path for happy life thru' Jesus. Birth of Jesus shows us following major points:
1.1 Jesus came to this world, like a normal human. He was having divine and human characteristics. Judaism still does not believe this. They expect messiah to come thru' supernatural means.
1.2 Jesus life gives us the message that has to be established in our life, to reintroduce Happiness, as suffered by the original sin.
1.3 Message of Jesus clearly shows how to use our free will to achieve Happiness, in 3 steps; have(a)peaceful(b)worry free(c)happy mind. To have peaceful mind you should avoid laziness,judging others and anger in your life. For worry less mind, you should handover all worries to Holy Mary/saints and lead your life calmly. For happy mind you should avoid all 7 vices(sloth, anger, pride, lust, envy, gluttony. avarice) in your life

IT IS IN THIS PROCESS THAT THE ROLE OF MARY AND ALL SAINTS WILL HELP US TO ACHIEVE A WORRY LESS MIND. At cana Jesus clearly shows that we should go to Mary for our happiness(wine), while we maintain our life with Catholic behaviour(water-following 10 commandments with pardoning principle)

(2) Method followed by our lord, in introducing Jesus(part of trinity) to this world!
Picture of Holy family
Mary and joseph marriege was virginal from start to finish, and God planned to produce the infant messiah as it's fruit and off spring. Not did the perpetual virginity of both partners in any way diminish, still less invalidated, their married status or their true parent hood

JUST AS MARY WAS VIRGINALY JOSEPH'S WIFE, SO WAS HE VIRGINALLY HER HUSBAND. AND JUST AS SHE WAS VIRGINALLY THE MOTHER, SO WAS HE VIRGINALLY THE FATHER.... THE HOLY SPIRIT GAVE THE DIVINE CHILD TO BOTH OF THEM
-St AUGUSTINE-



(3) Changes introduce by JESUS

The 4 pillars of Judaism has been shifted to christianity as follows:

(1) Faith shifted from 1 God to Triune(Trinity) and it is given in Creed
(2)Worship shifted from slaughtering animal and spreading blood over the offering table to 7 sacraments(catholics). Please note that all other christian denomination there are only 2 Sacraments
(3)Spirituality: Establish connection with God: going to temple and pray has been shifted to Our father+ intercession prayers through Mary+saints. Please note that other christian denomination does not support intercession prayers
(4) Behaviour- How we live: 10 commandments with Eye to Eye principle has been shifted to 10 commandments with 'turn other cheek(PARDONING)


B.3 HOW GOD PLANNED TO INTRODUCE FULL FREEDOM TO HUMAN.(After betrayal of our original parents)

Please note new freedom is to utilise your own will subject to Love.

 Before to Jesus

(1) Follow 10 commandments with 'Eye to Eye' Principle
(2) God was directly involved for instruction & even for the supply of food
(3) Human free will was not fully utilised,since God was directly instructing, like a child is brought up by the parents!

 After Jesus

(1) Follow 10 commandments with 'Turn the other cheek' (pardoning)Principle
(2) God was indirect. You have to search for Him. You have to search for food. All other basic element for living is given free, same as before(ex: water,sunlight,air,earth,fire)
(3) Human free will has to be fully utilised and see that from your life God's will is carried out!
(4) Love concept introduced, since God is now indirect.
(A)LOVE YOUR SELF- maintain a Peaceful(without laziness and without anger,without judging others) and worry less mind(hand over worries thru'  Mary and saints and live without worries)
(B)LOVE GOD- have a happy mind( without other 5 vices-avarice,pride,envy, gluttony,lust)+ LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR- convert your inborn talents to energy and serve the society for the glory of God.

The above 4 th point is totally new after Jesus, and you have to first achieve A and then go to B

Pictorial view of new theory to be practised

(4)Why  Mary has being chosen by God to be the interface between Jesus and humans?

Mary lead a holy life, from the inception of her birth. She was not bothered about earthly desires but only spiritual. How we know that?

Mary did not blame God for the troubles she under went in following God's will. This is quiet abnormal to understand by any human. Why? Always human try to find their way to a easy life and when a trouble comes, they try to find a escape goat!. This is coming from the original sin!

Blame game

Original sin, causes a main earthly excuse to find a reason for your vices. How it came?
Adam and Eve disobedience changed everything. They wore pig leaves to cover their nakedness,(explain why we should wear clothes).They heard sound of God walking in garden. They hid themselves(reminds first game of HIDE&SEEK)Peculiar question God asked"WHERE ARE you"(does God not know).God doesn't ask question to gain knowledge,but to give opportunity"COME CLEAN".Adam came clean. When God asked why?,he said" women whom you gave me to be with me,she gave me the fruit & I ate!".his words means-He not only blames women, but in case that's not going to get him out of Hot water,he says"Whom you gave me" to indicate the final blame to go to God for his own disobedience. God ask Eve-She realising how this game is played,passes the buck once more."SERPENT TRICK ME &I ATE" this Blame Game can only go so far and beginning with serpent,God declares HIS judgement against each of guilty parties. For serpent-scrolling on ground&eat dirt. Eve-Pain in child birth,Adam-pain of labouring field.

BUT FROM THE CHARACTER OF MARY, ONE FIND SHE DIDNOT BLAME GOD FOR HER TROUBLES IN LEADING THE LIFE TO INTRODUCE JESUS IN TO THIS WORLD.
SO IT IS EVIDENT THAT SHE IS BORN WITH IMMACULATE CONCEPTION AND SHE LED LIFE IDEALLY TO SUIT THAT!

The evidences of Mary, given in the bible: some says Mary is not mention in Bible. This is not true!

1) When Adam & Eve disobeyed God, HE said to Satan that "you cheated a woman and one day a woman will crush your head"
2)During the Annunciation
3)Visiting Elizabeth
4)Birth of Jesus in Bethlehem
5)Presenting Our Lord in the Temple
6) Joseph escaping  to Egypt  with mary and baby Jesus  on a donkey  when the rulers were looking for Baby Jesus  with the intention of harming him or destroying him
(7)Jesus lost in the Temple at the age of12
(8)1st miracle- wedding in Cana
(9)when Jesus declared who is my mother..etc
(10)On the Cross,Jesus words to Mary & john.
(11) Jesus dead body on lap of Mary
(12) On the Pentercost Day.

From (8)-(12) a strong evidence of God's will implemented by mary on her own is clearly visible.

B. Role of Holy mary, as seen from the life of christ!
(1) 3 years of Jesus public life shows the powerful message of love thru' apostles and mary to this world!. Mary has been associating with Jesus 30 years. How much experience she might have got in this 30 years!
(2) Principle changed to human, in association of God and how it is in line with the practical world.
In human life too, you are interdependent. You cannot live along. Catholism beautifully preserve the same principal. Always you go to God for your happiness thru' Mary and saints. So communion with saints will be necessary. This required for you to study about saints. This method make catholism very dynamic, as there is a well established process to declare saints. Saints will keep on increasing until the end of this world.

(3) Role of mary, in Jesus public life

In the public life of Jesus, mary make significant appearances. This is so even at the very beginning, when at the marriege feast of Cana, moved with pity, she brought her intercession the beginning of miracles of Jesus the messiah(cf. Jn 2:1-11). In the course of her son's preaching she received the words whereby in extolling a kingdom beyond the calculations and bonds of flesh and blood, He declared blessed (cf:mark3:35;27-28) those who heard and kept the word of God, as she was faithfully doing(cf luke 2:19,51). After this manner the blessed virgin advanced in her pilgrimage of faith, and faithfully preserved in her union with her son unto the cross, where she stood, in keeping with the divine plan(cf: john 19:25), grieving exceedingly with Her only begotten son, uniting herself with a maternal heart with His sacrifice, and lovingly consenting to the immolation of this victim which she herself has brought forth. Finally she was given by the same Christ Jesus dying on the cross as a mother to His disciple with these words"WOMEN BEHOLD THY SON"(cf John 19:26-27).

(4) Role of mary, after the decention of Holy Spirit.
At the cross Mary was given the task of looking after humans happiness. This is very evident as she appeared many times, just to reveal the protection of human. The 3 most recent ones where catholic church has approved are:
(1) In 1830 at Paris to st Catherine
(2) In 1858 at lourdes to st Bernedeth
(3) In 1917 at Fatima/portugal to blessed Jasinta, blessed Francisco And to Lucy.


Fatima
 FATIMA APARATIONS:

The Message of Fatima is contained in a series of Church-approved apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary to three shepherd children at Fatima, Portugal in 1917. From 13/5/1917 to13/10/1917. Holy Mary appeared 6 times(13/6,13/7,15/8, 13/9) to- Francisco(7years),Jacinta(9 years) and Lucia(10 years)at Fatima.

Apparitions  took place on a small property belong to Lucia's parents called Cova Da Iria, about a mile and half from Fatima on the road to Leiria. Our lady appeared over a holm ork tree, just over 3 feet high!. Francisco could only see Our Lady; He could not hear her. Jacinta could see and hear Her. Lucia could see,hear and talk with the Blessed Virgin Mary.



She always keep watch of humans who ask her protection, by wearing miraculous medal and reciting daily individual Rosary

C. Relation between immaculate Conception and Assumption

(1) Elija and moses/ transfiguration
In the old testament these two appeared that they have taken to heaven bodily and their burial place appears to be unknown. Elija was very powerful prophet, who has foretoldc many incidents of jesus, while Moses is important of the introduction of human behavioural law.(10 commandments)


(2) Holy mary's dogma's

Immaculate conception dogma has been introduce in 1854, while assumption was introduced in 1950.
 God in His own wisdom might have decided the delay in introduction these concepts, may be it is relevant to the need of this concept after these era. Earlier catholics believed the same without establishing the dogma's.

D. Why mary's is chosen-special merits
As God to jesus interface, mary has proven Herself ideal in character, to bring Jesus into this world. Not only that she proved herself ideally fit in character in leading the role of mother for Jesus and showed a good example for apostles until her mission in this world ends.

E. How mary declared Her position

On27/11/1830Mary gave a Medal to Catherine(24yrs).Formed around her,written,"O MARY CONCEIVED WITHOUT SIN,pray for us who have recourse to you"Then MARY told 'HAVE A MEDAL MADE ACCORDING TO THIS MODEL,EVERY ONE WHO WEARS IT AROUND THEIR NECK WILL RECEIVE GREAT GRACES.FOR THOSE WHO WEAR WITH CONFIDENCE THERE WILL BE ABUNDANT GRACES!"By1842>100m medals distributed. Due to profusion of healing & conversions,MEDAL named 'MIRACULIOUS'.2/2/1849 Pope Pius IX commence study"IMMACULATE CONCEPTION" and dogma established on 8/12/1854.Within4 yrs,on 25/3/1858 Mary confirmed her name "I AM THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION"to
14yr illiteral Bernadette. A lady cannot have such a name!She repeated what she had heard to the priest!.From feb11to july16th/1858,Mary appeared18 times to Bernadette in Lourdes.


F. Delay in introducing Mary's role

8/12/1854,dogma of Immaculate Conception was defined by pope Pius 9. Why did it took so long? In the course of history of church, this had been the object of some disagreement. Sources of these are 2 fold.1st was universility of original sin taught with such vigor by St Paul in his letters& universility of Redemption in which it seemed impossible to exempt one sole creature,even if she was mother of God. Council of trent shed light on this 1st point when it declared that it did not intend"to include Blessed & immaculate Virgin Mary in decree relative to original sin" with regard to 2 point,church introduced distinction between Redemption of victims of original sin&antecdent "Preservation" accorded to Virgin Mary in view of future Redemption. Despite these reservations this,feast spread gradually thru out church!



May be God in His own wisdom, shown us the role of mary after 1830 years and instigated catholic church to introduce dogma's of mary. Also mary's apparitions
 For Miraculous medal/lourdes/ fatima

G. Clear evidence for mary's dogma's

Two un corrupt bodies of st catherine and St Bernedeth gives us a clear evidence of truth of dogmas established by catholic church. Ie mary's Immaculate conception and Mary's assumption.

I. Mary's role with other christian denominations!
Division's of Christianity!

Christianity first divided to catholism and orthodox in 1054/july/16. Break began as a political split within Roman Empire and evolved into a theological split. It is like twins separated at birth!.

Catholicism started to have divisions with Martin Luther in 1521. He was critical about the church activities at that time and wrote about 95 theses against nepotism & simony to correct.(Nepotism-choosing of family members to fill positions regardless of their actual qualifications)(simony-buying of church offices and church"things" such as sacraments and relics of saints) Church theologian appointed to discuss with him,Luther raised the question of Papal infallibility,which led eventually to ex communicate him with the church!. This is how PROTESTANTS started. In questioning centralised authority, Luther also showed a lack of any need for it. This stance opened the door for any one who disagreed with anyone else simply split off. These breaks grew exponentially as groups broke off from other groups, resulting thousands of Protestants that exist today.

In 1530 King Henry VIII, established himself as the supreme head of English Church, forming the Anglican church!.


Note: there are about 1 billion catholics while there are about 250 million orthodox christians centred around where christ apostles established christian communities!.

Main reason

Main divisions of Christianity has stemmed from centralised authority, but not the question of ROLE OF MARY!.

But to day, it appears, many denominations are not identifying the Role of Mary in christianity!. Without our knowledge, we have been deviating the problem towards another direction, as whether to treat Mary as MOTHER OF CHURCH universally

J. Vatican 2- narrow approval for mary
Vatican iI council was divided in approving the role of Mary. However by majority vote it was approved to treat as Mary as mother of God.

K. What is mary's role!
treating every christian, Mary as our own mother! Christianity,is to follow the will of God. The order of God's law requires that we should be brought to him thru Mary.

L. Mary and candle

Candles are used only by Christians. you are like a Candle. your life is similar to-Thread,your Happiness thru' God represent Flame, your love of Mary represent Wax. More wax means More flame in your life!. Wear miraculous medal and Pray daily Rosary for more wax, to lead your life in accordance with  GOD'S will

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St Catherine Laboure-1806/1876 (28/11)

Story of Saint Catherine Labouré

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​Catherine was born in the Burgundy region of France to Pierre Labouré, a farmer, and Louise Madeleine Gontard, the ninth of 11 children. Catherine's mother died on October 9, 1815, when Catherine was just nine years old. It is said that after her mother's funeral, Catherine picked up a statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary and kissed it saying, "Now you will be my mother."

 Her father's sister suggested that she care for his two youngest children, Catherine and Tonine. After he agreed, the sisters moved to their aunt's house at Saint-Rémy, a village nine kilometers from their home.

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On January 25, 1818, Catherine made her first holy communion. One day she had a dream in which a priest said to her:” My daughter, you may flee me know, but one day you will come to me. Do not forget that God has plans for you.” Sometime later, while visiting a hospital of the Daughters of Charity at Chatillon-sur-Seine, she noticed a priest’s picture on the wall. She asked a sister who he might be, and was told: “Our Holy Founder Saint Vincent de Paul.” This was the same priest Catherine had seen in the dream. Catherine knew she was in the right place.

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On 21 April 1830, Catherine entered the novitiate of the Daughters of Charity, taking the name ‘Catherine’. On the eve of the feast of Saint Vincent de Paul, July 19, the Sister Superior spoke to the novices about the virtues of their holy Founder and gave each of the novices a of cloth from the holy Founder’s surplice. Because of her extreme love, Catherine split her piece down the middle, swallowing half and placing the rest in her prayer book. She earnestly prayed to Saint Vincent that she might with her own eyes see the Mother of God.

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​First appearance of the Blessed Virgin: 19 July 1830 Chapel Rue Du Bac 140 in Paris

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It is 11.30 pm, Sister Catherine (24 years old) wakes up as she hears her name called three times. She opens the curtains of her cell and sees her Guardian Angel in the form of a 5 year old child. He says,” Follow me to the chapel, where the Virgin Mary awaits you”. Catherine hastily dresses herself and follows him to the chapel. The chapel is lit as for midnight mass, but she can’t see the Blessed Virgin. She then kneels and prays. After half an hour her guardian angel says “there is the Blessed Virgin Mary”. Catherine hears a rustle like that of silk and to the left of St. Joseph she sees the Blessed Virgin Mary descend and sit herself on the chair of the Priest. Within a moment she is on her knees in front of the Blessed Virgin. With her hands confidently folded on Mary’s knees. This is the beginning of a two hour long conversation. The Blessed Virgin Mary tells her that God will charge her a mission. In the process she will experience many difficulties. The Blessed Virgin already speaks of bad times ahead. The whole world will be plunged into confusion through all sorts of incidents. The Cross will be treated with contempt, it will be cast to earth. The side of our Lord will be pierced again. The Blessed Virgin says this with a very sorrowful look on her face. Encouragingly though, she adds: “but come to the foot of this altar and here graces will be bestowed upon all, who ask with confidence and fervor. They will be given to the rich and to the poor”.

Second appearance of the Blessed Virgin: 27 November 1830 Chapel Rue Du Bac in Paris

It is 5.30pm, and the Sisters are in the chapel for the hour of Meditation. Suddenly Catherine hears, to her right, the same rustle as before; it is the Blessed Virgin Mary. She stops to the left near the painting of St. Joseph. This whole apparition is conducted in scenes and sign-language. The Blessed Virgin ‘standing in space’. She was dressed in white, standing on a globe and holding a golden ball, with rings on her fingers flashing with lights. An inner voice told her that the ball represented the whole world and that the rays coming from Mary’s fingers represented graces for individuals. Then a second phase: The golden ball then vanished as this apparition changed to represent Mary with her arms outstretched inside an oval frame with golden lettering: O Mary conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.

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Mary gave her this instruction: “have a medal struck on this model. All those who carry this medal will receive grace in abundance, especially if they wear the medal around their neck and say this prayer confidently, they will receive special protection from the Mother of God and abundant graces”.


Then it is although the whole scene turns around and Catherine can see the back of the medal. In the center is the letter M, from where a cross ascends with at its base a cross-beam which passes through the letter M and below this the two hearts of Jesus and Mary, one crowned with thorns the other pierced by the sword of sorrow.  The whole is surrounded with a crown of 12 stars recalling the vision of St. John in the twelfth chapter of the Apocalypse or Book of Revelation. Catherine hears:” the M with the Cross and the two hearts say enough”.

During the next year the apparition occurred five times and each time with the same instructions: “have a medal struck on this model, and all those who wear it will receive great graces, especially when worn around the neck”.

Sister Catherine endured many humiliations, but she persevered. It took two years before her confessor, Father Aladel, a Vicentian priest, had a medal struck. The request was approved and the design of the medallions was commissioned through French goldsmith Adrien Vachette. The original name of the medal is that of ‘Holy Mary’s Immaculate Conception’,

 only after 7 years was the name changed to the ‘Miraculous Medal’. Because of the many answered prayers, the conversions and the cures, some 10 million medals were sold during the first 5 years. The short prayer: “O Mary conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to Thee”, has since been prayed innumerable times by believers, so that the entire Christianity became familiar with Mary’s ‘Immaculate Conception’.

 It was Pope Pius IX who made it a rule of faith. This was received with great joy by the entire church.

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Four years later, Mary came as though to confirm this, when She said to Bernadette at Lourdes: I am the Immaculate Conception.


Summary story of Holy mary's Immaculate conception:

On 27/11/1830 Mary gave a Medal to Catherine.Formed around her,written,"O MARY CONCEIVED WITHOUT SIN,pray for us who have recourse to you"Then MARY told'HAVE A MEDAL MADE ACCORDING TO THIS MODEL,EVERY ONE WHO WEARS IT AROUND THEIR NECK WILL RECEIVE GREAT GRACES.FOR THOSE WHO WEAR WITH CONFIDENCE THERE WILL BE ABUNDANT GRACES!"By1842 more than 100million medals distributed. Due to profusion of healing & conversions,MEDAL named 'MIRACULIOUS'. 2/2/1849 Pope Pius9 commence study"IMMACULATE CONCEPTION" & dogma established on 8/12/1854.

Within4 yrs,on 25/3/1858 Mary confirmed her name"I AM THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION" to 14year il literal Bernedette. A lady cannot have such a name!She repeated what she had heard to the priest!.

Uncorrupt bodies of st catherine+ st bernedeth

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Both Catherine & Bernadette uncorrupt bodies U can see in France!.

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Why so many years (1854) has taken catholic church to establish the Immaculate conception of Mary.

8/12/1854,dogma of Immaculate Conception was defined by pope Pius IX. Why did it took so long? In the course of history of church, this had been the object of some disagreement. Sources of these are 2 fold.1st was universility of original sin taught with such vigor by St Paul in his letters& universility of Redemption in which it seemed impossible to exempt one sole creature,even if she was mother of God. Council of trent shed light on this 1st point when it declared that it did not intend"to include Blessed & immaculate Virgin Mary in decree relative to original sin" with regard to 2 point,church introduced distinction between Redemption of victims of original sin and antecedent "Preservation" accorded to Virgin Mary in view of future Redemption. Despite these reservations this,feast spread gradually throughout church!

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How about our members of other christian denominations!

Orthodox were departed from the main stream by 1054 AD, while protestants departed in 1517 and anglicans dparted in 1530. All our departed betherens were deprived of the main dogma's established by the catholic church with regard to holy mary.
Christianity teach us how to achieve a PECEFUL mind(without Anger/laziness& without judging others) then to have a worryless mind(without worry's by handing over such to Holy Mary and saints) then to have a happy mind(removing other 5 vices-Pride,lust,envy,glutonny and avarice). Finally it gives a method of converting your talents to energy to be given for the benefit of the society for the glory of God. Final achievement of the purpose of creation.

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In this process, to maintain a worryless mind is having major differences among christian denominations!. At cana God in His wisdom shows us the need to invite Holy mary to our life, for her to intercede with Him, for our happiness. One cannot argue IS IT NECESSARY?, because it is clearly indicated in the john Gospel chapter2. It is similar argument that JUdaism reject christianity, since they feel Messiah cannot come in a normal way. Unfortuneatly except catholics all other christian denomination has develop very far into the reality of involvement of Holy mary and saints, in resolving our fears,worries,sufferings and disagreements.

The un corrupted bodies of St catherine and St bernedeth, gives a clear evidence for living humans, the value of Holy mary and saints, in resolving our worries!.

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Presentation Of Mary (22/11) General Version

Presentation Of Mary (22/11) General Version

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St Joachim and St Anne brought their 3 year daughter Mary from Nazareth to temple of Jerusalem(80 miles)in fulfilment of their vow,to educate Her by holy women, together with other girls,consecrated to Gods service& She start meditating on how she might please him most.

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GOD LOOKED OVER WORLD FOR AN EMPTY HEART-BUT NOT A LONELY HEART- A HEART THAT WAS EMPTY LIKE A FLUTE ON WHICH HE MIGHT PIPE A TUNE and HE FOUND MARY. God look down her lowliness.

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A box that is filled with sand cannot filled with Gold.
Mary showed

(1)there is no limit on God's part to His possession of a soul;it is soul alone which can limit HIS welcome,as a window curtain limit light!

(2)more empty soul is of self,greater room in it for God. LARGER THE EMPTINESS OF A NET,BIGGER THE BIRD THAT CAN BE HOUSED THEREIN.

Mary clearly shows, that she has chased away all 7 vices namely Sloth,Anger, Pride,Avarice,Envy, Lust, gluttony

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Summary details about vices
The wrong ways of enjoying has come to us from the original sin. At times due to lack of proper guidance,we get attached to things and persons alive or dead. Unless we purified we cannot purely love God with all our heart and all our soul.(Cf. Dt.6.5;Lk 10.27;Jn 15.12; Jn4.7-22)
Sloth: is laziness or idleness. Apart from doing nothing, you can develop idleness through unnecessary judging. This can be of 2 types. Discussing with your friends about bad about others- you go to unwanted areas of analysis, where you create not only spoiling your time but introducing anger to your body. Other type is unwarrented analysis about politicians or crimes in a given country. Analysis is good, but when you try to crave for analysis, you create spoiling your time without any results and start creating anger in your body. For this category of people, should avoid listening to mutimedia, as first thing in the morning!.

Anger: is a strong feeling that comes when one feel, other is wrong or he is insulting or injustice etc. Anger is treated as commiting suicide in catholicism.

SLOTH AND ANGER ARE VERY CLOSE FRIENDS, AND ALWAYS WE SHOULD AVOID THEM LIKE A WATER DROP TO A LOYUS FLOWER. HENCE, JUDGING OTHER IS A ROOT CAUSE TO GRASPH THESE 2 FRIENDS, WHICH WILL RUIN YOUR MENTAL HEATH AND ULTIMATELY PHYSICAL HEALTH TOO!.

Pride; it is too great an admiration of oneself. Pride has 7 evil consequences: boasting, love for publicity, hyprocrisy, hardheadness,discord,quarreling and dis obedience. When all these 7 evil inclination grow in our dealing with God and neighbor,THE DEVIL BALLOONS OUR PRIDE TO MAKE US LOSE EVANTUALLY TO OUR OWN EGOISM.

Avarice: is lead us to be greedy,and ends up with fraud,perjury,dishonesty,perfidy and harshness, in dealing with others. Avarice further leads us to desire and covet things that we should not. This behavior can affect all the 6 goods: NATURAL,TEMPORAL, SENSORY,MORAL,SPIRITUAL and SUPERNATURAL. "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs the kingdom of God"

Envy; envy start demanding,"WHY SHOULD NOT I HAVE EVERY THING THAT OTHERS HAVE?". We are envious of another's goods and jealous of our own. DEEPLY ROUTED JEALOUSY CAN LEAD TO LOSE HEALTH BOTH PHYSICAL AND SPIRITUAL. Paul says Love is not jealous or envious.

Lust; It is a dis orientated love that seeks not the other but personal individualistic pleasure and satisfaction in everything we do. Lust excludes all personal consideration for the sake of sen sate experience. Lust leads to exploitation of oneself and others or things for our own glory, satisfaction and pleasure.
The pleasure seeking attitude in life cannot help us to partners with God. The desire for pleasure is good thing in life. Life would be sapless without it. What is dangerous is inordinate craving for it. Jesus advocate a life that is simple. He is conscious of the dangers of riches and money.

Gluttony:
This flows from the dis orderly animal appetite, the obsession with food and drink to the point of living to eat, rather than eating to live.

The role of Holy Mary, as seen by Vatican II


In the public life of Jesus, mary make significant appearances. This is so even at the very beginning, when at the marriege feast of Cana, moved with pity, she brought her intercession the beginning of miracles of Jesus the messiah(cf. Jn 2:1-11). In the course of her son's preaching she received the words whereby in extolling a kingdom beyond the calculations and bonds of flesh and blood, He declared blessed (cf:mark3:35;27-28) those who heard and kept the word of God, as she was faithfully doing(cf luke 2:19,51). After this manner the blessed virgin advanced in her pilgrimage of faith, and faithfully preserved in her union with her son unto the cross, where she stood, in keeping with the divine plan(cf: john 19:25), grieving exceedingly with Her only begotten son, uniting herself with a maternal heart with His sacrifice, and lovingly consenting to the immolation of this victim which she herself has brought forth. Finally she was given by the same Christ Jesus dying on the cross as a mother to His disciple with these words"WOMEN BEHOLD THY SON"(cf John 19:26-27).


Conclusions:
Catholic church had many divisions.1000 AD/othodox,1517Protestants,1530anglicans.They departed mainly on leadership issue. Though church preserved to venerate Mary,(like creed),only from 1830 to 1950 catholic church establish clear vision of Role of Holy Mary with necessary dogma's.

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1830:mary introduce Miraculous medal thru' catherine laboure
1854: immaculate conception dogma established
1858: mary confirmed immaculate conception thru Bernedeth
(Lourdes apparations)
1917: mary indicate her role, for our salvations(Fatima)
1950: assumption of mary dogma established

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This resulted to delay in understanding about Her. God in His wisdom shows us to go to Mary to resolve our fears/sorrows& misunderstandings! and is clearly shown in the apparition of Fatima

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Finally, Mary is the show case of practical christianity. God wanted to show about her for us to lead a happy life.
She led an exemplary life for us to follow as a human. Mary detached from all earthly things for us to present ourselves to Her without reserve!.

If we invite Mary to our life, mary will clear all our future fears and sorrows thouh her intercession with Christ. She always take her followers to God, doesnot keep for herself.

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Purgatory(2/11)

Purgatory(2/11)

Back ground
Catholics believe that there is a purgatory to cleanse our sins, before going to Heaven. They believes,though Protestants not, that our dead friends may still languish in Purgatory.
Council of trent declared that souls of purgatory are assisted by prayers and alms of faithful and specially so by the Holy sacrifice of the Mass.
Souls in purgatory being unable to help them by themselves or one another, depend solely on the supplication of saints in heaven and of faithful who are still on earth, to satisfy divine justice and so shorten their detention in purgatory,where they must expiate their venial sins and suffer the pains due to their sins,whose guilt, indeed, has already been removed but for which there still left a debt of temporal punishment on account of imperfection in repentance.

2.  What is purgatory?

What is purgatory? How long a soul does purgatory last for a soul?only God knows. Old test 2 maccabees 12:43-45 gives some reference.

3.  Recent example about purgatory:

 On the first apparition of Fatima, when lucy(10 years) asked from Holy Mary, where Amilea? Holy mary answered" She will be in purgatory until the end of the world".
That was in 1917 may 13 at Fatima.
1st and 3 rd apparitions give you more understanding about purgatory and the value of sacrifices(go against earth comforts) which is connected to understand more

1st apparition
Lucy,jacinta& francisco saw Mary(1 time) on13/5/1917,at mid day.
MARY: Do not be afraid,I will not harm you/LUCY:where is your grace from?/M:I'm from Heaven/L:what does your grace wish of me?/M:Come here for 6 months,on 13th.Later I will tell U who I am and what I want. afterward I will return here for the 7  time/L:will I go to heaven?/M:yes/L:Jacinta?/M:also/L:Francisco?/M:but he must say many Rosaries!/L:Is Neves in heaven?/M:yes/L:Amilea?/M:she will be in PURGATORY until the end of the world...Do u wish to endure all the sufferings that GOD may be pleased to send U?,as both an act of reparation for the sins with which HE is offended and act of supplication for the conversion of sinners?/L:yes/M:Then,you will have much to suffer.But the Grace OF GOD will be your comfort. PRAY ROSARY EVERYDAY to obtain Peace for world and end war. Note: world war1,started 1914, ended1918.
seers had started to wear a thick rough cord around their waist for penance.They did not remove even night,which often prevented them sleeping whole night. Mary informed them in 5th apparation in september, not to wear the rope in night, so that they can sleep

3rd Vision of Fatima(13/7/1917) to 3 children

Initially Mary told seers to pray daily Rosary and promised for a miracle in Oct,requested to make sacrifices for the sinners. Seers saw Hell.Demons& souls of human shapes,submerge in fire,devils stood like frightful unknown animals with horrible and disgusting shapes. If it were not mary's promise to take them to heaven,seers should have died of fright and terror!.M:you saw Hell,where the souls of poor sinners go!To save them God wishes to establish devotion to My Immaculate Heart in the world!.If human do not stop offending God,another worse war will begin to punish world and future pope has to much to suffer,Consecrate Russia to my immaculate Heart&communion of reparation on1 saturdays,for the peace of world.

note: despite WorldWar2came 1939/1945killing more than15m people,
Russia was consecrated in1952/7/7 by pope Pius12,
Pope st John Paul II was injured in1981/5/13,
communism was demised in1989!

4. Certain SINS that can be committed mostly without our knowledge!

 When we follow major laws 10 commandments with no enemies and manage our disagreements with other people,(without anger to develop in our mind)we can have a peaceful mind.

Even with Peaceful Mind, you cannot follow God's Will, if you mind is blocked with fear and sorrow.

Fear and sorrow's of human!

 Human woe's comes in 2 forms-spiritual and bodily. That is suffering in the body and sorrow in the mind.
 Bodily suffering can be trivial or tremendous, passing or permanent, merely  inconveniencing or totally incapacitating. They can range from headaches and cancer to hernia and hideout injuries apt to arise from accidents.
Spiritual sufferings on the other hand, wound us inwardly,and can do so in ways and to degrees quite as wide ranging as the bodily variety. Here we think of things like worry, loneliness,fear,disappointments, bereavements.

Connection of sufferings to Jesus

Interior suffering like these transform the garden of soul into a little Gethsamene, while the bodily kind look to calvary as their crowning summit.
Scripture says of the Lord who so lovingly endured everything that Gethsamene and Calvary could inflict on him."Son of God though He was, He learned obedience in the school of suffering"(Heb 5:8). OBEDIENCE BASICALLY MEANS OUR LOVING ACCEPTENCE OF GOD'S WILL. This is the paramount lesson we pupils in life's school of suffering are to master at all cost.
A further key lesson in the syllabus is that every suffering, whatever it's shape or size,really forms the part of the penalty that the sins of the world, our own included, justly deserve for having offended the almighty Creator. Indeed that crucified pair who flanked our savior on GoodFriday can be said to represent all of us, since everyone without any exception hangs on a cross carpentered by life's circumstances. But we must at all cost identify with the good thief by saying to the crucified Lord"WE SUFFER THESE THINGS JUSTLY ON ACCOUNT OF OUR SINS" (luke23:41). Yet another key lesson is that we can offer our Redeemer every sorrow and suffering that comes our way as a coreredemptive contribution to the salvation of souls.

For the sufferings,as mentioned above, we should train ourselves to hand over such to Holy mary/saints and try to forget the suffering,so that cheerfulness can be maintained. This is the God's direction through Jesus to us. At Cana, when wine was depleted Mary intervenes first with Jesus. At the cross Jesus hand over us to Mary.
If you cannot hand over such suffering and become cheerful, it will become sin,as you cannot accept the God's Will.

Also once you are cheerful, you may get the God's Will, but not accede to Him, if you  developed 7 vices in your body. This too become a sin. So with or without our knowledge we commit sin, which can lead us to the Purgatory!

5. Love and inter dependency

Then we are capable to love another!.
To understand God loves you, you will see there are many in the society loves you, as well as you love them too. Good example is your parents!. Love involves time, money & your heart. Just telling that I love you, will not help if it is not connected to your heart. For the eternal reason God has shown us, how our parents loved us or how our sisters/brothers loved us, when we were child. When we become adult this will change to identify the God's love for you. Unfortunately we are lacking to understand the change over.

Inability to follow God's will is sin, can lead to PURGATORY after your death. If you make traffic offense,it will lead you to pay fine and become free again. May be to show eternal reasons(1)you are prune to sin(2)you can free again, after the period of purgetory

6. Inter dependency of your life and example of purgatory

                 

​To live always you need another person support. You respect your parents/friends who supported to make your  life happy. Once they depart you still love them by using your God given(assets) TIME,SPACE &ENERGY to relieve them from Purgatory.
If you use such time,space,energy(ex alms giving,free teaching etc) without love, you end up in 7 vices,only cheating your self.(7 vices are anger,sloth,pride, envy,avarice,lust,gluttony) And not achieving the purpose of relieving your parents/friends from Purgatory.

Instead if you carry out with  honest love for them, result in a mirror image of your love to God,your creator!. This will lead you  to follow God's Will,to enjoy Happiness in your life even after death too.

In summary Purgatory, allow us to lead good practices in carrying out charity and sacrifice for the benefit of the society, where we do these things are in gratitude for the goodness received by our parents and friends to lead our life happily. Concept of purgatory lead us to discipline ourself.

7.  HELL IS FULL OF TALENTED PEOPLE AND HEAVEN IS FULL OF ENERGETIC PEOPLE

Every person in this world is born with talents. Your life will become cheerful when you convert your talents to energy. Question is how to convert your talents to energy. There are 3 points to achieve
(1) You should be in good health- drink plenty of water, do exercise with a peaceful mind
(2) Happy: follow your religious principles, to enjoy happiness
(3) Efficient: world is ever changing. Now we are traveling with cars, future we will be travelling with helicopters!.earlier we used letters, now we use intelligent mobile telephones with e mail, internet, face book etc. If you don't use the present day technology, will hamper you to convert your talents to energy. Always try to see the the positive side of the technology by not dis carting those.
 If you carry out above your talents to be converted to energy to be used by the society!.

8. Enjoy your life/ achieve Happiness

To enjoy love in christianity or any other religion, you should (1)first have a peaceful mind develop without fear and sorrow(2)you start to love respectfully your parents and friends, without expecting a return(3) you convert your talents to energy(4) remember your departed loved parents/friends, carry out charity to relieve them for eternal happiness.

The concept purgatory is very useful for us to carry out actions in above(4).
Only catholics have developed a good process to identify saints and it preserves the same concepts about purgatory!

9. Why most of other christian denominations are silent about purgatory
Most of our separated betherans, departed from 1000 AD to 1530 AD, with Orthodox,Protestants and Anglicans. Main cause of separation was not a theological issue but mainly either leadership or political issue. Though church remedied certain errors immediately with pope Pius V, already separated friends were not reconciled with catholic church and they were moving separately.
Any religion in the world, teach a path to lead your life happily (both here and after death). In this process, the treatment for fear and sorrow in the present life plays a vital role.

In christianity God clearly shows 2 major concepts:
(1) He send His beloved son thru' holy family(still judaism don't believe)
(2) Treatment for fear and sorrow always thru' Mary and saints(most of the other catholic denomination pay less or no attention)

(3) Existence of purgatory!

Catholic church has developed a beautiful process of canonization and purgatory, for the people to be reminded the need of spiritual inter dependency and extend our love to beloved departed thru' various charitable activities or sacrifices, to discipline the living and support the departed.
Unfortunately our departed friends from Catholicism, have not developed such process but they have departed from canonization and purgatory, where it is of paramount importance to practise it.
Further details:
http://holymaryreflection.blogspot.com.au/2014/09/our-lady-of-ransom-249.html?m=1

Conclusion

Canonization and purgatory are 2 process to help us to lead a disipline practical life. Practical realisation can be summerised as below:
(1) Interdependence- in this world we are grateful to our parents/friends who helped us to lead our happy life.
(2) We know that everybody is prune for sin. Hence our departed loved ones may be in purgatory
(3) Purgatory is a temporary place of suffering, until the soul goes to heaven. The Lord will decide how long a soul should be in purgatory.
(4) The living can offer charity and sacrifices to relieve their beloved souls from purgatory
(5) Purgatory practically combines living to departed(dead). Starting point to think the spiritual friends thru' our loved departed ones
(6) Canonization is a beautiful process to identify the dead person is for sure in heaven. The living can easily make a spiritual friendship with saints, whom sometimes saint has lived during his life time, has been heard about him.
(7)Canonisation and purgatory conceptually combined together for us to train ourselves, to enjoy the beauty of christianity. Beauty of God's plan, our creator to lead our life happily!

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Saints 1/11 (general)

1. Inter dependency

To get loaf of bread home,there are many people involved. Ex:grow wheat,cut,grind etc For you to live happily in this world you need another person support. Hence you have to Love and depend on them. May be just to show,heavenly need to associate with saints.

2. Does Christianity says saints are necessary?

God got consent from Mary to bring Jesus into this world,still Judaism cannot believe it!.By divine choice Mary/saints are interceeding for us!.(ex: Cana wedding),

MOST THING IN CHRISTIANITY  WORKING THRU' SECONDRY SOURCES. Others interceded Jesus on behalf of their friends,HE never rebuke them &request sick person himself to come direct to him.(Ex:canaanite women Mat15:22,Roman centurion LK;7:1-10)

3. Does saints need our honour?

Saints does not need honour from us neither our devotions add slightest thing for what theirs!.

4. Value of saints to our life

For happy life you need friends and leave them with death,but if you have a saint friend,he is forever!.

Prayer with saints affirms that we are one spiritual FAMILY!,with God.

5. Beautiful process of Canonisation

Canonisation is an official decree of the catholic church. It is definitive judgement of the Pope, that a person is now listed among saints in Heaven. Through Canonisation, the pope makes a formal declaration that the immortal soul of the person in question is now with God and with His eternal glory. Hence we look on saints with great respect and admiration. The saint is given as an example because of their Virtues. Beatification is a step in the canonisation process. If a person is beatified, he has been thoroughly investigated by the church, a miracle has been attributed to him, and he has been given the title Blessed. The catholic church canonaises or beatifies only those whose lives have been marked by the use of heroic virtue.(Good work that greatly out distance those of ordinary good people). In order to be heroic, it must be done with pure & honourable motives, quickly & thoroughly. A heroic virtue is a habit of good conduct that has become second nature to a person- not just a good deed here or there, like helping an old lady across a street . HEROIC VIRTUE HELPS AN ORDINERY PERSON TO ACCOMPLISH ORDINARY THINGS IN AN EXTRAORDINARY WAY!. Does any other christian denomination have SAINTS or this kind of process?

6. Steps followed to declare as saints

5steps to declare a Saint
(1)whether he lead his life with 7Heroic Virtues(cardinal-PRUDENCE,JUSTICE,FORTITUDE, TEMPERENCE+theological-FAITH,HOPE, CHARITY)
(2)With approval from CONGREGRATION FOR CAUSE OF SAINTS(CFCOS),he will be considered"SERVENT OF GOD"
(3)Relator & experts investigate his writting& work whether those are Theologically Sound!,with majority CFCOS,Pope will declare him as "VENERABLE"(Virtues are worthy of being venerated by lay people!)
(4)Blessed is declared,with a miracle-(Prostulator report,action is supernatural & directly attributed to him)
(5)After Blessed another miracle need him to be canonised as Saint!.



7. Pope saints

St Peter to pope francis,there were266popes. 80 popes have declared as saints. Earliest popes were martyred for their faith and became saints. Once persecution of church ended,popes becoming saints got thinner. Only 4popes became saints in last701yrs, after Celestine V(1313),PiusV(1712),Pius X(1954)& recent were John23& John Paul2,(2014 apr).

19th and 20th centuries 80&665 new saints declared.

8. Saints to our life
By divine choice Mary & saints are interceding for us!.(ex:Cana why Mary request Jesus),Intercessory prayer affirms that we are one spiritual FAMILY!,with God."PRAY FOR ME"means I am inviting you to be in my family!

9: New concepts of God with Jesus

Mary's role: A creature was asked by the CREATOR, if she would freely cooperate with God's plan to take humanity out of mire,Mary accepted. This is the new concept of christianity! Your free will is only thing that belongs to you. God will never interfere to your free will. In order to find God's will for you, you should have a Peaceful mind without worries. Then U will get to know His will thru' various means. Then you can either Accept or reject His will.
New concept is(1)God willed to send His son thru holy family(2)God willed that thru' Mary/saints to relieve our fear & sorrow, similar to our earthly friends. Unfortunately only catholics know this not our Protestant friends!.

For more details follow this links :
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