xynerise:
Name one woman in this present world that has her qualities?

frosbel:

wrong, you are not to pray to her or ask her to intercede, it is an abomination.

Nowhere in the bible are we asked to pray to Mary, it is an invention of wicked men.

gree-die:
^^^ just d same way humans pray for u, daddy adebayo and co??
wat is ur problem here dat we worship her or dat we ask her to pray for us? i think d last paragraph of my previous comment dealt with dat, maybe u should read.... and digest

and abt d teaching as doctrine d commandment of men, i assume u believe it was/ is referring to us? do i need to emphasize on how u r again interpreting dbible according to ur ignorance?

i don't need u to believe in my belief, i just want you to respect it. if we are delusional, leave dat to God.

khiaa:

Please tell ne the qualities Mary had that no other woman has ever had? I don't mean her giving birth to Jesus, I mean her own personal qualities.

xynerise:
Who is the head of the Church? Jesus right? Who is Jesus' mother?

dabrake: therefore Jonathan's mother is Nigeria's president. Huh?

frosbel: I have never seen a more abusive, insultive and vulgar lot like the Catholics commenting on this article, my goodness, if this is what Christians look like we are in trouble.

Even Muslims will never descend to this level of vulgarity.

SMH.

jusRadical: The truth is that there no place, I repeat NEVER ANY place in the scriptures where JESUS referred to mary as HIS mother.

PLEASE, MY CATHOLIC FRIENDS WHY DID CHRIST ALWAYS ADDRESSES TO MARY AS 'WOMAN'

(3) When the wine was gine, JESUS' mother said to Him, "They have no more wine."
(4) "Dear WOMAN, why do you involve me? JESUS replied. "My time time has not yet come."
(John 2:3-4)

Some of you that are making analogy with your mothers, will you address your mother as woman when she brings a request to you? If JESUS had said "Dear mother", it would have been a different case.

Secondly in John 19:26,
When JESUS saw his mother there, and the disciple whom He loved standing by, he said to His mother, "Dear WOMAN, here is your son,"

Catholics, answer me!!!! Will you addresses your beloved mother as WOMAN!!!!!

HE never addressed her as mother to avoid what you catholics are doing now!!!!!

frosbel:

wrong, you are not to pray to her or ask her to intercede, it is an abomination.

Nowhere in the bible are we asked to pray to Mary, it is an invention of wicked men.

CAMEROONPRIDE:

learn the difference between the spiritual Church and the physical church.

the Church, I mean Jesus/God came with the spiritual church at his birth(hence my first Catholic). and made Peter build the physical church(the Catholic church) on his Behalf.

Listen whether you like it or not The Catholic church is the first , the only ,unique and apostolic church. stop spitting rubbish. Roman and Jews killed Jesus so? it was already written that Jesus went through that. should I also tell you that the one who stopped the massacre of Catholics all over the world was also a Roman?

Lol @ you quoting the Bible..who wrote the Bible? who made the first Bible, pray tell? you quote and use our book to fight us? ;Dlwkd

Mr Gemini: We honour Mary we dnt worship her! All dis ignorant protestants

ktjohnpaul:

The Blessed Virgin Mary is the one woman in the entire Bible who makes the claim, “All generations to come shall call me blessed” (Luke 1:48). And why is that? Well, Catholics believe it is because she was preserved from all time from sin by a special privilege of God. God got to create His own mother on earth.

khiaa:

That does not tell me her qualities that no other woman has ever had. God blesses people everyday, I know God has truly blessed me, he has brought me through alot.

ktjohnpaul:

“FULL OF GRACE!” That is the term that the archangel Gabriel used when addressing Mary, in Luke 1:28. Notice that Gabriel does not call her by her name of Mary, but instead calls her “Full of Grace.” Because Mary had a quality of full grace, there is no room left over for anything else. Therefore, Mary, who was full of God’s grace, could not sin, or have the stain of original sin on her soul, because there was no room for any of that.

khiaa: I am not a catholic, I am a christain.

Syncan:


Just listen to yourself, He was man at some time and change to God at some time, bla bla bla, Who made the child in the womb of Elizabeth leap for joy, God or man, Who forgave the paralytic? The man or God? Who told Mary, " Don't you know I should be about my father's business", God or man? Who did the magi see in bethlehem, God or man? Just do a little reading, and you will find out that the whole christendom condemned Nestorius and this your teaching since 431AD. You no de shame, christian indeed.

khiaa:

You bow down and pray to Mary, that is worshiping her.

CAMEROONPRIDE:

woman means mother . it is well explained . and you know that stop was your time on that wrong path of yours.

jusRadical:


This hows how gullible you catholics are. How can JESUS call woman in relation to himself while HE (when HE was on the cross) called her mother in relation to apostle John.

You catholics are just turning the Bible upside down. JESUS called mary woman and you claimed that woman means mother even when it was clear that HE distinctively said "......mother behold your son........" This clearly shows that he knows the difference.

Saint Paul mentioned of Cephas taking along a believing wife and you claim that he never meant wife but female assistant. Read all the epistles of apostle Paul and you will know that when he wrote wife, he meant just it, wife!

Continue to decieve yourselve for the bible saays in Revelation 13:10a,
If anyone is to go into captivity, into captivity will he go...........

linearity:


"...The time has come for the Son of Man to enter into his glory, and God will be glorified because of him....John 13:31

"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God....the word become flesh and dwell among us. John 1.

"..And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross...Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name..that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord.." Phil 2:8-11.

And to answer the other of your questions, God the Father was with him from birth to his death, just like he is with us as Christians directing and guiding us.

lemmings: *unfollowing*

Stupidity,immaturity,childish sentiments and blasphemies that make my eyes hurt and heart ache is rife here.

I see muslims and atheists and agnostics laughing with glee at every single one of you.

I am most disappointed in my catholic brothers and sisters trading words here. And i am hurt with the way my pentecostal brothers and sisters show so much disdain. It is well.

Respect my church and i will bless you and your household.

i'm out.

gree-die:


lol... pagan madness? and you know this because?.. der u go, interpreting the bible according to your level of ignorance...

The Gospel of St. John relates two significant accounts which relate to Mary — the wedding feast of Cana and the Crucifixion. Of the first account we read:
“There was a marriage in Cana of Galilee, and the Mother of Jesus was there. And Jesus also was invited, and His disciples, to the marriage. And the wine failing, the Mother of Jesus said to Him, ‘They have no wine.’ And Jesus said to her, ‘Woman, what is it to Me and to thee? My hour is not yet come.’ His Mother said to the waiters, ‘Whatsoever He shall say to you, do ye’” (John 2:1-5).
Jesus Christ then proceeded to work His first public miracle at His Mother’s request. Everything related in the Gospels is inspired by God, and there is a reason for it. Does not this narrative of the wedding feast manifest the intercessory power of Mary with Jesus Christ, her Divine Son?
In the second account, also take from the Gospel of St. John, we read:
“There stood by the Cross of Jesus His Mother... When Jesus therefore had seen His Mother and the disciple standing whom He loved, He saith to His Mother: ‘Woman, behold thy son...’” (John 19:25-27).
Just as Eve cooperated with Adam in the Fall of mankind, the Blessed Virgin Mary cooperated with Jesus Christ in our redemption. She “stood by the Cross of Jesus.” What anguish, what sorrow did the Mother of Jesus experience at the foot of the Cross as she witnessed the sufferings and death of her Divine Son!
In both accounts, Jesus addressed Mary by the term woman. In Hebrew the word used by Jesus was a term which would be addressed to a queen or a woman of high rank. It was a term of great respect.
But why did Jesus Christ address His Mother by the term woman at these two significant moments in His life — at His first public miracle, and at His Crucifixion on the Cross?
Our Divine Lord wanted to clearly indicate that His Mother was the Woman spoken of in the Book of Genesis:
“I will put enmities between thee (Satan) and the Woman, between thy seed and her seed, and she shall crush thy head.”

catholics do not, as Protestants falsely believe, worship the Blessed Virgin Mary. We honor her who was so intimately connected with Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity. Yes, there is only one Mediator with the Father — Jesus Christ. Only the God-Man Jesus Christ could have redeemed mankind. Nevertheless, we pray to Mary that she may intercede for us with her Divine Son. How often we request the assistance of prayers from our fellow men — how much more powerful are the prayers and intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary! In the Old Testament, we read how Moses prayed with arms outstretched and interceded with God to procure the victory of the Israelites over their enemies in a crucial battle. As long as he prayed, they were victorious. When he ceased his prayers, the Israelites began to lose. Because of this, it was necessary for two men to hold up Moses’ arms in prayer until the battle was won. Also, we read in the Old Testament how Josue prayed to God to have the day prolonged in order to win another crucial battle. If Moses and Josue could have such intercession before God, how much more powerful are the prayers of the Blessed Virgin Mary!

jusRadical:


This hows how gullible you catholics are. How can JESUS call woman in relation to himself while HE (when HE was on the cross) called her mother in relation to apostle John.

You catholics are just turning the Bible upside down. JESUS called mary woman and you claimed that woman means mother even when it was clear that HE distinctively said "......mother behold your son........" This clearly shows that he knows the difference.

Saint Paul mentioned of Cephas taking along a believing wife and you claim that he never meant wife but female assistant. Read all the epistles of apostle Paul and you will know that when he wrote wife, he meant just it, wife!

Continue to decieve yourselve for the bible saays in Revelation 13:10a,
If anyone is to go into captivity, into captivity will he go...........

Dnaz:



bla bla bla

Ndjones: One thing I hate in my life is hypocrisy. Some people are saying why do the Catholics ask Mary to pray for them? But when they are sick they run to TBJ, Pst Chris to pray for them too. Who is fooling who?