No offense, but I find it hard to believe that Catholics are actually christians. You perform rites that is completely out of biblical teachings. Rites that link to ancient Roman/Greek pagan practices.

The Greek worshiped Artemis, Romans worshiped Diana. Now you are worshipping who?

1.As I kneel before you,
As I bow my head in prayer,
Take this day, make it yours
and fill me with your love.

Refrain:
Ave Maria,Gratia plena,
Dominus tecum,Benedicta tu.

2.All I have I give you,
Every dream and wish are yours,
Mother of Christ,
Mother of mine, present them to my Lord.


3. As I kneel before you,
And I see your smiling face,
Ev'ry thought, ev'ry word
Is lost in your embrace.

I still don't know y people keep hating on Catholics.. we no wan go ur own church na by force.. I am proud of the church I go to.. I no get freedom again chose... no matter how u insult my church #fact is even with all ur miracle pastors.. Catholic church is still the most followed church in the world, is still d first church, still d church that brought Christianity to Africa.. as I don't disturb you for the church u attend please do d same and leave us alone..

CAMEROONPRIDE: why do u ask your pastor to pray for u?

That's cos in the bible,christ's apostles prayed for peeps...but i just can't happen to find where exactly the bible encouraged us to ask mary to do so...

raynold: I still don't know y people keep hating on Catholics.. we no wan go ur own church na by force.. I am proud of the church I go to.. I no get freedom again chose... no matter how u insult my church #fact is even with all ur miracle pastors.. Catholic church is still the most followed church in the world, is still d first church, still d church that brought Christianity to Africa.. as I don't disturb you for the church u attend please do d same and leave us alone..

And catholics are still the ones that persecuted their fellow christians....interesting!!!

Ify Angela:
its a free world Afam.

Yes, it's a free world but if you profess to be a Christian then you have to abide by the tenenta of Christianity. I think it's better to say you're not a Christian than to say you're one and you're not living by the scriptures. I have also called people from my denomination to order in some of the things they do and i will extend it to any Christian group that deviates from the teaching of the bible.

CAMEROONPRIDE: keep it for yourself

SURE I WILL KEEP 2 MYSELF N HOPE DAT ONE DAY U WILL KNOW DAT CHRIST IS THE ONLY WAY

CAMEROONPRIDE: how does it affect u? Get a life

Go back to the Cameroon jungle. I follow you talk?

CAMEROONPRIDE: unlike you Joseph understood the mission of Mary, her place and how special she is . He didn't consume the marriage.

You're pathetic, Jesus had other siblings. So tell us how Joseph and Mary fathered and mothered them.

manuelzz:

And catholics are still the ones that persecuted their fellow christians....interesting!!!

MY BROTHER IF ONLY THEY KNEW THE HISTORY OF THAT CHURCH DURING THE DARK AGES.

AtbuAbdul: What do u mean by "Oh lady of fatima"? cud u throw in some more light

Google is user friendly my dear

pretty stacy: Its very obvious,u are ignorant of things happenin in the cath church. For the records those graven images r jst lyk memories, they way u store ur pictures for the memories. Bowing to them is against the first commandment. We bow to the body of christ which is alwys present at the altar(communion). Most of my non-catholic frnds dat sound lyk u;do not again. Its unfortunate dat most catholics refuse to understand their doctrine. Whether u like it or not we honour mary and I think she deserves dat. It was thru her we got our salvation.

..i feel you dear, i was a cathiolic before (but not anymore); i married from the cathiolic too (but my wife has stopped those doctrines of men which are parkaged as the commandments of God)

..take time-out to re-evaluate what you believe, the best way to hide a lie is in-between the truths & when you believe/practice a lie for dongky years it becomes the truth to you but the truth is absolute.

..the clause "It was thru her (Mary) we got our salvation" is very very out of place, dont say that gain pls. Salvation is though Jesus Christ, the son of God. The One Who was (existed before creation), Who is(..lived among men) & Who is to come (coming as a lion to judge the world)

...Mary is in heaven enjoying herself, make it your ambition to join her by believing/practicing the truth

Troynow:
Who told u d catholic church was founded from d time of christ? It was established by a pagan emperor in 325 AD, Constantine. Go read ur history and stop smoking weed.

GOD BLESS U. The same people dat persecuted the church were D same pple that established the catholic church ve they ever wondered Y̶̲̥̅̊ D persecution stopped ever wondered wot kind ☺f alignment D church had with the roman empire SMH 4 most ☺f dem cos they don't read maybe they should go nd read D works ☺f st Augustine. The early church ȋ̝̊̅§ nt the catholic church.

Happy feast of Assumption to u all. Accept it in fate even if you don't believe in it. It is Real.

Domaro:

Nwa aba, mind how u make caricature and cajole the holy things, holy people and holy names, u may bring course upon ur self and ur linage by the act of sacrilagde

joke!
Gwam ihe ozo

kingthreat: No offense, but I find it hard to believe that Catholics are actually christians. You perform rites that is completely out of biblical teachings. Rites that link to ancient Roman/Greek pagan practices.

The Greek worshiped Artemis, Romans worshiped Diana. Now you are worshipping who?

Teach your child the way of the Lord, that he may not depart from it. Its either you were taught but have been consumed by devilish thinking OR they didnt do a good job in bringing you up in the way of the Lord.

Join me in reading LUKE 1: 39-56

In those days Mary arose and went with haste into the hill country, to a town in Judah, and she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth. And when Elizabeth heard the greeting of Mary, the baby leaped in her womb. And Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit, and she exclaimed with a loud cry, “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb! And why is this granted to me that the mother of my Lord should come to me? For behold, when the sound of your greeting came to my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy. And blessed is she who believed that there would bea fulfillment of what was spoken to her from the Lord.”

And Mary said,

“My soul magnifies the Lord,
and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior,
for he has looked on the humble estate of his servant.
For behold, from now on all generations will call me blessed;
for he who is mighty has done great things for me,
and holy is his name.
And his mercy is for those who fear him
from generation to generation.
He has shown strength with his arm;
he has scattered the proud in the thoughts of their hearts;
he has brought down the mighty from their thrones
and exalted those of humble estate;
he has filled the hungry with good things,
and the rich he has sent away empty.
He has helped his servant Israel,
in remembrance of his mercy,
as he spoke to our fathers,
to Abraham and to his offspring forever.”

And Mary remained with her about three months and returned to her home.

spongebuny:

where were the pastors and protestants when the bible was complied!!! pls answer the question...Thank you!

But bros,what has the whereabout of the pastors and protestants got to do with the content of the bible? Did the catholic church write or inspire the writing of the holy bible?

manuelzz:

That's cos in the bible,christ's apostles prayed for peeps...but i just can't happen to find where exactly the bible encouraged us to ask mary to do so...

READ AND UNDERSTAND!

Those who criticize Catholics for praying to saints have no problem whatsoever, with asking a co-worker, a family member, or a neighbor to "keep me in your prayers." After all, Scripture is very clear that the "prayer of a righteous man availeth much". God is pleased when we turn to one another and join together in our prayers. We are members of the same body of Christ (Rom. 12:5; 1 Cor. 12:25-27) and of one another (Eph. 4:25), and the Church refers to this mystery as the "communion of saints".

Yet notice the contradiction. If I asked my Baptist friend to pray for me, he would never think of responding, "Why are you asking me to pray for you when you could spend that time praying straight to God." However, when we pray to saints, this is all we are doing. We are saying, in essence, "St. Joseph, I have a problem. Would you keep me in your prayers." Switch St. Joseph's name with that of any living relative, and the request sounds pretty normal, doesn't it? Let's apply some math. If I ask for Mary to pray for me - even though this takes a few moments that I could have prayed straight to God, himself, suddenly I have two people praying for my situation. And if I take a moment to ask St. Francis to pray for me - even though this takes a few moments that I could have prayed straight to God - suddenly I now have three people praying for me. Suddenly, for every prayer I've offered to God, I know that Mary and St. Francis have offered their own on my behalf, just as if I had walked around the office and asked my co-workers to pray for me.

It isn't that I am praying to the saints INSTEAD of Christ. Rather, we are all praying to Christ together, and for each person I ask to join me (whether living or dead), I have multiplied the prayers to Christ for that intention, not reduced them. And think about it - the prayer of a righteous man availeth much ... and who is more "righteous" than those who have already entered Heaven?

Scripture is full of examples of people interceding for others, and of God acting on one person's behalf because of the requests of another. Christ helps the wedding party (despite his inclination to remain private in his ministry) because of Mary's request (Jn. 2:3-5). In the Old Testament, the Queen Mother of the Davidic Kingdom serves as a counselor to the king (Prov. 31:8-9; 2 Chr. 22:2-4). Children have guardian angels who protect them (Mt. 18:10). Onians and Jeremiah intercede for the Jews before the resurrection (2 Mac. 15:11-16). Paul tells us to pray and make supplications for the saints (Eph. 6:18). The angel Raphael said, "I can now tell you that when you, Tobit, and Sarah prayed, it was I who presented and read the record of your prayer before the Glory of the Lord; and I did the same thing when you used to bury the dead" (Tobit 12:12).

But wait a second - its fine and good to say that praying to the saints is like asking our friends to pray for us, but aren't they dead? How could they hear us?

"As for the dead being raised," Christ says in Mk: 12:26-27, "have you not read in the Book of Moses, in the passage about the bush, how God told him, 'I am the God of Abraham, [the] God of Isaac, and [the] God of Jacob'? He is not the God of the dead, but of the LIVING."

After we die, while our physical bodies must await the end of time, our spirits are very much alive in Christ. We are still part of the body of Christ. Some will object that only God is omniscient, so only he can hear all these prayers, but Scripture tells us that the saints share in God's divine knowledge (1 Cor. 13:9-12) and his divine authority and power (2 Tim. 2:12, Rev. 22:5; Rev. 2:26-28), and in the fullness of God (Eph. 3:19; 1 John 3:2). Saints can hear our prayers because God invites them into his beautific vision, and through his power, they are become that "great cloud of witnesses" that oversee all that we do (Heb. 12). We can see this most clearly in Rev. 5:13-14, when John writes, "And I heard every creature in Heaven and on earth and in the sea, and all therein, saying, 'To him who sits upon the throne and to the Lamb be blessing and honor and glory and might for ever and ever!'" Obviously the "elders", or saints, in Heaven also heard all of this praise from earth, because they fell down and answered, "Amen!" John, in his vision of Heaven, and the elders that resided there were made aware of the praise from all of existence through their closeness to God's omniscience.

In fact, despite objections to the contrary, there are actual examples in Scripture of the saints hearing and answering our prayers.

In Jer. 31:15-16, Rachel intercedes for her children after her death (Jeremiah was written hundreds of years after Rachel died, yet her "voice was heard". Rev. 5:8 tells us that "the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb. Each of the elders held a harp and gold bowls filled with incense, which are the prayers of the holy ones."

Now think about this verse from Revelation 5. The elders are offering up the "prayers of the holy ones". Some of Revelation is symbolic. I'm sure that the saints will not carry actual bowls of incense. However, the truth that shines here is that they are offering the prayers of others to God.

As Catholics, we must never be ashamed of the fact that, even after they have passed on, we embrace our fellow Christians. And we must never shy away from asking our brothers and sisters, these "righteous" men and women, to offer their own prayers to be joined with ours. On earth or in Heaven, they are part of the mystical body of Christ, and their intercession is part of God's plan for the unity of his communion of Saints.

Afam4eva:
Yes, it's a free world but if you profess to be a Christian then you have to abide by the tenenta of Christianity. I think it's better to say you're not a Christian than to say you're one and you're not living by the scriptures. I have also called people from my denomination to order in some of the things they do and i will extend it to any Christian group that deviates from the teaching of the bible.

when do you buy your own jet ?

*** Hymn to Our Lady of Fatima ***
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1. O come to the throne of grace,
O come to the heart most pure!
To Mary, our hope of life,
In whom salvation is sure.

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O Lady of Nigeria, hail!
Immaculate Mother of grace;
O, pray for us, help us today,
Thou hope of the human race!
2. Immaculate Heart! we kneel
To consecrate all to thee:
The present, its pain and
joy-----
The future, all it may be.
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O Lady of Nigeria, hail!
Immaculate Mother of grace;
O, pray for us, help us today,
Thou hope of the human race!
3. The sun at thy royal word
Spun round like a splendid toy;
The rose petals showering down
Proclaimed thee cause of our
joy.
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O Lady of Nigeria, hail!
Immaculate Mother of grace;
O, pray for us, help us today,
Thou hope of the human race!
4. The Rosary, white and gold,
We take from thy Virgin hand;
A pledge of the power of God
To heal and strengthen our
land.
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O Lady of Nigeria, hail!
Immaculate Mother of grace;
O, pray for us, help us today,
Thou hope of the human race!
5. O Mother of Sorrows, hail!
We mourn for our evil done;
O soften our selfish hearts,
And lead us back to thy Son.

.
O Lady of Nigeria, hail!
Immaculate Mother of grace;
O, pray for us, help us today,
Thou hope of the human race!
6. O Mother of priests in need,
For thine assistance we pray;
Thy graces flow: sweet the seed
Of Saints, thy Son to obey.
.
O Lady of Nigeria, hail!
Immaculate Mother of grace;
O, pray for us, help us today,
Thou hope of the human race!
7. O Mother of all mankind,
Lead Russia back home again,
That over a peaceful world
Thy heart may graciously reign.
.
O Lady of Nigeria, hail!
Immaculate Mother of grace;
O, pray for us, help us today,
Thou hope of the human race!

CAMEROONPRIDE: when do you buy your own jet ?

Pls be lucid. I don't quite understand this question.

free2ryhme: Everything you Catholics are saying is irrelevant until one of you can find where in the scriptures that almighty God himself says it is ok to do the things he strictly forbids us to do!!! That is, make, have and bow down to graven images, and worshiping Mary, and keeping the traditions of pagans!!!! Where does he say this in scripture?
If you can't find these things, then that should tell you that something is very wrong with your church doctrine, and is in fact, the doctrine of demons!!

Be careful free2rhyme b4 u attract d fire dat will burn u & everything u stand for. See how u move frm page to page spewing poo about a doctrine u kno absolutely nothing about.
Have u been to a catholic church b4?? how do we worship idols??, u'll argue abt d images in our churches pls ask d native doctor in ur area how he worships his own idol.
U argue dat d BLESSED VIRGIN MOTHER MARY had other children after d son of God ryt?? I take it dat u re a xtian so until u show me where it is written in d bible pls stfu.
This woman u re taking ill abt, do u kno dat d angel of d Lord honoured her?? (oh maybe u dnt believe in angels too)
Elizabeth in d gospel of luke called her d mother of God.
A lil biology will tell u dat a mother provides d necessary materials needed for d formation of d foetus so she actually gave rise to d formation of d son of God, someone lyk dat doesn't she deserve a lil honour. I kno ur likes sing praises to ur Pastor's wife daily.
Now i wnt to use dis medium to appeal to d non-catholics to leave us catholics alone. It's our faith, it's what we believe in,profess and accept spewing poo abt it on social media won't change it.
GLORY TO JESUS, HONOUR TO MARY.

the problem is that we are too religious in this country but less Christians, does not the holy writ says that you shall not make for yourselves images of anything in Heaven or underneath. In their churches they kneel before it likewise in their homes, molten images. God please help us.

alaoeri:
How did u know that the picture u pasted was the same marry that gave birth to Jesus more than 2000 years ago?

Catholicism: virgin goddess and fagg0t priests.

free2ryhme: Everything you Catholics are saying is irrelevant until one of you can find where in the scriptures that almighty God himself says it is ok to do the things he strictly forbids us to do!!! That is, make, have and bow down to graven images, and worshiping Mary, and keeping the traditions of pagans!!!! Where does he say this in scripture?
If you can't find these things, then that should tell you that something is very wrong with your church doctrine, and is in fact, the doctrine of demons!!

Fool, don't say what u don't know ,we only honour her and WE DON'T worship her, if u don't have anything to say,just close that dirty pit u called mouth and park well(slowpoke).

manuelzz:

But bros,what has the whereabout of the pastors and protestants got to do with the content of the bible? Did the catholic church write or inspire the writing of the holy bible?

YOU HAVE NOT ANSWERED MY QUESTION. IT IS A SIMPLE ONE SENTENCE ANSWER. DO NOT ANSWER A QUESTION WITH ANOTHER QUESTION...UNLESS YOUR CLUELESS AS TO THE ORIGIN OF THE BIBLE...STUDY YOUR HISTORY PLS...

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manuelzz:

But bros,what has the whereabout of the pastors and protestants got to do with the content of the bible? Did the catholic church write or inspire the writing of the holy bible?

U CAN SEE D CONFUSION THEY LIVE IN, INSTEAD OF FACING REALITY (THE BIBLE) THEY CHOOSE 2 FOLLOW CHURCH DOCTRINES

The Blessed Virgin Mary is a model of faith and hope. Interceed on our behalf.

prettyprecy:

GOD BLESS U. The same people dat persecuted the church were D same pple that established the catholic church ve they ever wondered Y̶̲̥̅̊ D persecution stopped ever wondered wot kind ☺f alignment D church had with the roman empire SMH 4 most ☺f dem cos they don't read maybe they should go nd read D works ☺f st Augustine. The early church ȋ̝̊̅§ nt the catholic church.

1d1ot if it wasn't for the Catholics you would b a Muslim. Go read about the crusades, Muslims invasions etc . You would probably get married at 6 , wear the burqua, bend over and shake ur azz in the air to pray.
Catholics fought and shed their blood to protect u

christokuty: Fool, don't say what u don't know ,we only honour her and WE DON'T worship her, if u don't have anything to say,just close that dirty pit u called mouth and park well(slowpoke).

you kneel before her
pray to her
say mass in her name
and have her statue prominently before your altar.

Catholics are pagans