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ATYCLB

July 28th, 2007, 09:13 PM

Well, that "one man" was no ordinary man! A priest is an ordinary man.

The twelve were ordinary men.

Peter was an ordinary man.

Paul was an ordinary man.

Every family has it's strange ducks, ATYCLB. Yes, some of the priests and some of the Catholic laity are going to do and believe strange things. Surely you understand what I mean here.

So the answer is to just ignore them and pretend they are . . . um . . . "negligible"?

Devotion to the Mary is a 2,000 year tradition with our church. I don't fear it. I fear some of the extreme devotees of Mary, especially with some of the stuff you news slueths find.

How do you determine whose devotion of Mary is extreme?

But I know at this point it is a small minority in the Church.

Are these extreme devotees?
Are they the small minority?

Excerpts from the Apostolic Digest:

Chapter 1
Devotion to Our Lady is Necessary for Salvation

"Mary is the key to the gates of Heaven."
St. Ephrem

"Open to us, O Mary, the gate of Paradise, since you have its keys!"
St. Ambrose

"God has entrusted the keys and treasures of Heaven to Mary."
St. Thomas Aquinas

"No one can enter into Heaven except through Mary, as entering through a gate."
St. Bonaventure

"Mary is called "The Gate of Heaven" because no one can enter Heaven but through her means."
St. Alphonsus Maria Liguori

"We had closed Paradise; you, O Mary, opened the entryway to the tree of life
again . . . You are the bridge to life, the staircase to Heaven!"
St. John Damascene

"She is the stairway to Heaven, and the gate of Paradise!"
St. Lawrence Justinian

"All the Saints have a great devotion to Our Lady: no grace comes from Heaven
without passing through her hands. We cannot go into a house without speaking
to the doorkeeper. Well, the Holy Virgin is the doorkeeper of Heaven."
St. John Mary Vianney

"She opens the abyss of God's mercy to whomsoever she wills, when she wills, and
as she wills, so that there is no sinner however great who is lost if Mary protects
him . . . All men: past, present, and to come, should look upon Mary as the means
and negotiator of the salvation of all ages."
St. Bernard

"No man is delivered or preserved from the world-wide snares of Satan except
through Mary; and God grants His graces to no one except through her alone."
St. Germanus of Constantinople

"All graces that have ever been bestowed on men, all of them came through Mary."
St. Antoninus

"Every grace and blessing possessed by the Church, all the treasures of light, holiness,
and glory that abide in her, on earth as well as in Heaven, all are due to the intercession
of the Blessed Virgin Mary . . . Let us acknowledge, then, that her heart is the origin of
everything noble, rich, and precious in all the holy souls who form the universal Church
in Heaven and on earth. It is the source of salvation."
St. John Eudes

"The Lord has placed in Mary the plenitude of all good, so that if any hope, or grace, or
salvation is in us, we know that we derive it all from Mary."
St. Bernard

"Every good, every help, every grace which men have received and will receive from
God until the End of Time, came, and will come, to them by the intercession and through
the hands of Mary . . . the whole Trinity gave thee a name, O Mary, which after that of
thy most holy Son is above every name, so that at thy name every knee should genuflect
in heaven, on earth, and under the earth, and every tongue should confess the grace,
the glory, and the power of thy most holy name."
Bl. Raymond Jordano

"The admirable name of Mary came forth from the treasury of the Divinity, and through
it Redemption was effected."
St. Peter Damian

"Mary became for herself and for all men the cause and fountain of salvation."
St. Francis de Sales

"Eve became the cause of death; Mary became the cause of our salvation."
St. Ephrem

"Even as Eve, having become disobedient, was made the cause of death, both to herself
and to the entire human race, so also did Mary . . . by being obedient, become the cause
of salvation, both to herself and to the whole human race-----and therefore, as the human
race was made subject to death by a virgin, so is it saved by a virgin."
St. Irenaeus of Lyons

"God wills that Mary exact from His goodness peace for the earth, glory for Heaven,
life for the dead, and salvation for all who are lost."
St. Peter Chyrsologus

"Mary desired, sought, and obtained the salvation of everyone; nay, she even effected
the salvation of everyone!"
St. Alphonsus Maria Liguori

"Just as we are indebted to Jesus Christ for His death, so likewise are we indebted to
Mary for the salvation of the world."
St. Albert the Great

"Who can worthily thank thee and adequately praise thee, O Blessed Virgin, who by
thy Fiat hast saved a lost world!"
St. Augustine

"Mary has the greatest and clearest claims to our homage and praise: she is the
salvation of the world . . . Our dependence upon the august Mary is complete and
universal . . . There is neither on earth nor in Heaven any justified soul, anyone of
the Elect, who does not owe Mary his justice and his glory."
Ven. William Joseph Chaminade

"All those who, to the end of time, shall receive the blessing of our heavenly
Father . . . shall receive their graces only as a result of their perfect obedience
to Mary."
St. Louis Marie de Montfort

"Answer, then, O Sacred Virgin! Why do you delay the salvation of the world,
which depends upon your consent?"
St. Augustine

"Pure and Immaculate Virgin, save me and deliver me from eternal ****ation."
St. John Damascene

"May we, who are unable to please Thee, O Lord, by our own acts, be saved by
the intercession of the Mother of Thy Son."
Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary

"Immaculate Virgin, you have to save me!"
St. Philip Neri

"O Mother of the salvation of everyone!"
St. Agnes

"O Most Holy Virgin, receive us under thy protection if thou wouldst see us saved, for
we have no hope of salvation but through thy means."
St. Ephrem

"O my sweet Mother Mary, I consign my soul to you; have pity on me and save me."
St. Alphonsus Maria Liguori

"If our life were not under the protection of Mary, we might tremble for our perseverance
and salvation . . . In her hands Jesus has placed His almighty power in the order of salvation.
He has confided to her all the means of salvation. All the graces of salvation, both natural
and spiritual, will be given to us by Mary. She is rich with the riches of God Himself."
St. Peter Julian Eymard

"O Mary, we poor sinners know no other refuge but thee, for thou art our only hope,
and on thee do we rely for our salvation."
St. Thomas of Villanova

"Mary is the whole hope of our salvation."
St. Thomas Aquinas

"The foundation of all our confidence is found in the Blessed Virgin Mary. God has
committed to her the treasury of all good things, in order that everyone may
know that through her are obtained every hope, every grace, and all salvation.
For this is His will: that we obtain everything through Mary."
Ven. Pope Pius IX

"O, my Lady, next to thy Son Jesus Christ, thou hast always been the chief
instrument of our salvation."
St. Dominic

"We are debtors to the Blessed Virgin, after Christ, for the redemption of the human race."
St. Peter Damian

"Sinners receive pardon by the intercession of Mary alone."
St. John Chrysostom

"Only at the intercession of Mary do sinners obtain forgiveness . . .
They receive pardon only by the intercession of Mary."
St. Peter Chrysologus

"There is no one in the world who, if he asks for it, does not partake of
the Divine mercy through the tenderness of Mary."
St. Agnes

"O Mary, come to my aid or I am lost!"
St. Alphonsus Rodriguez

"Our salvation rests in thy hands, O Mary!"
St. Bernardine of Siena

"You, O Lady, were filled with grace, so that you might be the way of our
salvation and the means of ascent into the heavenly kingdom."
St. Athanasius

"A gentle maiden, having lodged a God in her womb, asks as her price the
salvation of those who are lost, and life for those who are dead."
St. Peter Chrysologus

"All the world rejoices because it was redeemed through Mary."
Alcuin of York

"Our Lady was the powerful means of our Redemption, and to her we owe our
Redemption on many counts."
Ven. Mary of Agreda

"A mediator, then, was needed with the Mediator Himself, nor could a more fitting
one be found than Mary."
St. Bernard

"We need a mediator with our Mediator."
Council of Rheims

"She is the mediator between us and Christ, just as Christ is the mediator between us and God."
St. Bonaventure

"You must intercede, O Lady, because God, Who placed His Son as Mediator between man and
Heaven, has placed you as mediator between His Son and guilty man!"
St. Alphonsus Maria Liguori

"As the moon is placed between the sun and earth, so is Mary stationed between God and us,
to pour out His graces continually upon us."
St. Bernard

"Mary is our necessary and universal Mediatrix . . . If no one knows the Father but the Son
and those to whom the Son has revealed Him, likewise no one knows the Son but His Mother
and the Church to whom she has revealed Him ... How is it possible to find Jesus without Mary,
since Jesus Himself did not come to us except with the consent of Mary? No one can go to the
Son but by Mary, just as no one can go to the Father but by the Son. Only through Mary do we
reach Jesus since Jesus came to us only through Mary; and because of this great truth, we
should desire nothing but to make known to all nations this path, which is so sure to reach Heaven."
Ven. William Joseph Chaminade

"Mankind was unworthy to receive the Word directly from God, so Mary was our Mediatrix in the
Incarnation, and she continues to exercise that function. No one comes to the knowledge of
Jesus Christ and embraces His holy law except through her; no one obtains the saving gift of
faith except by her prayers. Her mission, to which she is ever faithful, is to give us Jesus. He
must be received from her hands, and in vain do we seek Him elsewhere."
St. Peter Julian Eymard

"Every grace which is communicated to this world has a threefold origin: it flows from God to Christ,
from Christ to the Virgin, and from the Virgin to us . . . Nothing comes to us except through the
mediation of Mary, for such is the will of God. Thus, just as no man goes to the Father but by the
Son, so likewise no one goes to Christ except through His Mother. Whosoever will not have recourse
to her is trying to fly without wings . . . O Virgin Most Holy, no one abounds in the knowledge of God
except through thee; no one, O Mother of God, attains salvation except through thee!"
Pope Leo XIII

"There is no one, O most holy Mary, who can know God except through thee; no one who can be
saved or redeemed but through thee, O Mother of God!"
St. Germanus of Constantinople

"To reach the Eternal Father, we must go to Jesus, our Mediator of Redemption . . . To go to Jesus,
we must go to Mary: she is our Mediatrix of Intercession."
St. Louis Marie de Montfort

"As you cannot come to God except by means of Jesus Christ, you likewise cannot come to Christ
except by means of His Mother . . . As we have access to the Father only by means of the Son,
so do we have access to the Son only by means of the Mother."
St. Alphonsus Maria Liguori

"Through thee do we have access to thy Son, O Blessed Discoverer of Grace, O Mother of Life,
O Mother of Salvation!"
St. Bernard

"By the will of God nothing is conferred upon us except by means of Mary; and just as no one is
able to approach the Most High Father except through His Son, so too no one approaches Christ
but through Mary His Mother."
St. Maximilian Mary Kolbe

"We cannot approach Jesus but through Mary; we can see Jesus and speak to Him only by means of her."
St. Louis Marie de Montfort

"If anyone wishes to contact a President, for instance, or some other high worldly dignitary, he
does not go about it by himself; he takes an intermediary with him. The same thing is true when
we approach God: let it always be with Mary and through Mary."
St. Maximilian Mary Kolbe

"For, since it is the will of Divine Providence that we should have the God-Man through Mary,
there is no other way for us to receive Christ except from her hands."
Pope St. Pius X

"Our sanctity depends on the degree of our nearness to Mary. She is the nearest to God, and
if we are the nearest to her then we therefore will be nearest, through her, to God Himself."
St. Maximilian Mary Kolbe

"No one ever finds Christ but with and through Mary. Whoever seeks Christ apart from Mary seeks Him in vain."
St. Bonaventure

"He who wishes to find Jesus will do so only by having recourse to Mary."
St. Alphonsus Maria Liguori

"He who desires to find Jesus will not find Him otherwise than through Mary."
St. Alphonsus Maria Liguori

"The Child is not found without Mary, His Mother . . . If, then, it is impossible to separate what
God has united, it is also certain that you cannot find Jesus except with Mary and through Mary."
Pope St. Pius X

"Hail Mary, Mother of God, through whom every creature imprisoned by the bonds of idolatrous
error comes to the knowledge of truth! Through whom every faithful soul is saved!"
St. Cyril of Alexandria

"Through thee, a Lady, Heaven is opened, Hell emptied . . . and life granted to those who
expected only eternal death . . . If we have some chance of salvation, we have it all from
Mary. Go, then, have recourse to Mary, and you will be saved."
St. Bernard

"What, then, is the conclusion we must draw from the teaching and practice of the Church?
It is this: our salvation must be wrought through Mary."
Ven. William Joseph Chaminade

"The way of salvation is open to no one except through Mary."
St. Alphonsus Maria Liguori

"Alas, O Lord! I am so wretched that without this dear Mother I would certainly be lost.
Yes, Mary is necessary for me . . . that she may save me from the eternal punishment
of Thy justice . . . Would that everyone might know that I should be already ****ed
were it not for Mary!"
St. Louis Marie de Montfort

"The Divine Mother is the only hope of those who are in despair; she is our safeguard from Hell."
St. Ephrem

"Because God wishes to saved everyone, He has given us this great protectress in His mercy.
There is no sinner, however abandoned by God, for whom if he invoke her aid she will not
obtain the grace to return to God and find mercy."
St. Bridget of Sweden

"To thee, O my Queen, nothing is impossible, since thou canst succor and save even
those who have despaired of salvation."
St. Peter Damian

"Thou, O Mary, art omnipotent in saving sinners!"
St. Germanus of Constantinople

"The help of Mary is all-powerful in saving us from sin and from Hell."
St. Cosmas of Jerusalem

"Mary, by being the Mother of God, was the means of saving sinners; so sinners, by
proclaiming her praises, will obtain salvation."
St. Anselm

"The name of Mary is the name of salvation . . . Hence, let us always pray to this Divine
Mother if we desire to ensure our salvation."
St. Alphonsus Maria Liguori

"Sweet heart of Mary, be my salvation!"
Bl. Pope Pius IX

"The heart of Mary is the source of universal salvation: all salvation springs from Mary's
heart . . . The salvation of man having taken place in the heart of Mary, all Christians
must consider her, after God, as the source of their life, and as the cause and center
of their happiness . . . They must always be turned towards her heart, gaze upon it
unceasingly, and make it the object of their aspirations and desires. Outside the heart
of Mary, there is only trouble, fear, anxiety, death, and Hell."
St. John Eudes

"O man, whoever you are, understand that in this world you are tossed about on a stormy
and tempestuous sea . . . Remember that if you want to avoid being drowned . . . you must
call on Mary . . . O Lady! O Ark in which those who take refuge will never suffer the shipwreck
of eternal perdition!"
St. Bernard

"Mary is called the Star of the Sea, because, as sailors are guided to their port by the polar
star which is the star of the sea, so also are Christians guided in their voyage to eternal
glory by her."
St. Thomas Aquinas

"Mary is our salvation, our life, our hope, our counsel, our refuge, our help."
Ven. Bernardine de Bustis

"Thou art the Lady of all men, and thou art the universal salvation of Christians."
St. Ephrem

"Except for God Himself, Mary is higher than everyone."
St. Andrew of Crete

"Nothing, O Lady, is equal to thee; for whatever exists must be either above or below
thee. God alone is above thee, and everything else is below thee!"
St. Anselm

"The salvation of everyone is left to the care of this Blessed Virgin."
St. Peter Damian

"My Lady, he whom you desire to be saved will be saved . . . God will not save us without
the intercession of Mary."
St. Bonaventure

"It is enough, O Lady, that you will it, and our salvation is secure."
St. Anselm

"Hasten, Most Blessed Lady: do not delay the salvation of the world, which depends upon thy consent!"
St. Bernard

"If Mary be for us, who shall be against us?"
St. Antoninus

"Happy is the Christian who has the Most Blessed Virgin for him; and miserable is that Christian
who does not have the Blessed Virgin on his side!"
St. Alphonsus Maria Liguori

"Mary is the center of the universe, the Ark of God, the cause of creation, the business of the ages."
St. Bernard