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It's idolatrous even by pre-Vatican II standards.
I don't think Pope Benedict- or any real Catholic- would approve for a moment. But this is where the vanishing thinness of the line between doulia (the kind of adoration given the saints) and hyperdoulia (the kind of worship Christians have always insisted is appropriate only when offered to God Himself) inevitably leads.
Mary- whose name the congregation I serve bears- is special to the Church precisely because of her humble submission to the will of the One with Whom she ought not to be confused- and because that humility, which enabled her spirit to rejoice in God, her Savior, also enabled her to be the very ordinary means by which God entered His creation to redeem it.
The Blessed Virgin would be shocked to be deified in anybody's mind- or practice. Her entire significance lies in her total renunciation of self in order to bring into the world the one and only human being who can rightly be called God.
It's idolatrous even by pre-Vatican II standards.
I don't think Pope Benedict- or any real Catholic- would approve for a moment. But this is where the vanishing thinness of the line between doulia (the kind of adoration given the saints) and hyperdoulia (the kind of worship Christians have always insisted is appropriate only when offered to God Himself) inevitably leads.
Mary- whose name the congregation I serve bears- is special to the Church precisely because of her humble submission to the will of the One with Whom she ought not to be confused- and because that humility, which enabled her spirit to rejoice in God, her Savior, also enabled her to be the very ordinary means by which God entered His creation to redeem it.
The Blessed Virgin would be shocked to be deified in anybody's mind- or practice. Her entire significance lies in her total renunciation of self in order to bring into the world the one and only human being who can rightly be called God.
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