Evidence: The Gathering

[Pat Mustard]

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This is my hometown, Matera Italy. Every year, on July 2, there's the feast of the Madonna della Bruna (Our Lady of... I really don't know how to translate it).

the police are there because the float gets attacked by the people at the end of the procession, it's fucking nuts

But it's OK, Catholics don't worship Mary.
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I could quote a buttload of other feasts in which Mary is celebrated, prayed to and worshipped as the patron saint of places all over Italy. Bite me.

No need to do all that.

Simply provide a single quote from the Catechism of the Catholic Church which explains to me, a Catholic, how and why I should worship Mary.

Alternatively, perhaps you could lay out a convincing argument that ALL prayer is necessarily worship. Can you do that, pray tell?

A third choice would be to explain that there are no real distinctions between dulia, hyperdulia and latria.

Do you have a preference?

Sé do bheatha, a Mhuire,
atá lán de ghrásta,
Tá an Tiarna leat.
Is beannaithe thú idir mná,
Agus is beannaithe toradh do bhroinne, Íosa.
A Naomh-Mhuire, a Mháthair Dé,
guigh orainn na peacaigh,
anois, agus ar uair ár mbáis.
Amen.


For those of us who don't speak Irish, the second most important and said prayer in the rcc cathechism in English:

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Hail Mary, full of grace
the lord is with thee.
Blessed are thou amongst women
and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary, mother of god,
give us this day
our daily bread,
and forgive us our trespasses.
Amen

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