I am a devoted Catholic, I personally do not worship Mary the human mother of Jesus Christ. I do HONOR and LOVE her Obedience to God. It's important to remember Jesus Christ was concevied in a virgin, can you think of another way to prevent new agers from trying to removing the virgin birth of Jesus Christ from the bible.
The scripture below tells me that Mary is the FACE of the faithful Israelite. Mary is the first of those with their name written in the book of life. The ELECT are in PROCESSION with Mary as the FIRST.
Revelation Chapter 12:1-6
1 A great sign appeared in the sky, a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. 2 She was with child and wailed aloud in pain as she lab...ored to give birth.
3 Then another sign appeared in the sky; it was a huge red dragon, with seven heads and ten horns, and on its heads were seven diadems.
4 Its tail swept away a third of the stars in the sky and hurled them down to the earth. Then the dragon stood before the woman about to give birth, to devour her child when she gave birth.
5 She gave birth to a son, a male child, destined to rule all the nations with an iron rod. Her child was caught up to God and his throne.
6 The woman herself fled into the desert where she had a place prepared by God, that there she might be taken care of for twelve hundred and sixty days.
I do not want Mary painted as equal to Jesus Christ. Infact, I want some modern CO-REDEMPTIONISTS removed from the Church. It might be confusing to you but, I like reciting the Rosary and it is a habit of mine to carry Rosary with me everywhere I go away from home.
Luke 1:46-47 And Mary said, My soul doth magnify the Lord, And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour.
I always asked the Blessed Virgin Mary to pray for me as, I ask you brother and sister to pray for me also. Thank You.
Below is one of the best explanation, why Catholics says the Rosary:
My brothers and sisters in Christ and in the pro-life movement: as the saying goes, "The enemy is OUT THERE! One of his tactics is "Divide and conquer." As you can see from one of the posts, people who are against our cause are enjoying ...the fact that we are quarreling over our individual beliefs. I am a Catholic Christian. I generally prefer to pray to God in my own words and to read and pray Scripture. But the rosary is a very powerful form of intercessory prayer, the mysteries of the rosary are based on Scripture, and it can be a good way to meditate on Scripture. There have been some Catholics who have gone overboard in their devotion to Mary and/or the saints, and some incorrectly assume that they need to go through Mary in order to get to JESUS, but my sense is that just as we have friends on earth who are close to the LORD and whom we ask for prayer--while at the same time we also direct our own prayers to the LORD--we have friends in heaven, and this is how we can view Mary and the saints. Let us not judge people by outward appearances. God sees the heart of each person, and it is He Who is the One to judge whether a person is practicing idolatry or not. In some areas Catholics and other Christians can "agree to disagree" while we focus on what is most important and what we have in common: JESUS CHRIST is our LORD and SAVIOR, and human life is sacred from the moment of conception.
Regardless of whether or not we believe that it is OK to ask Mary to pray for us, we can see her as a model of faith and courage who said "yes" to becoming the Mother of JESUS when she was a very young girl already engaged to a man in a society in which a woman who was found pregnant while engaged to another man could be accused of adultery and stoned to death.
Every bit of the Rosary is completely biblical, from the Our Father, to the Mysteries, and yes even the "Hail Mary". Let me explain, "Hail Mary full of Grace, the Lord is with thee" is what the angel Gabriel said to Mary when he told her... she was to have Jesus. "Blessed art thou amongst women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb Jesus" is the greeting Elizabeth gave Mary when she arrived to visit. The rest of the prayer is asking Mother Mary to pray for us "Holy Mary Mother of God PRAY for us sinners now and at the hour of our deaths, Amen" You see? (-: We are not worshiping Mary, but asking her to pray with us, and giving her the respect she deserves for being the Mother of Jesus.
Today is The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
YOU ALL HAVE A BLESSED DAY!