If anyone says that in the sacred and holy sacrament of the Eucharist the substance of the bread and the wine remains conjointly with the blood and body of our Lord Jesus Christ, and denies that wonderful and singular change of the whole substance of the bread into the body and the whole substance of the wine into the blood, the appearances only of the bread and wine remaining, which change the Catholic Church most aptly calls transubstantiation, let him be anathema.
Theodore Alois Buckley (Trans.) "Canons on the Most Holy Sacrament of the Eucharist," The Canons and Decrees of the Council of Trent (London: George Routledge, 1851) 77. http://books.google.ca/books?id=P_GDBjERbmUC&q=cojointly#v=onepage&q&f=false
Luther espoused the doctrine of the sleep of the soul, upon a scripture foundation. Then he made use of it as a confutation of purgatory and saint worship, and continued in that belief until the last moment of his life.
Archbishop Francis Blackburne, A Short Historical View of the Controversy Concerning an Intermediate State (London: Todd and Southeran, 1765). https://play.google.com/books/reader?printsec=frontcover&output=reader&id=CLkHAAAAQAAJ
"Only these three titles and roles of Mary as Co-redemptrix, Mediatrix, and Advocate combined accurately express her entire mission as Spiritual Mother of humanity: to suffer and redeem with Christ, to dispense all graces of salvation from Christ, to intercede for us."
(Dr. Mark Miravalle, Professor of Theology and Mariology, May 31, 2012 at the Feast of the Visitation of Mary) http://www.motherofallpeoples.com/2012/06/how-is-mary-the-spiritual-mother-of-humanity/
The first arch-heretic mentioned in the traditions of the Church was Simon the Magician; his legend embodies a multitude of marvels...Thus the arch-heretic, imitating Christianity but in the reverse sense, affirmed the eternal reign of revolt and evil...Here was the doctrine of Antichrist, and it was not to perish with Simon, for it has been perpetuated to our own days...Simon became a notoriety and repaired to Rome, where the emperor, attracted by all extraordinary spectacles, was disposed to welcome him: this emperor was Nero.
Eliphas Levi, The History of Magic Second Edition (London: William Rider & Son Ltd., 1922): 180-184 https://books.google.ca/books?id=DIVo4hmp6ooC&pg=PA152&lpg=PA152&dq#v=onepage&q&f=false
The dogma of the totality of the Real Presence means ‘that in each individual species the whole Christ, flesh and blood, body and soul, Divinity and humanity, is really present’
"Dogmatic Theology" The Catholic Encyclopedia, vol 4. p. 299 and vol 14. p. 586. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14580a.htm
The first arch-heretic mentioned in the traditions of the Church was Simon the Magician; his legend embodies a multitude of marvels...Thus the arch-heretic, imitating Christianity but in the reverse sense, affirmed the eternal reign of revolt and evil...Here was the doctrine of Antichrist, and it was not to perish with Simon, for it has been perpetuated to our own days...Simon became a notoriety and repaired to Rome, where the emperor, attracted by all extraordinary spectacles, was disposed to welcome him: this emperor was Nero.
Eliphas Levi, The History of Magic Second Edition (London: William Rider & Son Ltd., 1922): 180-184 https://books.google.ca/books?id=DIVo4hmp6ooC&pg=PA152&lpg=PA152&dq#v=onepage&q&f=false
The subject of this immunity from original sin is the person of Mary at the moment of the creation of her soul and its infusion into her body...In the testimony of the Fathers two points are insisted upon: her absolute purity and her position as the second Eve
“Immaculate Conception,” Catholic Encyclopedia, 2009, http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07674d.htm
The first arch-heretic mentioned in the traditions of the Church was Simon the Magician; his legend embodies a multitude of marvels...Thus the arch-heretic, imitating Christianity but in the reverse sense, affirmed the eternal reign of revolt and evil...Here was the doctrine of Antichrist, and it was not to perish with Simon, for it has been perpetuated to our own days...Simon became a notoriety and repaired to Rome, where the emperor, attracted by all extraordinary spectacles, was disposed to welcome him: this emperor was Nero.
Eliphas Levi, The History of Magic Second Edition (London: William Rider & Son Ltd., 1922): 180-184 https://books.google.ca/books?id=DIVo4hmp6ooC&pg=PA152&lpg=PA152&dq#v=onepage&q&f=false
When the Church looks for Jesus, she always knocks at his Mother’s door and asks: “Show us Jesus” It is from Mary that the Church learns true discipleship. That is why the Church always goes out on mission in the footsteps of Mary....Now she asks us to “do whatever he tells you” (Jn 2:5). Yes, Mother, we are committed to doing whatever Jesus tells us! And we will do it with hope, trusting in God’s surprises and full of joy. Amen.
Pope Francis, Homily of His Holiness July 24, 2013 http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/francesco/homilies/2013/documents/papa-francesco_20130724_gmg-omelia-aparecida_en.html
In his greeting to Spanish-speakers after yesterday’s Angelus, Pope Benedict XVI recalled the recent opening of the Holy Year of St. James at the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela...The Holy Door was opened on December 31 to begin the Holy Year of the Apostle St. James at the supposed site of his burial in the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela. The Door is re-opened at the beginning of every year in which the feast day of St. James, July 25, falls on a Sunday.”
Pope helps inaugurate Holy Year of St. James in Spain (January 4, 2010) Catholic News Agency http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/pope_helps_inaugurate_holy_year_of_st._james_in_spain/
At the head of the Babylonian mythology stands a deity who was sometimes identified with the heavens...named Anu, his sign is the simple star, the symbol of divinity, and at other times the maltese cross...Anatu, the wife or consort of Anu, is generally only a female form of Anu...the female fish-god, and she is one of the many goddesses called Ishtar or Venus
George Smith, Chaldean Account of Genesis (New York: Scribner, Armstrong and Co, 1876): 54-55 https://archive.org/stream/chaldeanaccounto00smit#page/n9/mode/2up
When the Church looks for Jesus, she always knocks at his Mother’s door and asks: “Show us Jesus” It is from Mary that the Church learns true discipleship. That is why the Church always goes out on mission in the footsteps of Mary....Now she asks us to “do whatever he tells you” (Jn 2:5). Yes, Mother, we are committed to doing whatever Jesus tells us! And we will do it with hope, trusting in God’s surprises and full of joy. Amen.
Pope Francis, Homily of His Holiness July 24, 2013 http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/francesco/homilies/2013/documents/papa-francesco_20130724_gmg-omelia-aparecida_en.html
When the Church looks for Jesus, she always knocks at his Mother’s door and asks: “Show us Jesus” It is from Mary that the Church learns true discipleship. That is why the Church always goes out on mission in the footsteps of Mary....Now she asks us to “do whatever he tells you” (Jn 2:5). Yes, Mother, we are committed to doing whatever Jesus tells us! And we will do it with hope, trusting in God’s surprises and full of joy. Amen.
Pope Francis, Homily of His Holiness July 24, 2013 http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/francesco/homilies/2013/documents/papa-francesco_20130724_gmg-omelia-aparecida_en.html
“According to the description given in 1450 by Giovanni [End 0:31:33] [Start 0:32:57] Ruccellai [End 0:31:36] of Viterbo it was Pope Martin V who in 1423, at the Basilica of Saint John Lateran, [End 0:31:44] [Start 0:31:48] opened the Holy Door for the first time in the history of the Jubilee. [End 0:31:52] [Start 0:32:35] In those days, Holy Years were celebrated every 33 years.[End 0:32:40] [Start 0:31:58] In the Vatican Basilica the opening of the Holy Door is first mentioned at Christmas 1499.”
"The Opening of the Holy Door of the Great Jubilee of the Year 2000,” Vatican.va: http://www.vatican.va/news_services/liturgy/documents/ns_lit_doc_14121999_porta-santa_en.html
When the Church looks for Jesus, she always knocks at his Mother’s door and asks: “Show us Jesus” It is from Mary that the Church learns true discipleship. That is why the Church always goes out on mission in the footsteps of Mary....Now she asks us to “do whatever he tells you” (Jn 2:5). Yes, Mother, we are committed to doing whatever Jesus tells us! And we will do it with hope, trusting in God’s surprises and full of joy. Amen.
Pope Francis, Homily of His Holiness July 24, 2013 http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/francesco/homilies/2013/documents/papa-francesco_20130724_gmg-omelia-aparecida_en.html
The passion of Christ cannot be known to us apart from the compassion of our lady...she is the all-powerful virgin mother...he [God or Christ] has no intention of redeeming us, of coming to us, of remaining with us, except through the mediation of our Lady.
Rev. Peter Damian Mary Immaculate Co-Redemptrix (September 2007).
http://catholicaudio.blogspot.ca/2007_09_01_archive.html
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When the Church looks for Jesus, she always knocks at his Mother’s door and asks: “Show us Jesus” It is from Mary that the Church learns true discipleship. That is why the Church always goes out on mission in the footsteps of Mary....Now she asks us to “do whatever he tells you” (Jn 2:5). Yes, Mother, we are committed to doing whatever Jesus tells us! And we will do it with hope, trusting in God’s surprises and full of joy. Amen.
Pope Francis, Homily of His Holiness July 24, 2013 http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/francesco/homilies/2013/documents/papa-francesco_20130724_gmg-omelia-aparecida_en.html
The world right now could use some help from heaven, like a new, historic, dynamic outpouring of the Holy Spirit through the Spiritual Mother of All Peoples...The time is now for a New Pentecost through Mary, the world’s Spiritual Mother
Dr. Mark Miravalle, May 31, 2012, Feast of the Visitation of Mary http://www.fifthmariandogma.com/articles/how-is-mary-the-spiritual-mother-of-humanity-2/
Pope Pius XII affirmed strongly the queenship of Mary, He established a special liturgical feast called “Mary Queen of Heaven.” He consecrated the world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Mother and Queen, on October 31, 1942. In the special prayer he said “As the Church and the entire human race were consecrated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus...so we in like manner consecrate ourselves forever also to you and your Immaculate Heart, our mother and queen of the world
Jesuit Kenneth S. Baker, Fundamentals of Catholicism: God, Trinity, Creation, Christ, Mary, Ignatius Press, 1983: 377 https://books.google.ca/books?id=yBW8l1opH-oC&pg=PA377&lpg=PA377&dq#v=onepage&q&f=false
We therefore confess that the sacrifice of the Mass is and ought to be considered one and the same sacrifice with that of the cross, for the victim is one and the same, namely Christ our Lord...whose sacrifice is daily renewed in the Eucharist
(The Catechism of the Council of Trent, Translated Into English with notes by Theodore Alois Buckley, G. Routledge & Company, 1852: 254) https://books.google.ca/books?id=940_AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA254&lpg=PA254&dq
In the first instance of her conception, by a singular privilege and grace granted by God, in view of the merits of Jesus Christ, the Saviour of the human race, was preserved exempt from all stain of original sin " THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION (Ineffabilis Deus) Apostolic Constitution issued by Pope Pius IX on December 8, 1854. " http://www.papalencyclicals.net/Pius09/p9ineff.htm
Thus we should learn to view our death in the right light, that we need not become alarmed on account of it, as unbelief does; because in Christ indeed it is not death, but a fine, sweet and brief sleep which brings us relief of this veil of tears, from sin, and from the fear and extremity of real death, and from all the misfortunes of this life. And we shall be secure and, without care, rest sweetly and gently for a brief moment as on a sofa, until the time when He shall awaken us, together with all his dear children, to His eternal glory and joy.
Martin Luther, John Nicolas Lenker (trans), The Complete Sermons of Martin Luther Volume 5 (Delmarva Publications, Inc., 2014) https://books.google.ca/books?id=szjOBgAAQBAJ
O Mother of individuals and peoples, you who know all their sufferings and their hopes, you who have a mother’s awareness of all the struggles between good and evil, between light and darkness, which afflict the modern world, accept the cry which we, moved by the Holy Spirit, address directly to your Heart. Embrace, with the love of the Mother and the Handmaid of the Lord, this human world of ours, which we entrust and consecrate to you
(Pope John Paul II, Mother of the Church, Gracewing Publishing, 1987: 62-63). http://www.ewtn.com/library/PAPALDOC/JPCONFAT.htm
God has called upon Her to accomplish Jesus Christ’s Works of Redemption within the individual souls in these Last Times...Therefore, God wishes the souls to acknowledge Mary as the Co-redemptrix with Jesus Christ...It is through the recognition of Mary as God’s Masterwork that the victory of Light over darkness will be completed
Miriam van Nazareth, Invitation to Glorify Mary, April 2009, http://www.myriam-van-nazareth.net/index.php/en/mary-invites/mary-coredemptrix
From the earliest ages of the catholic church a Christian people, whether in time of triumph or more especially in time of crisis, has addressed prayers of petition and hymns of praise and veneration to the Queen of Heaven. And never has that hope wavered which they placed in the Mother of the Divine King, Jesus Christ; nor has that faith ever failed by which we are taught that Mary, the Virgin Mother of God, reigns with a mother's solicitude over the entire world, just as she is crowned in heavenly blessedness with the glory of a Queen.
Pope Pius XII, Ad Caeli Reginam: On Proclaiming the Queenship of Mary, October 11, 1954) http://w2.vatican.va/content/pius-xii/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-xii_enc_11101954_ad-caeli-reginam.html
We are told in various ways by Eusebius, that Constantine, in order to recommend the new religion to the heathen, transferred into it the outward ornaments to which they had been accustomed in their own...The use of temples, and these dedicated to particular saints, and ornamented on occasions with branches of trees; incense, lamps, and candles; votive offerings on recovery from illness; holy water...the tonsure, the ring in marriage, turning to the East, images at a later date, perhaps the ecclesiastical chant...are all of pagan origin, and sanctified by their adoption into the Church
Cardinal John Henry Newman, Development of Christian Doctrine, 1878: 373, http://www.newmanreader.org/works/development/chapter8.html
In short, Mary, as Mother of our merciful Savior, is rightly called the Co-Redemptrix and the Mediatrix of all His graces and mercies to us. She plays a unique and unequalled role in God's plan to shower His mercy upon us all.
Robert Stackpole, STD, director of the John Paul II Institute of Divine Mercy (Anglican who became Catholic http://thedivinemercy.org/library/article.php?NID=3378
It is often forgotten that the Vatican, beneath its gold and Renaissance splendor, is an independent state, a non-hereditary, triple-crowned monarchy headed by the pope, a temporal princedom that according to Catholic doctrine, bridges the chasm between Heaven and Earth. The pope has many titles, chief of which is Pontifex Maximus—“Master Bridge-Builder”—an imperial title inherited directly from the Roman emperors, whose successor he is in the Roman imagination, as Italian political theorist Francesco Orestano wrote in 1915: “The papacy, an ambitious Latin conception, is the titanic expression of Roman imperialism become spiritual.
Christopher S. Ljungquist, Pope Benedict XVI: The Perilous Politics of Resignation, Feb 17, 2013, geopoliticalmonitor.com http://www.geopoliticalmonitor.com/pope-benedict-xvi-the-perilous-politics-of-resignation-4782/
In the most blessed sacrament of the Eucharist "the body and blood, together with the soul and divinity, of our Lord Jesus Christ, and therefore, the whole Christ is truly, really, and substantially contained." "This presence is called 'real'...because it is present in the fullest sense: that is to say, it is a substantial presence by which Christ, God and man, makes Himself wholly and entirely present." It is by the conversion of the bread and wine into Christ's body and blood that Christ becomes present in this sacrament.
[Celebration of the Christian Mystery, Catechism of the Catholic Church. ] http://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p2s2c1a3.htm
The sinner that ventures directly to Christ may come with dread and apprehension of his wrath; but let him only employ the mediation of the Virgin with her Son and she has only to show that Son the breasts that gave him suck and his wrath will immediately be appeased
Catholic Layman, July 1856 https://books.google.ca/books?id=XJf_AXFbhI0C&pg=PA300&lpg=PA300&dq=The+sinner+that+ventures+directly+to+Christ+may+come+with+dread+and+apprehension+of+his+wrath;+but+let+him+only+employ+the+mediation+of+the+Virgin+with+her+Son+and+she+has+only+to+show+that+Son+the+breasts+that+gave+him+suck+and+his+wrath+will+immediately+be+appeased&source=bl&ots=JvBj4Na7uk&sig=osRVi1GNE8gPAnnTdfzNtfDfM8g&hl=en&sa=X&ei=zxREVaCKD4uZoQTX54H4Aw&ved=0CC0Q6AEwBA#v=onepage&q&f=false
Teach us, Mary, to believe, to hope, to love with you; show us the way that leads to peace, the way to the Kingdom of Jesus. You, Star of Hope, who wait for us anxiously in the everlasting light of the eternal Homeland, shine upon us and guide us through daily events, now and at the hour of our death. Amen! Act of Veneration to the Immaculate At the Spanish Steps.
Address of his Holiness Benedict XVI, Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Saturday, 8 December 2007 w2.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/speeches/2007/december/documents/hf_ben-xvi_spe_20071208_immacolata.html
Teach us, Mary, to believe, to hope, to love with you; show us the way that leads to peace, the way to the Kingdom of Jesus. You, Star of Hope, who wait for us anxiously in the everlasting light of the eternal Homeland, shine upon us and guide us through daily events, now and at the hour of our death. Amen! Act of Veneration to the Immaculate At the Spanish Steps.
Address of his Holiness Benedict XVI, Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Saturday, 8 December 2007 w2.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/speeches/2007/december/documents/hf_ben-xvi_spe_20071208_immacolata.html
By her complete adherence to the Father's will, to his Son's redemptive work, and to every prompting of the Holy Spirit, the Virgin Mary is the Church's model of faith and charity. Thus she is a "preeminent and . . . wholly unique member of the Church"; indeed, she is the "exemplary realization" of the Church. Her role in relation to the Church and to all humanity goes still further. "In a wholly singular way she cooperated by her obedience, faith, hope, and burning charity in the Savior's work of restoring supernatural life to souls. For this reason she is a mother to us in the order of grace.
“I believe in the Holy Catholic Church” Catechism of the Catholic Church Paragraph 6: Mary - Mother of Christ, Mother of the Church. http://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p123a9p6.htm
The subject of this immunity from original sin is the person of Mary at the moment of the creation of her soul and its infusion into her body...In the testimony of the Fathers two points are insisted upon: her absolute purity and her position as the second Eve
“Immaculate Conception,” Catholic Encyclopedia, 2009, http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07674d.htm
The Emperor is no more...but the Pontifex Maximus abides; he is now the Vicar of Christ, offering the old civilisation to the tribes of the North. He converts them to his creed, and they serve him as Father and Judge supreme.
William Barry, The Papal Monarchy: From St. Gregory the Great to Boniface VIII, New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1911: 45-46