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"... by the ordinance of God, her power is without limit. All that He could give to Mary, He has given..." The Official Handbook of the Legion of Mary, by Concilium Legionis Mariae (1959), p 11 Nihil Obstat: Michael L. Dempsey, S.T.D., Imprimi Potest: Joannes Carolus, Archbishop of Dublin, March 25, 1953 [Note: A letter, posted in the foreword, from Pius XI to the Legion of Mary 16th Sept., 1933, states his approval thus: "We give a very special blessing to this beautiful and holy work...."]   

"Virgin most powerful..."
Litany of the Blessed Virgin Mary, "The Reign of Jesus Through Mary," p. 248 Imprimi Potest: A Josselin, SMM; Nihil Obstat, John MA Fearns, STD; Imprimatur, Francis Cardinal Spellman, Archishop of NY, 6/24/49
Note: This litany was approved by Rome for 7 years indulgences, 1817; 1933.

God the Father is omnipotent:

     Genesis 18:14
     Isaiah 43:13
     Jeremiah 32:17, 27
     Matthew 19:26

Jesus is omnipotent: 

     Daniel 7:13, 14
     Matthew 28:18
     1 Peter 3:22
     John 3:31, 35; 17:2

The Holy Spirit is omnipotent:

     Psalms 104:30

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Queen of Heaven:
"Finally the Immaculate Virgin, preserved free from all stain of original sin, when the course of her earthly life was finished, was taken up body and soul into heavenly glory, and exalted by the Lord as Queen over all things." Catechism of the Catholic Church, p252, para 966

"...Queen of angels... Queen of all saints... Queen of peace"
Litany of the Blessed Virgin Mary, "The Reign of Jesus Through Mary," p 248 Imprimi Potest: A Josselin, SMM; Nihil Obstat, John MA Fearns, STD; Imprimatur, Francis Cardinal Spellman, Archishop of NY, June 24, 1949

"Queen of the Universe" Text of Pope's Marian Year Prayer, Our Lady's Book, Rev. Jas. J. Cashman, CM, ed., (Vincentian Foreign Mission Soc., St. Louis, 1942) p 8b Imprimi Potest, Marshall F. Winne, CM; Nihil Obstat, Wm. M. Drumm; Imprimatur, Jas. P. Murray, May 20, 1949 

"Prayers ordered by Pope Leo XIII, to be said after every Low Mass in all the churches of the world....Hail, holy Queen..." Holy Souls Book, by Rev. F.X. Lasance, ed. (Benziger Bros., 1922), p 199, Nihil Obstat: A.J. Scanlan, S.T.D.; Imprimatur, P.J. Hayes, D.D., Archbishop of NY.

"...Queen of the world ... I worship thee, great Queen, and give thee thanks for the many favors thou hast bestowed on me in the past ... most of all do I thank thee for having saved me from hell ... I promise ever in the future to serve thee... In thee I put all my trust, all my hope of salvation.... And since thou hast so much power with God, deliver me from all temptations, or at least obtain for me the grace ever to overcome them...." (Prayer of St. Alphonse Liguori: 3 yrs indulgence, Raccolta, 342) With Mary to Jesus, by Fr. Theodore Zaremba. O.F.M. (Franciscan Printery, 1954) Nihil Obstat, M. Grajewski, OFM; Imprimi Potest, Fr. T. Kalinowski, OFM; Nihil Obstat, JA Schulien, STD; Imprimatur, A.G. Meyer, Archiepiscopus Milwaukiensis, Aug 16, 1954 NOTE: The introduction to this book says: "The indulgenced prayers contained herein are from the latest official edidtion of the Enchiridion Indulgentiarum, a compilation of prayers and devotions enriched with indulgences by the authority of the Holy See."

Jesus is King of Heaven. 

     Daniel 4:37

The only "Queen of Heaven" mentioned in all of Scripture, Old and New Testament, was a pagan goddess.

When the pagans worshipped a "Queen of Heaven," it provoked God to anger.

     Jeremiah 7:17, 20, ff
     Jeremiah 44:17-19, 25

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"... her who is the true Morning Star... heralding the dawn of salvation." The Official Handbook of the Legion of Mary, by Concilium Legionis Mariae (1959), p 65, Nihil Obstat: Michael L. Dempsey, S.T.D., Imprimi Potest: Joannes Carolus, Archbishop of Dublin, March 25, 1953 [Note: A letter, posted in the foreword, from Pius XI to the Legion of Mary 16th Sept., 1933, states his approval thus: "We give a very special blessing to this beautiful and holy work...The Blessed Virgin ... co-operates in our Redemption, for it was under the Cross that she became our mother."]  

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Mary, "by her manifold intercession continues to bring us the gifts of eternal salvation.... " Catechism, para 969

"'...Holy Church honors the Blessed Mary, Mother of God, with a special love. She is inseparably linked with the saving work of her Son. In her the Church admires and exalts the most excellent fruit of redemption ....'[SC 103.]" Catechism, para 1172

"O woman blessed among women, thou art the honor of the human race, the salvation of our people." St. Bernardine of Siena

"With what words shall we celebrate Mary's virgin-dignity? With what spiriutal song or word shall we honor her ...? By her means are we called sons and heirs of the kingdom of Christ. All who become lovers of her shall enjoy the grace of angels." St. Gregory Thaumaturgus

"Holy Mary, deliver us from the pains of hell." 300 days indulgence, Raccolta, 301

"Mary's role in the Church is inseparable from her union with Christ and flows directly from it. 'This union of the mother with the Son in the work of salvation is made manifest from the time of Christ's virginal conception up to his death'; [LG 57] it is made manifest above all at the hour of his Passion: Thus the Blessed Virgin advanced in her pilgrimage of faith, and faithfully persevered in her union with her Son unto the cross. There she stood, in keeping with the divine plan, enduring with her only begotten Son the intensity of his suffering, joining herself with his sacrifice in her mother's heart, and lovingly consenting to the immolation of this victim, born of her: to be given, by the same Christ Jesus dying on the cross, as a mother to his disciple, with these words: 'Woman, behold your son.' [LG 58; cf. Jn 19:26-27]" Catechism, 964

"The Virgin Mary 'co-operated through free faith and obedience in human salvation' (LG 56). She uttered her yes 'in the name of all human nature' (St. Thomas Aquinas, S Th III, 30, 1). By her obedience she became the new Eve, mother of the living." Catechism, 511

"It is impossible for a client of Mary, who is faithful in honoring and recommending himself to her to be lost. Those (sinful) clients who with a sincere desire to amend, are faithful in honoring and recommending themselves to the Mother of God -- it is, I say, morally impossible that such as these should be lost." St. Alphonsus

"As it is impossible for one who is not devoted to Mary, and consequently not protected by her, to be saved, so it is impossible for one who recommends himself to her, and consequently is beloved by her to be lost." St. Anselm

"He who neglects the service of the blessed Virgin will die in his sins." St. Bonaventure

"For no one lady all-holy is saved except through thee." Prayer of St. Germanus of Constantinople

"The Pillar is Mary who saved the world by her faith ('Blessed art thou that hast believed' ... leads on unerringly those who call her blessed...')" The Official Handbook of the Legion of Mary, by Concilium Legionis Mariae (1959), p 66, Nihil Obstat: Michael L. Dempsey, S.T.D., Imprimi Potest: Joannes Carolus, Archbishop of Dublin, March 25, 1953 [Note: A letter, posted in the foreword, from Pius XI to the Legion of Mary 16th Sept., 1933, states his approval thus: "We give a very speical blessing to this beautiful and holy work...The Blessed Virgin ... co-operates in our Redemption, for it was under the Cross that she became our mother."] 

"... she is the channel of every grace which Jesus Christ has won. We receive nothing which we do not owe to a positive intervention on her part..." Ibid, p 12

"He has set in her the fullness of all good; in such manner that all we have of hope, all of grace, all of salvation, all--I say and let us doubt it not--flows to us from her." St. Bernard: Sermo de Aquaeductu, Ibid, p 12

See also: "Mary the 'New Eve'" below*

Isaiah 43:11 
"... beside me there is no saviour."

Hosea 13:4 
"... there is no saviour besides me."

John 14:6 
"... I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me."

John 10:1, 2, 9
"... He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.... I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved ..."

Acts 4:12 
"Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved."

1 Timothy 2:5, 6 
"For there is ... one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; who gave himself a ransom for all ..."

Psalm 61:2 
"Only in God is my soul at rest: from him comes my salvation. He only is my rock and my salvation."

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Litany of the Blessed Virgin Mary, "The Reign of Jesus Through Mary," p. 248, by Gabriel Denis, SMM (Montfort Publ, 1988)
Imprmi Potest: A Josselin, SMM; Nihil Obstat, John MA Fearns, STD; Imprimatur, Francis Cardinal Spellman, Archishop of NY, June 24, 1949

John 1:14; Genesis 28:17

Revelation 21:3  "Behold, the Tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them and they shall be his people..."

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"'Finally the Immaculate Virgin, preserved free from all stain of original sin..." Catechism of the Catholic Church, para 966

"...Mary ... was preserved from all stain of original sin and by a special grace of God committed no sin of any kind during her whole earthly life. [Cf. Pius IX's Ineffabilis Deus: DS 2803; Council of Trent: DS 1573.]" Catechism, para 411

"Through the centuries the Church has become ever more aware that Mary, 'full of grace' through God, [Lk 1:28 ] was redeemed from the moment of her conception. That is what the dogma of the Immaculate Conception confesses, as Pope Pius IX proclaimed in 1854: The most Blessed Virgin Mary was, from the first moment of her conception, by a singular grace and privilege of almighty God and by virtue of the merits of Jesus Christ, Saviour of the human race, preserved immune from all stain of original sin. [Pius IX, Ineffabilis Deus (1854): DS 2803]" Catechism, para 491

"... from the first instant of her conception, she was totally preserved from the stain of original sin and she remained pure from all personal sin throughout her life." Catechism, para 508

"... conceived without sin ...." Catechism, para 722

"'But while in the most Blessed Virgin the Church has already reached that perfection whereby she exists without spot or wrinkle, the faithful still strive to conquer sin and increase in holiness. And so they turn their eyes to Mary': [LG 65; Cf. Eph 5:26-27.] in her, the Church is already the 'all-holy.'" Catechism, para 829

"The Fathers of the Eastern tradition call the Mother of God 'the All-Holy' (Panagia), and celebrate her as 'free from any stain of sin, as though fashioned by the Holy Spirit and formed as a new creature'. [LG 56.] By the grace of God Mary remained free of every personal sin her whole life long. 'Let it be done to me according to your word. . .'" Catechism, para 493

"... the new Eve, 'full of grace' of the Holy Spirit, is preserved from sin and the corruption of death (the Immaculate Conception and the Assumption of the Most Holy Mother of God, Mary, ever virgin)....." Catechism, para 2853

Romans 3:10, 12  "There is none righteous, no, not one... They are all gone out of the way... there is none that doeth good, no, not one...

Romans 3:23  "For all have fallen short of the glory of God"

Isaiah 53:6  "All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way..."

Romans 5:12, 14  "... death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned ... death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression ..."

Romans 5:18, 19 "... by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation..."

Romans 11:32 "For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all."

Ephesians 2:3 "...we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of the flesh... and were by nature the children of wrath..."

2 Chronicles 6:36

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"The Most Blessed Virgin Mary, when the course of her earthly life was completed, was taken up body and soul into the glory of heaven, where she already shares in the glory of her Son's Resurrection...". Catechism, para 974

"... the new Eve, 'full of grace' of the Holy Spirit, is preserved from ... the corruption of death (the ... Assumption of the Most Holy Mother of God, Mary, ever virgin)...." Catechism, para 2853

"'Finally the Immaculate Virgin, preserved free from all stain of original sin, when the course of her earthly life was finished, was taken up body and soul into heavenly glory, and exalted by the Lord as Queen over all things... The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin is a singular participation in her Son's Resurrection and an anticipation of the resurrection of other Christians: In giving birth you kept your virginity; in your Dormition you did not leave the world, O Mother of God, but were joined to the source of Life. You conceived the living God and, by your prayers, will deliver our souls from death. [Byzantine Liturgy, Troparion, Feast of the Dormition, August 15th.]" Catechism, para 966

"... the new Eve... is preserved from sin and the corruption of death (the Immaculate Conception and the Assumption of the Most Holy Mother of God, Mary, ever virgin)...." Catechism, para 2853

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Mary intercedes for us to God and, by her prayers, delivers souls from death. Catechism of the Catholic Church, para 966

"'This motherhood of Mary ... Taken up to heaven she did not lay aside this saving office but by her manifold intercession continues to bring us the gifts of eternal salvation .... Therefore the Blessed Virgin is invoked in the Church under the titles of Advocate, Helper, Benefactress, and Mediatrix.' [LG 62.]" Catechism, para 969

"'Mother of Divine Grace,' 'Mediatrix of all Graces' In these titles is expressed a sway of Mary over the life of the soul, so complete... ... the soul, according to the divinely established order, cannot without Mary lift itself to God or do God's work....this dependence on Mary exists even though it is not adverted to." The Official Handbook of the Legion of Mary, by Concilium Legionis Mariae (1959), p 129 Nihil Obstat: Michael L. Dempsey, S.T.D., Imprimi Potest: Joannes Carolus, Archbishop of Dublin, March 25, 1953 [Note: A letter, posted in the foreword, from Pius XI to the Legion of Mary 16th Sept., 1933, states his approval thus: "We give a very special blessing to this beautiful and holy work...The Blessed Virgin ... co-operates in our Redemption."]  

Romans 8:34
"It is Christ... (who) maketh intercession for us." 

Jesus intercedes to the Father for us. Hebrews 7:25; 8:6; 9:15; 12:24

Consulting the dead on behalf of the living (termed necromancy in Deuteronomy 18:9-14) is clearly condemned in Scripture:
     Isaiah 8:19-22
     1 Chronicles 10:13, 14

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Mary always remained a virgin (she had no other children), even after her marriage to Joseph. Catechism, para 510

"The Church thus confesses ...the holy Mother of God and ever-virgin Mary...' [LH, 1 January, Antiphon for Morning Prayer; cf. St. Leo the Great, Sermo in nat. Dom. 1, 2; PL 54, 191-192.]" Catechism, para 469

"The deepening of faith in the virginal motherhood led the Church to confess Mary's real and perpetual virginity ....[Cf. DS 291; 294; 427; 442; 503; 571; 1880.] ... And so the liturgy of the Church celebrates Mary as Aeiparthenos, the 'Ever-virgin'. [Cf. LG 52.]" Catechism, para 499

"Mary, the all-holy ever-virgin Mother of God, is the masterwork of the mission of the Son and the Spirit in the fullness of time. For the first time in the plan of salvation ... the Father found the dwelling place where his Son and his Spirit could dwell among men. In this sense the Church's Tradition has often read the most beautiful texts on wisdom in relation to Mary. [Cf. Prov 8:1-9:6; Sir 24.] Mary is acclaimed and represented in the liturgy as the 'Seat of Wisdom.' In her, the 'wonders of God' that the Spirit was to fulfill in Christ and the Church began to be manifested:" Catechism, para 721

Matthew 1:23, 25 (he was not her "only" son, but her "firstborn"--which suggests others followed. Also, note the word "until..."

Matthew 12:46

Matthew 13:55, 56

Mark 6:3

John 2:12

Acts 1:14

Galatians 1:19

1 Corinthians 9:5 with John 7:5 (here Jesus' "brothers" are distinguished from his disciples)

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"...the Virgin Mary's role ... in the mystery of the Church. 'The Virgin MARY . . . is acknowledged and honored as being truly the Mother of God and of the redeemer.... She is 'clearly the mother of the members of Christ'....' [LG 53; cf. St. Augustine, De virg. 6: PL 40,399.] 'Mary, Mother of Christ, Mother of the Church.' [Paul VI, Discourse, November 21,1964.]" Catechism, para 963

"The Nestorian heresy regarded Christ as a human person joined to the divine person of God's Son. Opposing this heresy, St. Cyril of Alexandria and the third ecumenical council, at Ephesus in 431, confessed 'that the Word, uniting to himself in his person the flesh animated by a rational soul, became man.' [Council of Ephesus (431): DS 250.] Christ's humanity has no other subject than the divine person of the Son of God, who assumed it and made it his own, from his conception. For this reason the Council of Ephesus proclaimed in 431 that Mary truly became the Mother of God by the human conception of the Son of God in her womb: 'Mother of God, not that the nature of the Word or his divinity received the beginning of its existence from the holy Virgin, but that, since the holy body, animated by a rational soul, which the Word of God united to himself according to the hypostasis, was born from her, the Word is said to be born according to the flesh.' [Council of Ephesus: DS 251.]" Catechism, para 466

"Called in the Gospels 'the mother of Jesus', Mary is acclaimed by Elizabeth, at the prompting of the Spirit and even before the birth of her son, as 'the mother of my Lord'.[Lk 1:43 ; Jn 2:1 ; Jn 19:25 ; cf. Mt 13:55 ; et al.] ... the Church confesses that Mary is truly 'Mother of God' (Theotokos). [Council of Ephesus (431): DS 251.]" Catechism, para 495

"'All generations will call me blessed': 'The Church's devotion to the Blessed Virgin is intrinsic to Christian worship.'[Lk 1:48 Paul VI, MC 56.] The Church rightly honors 'the Blessed Virgin with special devotion. From the most ancient times the Blessed Virgin has been honored with the title of 'Mother of God,' to whose protection the faithful fly in all their dangers and needs.... [LG 66.] The liturgical feasts dedicated to the Mother of God and Marian prayer, such as the rosary, an 'epitome of the whole Gospel,' express this devotion to the Virgin Mary. [Cf. Paul VI, MC 42; SC 103.]" Catechism, para 971

"'...Holy Church honors the Blessed Mary, Mother of God, with a special love. She is inseparably linked with the saving work of her Son. ...' [SC 103.]" Catechism, para 1172

"The Fathers of the Eastern tradition call the Mother of God 'the All-Holy' (Panagia), and celebrate her as 'free from any stain of sin, as though fashioned by the Holy Spirit and formed as a new creature'. [LG 56.] By the grace of God Mary remained free of every personal sin her whole life long..." Catechism, para 493

God is our Father:

Galatians 4:6
"And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father." 

Ephesians 4:6
"One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all." 

1 John 3:1
"Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not." 

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The Church looks "to thee alone for help and deliverance." ("Companion to the Missal," by Sister M. Cecilia, OSB, 1954, Bruce Publ. Co., page 436)

God is our helper. Psalm 10:14; 30:10; 54:4; Hebrews 13:6

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"Mary alone has found grace with God, both for herself and for every man in particular. The patriarchs and prophets and all the saints of the Old Law were not able to find that grace."  "The Reign of Jesus Through Mary," p. 9, by Gabriel Denis, SMM (Montfort Publ, 1988) Imprmi Potest: A Josselin, SMM; Nihil Obstat, John MA Fearns, STD; Imprimatur, Francis Cardinal Spellman, Archishop of NY, June 24, 1949

"Mary is the general of the armies of God ..." Boudon: The Angels, in The Official Handbook of the Legion of Mary, by Concilium Legionis Mariae (1959), p 57 Nihil Obstat: Michael L. Dempsey, S.T.D., Imprimi Potest: Joannes Carolus, Archbishop of Dublin, March 25, 1953 [Note: A letter, posted in the foreword, from Pius XI to the Legion of Mary 16th Sept., 1933, states his approval thus: "We give a very special blessing to this beautiful and holy work...The Blessed Virgin ... co-operates in our Redemption, for it was under the Cross that she became our mother."]  

"...the world is to be conquered by the Holy Ghost acting through Mary and her children." ibid, p 68 (in description of what Pope Pius XI described as "that beautiful and suggestive Standard of the Legion of Mary." Ibid, p 70)

"Mary is an object of terror to the powers of hell. She ... well knows how to dispose her power, her mercy, and her prayers for the confusion of the enemy ..." Ibid, p 105, quoting St. Alphonsus Liguori  

"St. Michael is the most zealous in honouring Mary and causing her to be honoured, while he waits always in expectation that he may have the honour to go at her bidding to render service to some one of her servants." Ibid, p 57, quoting St. Augustine

"I am all thine, my Queen, my mother, and all that I have is thine." Act of Consecration of the Legion of Mary, ibid, p 104

"... Pentecost, where Mary was the channel of that other outpouring of the Holy Spirit ... 'It was her most powerful intercession that obtained for the new-born Church that prodigious outpouring of the Spirit, of the Divine Redeemer' (Pius XII). Without her, that fire would not be enkindled in the hearts of men." Ibid, p 65

"The Virgin in the Cenacle, praying in the midst of the Apostles ... calls down upon the Church that treasure which will abound in it for ever: the fullness of the Paraclete, the supreme gift of Christ." Leo XIII, Encyl. Jucunda Semper, 1894. Ibid, p 15

Mary is "the glory of Jerusalem (the Church)." ("Companion to the Missal," by Sister M. Cecilia, OSB, 1954, Bruce Publ. Co., page 436) [Note: The parentheses are in the original text.]

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Jesus treated Mary like anyone else in the crowd. Matthew 12:46-50

Mary's will was subject to Jesus'. She herself directed others to do as he says. John 2:3, 4

Mary and the saints are equal to us in his eyes. God has no "favorites."
Matthew 3:9; 11:11
Luke 8:19-21; 11:27, 28; 17:9, 10; 20:21 John 13:14; 15:16
Acts 10:25, 26
Romans 2:11; 3:27, 28; 4:2-6; 11:32
Ephesians 2:8, 9
Revelation 19:10; 22:8, 9

Acts 10:34  "Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons..."

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"The liturgical feasts dedicated to the Mother of God and Marian prayer, such as the rosary, are an ‘epitome of the whole Gospel.’"
Catechism, para 971

The rosary, as well as various litanies, novenas, etc., are "vain repetition" (Matthew 6:7), the way of the heathen. 1 Kings 18:26-29; Acts 19:34.

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"...when she is the subject of preaching and worship she prompts the faithful to come to her Son..." Vatican Council II, p. 420

"This mother...is waiting and preparing your home for you," Handbook for Today’s Catholic, p31

Jesus said, "I go to prepare a place for you..." (John 15)

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Isaiah 7:4

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Mary distributes spiritual gifts:
"God has entrusted Mary with the keeping, the administration and distribution of all His graces, so that all His graces and gifts pass through her hands; and (according to the power she has received over them), as St. Bernardine teaches, Mary gives to whom she wills, the way she wills, when she wills and as much as she wills, the graces of the Eternal Father, the virtues of Jesus Christ and the gifts of the Holy Ghost."
"The Reign of Jesus Through Mary," p. 10, by Gabriel Denis, SMM (Montfort Publ, 1988) Imprmi Potest: A Josselin, SMM; Nihil Obstat, John MA Fearns, STD; Imprimatur, Francis Cardinal Spellman, Archishop of NY, June 24, 1949

"My Mother, dispensatrix of grace..."
Our Lady's Book, Rev. Jas. J. Cashman, CM, ed., (Vincentian Foreign Mission Soc., St. Louis, 1942) p. 27 Imprimi Potest, Marshall F. Winne, CM; Nihil Obstat, Wm. M. Drumm; Imprimatur, Jas. P. Murray, May 20, 1949 

1 Corinthians 12:11, 18 "But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will."

Hebrews 2:4 "God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will"

See also: Spiritual Gifts: A Study in the Scriptures

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"All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way..." Isaiah 53:6

Romans 5:12, 14  "... death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned ... death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression ..."

Romans 5:18, 19 "... by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation..."

Romans 11:32 "For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all."

Ephesians 2:3 "...we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of the flesh... and were by nature the children of wrath..."

2 Chronicles 6:36

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"The Christian tradition sees in this passage an announcement of the 'New Adam' who, because he 'became obedient unto death, even death on a cross', makes amends superabundantly for the disobedience, of Adam.[Cf. 1 Cor 15:21-22, 45 ; Phil 2:8 ; Rom 5:19-20.] Furthermore many Fathers and Doctors of the Church have seen the woman announced in the 'Proto-evangelium' as Mary, the mother of Christ, the 'new Eve'. Mary benefited first of all and uniquely from Christ's victory over sin: she was preserved from all stain of original sin and by a special grace of God committed no sin of any kind during her whole earthly life.[Cf. Pius IXs Ineffabilis Deus: DS 2803; Council of Trent: DS 1573.]" Catechism, para 411

"At the announcement that she would give birth to 'the Son of the Most High' without knowing man, by the power of the Holy Spirit, MARY responded with the obedience of faith, certain that 'with God nothing will be impossible': 'Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord; let it be (done) to me according to your word.'[Lk 1:28-38 ; cf. Rom 1:5 .] Thus, giving her consent to God's word, MARY becomes the mother of Jesus. Espousing the divine will for salvation wholeheartedly, without a single sin to restrain her, she gave herself entirely to the person and to the work of her Son; she did so in order to serve the mystery of redemption with him and dependent on him, by God's grace:[Cf. LG 56.]
As St. Irenaeus says, 'Being obedient she became the cause of salvation for herself and for the whole human race.'[St. Irenaeus, Adv. haeres. 3, 22, 4: PG 7/1, 959A.] Hence not a few of the early Fathers gladly assert. . .: 'The knot of Eve's disobedience was untied by Mary's obedience: what the virgin Eve bound through her disbelief, Mary loosened by her faith.'[St. Irenaeus, Adv. haeres. 3, 22, 4: PG 7/1, 959A.] Comparing her with Eve, they call Mary 'the Mother of the living' and frequently claim: 'Death through Eve, life through Mary.'[LC 56; St. Epiphanius, Panarion 2, 78, 18: PG 42, 728CD-729AB; St. Jerome, Ep. 22, 21: PL 22, 408.]" Catechism, para 494

"The Virgin Mary 'co-operated through free faith and obedience in human salvation' (LG 56). She uttered her yes 'in the name of all human nature' (St. Thomas Aquinas, S Th III, 30, 1). By her obedience she became the new Eve, mother of the living." Catechism, para 511

"At the end of this mission of the Spirit, Mary became the Woman, the new Eve ('mother of the living'), the mother of the 'whole Christ.' [Cf. Jn 19:25-27] As such, she was present with the Twelve, who 'with one accord devoted themselves to prayer,' [Acts 1:14] at the dawn of the 'end time' which the Spirit was to inaugurate on the morning of Pentecost with the manifestation of the Church." Catechism, para 726

"..Mary is ...the Woman, the new Eve, the true 'Mother of all the living.'" Catechism, para 2618

"Victory over the 'prince of this world' [Jn 14:30 .] was won once for all at the Hour when Jesus freely gave himself up to death to give us his life. This is the judgment of this world, and the prince of this world is 'cast out.' [Jn 12:31; Rev 12:10.] 'He pursued the woman' [Rev 12:13-16.] but had no hold on her: the new Eve, 'full of grace' of the Holy Spirit, is preserved from sin and the corruption of death (the Immaculate Conception and the Assumption of the Most Holy Mother of God, Mary, ever virgin). 'Then the dragon was angry with the woman, and went off to make war on the rest of her offspring.' [Rev 12:17.] Therefore the Spirit and the Church pray: 'Come, Lord Jesus,' [Rev 22:17,20.] since his coming will deliver us from the Evil One." Catechism, para 2853

"Called in the Gospels 'the mother of Jesus', Mary is acclaimed by Elizabeth, at the prompting of the Spirit and even before the birth of her son, as 'the mother of my Lord'. [Lk 1:43; Jn 2:1; Jn 19:25; cf. Mt 13:55; et al.] In fact, the One whom she conceived as man by the Holy Spirit, who truly became her Son according to the flesh, was none other than the Father's eternal Son, the second person of the Holy Trinity. Hence the Church confesses that Mary is truly 'Mother of God' (Theotokos). [Council of Ephesus (431): DS 251.]" Catechism, para 495

"From the first formulations of her faith, the Church has confessed that Jesus was conceived solely by the power of the Holy Spirit in the womb of the Virgin Mary, affirming also the corporeal aspect of this event: Jesus was conceived 'by the Holy Spirit without human seed'. [Council of the Lateran (649): DS 503; cf. DS 10-64.] The Fathers see in the virginal conception the sign that it truly was the Son of God who came in a humanity like our own. Thus St. Ignatius of Antioch at the beginning of the second century says: You are firmly convinced about our Lord, who is truly of the race of David according to the flesh, Son of God according to the will and power of God, truly born of a virgin,. . . he was truly nailed to a tree for us in his flesh under Pontius Pilate. . . he truly suffered, as he is also truly risen.[St. Ignatius of Antioch, Ad Smyrn 1-2: Apostolic Fathers, ed. J. B.Lightfoot (London: Macmillan, 1889), 11/2, 289-293; SCh 10, 154-156; cf. Rom 1:3; Jn 1:13.]" Catechism, para 496

"The Gospel accounts understand the virginal conception of Jesus as a divine work that surpasses all human understanding and possibility:[Mt 1 18-25 ; Lk 1:26-38 .] 'That which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit', said the angel to Joseph about MARY his fiancee.[Mt 1:20 .] The Church sees here the fulfilment of the divine promise given through the prophet Isaiah: 'Behold, a virgin shall conceive and bear a son.'[Is 7:14 vLXX; quoted in Mt 1:23 vGreek.]" Catechism, para 497

"People are sometimes troubled by the silence of St. Mark's Gospel and the New Testament Epistles about Jesus' virginal conception. Some might wonder if we were merely dealing with legends or theological constructs not claiming to be history. To this we must respond: Faith in the virginal conception of Jesus met with the lively opposition, mockery or incomprehension of non-believers, Jews and pagans alike; [Cf. St. Justin, Dial. 99, 7: PG 6, 708-709; Origen, Contra Celsum 1, 32, 69: PG 11, 720-721; et al.] so it could hardly have been motivated by pagan mythology or by some adaptation to the ideas of the age. The meaning of this event is accessible only to faith, which understands in it the 'connection of these mysteries with one another' [Dei Filius 4: DS 3016.] in the totality of Christ's mysteries, from his Incarnation to his Passover. St. Ignatius of Antioch already bears witness to this connection: 'Mary's virginity and giving birth, and even the Lord's death escaped the notice of the prince of this world: these three mysteries worthy of proclamation were accomplished in God's silence.' [St. Ignatius of Antioch, Ad Eph. 19, 1: AF 11/2 76-80: cf. 1 Cor 2:8 ]" Catechism, para 498

"... led the Church to confess Mary's real and perpetual virginity ... And so the liturgy of the Church celebrates Mary as Aeiparthenos, the 'Ever-virgin'.[Cf. LG 52.]" Catechism, para 499

"Against this doctrine the objection is sometimes raised that the Bible mentions brothers and sisters of Jesus.[Cf. Mk 3:31-35; Mk 6:3; 1 Cor 9:5; Gal 1:19.] The Church has always understood these passages as not referring to other children of the Virgin Mary. In fact James and Joseph, 'brothers of Jesus', are the sons of another Mary, a disciple of Christ, whom St. Matthew significantly calls 'the other Mary'. [Mt 13:55; Mt 28:1; cf. Mt 27:56.] They are close relations of Jesus, according to an Old Testament expression.[Cf. Gen 13:8; Gen 14:16; Gen 29:15; etc.]" Catechism, para 500

"Jesus is Mary's only son, but her spiritual motherhood extends to all men whom indeed he came to save: 'The Son whom she brought forth is he whom God placed as the first-born among many brethren, that is, the faithful in whose generation and formation she co-operates with a mother's love.' [LG 63; cf. Jn 19:26-27; Rom 8:29; Rev 12:17.]" Catechism, para 501

503. "MARY's virginity manifests God's absolute initiative in the Incarnation. Jesus has only God as Father. 'He was never estranged from the Father because of the human nature which he assumed. . . He is naturally Son of the Father as to his divinity and naturally son of his mother as to his humanity, but properly Son of the Father in both natures.' [Council of Friuli (796): DS 619; cf. Lk 2:48-49.]" Catechism, para 503

"Jesus is conceived by the Holy Spirit in the Virgin Mary's womb because he is the New Adam, who inaugurates the new creation: 'The first man was from the earth, a man of dust; the second man is from heaven.' [1 Cor 15:45,47.] From his conception, Christ's humanity is filled with the Holy Spirit, for God 'gives him the Spirit without measure.' [Jn 3:34.] From 'his fullness' as the head of redeemed humanity 'we have all received, grace upon grace.' [Jn 1:16; cf. Col 1:18.]" Catechism, para 504

1 Corinthians 15:22
"For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive."

Romans 5:12, 14
"Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned ... death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression ..."

Romans 5:18, 19 
"Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life. For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous."

1 Corinthians 15:22  
"For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive."

Colossians 1:12-14
"Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light: Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son: In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins."

ROMAN CATHOLICISM

SCRIPTURE TEACHES

Our Lady of Lourdes

Our Lady of Fatima 

Our Lady of Guadalupe:  I and II 

Our Lady of Mount Carmel

Our Lady of LaSalette

Our Lady of the Snows, Our Lady of Good Counsel, Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Our Lady of the Rosary, Miraculous Medal, Our Lady of Prompt Succor

Revelation 13:14, etc.
Deuteronomy 5
Thessalonians

If a miracle is of God, the instrument used will exalt him, not anyone else. Acts 4:21; 9:42; 19:17

See also:
1 Kings 18:39
2 Corinthians 11:13-15