August 22nd is the feast day, on the Catholic calendar, of the “Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary” in the Roman Catholic church calendar. Pope Pius XII established this feast in 1954.
This image above is as blasphemous as you can get. It basically elevates Mary to the 4th Person of the Godhead. Christ the Son, God the Father, and the Holy Spirit are all crowning Mary as the “Queen of Heaven”!! This is appalling and a gross distortion and eisegesis of Scripture. Note: this heresy is so bad it has the Triune God subservient to a mere created being. Mary is NOT divine!
In the image above we see Mary being crowned as she sits on a throne in Heaven. In Scripture only God sits on a throne in Heaven! This image is blasphemous! Mary is not God, Mary is not a god, Mary doesn’t answer prayers, Mary doesn’t hear all our prayers. Mary isn’t our mother. Stop worshipping Mary.
There is a book called, “Devotions in Honor of Our Mother of Perpetual Help.”
In the prayer to Mary it says, “Come then, to my help, dearest Mother, for I recommend myself to thee. In thy hands I place my eternal salvation and to thee do I entrust my soul.”
It continues by saying that we need not have any fear for Jesus if we know Mary:
“If thou protect me, dear Mother, I fear nothing; not from my sins, because thou wilt obtain for me the pardon of them; nor from the devils, because thou are more powerful than all hell together; nor even from Jesus, my Judge himself, because by one prayer from thee he will be appeased.“
This odious prayer takes Mary and puts her in the place of Jesus.
- Where Jesus is the one who grants us pardon for our sin, this Catholic prayer places Mary as the pardoner of our guilt.
- Where Jesus is the one who destroys the devil and his work, this Catholic prayer says Mary is the one who has the power.
- Where Jesus is the one who appeases the judgment of God, this Catholic prayer says that Mary appeases the Lord’s judgment.
Catholics won’t admit this but in Catholicism, Jesus is subordinate to their unbiblical deified version of Mary. That’s why they pray to Mary because she has authority over Jesus (though they don’t say this directly, only indirectly). Because they are taught that the Catholic Mary can get Jesus to do things He might not ordinarily want to do, regarding answering the prayers of Catholics. Catholics are taught that the Catholic Jesus always obeys Mary.
Christ cannot refuse any request made upon Him! So Mary is actually omnipotent! This is atrocious and blasphemous.
While He was still talking to the multitudes, behold, His mother and brothers stood outside, seeking to speak with Him. Then one said to Him, “Look, Your mother and Your brothers are standing outside, seeking to speak with You.”
But He answered and said to the one who told Him, “Who is My mother and who are My brothers?” And He stretched out His hand toward His disciples and said, “Here are My mother and My brothers! For whoever does the will of My Father in heaven is My brother and sister and mother.”Matthew 12:46-50
Here Jesus had the perfect opportunity to give praise to Mary, to exalt her spiritual status, and He does no such thing.
And it happened, as He spoke these things, that a certain woman from the crowd raised her voice and said to Him, “Blessed is the womb that bore You, and the breasts which nursed You!”
But He said, “More than that, blessed are those who hear the word of God and keep it!”Luke 11:27-28
Once again, here is a perfect opportunity for Jesus to affirm Mary as a special and immaculate person. Instead, Jesus rebukes the woman and declares that those who listen to Christ and obey the Word of God are blessed, not Mary.
If Mary was immaculate and ever virgin, it would be a good bet that Jesus, or one of the Apostles, such as John took care of Mary after Jesus’ death on the cross, would have mentioned something this important, and that under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, one of the authors of Scripture would have recorded Mary’s preeminent and exalted spiritual status.
The Apostles would be shocked and disgusted by the Mary of Roman Catholicism. The so-called Mediatrix of All Graces, the Ever-Virgin, the Immaculate, the Queen of Heaven, the one to be venerated and worshiped. No the Mary of Scripture was a pious Jewish woman who wanted all glory and honor for her Son Jesus, and none for herself.
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