Hello, donadams. I was wondering how you come up with this stuff. It's like, out of no where.
Reading church fathers and documents church doctors and saints
Thks
Devotion to Mary is a sure sign of predestination to him who possesses it. Mary is the Mysterious Book of Predestination to glory. Love of Mary and devotion to her are a sure sign of obtaining eternal salvation. O Mother of Perpetual Help, confidence in thee is a certain pledge of everlasting salvation.
Listen, all you who desire the Kingdom of God! Honor and serve the Most Blessed Virgin Mary, and you will find life and eternal salvation! St. Bonaventure
The sign of those who will be saved consists in this: that they have a great devotion to Mary in their hearts. Bl. John of Avila
I believe that devotion to thee, O Lady, is a certain sign of eternal salvation. St. Gabriel of the Most Sorrowful Virgin
Devotion to Mary is a sure sign of predestination to him who possesses it. Bl. Alan de la Roche
Mary is the Mysterious Book of Predestination to glory.
St. Frances Xavier Cabrini
Love of Mary and devotion to her are a sure sign of obtaining eternal salvation. St. Bernard
O Mother of Perpetual Help, confidence in thee is a certain pledge of everlasting salvation.
Whoever honors, loves, serves, and invokes Mary with humility and confidence will ascend to Paradise. St. John Eudes
If you persevere until death in true devotion to Mary, you salvation is certain. St. Alphonsus Maria Liguori
O Holy Mother of God, all those who will be partakers of eternal happiness dwell in thee.
(On the Maternity of the Blessed Virgin Mary)
He Who made me rested in my tabernacle, and He said to me: Let thy dwelling be in Jacob and thy inheritance in Israel, and take root in My Elect . . . And I took root in an honorable people and in the portion of my God His inheritance, and my abode is in the full assembly of the Saints. Ecclesiasticus 24:12-16
In the multitude of the Elect she shall have praise, and among the blessed she shall be blessed.
Ecclesiasticus 24:4
All generations (Christians) shall call me blessed! Lk 1:48
Blessed art thou, O daughter, by the Lord the most high God, above all women upon earth . . . because He hath so magnified thy name that thy praise shall not depart out of the mouth of men who shall be mindful of the power of the Lord forever . . . Thou art the glory of Jerusalem, the joy of Israel, the honor of our people . . . and therefore thou shalt be blessed forever! Judith 13:23, 25; 15:10,11
O Mary, blessed are you among women, for you have brought forth life for both men and women. The mother of our race brought punishment into the world; the Mother of Our Lord brought salvation to the world. Eve was the originator of sin, Mary was the originator of merit.
St. Augustine
Mary is the Mother of those who live by grace, as Eve is the mother of those who die according to nature.
St. Peter Chrysologus
Eve was the cause of death, but Mary restored life to us.
St. Bruno
Death through Eve, life through Mary.
St. Jerome
Instead of Eve, we have Mary.
St. John Chrysostom
The Mother of all the living. Genesis 3:20
Eve was by nature the mother of the children of death;
Mary is by grace the Mother of the children of life.
St. Peter Chrysologus
Mary is the first fruits of the new creation! Mother of all who live in Christ!
Although in the most pure womb of Mary there was but one kernel of grain, which was Jesus Christ, nevertheless her womb is called a "heap of wheat" (Canticles 7:2) because all the Elect were virtually contained in it. St. Ambrose
This Man and that man is born in her . . . This is the Gate of the Lord: the just shall enter into it.
Psalm 86:5; 117:20
Mary is that Happy Ark, in which those who take refuge will never suffer the shipwreck of eternal perdition. St. Bernard
Everyone has been saved in the Virgin. St. Peter Chrysologus
He who is faithful in the service of Mary will certainly be saved . . .There is no one, however wicked, whom Mary does not save by her intercession when she wishes . . . He who has recourse to Mary shall be saved. St. Alphonsus Maria Liguori
No one, not even a sinner, who devoutly recommends himself to her shall ever become the prey of Hell. St. Catherine of Siena
However great a sinner may have been, if he shows himself devout to Mary he will never perish.
St. Hilary of Poitiers
Mary was made Mother of God to obtain salvation for many who, on account of their wicked lives, could not be saved according to the rigor of Divine justice, but might be saved with the help of her sweet mercy and powerful intercession.
St. John Chrysostom
He who is devout to the Virgin Mother will certainly never be lost.
St. Ignatius of Antioch
Many more!
https://www.catholictradition.org
Mary necessary for salvation
Eve: Disobedience / offense / curse / loss of grace and salvation!
Mary: obedience / faithful / pleasing to God / blessings / full of grace / redemption & salvation!
(Possibility of salvation for all men)
What the virgin Eve lost by her unbelief, the virgin Mary gained by her faith! (Lk 1:45 Faithful)
Mary received all God had destined for the angels and men before the fall, created without original sin and in a state of sanctifying grace!
Eve was taken out of Adam.
The eternal Word is taken out of Mary.
In heaven the Word has a father without a mother.
On earth the Word has a mother without a father.
The creator obeys and honors the His creation in the person of Mary, the mother of the Word incarnate.
“Honor Thy father and mother”
God clothed Mary in grace (Lk 1:28-30 rev 12:1) so Mary could clothe the eternal Word with flesh & blood!
Mary is the holy city, the tabernacle of the Lord, the holy of holies!
The dwelling place of the Immortal Creator, the eternal Word made flesh!
Mary is the mystical city of God!
(((Mary is the new covenant, the new holy city, the new Jerusalem “our mother”!))) gal 4:26
