What is the role of Mary with in the Catholic Church and faith?

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Answer 1

Catholics honour Mary, the Mother of Jesus. Mary is important because she points to Jesus and is the way God chose to come to us in Jesus. Indeed God made her ready to be Mother of his Son by making her uniquely free from the stain of Original Sin (the immaculate conception). Jesus is fully God and fully divine. This wonderful mystery comes about because God is the father of Jesus and Mary is his mother. Because Mary is his mother, Jesus is fully one of us, he is fully human. He takes to himself, through Mary, the fullness of our humanity so that all that is human may be redeemed. In Mary we see God loving us by choosing to come to us through a simple, young, poor woman.

Answer 2

Today Her role in the Roman Catholic church is of crucial importance even if Her requests and warnings are being ignored as we speak.

The crisis in the Catholic church today is because Her requests at Fatima in 1917 have not been met. Our Lady requested the faithful to pray the daily Rosary, wear the Brown Scapular of Carmel, practice the Seven Saturday devotion to avoid calamities that would plague the Church and the world. Her biggest request, which is a source of great controversy and division, has not been met. The request is for the Consecration of Russia to Her Immaculate Heart.

She warned that if Her requests were not met great chastisements would come our way , Russia would spread its errors all over the world and be the harbinger of war and persecution of the Pope and all Christians.
On the contrary if Russia was consecrated , Russia would be converted to the Catholic faith and bring about a new era of Catholicism to the world.
http://fatima.org/essentials/requests/conseqworld.asp

If you are interested in this very important issue please watch the following documentary which is made by a team of Fatima priest and contains an urgent message to the faithful:
http://www.heavenskeytopeace.com/watch_hkp_start.htm

For further detail you can read the following book written by a priest:
http://www.devilsfinalbattle.com/content2.htm

These Fatima priests are bound to the Roman Pontiff and to the Roman Catholic church. It is their purpose to enlighten the faithful to what is happening in the Church today and to offer the solution to it.

Answer 3

http://www.catholic.com/library/mary_saints.asp

CCC 487 - What the Catholic faith believes about Mary is based on what it believes about Christ, and what it teaches about Mary illumines in turn its faith in Christ.

- Mary's predestination

CCC 488 - "God sent forth his Son," but to prepare a body for him, he wanted the free cooperation of a creature. For this, from all eternity God chose for the mother of his Son a daughter of Israel, a young Jewish woman of Nazareth in Galilee, "a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin's name was Mary":
The Father of mercies willed that the Incarnation should be preceded by assent on the part of the predestined mother, so that just as a woman had a share in the coming of death, so also should a woman contribute to the coming of life.

CCC 489 - Throughout the Old Covenant the mission of many holy women prepared for that of Mary. At the very beginning there was Eve; despite her disobedience, she receives the promise of a posterity that will be victorious over the evil one, as well as the promise that she will be the mother of all the living. By virtue of this promise, Sarah conceives a son in spite of her old age. Against all human expectation God chooses those who were considered powerless and weak to show forth his faithfulness to his promises: Hannah, the mother of Samuel; Deborah; Ruth; Judith and Esther; and many other women. Mary "stands out among the poor and humble of the Lord, who confidently hope for and receive salvation from him. After a long period of waiting the times are fulfilled in her, the exalted Daughter of Sion, and the new plan of salvation is established."

Answer 4

This coming Wednesday is a Holy day of obligation for the "Assumption of Mary"

I. Mary's Motherhood with regard to the Church.
Wholly united with her Son ...

" 963 Since the Virgin Mary's role in the mystery of Christ and the Spirit has been treated, it is fitting now to consider her place 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' . . . since she has by her charity joined in bringing about the birth of believers in the Church, who are members of its head." "Mary, Mother of Christ, Mother of the Church."

964 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"; 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."

965 After her Son's Ascension, Mary "aided the beginnings of the Church by her prayers." In her association with the apostles and several women, "we also see Mary by her prayers imploring the gift of the Spirit, who had already overshadowed her in the Annunciation."

... also in her Assumption

966 "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, so that she might be the more fully conformed to her Son, the Lord of lords and conqueror of sin and death." 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.

Answer 5

The Blessed Virgin Mary is important to Catholics because the Bible says she is important to God.

+ Mary is the handmaid of the Lord (Luke 1:38), a servant of God just like us.

+ Mary is the first Christian. All other Christians follow her on the road of faith. She is the model for all of us because she actively cooperated with the Will of God by saying "Yes" to God in the plan of salvation.

+ Mary is the model of faith. Mary's faith never wavered throughout Jesus' life, even while watching him die on the cross when most of the Apostles ran away.

+ Mary is full of grace. The angel Gabriel called her, "Full of grace" and said, "The Lord is with you." She is full of grace at that moment; the Lord is with her at that moment, before she says "yes" to the angel's question. Catholics believe the state of grace was with her since her Immaculate Conception. God prepared her for her later role as the mother of Jesus.

+ Mary is the mother of Jesus Christ, of God the Son.

+ Mary is a dwelling place of the Holy Spirit, a tabernacle. The angel Gabriel says to her, "The Holy Spirit will come upon you and the power of the Most High will cover you with its shadow." (Luke 1:35)

+ God praised Mary through His messenger, the angel Gabriel, "Rejoice, Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with you." If God and his angels praise Mary, shouldn't we?

+ Jesus honored Mary. Jesus kept the Commandments and did not sin. Jesus fulfilled the Commandment to honor both his father and his mother. WWJD? What would Jesus do? Jesus would and did honor Mary, his mother.

+ The Holy Spirit inspired praises of Mary. When Elizabeth heard Mary's greeting, the infant leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth, filled with the Holy Spirit,
cried out in a loud voice and said, "Most blessed are you among women," and "Blessed are you who believed that what was spoken to you by the Lord would be fulfilled." (Luke 1:41-45)

+ The Scriptures tell of Mary's place with Jesus. Mary gives birth to Jesus, presents him to the shepherds, to the wise men, to God in the Temple. She lived with him for many years in Nazareth, intercedes with Jesus in Cana, suffers with him at the foot of the Cross, and prays to him with the apostles in the Upper Room.

+ Mary was a prophet. "Behold, from now on will all ages call me blessed. The Mighty One has done great things for me." (Luke 48-49) As Christians who believe the Bible, we must call Mary "blessed."

+ Mary is our Mother too. While he was on the Cross, Jesus said to his beloved disciple (who represents all Christians), "this is your mother." (John 19:27)

The Blessed Virgin Mary is the blessed daughter of God the Father, mother of God the Son, and dwelling place of God the Holy Spirit.

For more information, see the Catechism of the Catholic Church, section 484 and following: http://www.nccbuscc.org/catechism/text/pt1sect2chpt2art3p2.htm

With love in Christ.

Answer 6

mary was chosen to be closer to god than any other human being who ever lived.

catholics worship only god (we use the greek word 'latria' to refer to to true worship), but we also honour and value all those who loved god most (the saints). (the term for this is 'dulia').

no one ever loved and honoured Our Lord more than His mother did, so we honour her more than any other human.