Mary and the Saints-Session IV

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In the previous weeks, we’ve discussed the Trinity. We’ve touched on the following statements.  
1. The Dogma of the Church (Dogma means a truth revealed by God) 
2. It is the core belief of all Christians 
3. There are three unique Divine Persons in One God 
  • Father 
  • Son  
  • Holy Spirit 
This week’s session was on the topic of “Mary & Saints” which can be found in the U.S. Catholic Catechism for Adults, chapter 12.   I’ve included the PowerPoint presentation in this blog including some of my notes.  Click Here.  
Next week’s reading assignment will be on the Four Marks of the Church (chapter 11) and the Resurrection of the body (chapter 13). Please read chapter 11 ONLY.  
I’ve already touch on a few points on the resurrection of the body during this week’s session and I will continue next week.  
Also, here is a copy of the Updated Calendar. There will be a couple of Wednesdays during December where we will start at 6 pm.  
Here is Bishop Barron’s YouTube “Bishop Barron on Satellites and Praying to the Saints” on a separate post. 





Final Thoughts on Mary: 

I would also like to mention that among many titles of Mary, our heavenly Mother is the Queen of All Saints. As stated in Pope Pius XII Encyclical AD CAELI REGINAM, On the Queenship of Mary: 
42. Besides, the Blessed Virgin possessed, after Christ, not only the highest degree of excellence and perfection, but also a share in that influence by which He, her Son and our Redeemer, is rightly said to reign over the minds and wills of men. For if through His Humanity the divine Word performs miracles and gives graces, if He uses His Sacraments and Saints as instruments for the salvation of men, why should He not make use of the role and work of His most holy Mother in imparting to us the fruits of redemption? "With a heart that is truly a mother's," to quote again Our Predecessor of immortal memory, Pius IX, "does she approach the problem of our salvation, and is solicitous for the whole human race; made Queen of heaven and earth by the Lord, exalted above all choirs of angels and saints, and standing at the right hand of her only [55a] Son, Jesus Christ our Lord, she intercedes powerfully for us with a mother's prayers, obtains what she seeks, and cannot be refused."[56] On this point another of Our Predecessors of happy memory, Leo XIII, has said that an "almost immeasurable" power has been given Mary in the distribution of graces;[57] St. Pius X adds that she fills this office "as by the right of a mother."[58] 

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