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Mary Fights Back · Nov 22, 07:18 PM

In his vision of 1208, St. Dominic records The Fifteen Promises of Mary to Christians Who Recite the Rosary, including a promise that

“The rosary shall be a powerful armor against hell, it will destroy vice, decrease sin, and defeat heresies.”

In case you’ve forgotten, or never learned: How to Pray the Rosary, if you are so inclined. Joe Convert says it well:

There’s no way to talk about the Rosary without making any good Protestant more than a little uncomfortable. The Church’s teaching about Mary was one of the hardest things for me to understand, let alone accept or embrace. Even after reaching the point where I was convinced of the Church’s historical claims (and therefore of my need to become Catholic), I wrestled with what my Protestant perspective told me were additions to scripture. [ permalink ]

The permalink is broken; scroll down to his October 16th post. Anyhow, I was delightedly amused when I ran across the following captioned image:
mary_exterminatrix.png
[ A Saintly Salmagundi ]

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  1. "14. All who recite the Rosary are my son and brothers of my only son, Jesus Christ."
    Um, last time I checked, Yeshua had brothers (and sisters)...
    — Katie    Nov 22, 07:35 PM    #

  2. I belive it the opinion of the the Catholic church that the siblings listed in the Bible are cousins; I just stumbled across this fact while researching the Maronites, and wouldn't have known it otherwise.

    ...er, I mean: Begone, foul deconstructive texual analysist!
    — Tom    Nov 23, 07:54 PM    #