Renewing Our Faith

Renewing our faith is not about converting others it is about learning the theology and dogma that underpin our Catholic beliefs.  

Saturday, May 15

Protestants and Our Lady

A Protestant convert Scot Montgomery, as a guest columnist for The Remnant, has written a hard hitting article on the unlikelihood of Protestants accepting Our Lady.
I was particularly interested in this article as I had occasion to remonstrate with a Catholic friend who had been 'protestantised' to the extent that she would not longer pray to Our Lady.   Ending my argument with this friend I recall saying; "I only know that Satan hates Her"  I could see it had a profound effect on her and she later acquired a statue of Our Lady and began praying the Rosary.
Scott Montgomery explains: "If the time ever comes when the Protestant cleric begins to seriously consider that he is wrong, he is not going to seek the truth by engaging in endless public dialogue.  Rather, like Cardinal Newman, he is going to lock himself away in his study and very privately and prayerfully begin to work out his salvation.  This will allow the Holy Ghost to bring about a sincere change of heart and set the stage for a complete return to the Catholic Faith."
Scott  completes his article with a couple of passages from Saint Louis Marie Grignion De Montfort's book, "The Necessity of the Blessed Virgin"
Scott Montgomery must have had a very powerful conversion - obviously a prayerful one.  A little piece from the heart of De Montfort:
"Inasmuch as grace perfects nature, and glory perfects grace, it is certain that our Lord is still, in Heaven, as much the Son of Mary as He was on earth; and that, consequently, He has retained the obedience and submission of the most perfect Child toward the best of all mothers.  But we must take great pains not to conceive this dependance as any abasement or imperfection in Jesus Christ.  For Mary is infinitely below her Son, who is God, and therefore she does not command Him as a mother here below would command her child who is below her....she asks nothing, wishes nothing, does nothing contrary to the eternal and immutable will of God...."
http://www.remnantnewspaper.com/
 

2 comments:

  1. Very interesting and insightful.

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  2. Ironically Luther even accepted the Immaculate Conception! How far they have fallen...

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