There is a blog I pop into occasionally because the writer sometimes has these great ideas about homemaking and keeping a good schedule, but she is totally anti-Catholic. So if I see she’s written another entry about how wrong Catholics are, I try to skip over it. A person can find “evidence” to back up any preconceived notion on every topic imaginable and this woman finds the meanest most backwards examples for her evidence against the Catholic Church. She’s not even remotely open to exploring voices from the “other side”. Dave once tried to engage her in a discussion via her comments on her blog, but she didn’t post the comment nor did she respond.
So anyway today’s anti-Catholic topic was “Mary worship”. ARGH! Again, with the Mary worship thing. I couldn’t help myself, instead of skipping the entry I skimmed it. But as I skimmed it, I had a thought. Instead of even trying to get a word in edgewise with this woman, because she is soooooooooo incredibly entrenched in her issue with Catholics, I decided to instead be a tiny, speck of light for the Catholic Church on the web. I can’t write as some great intellectual theologian & philosopher, but I can speak from personal experience. I’m not thinking of trying to “take on” this woman’s ideas and prove them wrong either because as I wrote earlier…a person can find “evidence” to back up any thought that pops into their head. I could say that evolution made zebra’s heads migrate to the other end of the animal and find evidence to back it up. So proving her “wrong” isn’t going to be my point. What I can do is write what Jesus’ mother, Mary, has meant to me since becoming a Catholic. And whenever I happen to notice another topic of anti-Catholicism out there…maybe I’ll write another little something.
Just as a quick note because I don’t have time right now to write on this Mary topic…it has meant so much to me to be able to send up a quick thank you or even request to those Saints (and saints) who have gone before me to be with our Lord. I am always sending up prayers of thanks and request to our Lord, but every once in a while I can to “talk” to other saints. Let them know what their life as an example of living for Christ has meant to me or to ask them to petition our Lord on my behalf for some thing or other.
Why doesn’t it make sense that we can commune with those who lived on Earth for Christ and who have gone before us to be with Him? I love the fact that I can send up a prayer to my recently deceased grandmother. I can tell her things going on with her family so she can petition Christ just as I can from here on Earth. Just the other day one of her sons (my uncle) had to have a major heart surgery. I “told” grandma about it so she could petition Christ at the same time I was praying for him. If even our unspoken prayers reach the ears of Christ, why can’t they reach the Saints (and saints) who lived for Christ and are now in Heaven with Him? Not to be redundant, but how awesome is it that when I pray I not only pray directly to Christ, but I can call upon others already in Heaven to petition our Lord too. Why wouldn’t a non-Catholic Christian love that idea too. Man, I am forever calling upon those that have passed on before me for things. If you know me, you are a Christian and you die before me…guess what…I’m so going to be calling upon you to take things to Christ for me. Who has a better chance for a direct audience with Christ than someone who has been invited into His House (aka Heaven)?