I took these thoughts to prayer that night and for the first time asked God what he thought about Mary. The phrases that came to my heart were these: “She’s my beloved daughter”, “my faithful child”, “my beautiful vessel”, and “my ark of the covenant bearing Jesus to the world”. I could not figure out why it was that it seemed to be that Catholics worshiped Mary, even though I knew worship of Mary was clearly condemned by the Church. Then I got an insight: Protestants defined worship as songs, prayers
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