Whether you're Roman Catholic Christian, Anglican/Episcopalian, Eastern Orthodox Christian, don't be afraid to pray to the Virgin Mary for her Divine intercession.
This is the clearest and most profound explanation of why we say the Hail Mary - even though I was baptized & raised Catholic, it was not really taught in this manner, with the cross-references to Genesis & the miracle at the wedding feast. Thank you for this beautiful explanation.
This wonderful sermon on Mary by this Episcopalian pastor proves that Mary need not be a wall between Catholics and Protestants, if only we follow the scriptures faithfully. Devotion to Mary is entirely scriptural. Praise be to God.
Preach man!!! As a Catholic who has walked to Yeshua holding Mother Mary's hand, I am blown away at hearing a protestant pastor for the first time in my life explain the Theotokos role in our spiritual life. Amen , Amen, Praise be Yeshua ha Meshia, Glory to Mary Mother of God.
Anglicanism/Episcopalianism quite unique in that it often considers itself "Catholic, yet Reformed," meaning it holds dear the apostolic legacy of the holy, catholic Church yet also believes in the importance of using scripture, tradition, and reason to establish right belief. While early Anglicanism was influenced by Lutheranism, Calvinism, Zwinglism, etc., there was also always a Catholic dimension, and later Catholic revivals breathed new life to these traditions. So, you get some Anglicans/Episcopalians who see themselves as Protestants, some as both Catholic and Protestant, and others who call themselves Anglo-Catholics (as opposed to Roman Catholics). We often have more in common than we think!
Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with you. Blessed are you among woman and blessed is the fruit of your womb, Jesus. *Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now and the hour of our death. Amen.*
I am a Catholic who went to a university run by the Anglicans and Episcopalian Protestants. I observed their church rituals and beliefs, gained lots of Anglican friends, and talked to some Episcopalian priests and priestesses....one thing in common for us, we have a loving and deep devotion to the Virgin Mary.Their devotions are very scriptural like this video, mine is both scriptural and traditional since i was raised as a Catholic. Mary's role for Christianity even in Islam (Mirriam) will change the world today, only if people will enlighten their minds to her.
svr 2018 marry was the mother of Jesus nothing more nothing less you need to repaint and pray to Jesus and he alone can forgive your sin praying to marry is wrong she’s dead she’s not going to hear you pray and hopefully she lived a life without sin and is now in heathen. 🙏
@@nanafosu5769 Mary is like the radiant moon: she draws her light from the sun (Christ). We honor her "yes" to God because she shows how to be the first and greatest Christian. She leads believers closer to Christ, just as all holy lives do.
Wow! Thank you for posting this! Mary means so much to me, but being an Episcopalian I didn’t know what role she had in our church as she is not as visible as she is in the Catholic Church. I’m so excited and moved to see that she is celebrated and honored in the church. Blessings!
the one thing i’ve found about tec despite the vast diversity of polities and theologies pretty much every parish at the very least recognize and celebrate the saints and apostles as earthly examples that god anointed for us to live up to. my parish in particular (st mary’s asheville, nc) regularly invokes mary during worship and one of our gathering spaces has a beautiful portrait of mary looking very priestly and it always reminds me of how important mary is and how important women are to the church.
....if it is possible-try and attend an Anglo-Catholic church ⛪️ (if you haven’t already)...Really brings the Anglican Church to life as we connect with our deep Catholic roots (incense, Marian worship, etc.)...Pax Christ,
This was wonderful, and is the clearest, most comprehensive, and most articulate explanation of Mary's role, and her significance, that I've ever heard anyone give! Thanks so much for this!!
Thank you so very much for this sermon! A friend who is Episcopalian told me Mary is just a vessel chosen by God, as a Catholic I know she is so much more. Thank you for such a wonderful gift to share with my friend in faith. God Bless you!
Very nice. Raised evangelical, I was taught that prayers to saints were idolatrous. In reality, they are premised upon a belief that most Christians share: the Church is one Body, a mystical communion cross-cutting heaven and earth. Few Christians hesitate to ask friends for prayers. What, then, should forbid them from invoking the Virgin, martyrs, angels, and saints before God? It's an ancient practice with deep biblical and popular roots.
Many Episcopalians consider themselves "Catholic but Reformed," meaning they emphasize the apostolic and ancient traditions of the Church but disagree with later Roman innovations, like papal infallibility, instead giving the bishop of Rome primary of honor rather than authority. So yes, quite close! But Episcopalians also place importance on scripture, reason, and tradition too.
As a practicing Catholic who also attends Anglican masses I was worried you would speak ill against The Mother of God whom the Roman church has declared Immaculate and bodily assumed into heaven. Instead you gave a wonderful talk. which should be shared with all Catholics Both Roman and Anglican as well as the entire Protestant church. We say in the Roman Church "all reverence to Mary is adoration to God"
Can anybody tell me if the episcopal church in the U.S has a archbishop for the U.S? (like Church of England has the archbishop in Canterbury?) and if they inherited some saints ? the C of E took over some of their former catholic habits. I wonder if the Episcopal carried those traditions.(P.S just curious. Not want to argue about ..whatever ;)
Spiritfull Anarchist We (The Episcopal Church) have a Presiding Bishop. From 1795 the position was one of seniority (most “time in grade”) so one who had been ordained the longest held the office. Starting in 1926, the office became elective, the Presiding Bishop being chosen at General Convention by vote by all bishops, and approved by the House of Deputies. The office now has a nine-year term. Since 1938 the Presiding Bishop has been required to resign his or her former diocese after accepting election. Yes we do have saints - many
we call ourselves episcopal because we have a full episcopate: priests are directly beholden to his or her diocesan bishops (each; many diocese also have an assistant bishop) who are directly beholden to the bishop of his or her particular state who are directly beholden to the presiding archbishop of the episcopal church. while tec doesn’t canonize many people and don’t have a formalized beatification process like the rcc it does have a calendar of saints and feats for them. two of my favorites are st jonathan myrick daniels who was martyred while fighting for civil rights and st wilgefortis, my patron. episcopalchurch.org/lectionary-calendar
We pray to Mary because as Genesis 3:15 says I will make you and the woman hate each other; her offspring and yours will always be enemies. Her offspring will crush your head, and you will bite her offspring's heel." John 19:25-27 Standing close to Jesus' cross were his mother, his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. 26 Jesus saw his mother and the disciple he loved standing there; so he said to his mother, "He is your son." 27 Then he said to the disciple, "She is your mother." From that time the disciple took her to live in his home. John 2:48-51 His parents were astonished when they saw him, his mother said to him, "Son, why have you done this to us? Your mother and father have been terribly worried trying to find you." 49 He answered them, "Why did you have to look for me? Didn't you know that I had to be in my Father's house?" 50 But they did not understand his answer. 51 So Jesus went back with them to Nazareth, where he was obedient to them. His mother treasured all these things in her heart. 52 Jesus grew both in body and in wisdom, gaining favor with God and people. Luke 23:55 The women who had followed Jesus from Galilee went with Joseph and saw the tomb and how Jesus' body was placed in it. 56 Then they went back home and prepared the spices and perfumes for the body. Luke 23:48 When the people who had gathered there to watch the spectacle saw what happened, they all went back home, beating their breasts in sorrows. 49All those who knew Jesus personally including the women who had followed him from Galilee, stood at a distance to watch. Luke 24: 1-8 The Resurrection *** So, we know Jesus' mother followed Him up to His death. Up to His resurrection, she was there serving him. So, Mary as our mother also as said to her and to John, his disciple by Jesus, she will also serve and guide us. She will never abandon us as her children. So, we must respect her as what is in the ten commandments.
So you don't ask your Christian friends to pray for you? All intercession is through Christ. There is no contradiction between asking Mary to pray for us and believing that Christ is the ultimate mediator. She is not a replacement mediator anymore than your friend praying for you is. The only difference is that she stands before God and Christ, connected to all the faithful.
If you pray to Mary, she will definitely, without reserve, lead you to the Catholic Church which just happens to be the bride of her son. So watch out.
Joseph Casley she is the mother of all Christians. Jesus consecrated her to us. *_John _**_19:27_* Hell cant hear her name because the enemy doenst likes her. The more you call her, the less the enemy comes to your mind.
Not necessarily. Asking Mary to pray for us transcends any religious boundaries. As a former pentecostal with a lutheran mother, I don't see anything wrong with showing respect to the mother of our Lord Jesus. It's beyond any religious affiliation.
"Church behold the queen mom" Your message was so insightful yet your conclusion so flawed. To believe she stands to make intercession for us in this day. I can even believe there is some connection to the new heaven and earth as well as the heavenly court and kingdom so to speak. He speaks to her as woman coming from the position of God. He gives her the title of mother in connection to another human and not himself in position as God. Never ignore that while incredibly blessed and full of grace. Mary is still a human and a dead human at that. She is not ommipresent or omniscient to be hearing the prayers of millions of misguided people asking her to intercede. Pray to God and God alone. While i hear you say no one prays to Mary, perhaps you in all your study and strength of faith are able to make a clear distinction, but let me tell you millions of people pray to Mary and worse still venerate her to the point of worship because teachings like this to those not strong enough in the faith will be used by Satan to mislead the church.
I understand you. But think this. The land were Christ lived, preached, died and resurrected is called the Holy Land. If God was to choose the mother of his Son, he wouldnt have chosen any women. He stated on Isaiah that a virgin woman was to give birth to Emmanuel, "God with us". If Mary wasnt special, she wouldnt have been inspired by the Holy Spirit to be the one who asked Christ to do his first miracle. Mary is no goddess, but she deserves the honor of being a messenger of her Son. She does not replace Christ, she serves Him.
When Christ says, "Woman, behold your son" and "Son, behold your mother," he is entrusting Christians to her care. After all, Christians are called to union with Christ, making Mary our Mother too. We can be confident she is before God, and that the Church remains One in heaven and on earth. I would say that there is no way to invoke Mary without also honoring Christ: after all, she is like the moon, filled with radiance that comes from the still more radiant "sun" (Son).
Whether you're Roman Catholic Christian, Anglican/Episcopalian, Eastern Orthodox Christian, don't be afraid to pray to the Virgin Mary for her Divine intercession.
Don’t forget Oriental Orthodox.
Amen brother!
Lutherans too have their own version of the rosary plus the magnificat prayer of Mary.
This is the clearest and most profound explanation of why we say the Hail Mary - even though I was baptized & raised Catholic, it was not really taught in this manner, with the cross-references to Genesis & the miracle at the wedding feast. Thank you for this beautiful explanation.
As a protestant, I've never understood the Mary thing. This was quite helpful; it makes sense now.
This wonderful sermon on Mary by this Episcopalian pastor proves that Mary need not be a wall between Catholics and Protestants, if only we follow the scriptures faithfully. Devotion to Mary is entirely scriptural. Praise be to God.
Preach man!!! As a Catholic who has walked to Yeshua holding Mother Mary's hand, I am blown away at hearing a protestant pastor for the first time in my life explain the Theotokos role in our spiritual life. Amen , Amen, Praise be Yeshua ha Meshia, Glory to Mary Mother of God.
Anglicanism/Episcopalianism quite unique in that it often considers itself "Catholic, yet Reformed," meaning it holds dear the apostolic legacy of the holy, catholic Church yet also believes in the importance of using scripture, tradition, and reason to establish right belief. While early Anglicanism was influenced by Lutheranism, Calvinism, Zwinglism, etc., there was also always a Catholic dimension, and later Catholic revivals breathed new life to these traditions. So, you get some Anglicans/Episcopalians who see themselves as Protestants, some as both Catholic and Protestant, and others who call themselves Anglo-Catholics (as opposed to Roman Catholics). We often have more in common than we think!
Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with you. Blessed are you among woman and blessed is the fruit of your womb, Jesus.
*Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now and the hour of our death. Amen.*
One of the best sermons I’ve ever heard
I am a Catholic who went to a university run by the Anglicans and Episcopalian Protestants. I observed their church rituals and beliefs, gained lots of Anglican friends, and talked to some Episcopalian priests and priestesses....one thing in common for us, we have a loving and deep devotion to the Virgin Mary.Their devotions are very scriptural like this video, mine is both scriptural and traditional since i was raised as a Catholic.
Mary's role for Christianity even in Islam (Mirriam) will change the world today, only if people will enlighten their minds to her.
Focus on Jesus... He is the way to God ..No other way... No other option
svr 2018 marry was the mother of Jesus nothing more nothing less you need to repaint and pray to Jesus and he alone can forgive your sin praying to marry is wrong she’s dead she’s not going to hear you pray and hopefully she lived a life without sin and is now in heathen. 🙏
@@nanafosu5769 Mary is like the radiant moon: she draws her light from the sun (Christ). We honor her "yes" to God because she shows how to be the first and greatest Christian. She leads believers closer to Christ, just as all holy lives do.
Wow! Thank you for posting this! Mary means so much to me, but being an Episcopalian I didn’t know what role she had in our church as she is not as visible as she is in the Catholic Church. I’m so excited and moved to see that she is celebrated and honored in the church. Blessings!
the one thing i’ve found about tec despite the vast diversity of polities and theologies pretty much every parish at the very least recognize and celebrate the saints and apostles as earthly examples that god anointed for us to live up to. my parish in particular (st mary’s asheville, nc) regularly invokes mary during worship and one of our gathering spaces has a beautiful portrait of mary looking very priestly and it always reminds me of how important mary is and how important women are to the church.
He’s spot on. Have you seen the lady of Guadalupe story? The tilma preserved in a church in Mexico today.
....if it is possible-try and attend an Anglo-Catholic church ⛪️ (if you haven’t already)...Really brings the Anglican Church to life as we connect with our deep Catholic roots (incense, Marian worship, etc.)...Pax Christ,
This was wonderful, and is the clearest, most comprehensive, and most articulate explanation of Mary's role, and her significance, that I've ever heard anyone give! Thanks so much for this!!
Pray for us, Holy Mother of God!
Thank you so very much for this sermon! A friend who is Episcopalian told me Mary is just a vessel chosen by God, as a Catholic I know she is so much more. Thank you for such a wonderful gift to share with my friend in faith. God Bless you!
Your friend may be broad- or low-church Episcopalian. Some Episcopalians share beliefs much closer to Catholicism and Orthodoxy in Mary's status.
Very nice. Raised evangelical, I was taught that prayers to saints were idolatrous. In reality, they are premised upon a belief that most Christians share: the Church is one Body, a mystical communion cross-cutting heaven and earth. Few Christians hesitate to ask friends for prayers. What, then, should forbid them from invoking the Virgin, martyrs, angels, and saints before God? It's an ancient practice with deep biblical and popular roots.
Thank Father for given Our Mother Mary Her place, where She Belongs. God Blesses Al. Dios nos Bendicen. Amén
Wow! Thank you. I have never heard an explanation so beautiful.
Thanks for this wonderful sermon on Mary.
Good to see some Anglicans who hold to the doctrines of the church fathers.
Dylan Williams I couldn't agree more.
Wonderful... This is true Anglican faith.
Wonderful, Amen!
Excellent sermon on our Lady!
Lutherans agree with the priest in the video and why we are in full communion with Episcopalians/ Anglicans
Lutheran and Episcopalians are much more closer to Catholics than most of the newer modern day Protestant churches
Beautiful!!!💖
If he was a baseball player - he busted a lot of windshields in the parking lot that game right there !
Beautiful !!!
Wow I didnt know how close episcopalian were to catholicism.
Many Episcopalians consider themselves "Catholic but Reformed," meaning they emphasize the apostolic and ancient traditions of the Church but disagree with later Roman innovations, like papal infallibility, instead giving the bishop of Rome primary of honor rather than authority. So yes, quite close! But Episcopalians also place importance on scripture, reason, and tradition too.
What is the name of this pastor?
wonderful.
As a practicing Catholic who also attends Anglican masses I was worried you would speak ill against The Mother of God whom the Roman church has declared Immaculate and bodily assumed into heaven. Instead you gave a wonderful talk. which should be shared with all Catholics Both Roman and Anglican as well as the entire Protestant church. We say in the Roman Church "all reverence to Mary is adoration to God"
Amen
How can we be as tolerant as our faith
Well said.
Cool sermon
Can anybody tell me if the episcopal church in the U.S has a archbishop for the U.S? (like Church of England has the archbishop in Canterbury?) and if they inherited some saints ? the C of E took over some of their former catholic habits. I wonder if the Episcopal carried those traditions.(P.S just curious. Not want to argue about ..whatever ;)
Spiritfull Anarchist
We (The Episcopal Church) have a Presiding Bishop. From 1795 the position was one of seniority (most “time in grade”) so one who had been ordained the longest held the office. Starting in 1926, the office became elective, the Presiding Bishop being chosen at General Convention by vote by all bishops, and approved by the House of Deputies. The office now has a nine-year term. Since 1938 the Presiding Bishop has been required to resign his or her former diocese after accepting election.
Yes we do have saints - many
we call ourselves episcopal because we have a full episcopate: priests are directly beholden to his or her diocesan bishops (each; many diocese also have an assistant bishop) who are directly beholden to the bishop of his or her particular state who are directly beholden to the presiding archbishop of the episcopal church.
while tec doesn’t canonize many people and don’t have a formalized beatification process like the rcc it does have a calendar of saints and feats for them. two of my favorites are st jonathan myrick daniels who was martyred while fighting for civil rights and st wilgefortis, my patron. episcopalchurch.org/lectionary-calendar
I have never seen Marian piety among most Episcopalians. Just among the very small Anglo Catholic wing of the Church
We pray to Mary because as Genesis 3:15 says I will make you and the woman hate each other; her offspring and yours will always be enemies. Her offspring will crush your head, and you will bite her offspring's heel."
John 19:25-27 Standing close to Jesus' cross were his mother, his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. 26 Jesus saw his mother and the disciple he loved standing there; so he said to his mother, "He is your son."
27 Then he said to the disciple, "She is your mother." From that time the disciple took her to live in his home.
John 2:48-51 His parents were astonished when they saw him, his mother said to him, "Son, why have you done this to us? Your mother and father have been terribly worried trying to find you."
49 He answered them, "Why did you have to look for me? Didn't you know that I had to be in my Father's house?" 50 But they did not understand his answer.
51 So Jesus went back with them to Nazareth, where he was obedient to them. His mother treasured all these things in her heart. 52 Jesus grew both in body and in wisdom, gaining favor with God and people.
Luke 23:55 The women who had followed Jesus from Galilee went with Joseph and saw the tomb and how Jesus' body was placed in it. 56 Then they went back home and prepared the spices and perfumes for the body.
Luke 23:48 When the people who had gathered there to watch the spectacle saw what happened, they all went back home, beating their breasts in sorrows.
49All those who knew Jesus personally including the women who had followed him from Galilee, stood at a distance to watch.
Luke 24: 1-8 The Resurrection
*** So, we know Jesus' mother followed Him up to His death. Up to His resurrection, she was there serving him. So, Mary as our mother also as said to her and to John, his disciple by Jesus, she will also serve and guide us. She will never abandon us as her children. So, we must respect her as what is in the ten commandments.
1 timothy 2:5
So you don't ask your Christian friends to pray for you? All intercession is through Christ. There is no contradiction between asking Mary to pray for us and believing that Christ is the ultimate mediator. She is not a replacement mediator anymore than your friend praying for you is. The only difference is that she stands before God and Christ, connected to all the faithful.
If you pray to Mary, she will definitely, without reserve, lead you to the Catholic Church which just happens to be the bride of her son. So watch out.
Joseph Casley she is the mother of all Christians. Jesus consecrated her to us. *_John _**_19:27_*
Hell cant hear her name because the enemy doenst likes her. The more you call her, the less the enemy comes to your mind.
And the Bride is the Church, all churches included. Not just the Roman Church.
If that was true every Orthodox would be Papal
Not necessarily. Asking Mary to pray for us transcends any religious boundaries. As a former pentecostal with a lutheran mother, I don't see anything wrong with showing respect to the mother of our Lord Jesus. It's beyond any religious affiliation.
"Church behold the queen mom"
Your message was so insightful yet your conclusion so flawed.
To believe she stands to make intercession for us in this day. I can even believe there is some connection to the new heaven and earth as well as the heavenly court and kingdom so to speak.
He speaks to her as woman coming from the position of God. He gives her the title of mother in connection to another human and not himself in position as God.
Never ignore that while incredibly blessed and full of grace. Mary is still a human and a dead human at that. She is not ommipresent or omniscient to be hearing the prayers of millions of misguided people asking her to intercede.
Pray to God and God alone. While i hear you say no one prays to Mary, perhaps you in all your study and strength of faith are able to make a clear distinction, but let me tell you millions of people pray to Mary and worse still venerate her to the point of worship because teachings like this to those not strong enough in the faith will be used by Satan to mislead the church.
I understand you. But think this. The land were Christ lived, preached, died and resurrected is called the Holy Land. If God was to choose the mother of his Son, he wouldnt have chosen any women. He stated on Isaiah that a virgin woman was to give birth to Emmanuel, "God with us". If Mary wasnt special, she wouldnt have been inspired by the Holy Spirit to be the one who asked Christ to do his first miracle. Mary is no goddess, but she deserves the honor of being a messenger of her Son. She does not replace Christ, she serves Him.
Revelations 12 moron. Mary is QUEEN OF HEAVEN. We are her children. Get over it.
When Christ says, "Woman, behold your son" and "Son, behold your mother," he is entrusting Christians to her care. After all, Christians are called to union with Christ, making Mary our Mother too. We can be confident she is before God, and that the Church remains One in heaven and on earth. I would say that there is no way to invoke Mary without also honoring Christ: after all, she is like the moon, filled with radiance that comes from the still more radiant "sun" (Son).