{"id":65060,"date":"2019-08-24T07:00:11","date_gmt":"2019-08-24T14:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=65060"},"modified":"2019-08-15T16:18:12","modified_gmt":"2019-08-15T23:18:12","slug":"worship-mary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2019\/08\/24\/worship-mary\/","title":{"rendered":"Worship Mary?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"660\" height=\"689\" src=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Worship-Mary.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-71828\" srcset=\"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Worship-Mary.jpg 660w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Worship-Mary-287x300.jpg 287w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Worship-Mary-600x626.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I saw in a Facebook discussion group a little while ago a  Protestant post the above picture as definitive proof that Catholics worship Mary. The problem is that &#8220;worship&#8221; here doesn&#8217;t mean the kind of worship you give to God. Even today in the Church of England wedding vows, husband and wife will say &#8220;&#8230;with my body, I thee worship&#8230;&#8221;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking personally, I don&#8217;t like this elaborate poetic language in Marian devotion for just this reason &#8211; it&#8217;s too easy for non-Catholics to misunderstand what we believe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw in a Facebook discussion group a little while ago a Protestant post the above picture as definitive proof that Catholics worship Mary. The problem is that &#8220;worship&#8221; here doesn&#8217;t mean the kind of worship you give to God. Even today in the Church of England wedding vows, husband and wife will say &#8220;&#8230;with my body, I thee worship&#8230;&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[2640,220],"class_list":["post-65060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","tag-mary","tag-worship"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65060"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73199,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65060\/revisions\/73199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}