“The Monstrance of Our Lady of the Sign, Ark of Mercy” (photo below) is an icon receptacle that holds the Eucharist (the large white round wafer at the center of the monstrance) for Roman Catholics to worship.

The Monstrance of Our Lady of the Sign, Ark of Mercy
The 9 foot tall, 900 pound, gilt-wood monstrance is billed as the largest in the world. Stefan Niedorezo was commissioned to sculpt it according to the ‘Woman arrayed with the Sun’ from the Book of Revelation.
Niedorezo’s design has the Virgin Mary surrounded by rays and a crown of thorns, flanked by angels, and sitting on the Ark of the Covenant.
The monstrance belongs to St. Stanislaus Kostka Church/the Sanctuary of The Divine Mercy in Chicago, Illinois.
Consider for a moment what the Roman Catholic Church has done here.
For starters the monstrance suggests that the Roman Catholic Church has replaced Judaism’s sacred symbols and Israel in God’s plan.
Then as Revelation’s “Woman arrayed with the Sun,” Rome’s Mary has usurped and displaced Israel’s twelve tribes.
Her crown of thorns has usurped and displaced the Lord Jesus, and her sitting on the Mercy Seat atop the Ark of the Covenant between the Cherubim has usurped and displaced God.
“These two women ‘Mary and the Church’ carry on the hope that is Christ, they give us Christ, they bring forth Christ in us. Without Mary, there would be no Jesus Christ; without the Church, we cannot go forward.” Pope Francis, speaking to mark the occasion of the Feast of Our Lady of Sorrows in Casa Santa Marta
Mary is not the Queen of Heaven. She has no divine power. She neither hears nor answers prayers, and sends no grace. She does nothing.
The Monstrance of Our Lady of the Sign, Ark of Mercy steals glory from God the Father, from God the Son, and from God the Holy Spirit.
“I am the Lord: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.” Isaiah 42:8 KJV
Who do you think put the bible together? Who do you think said, “these books are inspired.” There were no protestants at the councils when the Catholic Church canonized the bible in the 300s. Misinformed protestants are blind guides leading the blind.
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Constantine’s church, the Roman Catholic Church, did not compile the Scripture. The OT was already compiled by Jews. Jesus often quoted from it. The NT was compiled by 1st Century believers as it was being written. Peter calls Paul’s writings Scripture in one of his letters. The RCC is the Whore of Babylon described by John in Revelation chapters 17 & 18, and she will be destroyed by fire when it’s time. The RCC does not follow Scripture; it follows pagan traditions and the writings of heretics and apostates. Popes, who claim to be vicars of Christ, are put in place of Christ on earth, which the Scripture calls an antichrist. Most Roman Catholics are scripturally illiterate, idol worshipping papists who are destined for the lake of fire, also mentioned in the book of Revelation. Roman Catholics pray, “Holy Mary, Mother of God”, which is utter blasphemy. God alone is Holy, and God has no mother. Mary was the mother of the God man Jesus, emphasis being upon the man part, not the God part. Sun, saints, and Mary worship were incorporated into the apostate church at Rome from Rome’s pagan, idolatrous religions. The papacy, the vestal virgins, the priesthood are all outside of Scripture and were incorporated from pagan religions into what became the Roman Catholic Church under Constantine in the 4th Century. The overwhelming majority of Roman Catholics do not worship the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and the Lord Jesus Christ; they worship Satan, the god of this world. Satan moved his seat from idol-worshipping Pergamos to idol-worshiping Rome and has been ruling the world from there since the 4th Century. I leave you to your god and your own devices. We’re done now.
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You are a typical protestant. Your father is the father of lies. Your father was the first protestant. The evil one who protested God in the beginning.
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I am a King James Version Bible-believing Christian, and I think all of Christendom has abandoned Scripture and is apostate. I am not protesting anything; I’m advocating the truth of Scripture, i.e., God’s written word. Jesus said God’s word s truth. God’s people love truth, and they are drawn to the truth of God’s word.
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