Burning Incense to the Queen of Heaven

cjab

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"Monastery Incense Queen of Heaven"

The Jews also did this. But then the Jews left off burning incense to the Queen of Heaven, and the result was "consumption" by the sword and by the famine." Is this what Catholics fear if they desist?

"Jer 44:18 "But since we left off to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, we have wanted all things, and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine."

And what was his reply?

Jer 44:21 "The incense that ye burned in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, ye, and your fathers, your kings, and your princes, and the people of the land, did not the LORD remember them, and came it not into his mind?
Jer 44:22 "So that the LORD could no longer bear, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the abominations which ye have committed; therefore is your land a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without an inhabitant, as at this day.
Jer 44:23 "Because ye have burned incense, and because ye have sinned against the LORD, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD, nor walked in his law, nor in his statutes, nor in his testimonies; therefore this evil is happened unto you, as at this day."

Who is this Queen of Heaven? A Queen in name or a Queen in fact?"

Surprisingly, she is a real Queen. She is the intercessor that "we may be brought to the glory of the resurrection, through Christ our Lord, Amen."

From a Mass for the Feast of the Assumption (of our Lady) / Bishop of Salford - John Arnold 17/08/2021, Liverpool Cathedral.
Bishop: "Having received the sacrement of salvation, we ask you to grant O Lord that through the intercession of the blessed virgin Mary, we may be brought to the glory of the resurrection, through Christ our Lord, Amen."

Note how this Queen must intercede with Christ (or the Father), that "we" may be resurrected.

Where is this found in the bible? Only in Jeremiah. It is the theology of man: an invention. The very idea of the Queen of Heaven, which the Jews burned incense to, and whom was Inanna, which means "Queen of Heaven," even the one whose intercession rescued Dumuzid from the underworld, is a pagan concept. A superstition.
 
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