why do catholics pray to Mary ?

Question

the bible clearly states that when you pray if you ask the Father anything in JESUS name it will be yours. this question is just for information ( not hateration)

Answer 1

I don't know but I do know Jesus said He is the mediator. We are to come to Him in prayer.

Answer 2

Maurus has it right.

I wish non-Catholics would look up some words in the dictionary:

intercession
transmortification
accension

In the process, hunt down copies of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, the Catholic Canon Law, and the New Jerusalem Bible (not the King James).

In response to your personal email, Soulsista.
All of the other Christain faiths sprung from the Catholic Church. Every time one of these faiths broke away, they took away less and less of what the Church actually stood for. You can see this by way of the Lutherans, Episcopals, being "relatively" close to the Catholic Church, while Baptists and Methodists preach only what was written in the Bible, word for word.

Well, the Bible was compiled by the Catholics and is a part of the beliefs, traditions, and history of the church. All of which is designed to spread Christainity and teach people the word of God. It's a shame that faiths that break away feel only a portion of that is important.

I mean sure. It is perfectly understandable that King James had to copy the Bible and put his name on it and create his own religion just so he could start a downward trend of family values and destroy the sactity of Marraige, so he would feel justified in having a divorce. But I guess he got lazy when it came down to copying the Order of the Mass, etc...

Answer 3

Well, I'm glad someone put up this question.
Well let's see.
1. Mary was a human...she was not a virgin after she made Jesus born. In fact she made more than one kids after Jesus.
2. There is no Scripture about Mary being brought to Heaven while she was alive...she prolly died...she went to Heaven but she was not brought to Heaven while she was alive
3. The Bible clearly states that Jesus is our only intercessor "For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; "
Some say we pray to Jesus through Mary...if you need to pray to Jesus through a human, then you're in trouble my friend....we pray to Jesus through the Holy Spirit...it helps us to pray.
4. Some say Mary is the queen of the Heaven...well, I hvae something for ya: "The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger" Well, well well.....here's your queen.
5. If Mary is as important as Jesus....then how come there are simply no teachings from her in the Gospels, no mentionings from the apostles in their letters...hm? If she's as important as Jesus, how come we don't get any teachings from her....she's not even mentioned by the apostles...

And really I don't hate catholics...they are me brothers but I just can't go with this, cuz the bible prooves everything.
God Bless y'all

Edit - Forgot something.....why would you ask a dead human to pray for you in Heaven, while the Lord Jesus is praying for us....hm? Doesn't make sense...We have one mediator: Jesus.....

Answer 4

Let's look at the prayer, shall we?

Hail Mary, full of grace
The Lord is with you
Blessed are you among women
and blessed is the fruit of your womb, Jesus.

Holy Mary, Mother of God
Pray for us sinners,
Now and at the hour of our death,
Amen,

Now, the first part of this prayer is purely biblical -- being a direct quote from the Gospels. Even the strictest protestant would be hard put to find anything objectionable in that, unless, of course, you deny that all these words were addressed to Mary!

The second part is a request that Mary pray for the person making the prayer.

Now, since protestants ask others to pray for them, how is that fundamentally different from asking Mary to pray for you? Either we can pray for others, or we cannot; if we can, then we can ask anyone to pray for us, Mary included.

Remember that, by definition, the Church includes both those who are living, and those who have died in Christ. Since Mary was a witness to the Ministry of Jesus, to his death, and his Resurrection, it is presumed that she is part of the Church. Therefore, her prayers must be as worthwhile as the prayers as any other Christian,

Answer 5

Mary is the mother of Jesus, the mother of everyone. She is the virgin mary, the most pure woman to ever live. We pray to her just like we pray to Jesus!

Answer 6

Catholics and many other Christians believe in the Communion of Saints where all saints are intimately related in the Body of Christ, a family. When you die and go to heaven, you do not leave this family.

Everyone in heaven or on their way to heaven are saints. You, me, my deceased grandmother, Mary the mother of Jesus, and Mother Teresa.

As part of this family, you may ask your family and friends here on earth to pray for you. Or you may also ask the Blessed Virgin Mary, Saint Andrew, or your deceased grandmother in heaven to pray for you.

With love and prayers in Christ.

Answer 7

Do you ask your family and friends to pray for you? We ask the same of Mary and the Saints.

Answer 8

paganism. The ancient Egyptian used to pray to Isis and the Romans stole this concept amongst others. That is why orthodox Christians including the pope worship the black madonna.

Answer 9

We pray to Jesus THROUGH Mary...Not to Mary

Answer 10

We don't pray to Mary. We ask her to pray for us. There's a difference.

If you ask your friends to pray for you, it doesn't mean that you are praying to your friends.

It works the same with Catholics and Mary.

Answer 11

because they think that mary being Jesus mother will ask her son for them.I'm an ex-catholic I used to believe in what the roman catholic church teaches and roman catholic catechism untill I read the Bible myself and compared it to cathechism.