the dead cant pray for you. then why do catholic pray to mary?

Question

why do catholic pray to mary . the bible says that she had more childern , and is she in heaven body and soul ?

Answer 1

The Catholic church is still plagued by pagan influence. Mary is just the embdiment of the goddesses Diana, Ishtar, etc renamed

Answer 2

I don't know if you are really looking for a true answer or not....
but you have a lot of negative fault-finding answers from people who don't know what they are talking about.

If you believe the dead cannot pray for you, and do not believe that your grandparents or other loved ones who have died, could have gone to heaven and still be able to communicate with you, then perhaps it is not possible to explain this to you.

Religious people do believe that their loved ones can pray for them, are with God, and that they will some day join them.

Mary, the mother of Jesus, is a special saint in the Christian faith. She was totally human, and yet we know she is with God, and cares deeply for humanity. We Catholics believe that Mary wants us to keep praying TO GOD, and that Mary intercedes for us when we do, in much the same way as our deceased relatives would try to help us when we ask them to.

Catholics don't pray TO Mary... they ask her to pray FOR THEM.

Answer 3

Mary had other children, but my catholic ex- sister-in-law fell on the floor screaming to god for forgiveness when I told her that Mary wasn't an ETERNAL virgin. Whatever. No, Mary, the earthly mother of Jesus is Not in heaven, as despite Catholic teachings, not all good people go to heaven. In fact, no one goes to heaven when they die. When people die, they are dead and thus conscious of nothing until the resurrection. Why would God tell people to go to Heaven or Hell and then have another time of resurrection to do it all over again?

Catholics have other, differing religious viewpoints you might find interesting....
Why also do the catholics split the 'honor your father and mother' commandment out and make it into TWO commandments so that the one of ' you should not worship any images' is taken OUT of the 10 commandments? That is so that they can have all of their IDOLS in their churches ; Mary... saints... and all that. Catholicism is only very LOOSELY based on Christianity, but during the centuries after Christ's death, as the church went seeking for converts to the faith, it made compromises so that pagan believers would accept their teaches and thus many beliefs of pagan origin were brought into the catholic faith that have ABSOLUTELY NO BIBLE BASIS. Such as ; HELLFIRE,( not a biblical teaching. The only mention of a place of fiery destruction is the 'lake of fire' mentioned in revalations and that is a figurative fire meant as a symbol of everlasting destruction for Satan and his followers. ) Idol worship, the Trinity ( ancient roman belief, ) easter ( rome...) Christmas ( MULTITUDE of pagan beliefs ), the cross ( Jesus wasn't killed on a cross, but rather a torture stake. The Romans weren't even using crosses at that period in history. Look it up.) The theory that all good people go to heaven ( NOT supported in the Bible )

Answer 4

I believe the Catholic myth is that Mary's body and soul rose to Heaven at the Assumption. So your argument about the dead can't pray for you is not valid. Your question, "Why do Catholics pray to Mary?" because they can. She is the Great Mother, if you will.

Answer 5

I don't purport to espouse the whys, there wherefores, or the reasons thereof behind church teaching. I am a Roman Catholic, and therefore that means I accept the teaching of the Roman Catholic Church.

Here's how I look at it. I need all the help I can get to lead a good Christian life in this world, and so do my friends and family. So, I pray for help to the Lord, while asking Mary and the Saints to pray for all of us (living and dead).

Mary and the Saints intercede on our behalf to Christ. Mary's prayers are MUCH more powerful than ANY of my prayers to Christ. (What Son would not listen to his own Mother?)

We know from the Bible that Jesus Christ listened to his mother. During the wedding feast at Cana, Jesus Christ initially resisted working his first miracle until Mary persisted that he do so. First he said, 'woman it is not yet my time.' But wow, Mary got him to change his mind and change the water into wine.

We know from Christ's teaching in the Bible that 'the Father listens to the Son' (No One Comes to the Father but through Me).

So, in addition to praying on my own to Jesus, I ask Mary to pray for me to her son Jesus Christ, and Jesus Christ--in turn--advocates on my behalf to His Father.

That is how I approach it. Also, since we are all God's children and (since Catholics believe) Mary is the Mother of God, it follows that we are all Mary's children. What mother would ignore the pleas for prayers from her own kids? No mother would...rather mothers would do anything to help their kids! It is that way with Mary and Catholics.

Answer 6

I have asked Catholics about this and they tell me they do not pray to Mary, but have a great deal of respect for her because she gave birth to Jesus. I know they do Hail Mary's to ask her to pray for them. But isn't the hail Mary praying to her? She may be dead in body but she is in Heaven, with Jesus, in spirit.

Answer 7

I do not have a problem with any Christian denomination even if they have slightly different tactics from my church, however there are some questionable issues that have come to my mind when it comes to Catholics. If you read in the bible when Jesus was teaching in the temple the day Mary could not find Him, she asked Him where He had been and His response was "Woman I must be about my Fathers business". In every instance when Jesus responded to Mary, He always responded to her as "woman" and not mother. The reason is because Mary is just a mere woman who was chosen to give birth to our Lord and Savior because she had never been touched by a man and was therefore considered pure. Thats why the bible refers to it as an "immaculate conception". Mary, nor any other woman, is worthy of saying they were Jesus' "mother", simply because Mary was a sinner saved by grace just like you and me and was never intended to be looked at as a Holy mediator between us and Jesus. Because of Jesus' postion, if He would have called her mother, it would have been an indication that He was to submit to her. But because His job was to come preach the gospel and take away the sins of the world through His death, her job, just like ours, was to submit to Him. Therefore it is inappropriate for any man to pray to her and ask her to pray to Jesus for us because the bible says Jesus is our advocate standing in between God and us. Therefore the only person we have to go through to get to God is Jesus. Not, Mary then Jesus. Hope this helps.

P.S. this is no reflection on the Catholics salvation because as long as they teach that Jesus is the Son of God that died to take away the sins of the world that whosoever believeth on Him would not perish but have everlasting life, is teaching the right thing.

Answer 8

+ Saints +

The New Testament does not state that people in heaven cannot pray for the living.

Remember before Christ died for us, the gates of heaven were closed to all human beings. Therefore, the relationship of our sisters and brothers in Christ who died had to be worked out by the early Church as inspired by the Holy Spirit.

Revelation 5:8 does talk about the prayers of the saints in heaven rising to God, "Each of the elders held a harp and gold bowls filled with incense, which are the prayers of the holy ones."

Catholics share the belief in the Communion of Saints with many other Christians, including the Eastern Orthodox, Anglican, and Episcopal Churches.

The Communion of Saints is the belief 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.

+ Brothers of Jesus +

The bible does not say that Mary had more children. It says that Jesus had brothers, which is a significantly different thing.

How was James, “the brother of the Lord,” (Matt. 13:55, Acts 15:13-21, 1 Cor. 15:7, Gal. 1:19) related to Jesus. All believers agree he was related, but no one knows exactly how.

The possibilities are that James was:

1. A full brother of Jesus, another Son of God born of the Blessed Virgin Mary. No one to my knowledge accepts that God had another child by the Blessed Virgin Mary.

2. A half-brother of Jesus, a younger son of Joseph and the Blessed Virgin Mary. Some Christians believe this possibility but most Christians including those who are Catholic and Eastern Orthodox believe that Mary remained a virgin for her entire life.

3. A stepbrother of Jesus, a son of Joseph and a previous (deceased) wife. Many Christians believe that Joseph had a least one previous marriage that resulted in children.

4. A stepbrother of Jesus, an adopted son of Joseph and the Blessed Virgin Mary. When parents died, relatives frequently took their children in and raised them as their own. An adopted orphaned boy would be considered the brother of Jesus.

5. A cousin of Jesus. The Aramaic language has no word for cousin. Aramaic frequently uses the word “aha,” which we translate into Greek as “adelphos” or English as brother, for cousin.

6. A comrade of Jesus. This is a remote possibility. Greek uses adelphos the same as English does in “a band of brothers.”

Possibilities 1 and 2 obviously go against Catholic beliefs.

The Catholic Church prefers possibility 5 but 3, 4 and 6 would not go against doctrine.

+ The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary +

Catholics and some other Christian Churches believe that at the end of her earthly life, Mary's physical body was assumed into heaven.

+ With love in Christ.

Answer 9

Y do all u people look for ways to critisize and put to shame the catholic faith? The catholics do tell you to read the bible and we worship a normal idle JESUS CHRIST AS WELL AS GOD. We pray so that Mary can pray for us. She is the sinless carer, like God is our heavenly father, she is our mother.

Answer 10

Who says the dead can't pray for you? We don't worship Mary like a God we pray to her. We believe she is holy because she had immaculate conception, for those of you who don't know this is pregnancy with no sex. She is in heaven, and it is rumered that she had more children, by Joseph, so not by immaculate conception. This had nothing to do with if she went to heaven or not.

Answer 11

Catholics do no longer pray "to Mary, they pray "by using Mary", basically as they pray by using many (Saints) cannonized by using the Catholic Church. Mary, by using God, grew to become into exempt from the load of "unique sin", in order that she might undergo God's son, Jesus. This exemption did no longer recommend she might desire to no longer produce different toddlers or journey starvation, sorrow, or soreness. Scripture relates that Mary grew to become into taken "physique and soul" to heaven. this might point out that the two her "physique" and "soul" are in heaven.