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Catholics Believe Mary is the Immaculate Conception, having been conceived without the stain of original sin upon her soul.

Mary is the Second Eve, whose "soul did magnify the Lord," whereas the First Eve demagnified God through disobedience of His command.

Mary is the "virgin" Isaiah said would conceive the "Emmanuel, God with us" (7:14): That this prophesy included the virginal birth, as well as the virginal conception of Jesus the Messiah.

Mary, being the mother of Jesus, "the Son of the Most High" (St. Luke 1:32), is the mother of God: "How have I (Elizabeth) deserved that (Mary) the mother of my Lord should come to me?" (St. Luke 1:44).

Catholics Believe

Mary is the spiritual mother of mankind: "Behold thy mother" (St. John 19:27).

Mary is the mother who is ever ready to carry their petitions to her Divine Son.

Mary is the mother who knows the yearnings in the hearts of mankind, having been the ideal maiden, wife, mother and widow.

Mary is the Saint of Saints, our Mediatrix, whose intercessory influence with her Divine Son is first and foremost in heaven.


Catholics are proud to be of those "generations" that Mary said would "call" her "blessed" (St. Luke 1:48). Mary most pure; Mary inviolate: Virgin of Virgins; Queen of the Holy Rosary; "Blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb" Jesus (St. Luke 1:42-43): Holy Mary, pray for us sinners, now, and at the hour of our death.

Non-Catholics who make Mary the Mother of Jesus do so, because they do not accept the true doctrine of the Incarnation, viz., that Jesus Christ possesses a Divine and a Human nature in one Divine Personality. Jesus was never a human person; He was a divine Person who assumed our human nature in the womb of the Virgin Mary. She was the Mother of the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity, and therefore the Mother of God.

Catholics cannot help but question the consistency of Protestants giving praise of the highest to Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel, Deborah, Ruth, and others, while virtually ignoring Mary. Surely she towers far above them. Is it because Catholics are profuse in their love and praise of Mary?



You can go "to Jesus directly," as you say, but why not go to Mary as well? One does not exclude the other. Is not Mary the Mother of Jesus? Is not such a pure and devoted Mother more influential than we are with her sublime and devoted Son? Does not your Protestant Bible say that David asked the saints to give thanks to God for him? Then why not ask Mary, the Saint of Saints, to take your paeans of praise and petitions to her Son?

"Sing unto the Lord, O ye saints oi his, and give thanks at the remembrance oi his holiness" (Ps. 29:5).

Catholics go to Jesus directly through prayer, and also by prayerfully participating in the holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the wor­ship that is above all worship in the Catholic Church. It is a con­tinuation, in an unbloody manner, of the bloody sacrifice Christ made on Mount Calvary. Still more intimate and loving is the rela­tionship of Catholics with Jesus through partaking of His Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity in Communion. Thus the bodies of prac­tical Catholics are tabernacles of Jesus Christ, as well as temples ol the Holy Ghost.

By prayer, Catholics go to Jesus, in humility, through His Blessed Mother Mary. They believe that the prayers of the saints in heaven are more influential than their own. Revelation 8:3 tells us that saints do pray: "the prayers of all the saints (offered) upon the golden altar which was before the throne" of God. Saints are the heavenly friends of God, the foremost of them being the Mother of our Lord, the Saint of Saints. Devout Protestants pray for the con­version of sinners, why exclude intercessory prayers of the saints, to Mary in particular, to keep us true and pure?

Catholics consider Mary to be their spiritual Mother, the second Eve, who gave the world the Second Adam, to whom they are in­debted for their redemption and regeneration. In her they see all, and more, of the good, beautiful and pure that was prefigured in Eve, Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel, Judith, Esther, and Deborah. They love her for herself, because she was the virgin vessel from which Jesus came. Hence Catholics lovingly ask her intercession.


Strange, indeed, is it for Protestants to refuse to go to the Lord through the prayers of others as well as their own, when their Bible shows that Jeremiah asked the prophets to do so:

"It they be prophets, and if the word of the Lord he with them, let them now make intercession to the Lord oi hosts, that the. vessels of the Temple he brought back" (27:18).

St. Paul said: "I exhort that, first of all, supplications, prayers, inter­cessions,—be made for all men" (1 Tim. 2:1).

If the prayers of man for his fellowman are of value, why not the prayers of souls in heaven that once lived among men?

Longfellow, in the "Golden Legend," Kipling in the "Hymn Be­fore Action," and other famous poets not of the Catholic faith, en­compassed the beauty and soundness of the intercessory aid of Mary. Kipling's prayer is—



"Oh Mary, pierced with sorrow,
Remember, reach and save The soul that comes tomorrow
Before the God that gave! Since each was born of woman,
For each at utter need True comrade and
true foreman Madonna, intercede!"

Source(s):

http://www.catholicapologetics.net...

My question is what is your opinion on why people say "Catholics worship Mary"?

Also, other faiths honor her.

Though the devotion Catholics extend to Mary be called "wor­ship" in the wrong sense of the term, they will continue, with the Angels, to call her "blessed among women." No honor is too great for this heroine of heroines. She is all that is humble, modest and pure among women, and above all, she is the mother of Jesus, who is our Lord and our God.

Answer 1

Great opinion

Answer 2

Mary was just an ordinary human being who loved God, she wasn't the 'spirtual mother of mankind'. She was a sinner like everyone else in the world but she loved God and so was chosen to mother Jesus. I think that if Mary knew that some people though that she was holy and divine she would be really upset and angry, the only being people should worship is God.

Answer 3

True Mary has immacucalate concepcion. We accept that Jesus Christ was born from a virgin. Mary was obedient to the leading of the Holy Spirit. She died like any human beings, like the rest of bible characters. But she should not be venerated and she cannot intercede for people. Only J.C. who is at the right hand of the Father can intercede for us. Only Jesus C. resurrected from the dead and we are awaiting His second coming to Earth.

Answer 4

If Mary was someone we were to pray to, run intercessions through, memorize prayers about etc. Why did Jesus Himself say this Matt. 12:46-50 Who is my mother and who are My brothers? And He stretched out His hand toward His disciples and said, Here are My mother and My brother! for whosoever does the will of My father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother. We are to be busy about the Fathers business not Mary's. By the way every true Christian believes in the virgin birth it is part of our core.

Answer 5

Nice informative section on the Catholic doctrine. But since you asked, I'd say that you'd be suprised about the various of beliefs across congregations, priests and ministers. You'll find Babtists that hold Catholic beliefs and vice versa (oh and everything between and on the sides as well.)

Answer 6

Exodus 20:
2 I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:
5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;

Answer 7

Believe Science.

Answer 8

I believe Mary had an affair and got herself knocked up. The then made up the immaculate conception which was a common story at the time.

Answer 9

Jesus said "I am the way the truth and the life, no man can come to the father but by me"

Answer 10

Jesus is the one who interceeds, Mary does not & cannot.