Barring "John behold thy mother" as reason to uphold Mary is there reason to pray to her?

Question

or deify or ask intercession?

Answer 1

It would do little good to pray to Mary, since she is dead. She will not be conscious again until she is resurrected with the other saints at Jesus' return.

Answer 2

no, none whatsoever

who is the only hearer of prayer?
YHWH; we must pray to YHWH through Yhshua's name
Psalm 65:2
Psalm 145:18
Matthew 6:9
John 15:16
John 14:6

Mary was a good woman who was descended from the line of David. She is given no other priveledge or honor in the Scriptures beside that (Mark 3:31-35) She gave birth to Yhshua who serves his Almighty God YHWH in the past before his human birth, during his time on earth and in the future after YHWH puts an end to the wages of sin that is death.
please read the following Scriptures:
John 20:17
John 17:3-5
John 5:19
John 14:28
Mark 10:18
Matthew 26:39
John 8:17-18
Mark 13:32
Matthew 20:23
Matthew 3:17
Matthew 14:23
Mark 1:35
Mark 6:46
Mark 14:32
Luke 6:12
Revelation 3:12
Acts 3:13
Philippians 2:6
1 Corinthians 15:24-28

agape!

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Answer 3

Plenty of reason, despite some of the mistaken answers that you're getting here. The Blessed Virgin Mary, like every other believer, is a member of the Communion of Saints in Heaven -- that is, the Body of Christ.

Christ Himself said: "For he is not a God of the dead, but of the living: for all live unto him." (Luke 20:38) Mary, like all the saints (cannonized or known only to God), is very much alive, and therefore she can be asked to intercede for us in the same way that we can ask a friend or family member for their prayers.

Setting aside the other objections for a moment (and there are valid answers to all of them, by the way, but that'd be several posts' worth alone), Mary lived an exemplary life of obedience, service, love, and loyality. Not many of us can make the same claim, and yet we're asked to pray for others all the time. Mary is also in Heaven and is free from the temptations and sins that beset us, so she has an "edge" in knowin what to pray for that we don't.

And finally, I think we can safely say that Mary was the person who knew and loved Jesus the most of anyone on earth. We can trust her to pray for us and our needs if for no other reason that the love she has for her Son and the ones who are redeemed by His blood.

Answer 4

Catholics believe in the Biblical teaching of the communion of saints where the invisible Church consists of the Church Triumphant, Suffering and Militant. St. Mary is among the Church Triumphant and dwells with God. We ask her to pray for us the same as we would ask anyone else to pray for us as the Scriptures teach we believe this is showing the love commanded by our Savior to love one another. If you ever ask someone else to pray for you it is no different than one asking St. Mary to pray for us.

In Christ
Fr. Joseph

BTW- No one deifies St. Mary nor is she an intercessor other than praying for us to her Son.


Eric T-

I believe that what has flawed your understanding is the use of improper hermeneutics called eisegesis and confused Biblical teaching on spiritual death to mean the death of a soul. The soul cannot die it is immortal but it can refuse God's Word and the call of the Holy Spirit which is the spiritual death of the soul condemning the soul to the lake of fire. Elsewhere in Scriptures it speaks of the soul being immortal and in order for the Bible not to be contradictory these verses must be considered as well when forming doctrine else one errs in understanding through their "proof text" methodology.

Answer 5

There is no need to pray to Mary. Mary is in her grave, dead.

Why pray to a mortal, one who sins, one who can get sick, one who shall become old?

Mary was a wonderful human being, but she was not devine.

Jesus Christ is the only One to whom we are to pray. The Catholic Church may pretend to make saints, but Christ is the only Divine being who can proclaim sainthood.

And we are to strive to live a pure life before him.

Please undrestand that saying the rosery and praying to Mary will not grant you salvation.

It is not works that ensure our salvation, but faith in God The Father, God The Son and God The Holy Spirit.

For more infomation about Mary visit: http://www.marytruth.com/

Answer 6

I don't think so. Jesus specifically said to pray to the father in Jesus' name only. Mary did not enter into that equation. But you can pray to whomever you want as long as you know who it is that will be answering it if he so chooses to get it from a 3rd hand source. By all means, pray to me if you like....I can be about as much help to you as Mary can.

Answer 7

No! Mary was a wonderful humanbeing...but she sin just like everyone eles. The only person not to sin is Jesus Christ.

You can't pray to a person who is dead.

Do souls die?

"The soul that sinneth, it shall die." Ezekiel 18:20. "Every living soul died in the sea." Revelation 16:3.

According to God's Word, souls do die! We are souls, and souls die. Man is mortal (Job 4:17). Only God is immortal (1 Timothy 6:15, 16). The concept of an undying, immortal soul goes against the Bible, which teaches that souls are subject to death.

Do good people go to heaven when they die?

"All that are in the graves shall hear his voice, And shall come forth." John 5:28, 29. "David ... is both dead and buried, and his sepulchre is with us unto this day." "For David is not ascended into the heavens." Acts 2:29, 34. "If I wait, the grave is mine house." Job 17:13.


People do not go either to heaven or hell at death. They go to their graves to await the resurrection day. King David will be saved in God's kingdom. However, he is in his grave now, where he awaits the resurrection.

How much does one know or comprehend after death?

"The living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten. Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun." "There is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest." Ecclesiastes 9:5, 6, 10. "The dead praise not the Lord." Psalms 115:17.

God says that the dead know absolutely nothing!

Since Judgement day hasn't happen..people who die are still in there graves including Mary. There people in the bible who are in heaven right now (Moses Ennoch, Elliah) but no where in the bible it saids Mary is in heaven.

Yes Christian do pray for others but We pray for other people who are alive and they a pray for health or a safe drive etc.but we direct the prays to GOD. We don't pray to people who r dead and don't need to b/c we can go to God directly!

Answer 8

No. In fact, all Biblical evidence points in the opposite direction.

The adoration of Mary as the Mother of God (against Luke 1:46-49; John 2: l-5)
The esteeming of Mary as being a perpetual virgin - proclaimed by Pope Pius IX - (against Matthew 12:46, Matthew 13:55)
The esteeming of Mary as being sinless (The Essential Catholic Catechism, 129) - (against Romans 3:23, Romans 5:12, 1 John 1:10)
Mary is our spiritual mother (misapplying John 19:25-27 via Ad Caeli Reginam)
Salvation dispensed through Mary - (against 1 Thessalonians 5:9)
Mary's claim via vision to St. Alphonsus that she is "the door" in opposition to John 14:6 "I am the Queen of heaven and the Mother of Mercy. I am the joy of the just and the door through which sinners come to God." (Dictionary of Mary, 298)
"her manifold intercession [she] continues to bring us the gifts of eternal salvation." (The Essential Catholic Catechism, 172)
Mary as a intermediate to Christ (against 1 Timothy 2:5)
"Nobody can approach the Supreme Father except through the Son, similarly nobody can approach Christ except through the Mother." (The Essential Catholic Catechism, 214)

Answer 9

Praying to Mary? Considering the 10 commandments (if you believe in them,) your God's going to be AWFUL pissed!

Answer 10

Instead of praying to anyone, why not put your hands to work instead. Praying is nothing more than begging.

"I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs." Frederick Douglass, escaped slave, and one of the most influential lecturers and authors in American history.