How many pray to Mother Mary?

Question

I heard through the grape vine that people aren't suppose to pray to Mother Mary because it says people are suppose to pray to dead people. I just heard this the other day from someone on YA. It is news to me! I am Catholic and have always said the prayer...Hail Mary, full of grace.
Our Lord is with thee.
Blessed art thou among women,
and blessed is the fruit of thy womb,
Jesus.
Holy Mary, Mother of God,
pray for us sinners,
now and at the hour of our death.
Amen.

Why would someone say this? Is it true your not suppose to pray to Mary? She is very special and I think she likes being prayed to.

If praying to God alone is right, then why would someone make such a great prayer?
I prayed to her when I was in Catholic school when I was a kid! The nuns and priests prayed her prayer.

Answer 1

I do every morning.


Luke 1:28 -"Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with you." These are the words spoken by God and delivered to us by the angel Gabriel (who is a messenger of God). Thus, when Catholics recite this verse while praying the Rosary, they are uttering the words of God.

Answer 2

Some of these other answers are so wrong I'm not sure where to even begin. Mary is not "the" intercessor between God and man. I don't know where that came from. We, Catholics, believe you can ask any saint or person here on earth to pray for you. Mary is a saint. She had to be pure. Why would God bring Jesus into the world through an unholy vessel? He didn't. Mary was pure and a saint. She's in heaven. We can ask her to pray for us just as any saint in heaven or person here on earth. Catholics do NOT have to ask the saints to pray for them. It is a personal choice. Also, I think your girlfriend is not the most knowledgeable source when it comes to Catholicism. Mary does not grant forgiveness. Only God can give forgiveness. She should know this.

Answer 3

The Church and the apostles were very clear about their understanding of the unique status of the Blessed Virgin Mary in both the economy of salvation, and her son Jesus' heavenly kingdom.

Under the royal tradition of the House of David, of which Jesus is the eternal king, the mother of the king is the queen, and her job is to interceed with the king, on behalf of the people.

This is clearly demonstrated in the old testament (1st Kings 2:16) and again in the new testament (John 2:1) and it remains true today, for God is the God of the living and not the dead, and Mary has certainly received all of the rewards that God promises to all of the faithful.

39. We must remember especially that, since the second century, the Virgin Mary has been designated by the holy Fathers as the new Eve, who, although subject to the new Adam, is most intimately associated with him in that struggle against the infernal foe which, as foretold in the protoevangelium,[44] would finally result in that most complete victory over the sin and death which are always mentioned together in the writings of the Apostle of the Gentiles.[45] Consequently, just as the glorious resurrection of Christ was an essential part and the final sign of this victory, so that struggle which was common to the Blessed Virgin and her divine Son should be brought to a close by the glorification of her virginal body, for the same Apostle says: "When this mortal thing hath put on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: Death is swallowed up in victory."[46]
40. Hence the revered Mother of God, from all eternity joined in a hidden way with Jesus Christ in one and the same decree of predestination,[47] immaculate in her conception, a most perfect virgin in her divine motherhood, the noble associate of the divine Redeemer who has won a complete triumph over sin and its consequences, finally obtained, as the supreme culmination of her privileges, that she should be preserved free from the corruption of the tomb and that, like her own Son, having overcome death, she might be taken up body and soul to the glory of heaven where, as Queen, she sits in splendor at the right hand of her Son, the immortal King of the Ages.[48]

Answer 4

What of the question of praying to Mary or to anyone else besides God? We are never told in the Bible whether anyone else in heaven can even hear us. We do know that God alone is all-knowing, all-powerful, and all-present. Even the angels, with whatever great abilities they may have, seem to have their limitations and can’t always make it to help us as they might like (Daniel 10:10-14). When Jesus taught his disciples to pray, He gave them what is commonly called the “Our, Father.” He teaches us to address our prayer to God. Whenever prayer is addressed to anyone, it is done to God! Never can you find a single example of someone praying a prayer to any “saint” or angel or anyone else (besides prayers to false gods). Further, any time that any pious person prostrates himself (in a religious setting) to honor someone else besides God (chiefly to the apostles or angels), they are told to get up, to stop it (Acts 10:25-26; Acts 14:13-16; Matthew 4:10; Revelation 19:10; Revelation 22:8-9).

Answer 5

Due to the fact that these
Christians use the Protestant Old Testament which is lacking 7 entire books 2 (Tobias, Judith, Wisdom, Ecclesiasticus/Sirach, Baruch, I Maccabees, and II Maccabees), 3 chapters of Daniel and 6 chapters of Esther may be one of the reasons they ask catholics so many questions.

For the Sola Scriptura this is too bad .
In the 16th c., Luther removed those books from the canon that lent support to orthodox doctrine, relegating them to an appendix. Removed in this way were books that supported such things as:

prayers for the dead (Tobit 12:12; 2 Maccabees 12:39-45),

Purgatory (Wisdom 3:1-7),

intercession of dead saints (2 Maccabees 15:14),

and intercession of angels as intermediaries (Tobit 12:12-15).

The lesson, though, is this: relying on the "Bible alone" is a bad idea; we are not to rely solely on Sacred Scripture to understand Christ's message. While Scripture is "given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness" (2 Timothy 3:16-17), it is not sufficient for reproof, correction and instruction in righteousness. It is the Church that is the "pillar and ground of Truth" (1 Timothy 3:15)! Jesus did not come to write a book; He came to redeem us, and He founded a Sacramental Church through His apostles to show us the way. It is to them, to the Church Fathers, to the Sacred Deposit of Faith, to the living Church that is guided by the Holy Spirit, and to Scripture that we must prayerfully look.


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http://www.fisheaters.com/beingcatholic....

Answer 6

Mary is the Mother of us all. The Ark of the new Covenant

The Gospel reveals to us how Mary prays and intercedes in faith. At Cana, the mother of Jesus asks her son for the needs of a wedding feast; this is the sign of another feast - that of the wedding of the Lamb where he gives his body and blood at the request of the Church, his Bride. It is at the hour of the New Covenant, at the foot of the cross, that Mary is heard as the Woman, the new Eve, the true "Mother of all the living
This motherhood of Mary in the order of grace continues uninterruptedly from the consent which she loyally gave at the Annunciation and which she sustained without wavering beneath the cross, until the eternal fulfillment of all the elect. Taken up to heaven she did not lay aside this saving office but by her manifold intercession continues to bring us the gifts of eternal salvation . . . . Therefore the Blessed Virgin is invoked in the Church under the titles of Advocate, Helper, Benefactress, and Mediatrix.

Answer 7

The Blessed Mother watches over us from Heaven and prays for us here on earth. She's alive to God, as are all the other believers in Christ who have died and are in Heaven.

Luke 20:38 For he is not a God of the dead, but of the living: for all live unto him.

We can ask her to pray for us, just as we can ask any other believer to intercede for us. It's like asking your mom or sister to pray for you.

I pray the Rosary every night before I go to bed. It's a wonderful way to meditate on the events of Christ's life and apply their lessons to my own situation.

Answer 8

romans8: 26In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express. 27And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints in accordance with God's will.

it is not mother mary who interceds in between us and GodtheFather.

it is the Holy Spirit.


and this is how we should pray, this is the perfect Model of prayer. (mary is not included inside)

Our Father, which art in Heaven,
Hallowed be thy Name.
Thy Kingdom come.
Thy will be done,
in earth as it is in Heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our trespasses,
As we forgive them that trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation;
But deliver us from evil.
[For thine is the kingdom, The power, and the glory,
For ever and ever.] Amen.


EDIT: it is not a great prayer. commonsense tells us that we pray to Someone called GOD. not mary. mary was a blessed HUMAN. a woman. thats all. and even if the priests and nuns prayed that prayer, it doesnt make them right. if alot of people are smoking, does it mean smoking is right? the truth is, we do not pray to dead people. the Bible in DEUTORONOMY tells us that we should not consult spirits of the dead.

my question to you is, do you read the Bible enough to know that it says that CHRIST/Holy Spirit, is the ONLY Person in between us and The Father.

praying to mary is a HUMAN teaching. and if she is called the mother of God, does it mean she is more powerful than God Himself??? it does not make sense!

open up your spiritual eyes now! In Jesus Name amen!

Answer 9

Mary was a blessed woman, but was not divine. She is where all other dead people are. She can't hear prayers. God says pray to none but Him. This person is right. We pray to God alone.

Answer 10

I have a friend who is catholic. They do those prayers not as worshipping the person as a god, but in a way you would pray to a saint or angel for guidance....or pray to speak to your dead grandmother.
That is how I understood it.