I asked the question, Whydo non Catholics have a problem with us asking Mary to pray for us, and a woman that?

Question

goes by the name preachers wife said" Mary is the earthly mother of Jesus. Not the mother of God." I thought Christians believed in the Holy Trinity. And if so then Jesus is God, remember, They are one. I could not believe she said that. And I still bet that if I ask her husband to pray for me he would not have a problem with that.

Answer 1

To love Mary takes nothing at all from Christ, but honors our Blessed Lord by Whose grace she is who she is: His greatest creation, the greatest of Saints, the Queen of Heaven, the Immaculate Conception, the spotless Virgin, the Ark of the Covenant, the New Eve, the mother of God, and the mother of Israel -- our mother who wants nothing more for us than to pray for us and show us her Son.

She is our spiritual Mother and she wants to pray for us.


The Hail Mary Prayer
Hail, Mary, Full of Grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou amongst 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.

Answer 2

This is a very deep question... Mary is the earthly mother of Jesus who is supposed to be the earthly representative of the trinity, the holy ghost is the spiritual representative and the father is the ruling host of the trinity under which all abides. The trinity itself is god, however we as humans cannot understand the proper nature of such a complex story and thus have to break it up into bits... Your compassion is Jesus, your ability to assess what is right and wrong is the holy ghost and your strength to choose between compassion and justice is god. Don't listen to preachers, listen to yourself. And your mum...

Answer 3

In Catholocism, The Trinity is the Father (God), Son (Jesus), and the Holy Spirit.

We actually pray the Hail Mary for various things, and one is to end abortion.

I'm not really one to get into a deep conversation about this because I've not been a practicing Catholic for about 10 years, but this is what I remember :) Hope that clears something up.

Answer 4

Hello sister,

I am not sure what your question is, but I have long wondered about the Catholic Church's worship of Mary as the mother of God. Undoubtedly Mary was chosen among women to become the mother of Jesus who, at the time of his mission over 2000 years ago, was a direct incarnation of Christ and First Born Son of God the Father Almighty.

I am not a Catholic, but know that Christ lives and yes, there is a Holy Trinity, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, three separate entities, but one and the same in unity. This is a very different unity to the one we know in the world. Mary is not part of the godhead and it is the Father through Jesus Christ always to whom we must offer our invocations and prayers. Everything we ever need to know Christ will give it to us, being the light of the world.

In Christ I have known the dearest and most humble of all, the most loving, with all the divine virtues of the positive and negative, male and female, in unity with the Holy Spirit. Prayers to Mary then seem to me to be deflecting from the spiritual Master, who is Jesus Christ and it is by our adoption into His body and His alone, that we can be saved from world delusion.





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Answer 5

I'm not sure what exactly your question is here, but I don't understand why Catholics use all these Saints either. I just go straight to Jesus and leave it at that. Why do you need to pray to anyone but him? And why would you ask a dead person to pray for you? I understand Mary's position, but I mean come on she is just like any other human being that lived on earth and made it into heaven. She had to receive the Holy Ghost in the upper room on the day of Pentecost just like the others. Go straight to the one who can answer those prayers...Jesus Christ. Stay blessed!

Answer 6

Do you pray to Mary in Hebrew?

Look - there are many, many problems with the concept of praying to anyone other than God/Jesus.

If you honestly want to know the biggest issue, try creating the biblical argument FOR praying to Mary. The bible says the prayer of a righteous man can accomplish much, but nowhere can you make the argument that people in heaven can hear you.

And how did Jesus teach us to pray? "Our father..."

Answer 7

She made ,through God ,his earthly form.He already was God .He took on a "Tent" of Human flesh.She was a great woman ,but stop trying to "idolize" her it isn't right.
Paul says "There is ONE mediator between man and God and that is Christ Jesus".
She was not born sinless through the "apocryphal" Anna.She even says "I thank God my Savior"...saved from what? from being born in sin.
When a woman in a crowd shouted "Blessed be the woman who nursed you ".to Jesus,He didn't say "That's right ,you better venerate her now and forever!"
No ,He said "Blessed rather are those that do the work of God".
She is a wonderful wonderful person,otherwise God would not have chosen her.But ,she is not a Co- Redemptress as John Paul would have had it.She did her job,she was filled with the Holy Spirit in the Upper room in Acts two.She lived with John and his family and probably died in Ephesus.She is in heavebn waiting for the Resurrection just like all the dead in Christ.
She wasn't a perpetual virgin.Joseph didn't "know her" UNTIL Jesus was born but after that she bore James ,Joses,Simon,Jude and some daughters.No they wern't Joseph's from another marriage.

Answer 8

Many non-Catholics have a problem with us praying to Mary because they think that "pray to" means "worship". They do not understand that there is a class of prayers called intercession - asking someone to pray for you.

As regards "Mary, teh mother of God", it is simple algebra:

Mary is the mother of Jesus
Jesus is God
Therefore, Mary is the mother of God.
The phrase "Mary, mother of God" was first used to emphasize Jesus' divinity. Non-Catholics have misinterpreted this phrase as being about Mary's role in respect to Jesus. The phrase is used to reinforce the fact that Jesus is God.

Non-Catholics separate the divine from the human when it comes to Jesus. They do not understand that you cannot separate Jesus' divinity from His humanity.

Answer 9

Yeah I don't' get that. One second Jesus IS God therefor Mary is the mother of God but then if you bring that up all the sudden she was the mother of Jesus which isn't the same thing. Jesus either is God or he isn't. I personally think Mary deserves some credit. Jesus wouldn't have been there if it was for her.

Answer 10

I don't think anyone has a problem with praying for you because you are catholic.... God teaches us to love everyone as i said in my last posted question... But to me (me) Jesus said No one comes to the father, but through him and also what we do we are suppose to do in Jesus name. I wont have a problem praying for you or anyone else... I pray for unsaved people, so why would you be an exception... ignorance rules some (but not all) people =)