The Mother Mary?

Question

Last week I asked no other gods beforeme. I got an answers like catholics dont worship the virgin mary. Then why do people pray to her and why do people ask for her to pray for them. she was just siner just like the rest of us. She was not perfect like her son, she did not give up her life for you and I. so why is a siner so inportant

Answer 1

They do not worship Mary. I have answered this question numerous times. If you search the question in Y!A before asking it, you would see that this is not true.
When Catholics pray to Mary, or any of the saints, they are asking them to pray for them. Mary, nor any of the saints, have no power or authority on their own. They ask them to pray to Christ, exactly the same way you would ask a minister or someone else to pray for you. I would really question your church if they continue to perpetuate a lie that they know is false to discredit another religion. Or perhaps you are not interested in the truth at all. If you asked this question previously and got the answer but ignored it, it seems like you are only interested in having people agree with you- not in the truth.

Answer 2

Here we go again.
I am ready to take a bet with anybody who says catholics do not worship mary. We will make trip through southern Europe and I will show you how the mary idolatry has in some places reached near hysteria. If you lose the bet, you pay the bills. Ik now some good restaurants and hotels there. They are nor all expensive.
Of course the RCC says their followers are not supposed to worship mary. They must ask her for an intervention from Jesus. Is Jesus too busy? Is he a popstar, or a stock market guru for whom time is money?
The RCC has found the golden egg in mass manipulation with the cult of mary. People want tears and blood and sentiment. That is why other churches like the protestant will never win, they are too rational, too straight. That is why the RCC is losing ground to more swinging churches. Irrationality is the gateway to the hearts of the people
In Southern Europe you will find a statue of mary in 80% of the houses. Many of them do not have a statue of jesus or god. If you ask the people who they worship, the answer will be almost always: mary.
In her dialogue with other churches (or what is left of it, after the last sortie of pope B26) always denies that catholics pray to mary. But on the other hand she encourages it. I have been a (devout) catholic and I know. It is a very hypocritical thing to do.
Parish priests also know that a parish that carries the name of mary is more lucrative than an other one.

A small prediction: the holy virgin has always been a stumbling block in the dialogue with many other churches. That is the reason the vatican always plays the role of the virgin down in the dialogue with other denominations. I predict he will start giving more exposure to the virgin, now they have decided they want to be a strong church again. Without the others.

For those who do not believe me: 10 Hail marys!

Answer 3

Why do we ask each other to pray for us? Why do you ask your Minister to pray for you? Or maybe you don't. I"m about to end my comedy hour for today anyway. I love Yahoo answers, it is so amusing to me. Now go and ask Mary to pray for you, so that you can get a blessing, I believe she could most likely get it done before you people down here since she is the mother of God and the Queen of Heaven. We are trying to get to where she is, she is already there. I'd also like to know where and when did you ever hear in your life a Catholic person tell you that the blessed virgin Mary was a God or that we worshiped her? If I ask someone to pray for me, it does not mean I think they are God. You should pay more attention to what you hear and read. And then again, I would not be surprised if somebody did say that on Yahoo answers. They will say anything on here.

Answer 4

Don't you ask others in the Body of Christ to pray for you?

If Saints are "absent from the body and present to the Lord" and are conscious why not ask them to pray with you as prayer partners?

If Jesus is our brother, then is not Mary our Mother too?
Why not have her as a prayer partner since she is so close to Jesus as His Mother?

Mary had to be saved by the merits of the Incarnation,Death and Resurrection of Christ as all do. Mary had those merits applied at her conception so that she would be an uncontaminated vessel to carry the Water of Life Jesus.

Jesus is the One Mediator and all the members of the Body are mediators for and with each other in , with ,through,to and because of Jesus, Our One Priest.

Answer 5

By Catholic Tradition, we believe that the Blessed Virgin Mary was sinless, because she bore the Holy Son of God in her womb! She was chosen by God to carry his son!! Mary deserves the upmost respect and honor as a creature of God. We believe that the works of Christ on the cross applied to her before everyone else and She is therefore, the immaculate (sinless) conception. God bless.

Answer 6

She is the Catholic representation of the Divine Feminine, which does exist but unfortunately has gone into exile in the last 2000 years. Yay Catholicism! I may not agree with that interpretation of the Divine Feminine, but kudos to Catholicism for showing at least part of the truth, that God is masculine and feminine, yet sexless at the same time.

Answer 7

Oh, but that's where you are wrong. Mary was not a sinner. She was without sin including original sin. That is was the immaculate in immaculate conception refers to.

Please always remember and never forget that without Mary there would be no Jesus.

Answer 8

We ask her to pray for us ("pray for one another" -- James 5:16) and intercede for us, like she did at the wedding in Cana (John 2:1-11).

Answer 9

Mary affirms the status of women and is a beautiful symbol of our inherent, God-given dignity -- but lest the modernist feminists cluck their tongues, it must be remembered that it was through Mary's obedience to God and by the blood of her Son that she was redeemed.








Catholic beliefs about Mary:


Mary, as are all who are saved, was saved by the blood of Christ. She is the greatest of Saints and her prayers for us are efficacious. She is a fully human creature and not in any way a goddess.


She is the Immaculate Conception who was filled with grace from her first moments, she is the Ark of the New Covenant and the New Eve


Mary is the "Theotokos," or the "God-bearer," i.e., the Mother of God


Mary remained both sinless and a virgin her entire life


Mary was assumed into Heaven by the power of God, where she was crowned Queen of Heaven












Catholic belief is that all of us, Mary included, need a Redeemer because of our fallen nature and that no one can attain Heaven without His Blood. We are saved from our fallen nature by His grace alone through faith that worketh in charity. Mary, though, because God knew how she would use the free will He gave to her, was saved, by His grace, from having a fallen nature at the moment of her conception. She was redeemed from her mother's womb, an act planned from Genesis 3 so that she could act as the New Eve and so that Christ could be born of vessel even more pure than the Ark of the Covenant. Christ would not have been born from that which is impure! God knew of Mary's will to serve even before she was conceived. He knew she would say yes to Him, and He saved her at her first moment.








If Jesus had brothers and sisters, don't you think their descendants would know it? At least in the first 300 years or so of the Church? Where were they? Did they speak of "Uncle Jesus" often? I'd think that if He had all of these brothers, sisters, nieces, and nephews around, there'd have been some word of it.





Herr soul magnifies the Lord (Luke 1:46-55)! Think of what that means for just a moment.






There is no one in all of History whose relationship with God is as complex, fulfilled, and achingly beautiful as Mary's. She is not only the greatest of Saints, she is our Mother, as Jesus is our Brother and Savior. In honoring her, we honor Him -- and imitate Him, as we are admonished to both honor our parents and imitate Christ, Who loved His Mother. Our relationship with Mary is that of a child to a blessed Mother who was given to us as Jesus gave her to John at the Cross.




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.

Answer 10

you say Mary was a sinner, i say she wasn't - both are debatabe. however Mary was not just any other woamn - she was the Mother of my Lord & Saviour and Christ Himself made sure, while dying on the cross for me, she would be taken care of. in the temple during His presentation she was told that her soul too a sword shall pierce for she may know the thoughts of many hearts. GOD choose Mary not me. God put Mary in my life, not me. God said to honour thy father and mother -- God is my Father, Jesus is my Brother and thusly, mary is my mother.