How does 'Holy Mary mother of God' imply catholics believe Mary is God?

Question

Or that we put her on the same level. Take the Hail Mary and break it up, its just asking her to pray for us- here, ill save you the effort:

Hail Mary, full of grace (Hi mary, your a good person)
Lord art with thee (Gods with you)
Blessed are thee amoungst women(us chicks look up to you)
And blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus (Gods awsome, you carried for 9 months, how cool is that?)
Holy Mary mother of God (Your freaking awsome)
Pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death (I need help, please pray with/for me)

If you truely get that she is better from God from the Hail Mary you have issues, not catholics.

Answer 1

Good posts! But never forget about all the mysteries too! The Rosary is the prayer of the Gospel. It helps believers meditate and contemplate the most important events in the Gospels. It leads us closer to Jesus.

Like Father John Corapi says, "If she's good enough for Jesus, she's good enough for me!"

Far to many people mis-understand the Catholic teaching on Mary.

Answer 2

I normally do not cut and paste answers, but here goes, from the Catholic perspective at www.Catholic.com


The Hail Mary



The next prayer in the rosary, and the prayer which is really at the center of the devotion, is the Hail Mary. Since the Hail Mary is a prayer to Mary, many Protestants assume it’s unbiblical. Quite the contrary, actually. Let’s look at it.

The prayer begins, "Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee." This is nothing other than the greeting the angel Gabriel gave Mary in Luke 1:28 (Confraternity Version). The next part reads this way:

"Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus." This was exactly what Mary’s cousin Elizabeth said to her in Luke 1:42. The only thing that has been added to these two verses are the names "Jesus" and "Mary," to make clear who is being referred to. So the first part of the Hail Mary is entirely biblical.

The second part of the Hail Mary is not taken straight from Scripture, but it is entirely biblical in the thoughts it expresses. It reads:

"Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen."

Let’s look at the first words. Some Protestants do object to saying "Holy Mary" because they claim Mary was a sinner like the rest of us. But Mary was a Christian (the first Christian, actually, the first to accept Jesus; cf. Luke 1:45), and the Bible describes Christians in general as holy. In fact, they are called saints, which means "holy ones" (Eph. 1:1, Phil. 1:1, Col. 1:2). Furthermore, as the mother of Jesus Christ, the Incarnate Second Person of the Blessed Trinity, Mary was certainly a very holy woman.

Some Protestants object to the title "Mother of God," but suffice it to say that the title doesn’t mean Mary is older than God; it means the person who was born of her was a divine person, not a human person. (Jesus is one person, the divine, but has two natures, the divine and the human; it is incorrect to say he is a human person.) The denial that Mary had God in her womb is a heresy known as Nestorianism (which claims that Jesus was two persons, one divine and one human), which has been condemned since the early 400s and which the Reformers and Protestant Bible scholars have always rejected.

Answer 3

No informed person actually thinks that Catholics believe Mary is God, but there is still a technical problem with the phrase "Mother of God."

The Athanasian Creed says, "Now this is the Catholic faith: We worship one God in trinity and the Trinity in unity, neither confusing the persons nor dividing the divine being."

And later it says, "Thus the Father is God; the Son is God; the Holy Spirit is God: And yet there are not three gods, but one God."


The problem with saying that Mary is the Mother of God is that the phrase requires you to divide the divine being. While it is true to say that Jesus is God, it is not true to say that God is Jesus alone--and yet God would have to be Jesus alone for "Mother of God" to be an accurate title.

While a properly educated Catholic understands full well what is meant by the phrase "Mother of God," most Protestants would argue that we should always use caution in choosing our words.

If you take "Mother of God" quite literally, Mary's relationship to the Trinity would be improperly elevated because of the Athanasian Creed's declaration that we are not to divide the divinity of God. Protestants would point to Marian abuses that have occurred in the Catholic Church in various times and places, and suggest that perhaps a little more caution in the words you choose would help in combating these problems.

Answer 4

In some cultures Mary is so respected that she has God like prestige. In some Latin American churches the worship of Mary is very almost God like. whilst the Spanish and Portugese got here to settle Latin usa the community peoples appropriate maximum strongly to Mary, Maria, the mummy of God. The statutes of Mary are great as properly because of the fact the portaits and statues of the Madonna and the Christ baby. What do you advise that God had mom and dad? God has a mom. who's his father? Jesus stated to the Pharises "I and my father are one and the comparable." the daddy transcended for the period of the Son for the period of the Holy Spirit. Mary became into like the 1st surrogate mom. The theory became into no longer created by using sin, concerning intercourse between a guy and a girl. Christ became into immaculately conceived, one in being with the daddy.

Answer 5

Holy Mary Mother of God can easily be misconstrued as catholics putting her on the same level as God. She of course is the Mother that God chose for his son. His only son was, in a sense, a human form of God. So I believe that phrase indicates Jesus as God in the human form and is meant to refer to Mary as Jesus' mother.

Answer 6

It doesn't. It is people having a serious misconception and misunderstanding of what it means for a Catholic to say prayers for Mary. My mother is an ex-Catholic nun. I left the Catholic church years ago (hey, you try being raised by a nun, it'll give you a few issues with the church). Regardless, I don't take issue with Mary and the Catholic view of her. God thought she was special enough to carry his son, right? I think she deserves some credit. I'm cool with the Hail Mary.

I do believe that you can go straight to Jesus though, but I don't think He gets upset that you talk to his dear Mother either.

Answer 7

The Catholic Church first used the phrase "Mary, mother of God" to refute a heresy that Jesus was not divine. In this phrase, it appears that the subject is Mary, but the phrase was originally used to tell us about the nature of Jesus, her son. Jesus is God.

Non-Catholics think the phrase means "mary, MOTHER of god" and Catholics understand the phrase as "mary, mother of GOD"

Answer 8

I was raised Catholic, became agnostic, then went back to Catholicism. For Protestants it is their existance to protest the Catholic church. They use any means to attack the Church started by Jesus himself. I had a protestant minister tell me that Catholics pray to the saints and are polytheistical. When I told him I was a devout catholic the man practically called me a heretic. I asked him who started his "church". He stated some person. I told him that the Catholic church was started by Jesus--he then proceeded to call me a liar. I walked away from him and told him God bless you. The only thing the thousands of protestant "churches" agree on is that they hate us. I say the devil is actively seeking division among the followers of Christ. "divide and conquer"

Answer 9

Kato, the zealous Catholic convert, the first part of the "hail Mary" is from the Bible where God (through an angel) is praising Mary. It is not appropriate for us to do so.

The Bible says only Jesus was sinless. Only Christ is without sin. Only God is without sin. How can Mary, if she is human, be without sin? The Marion sect in Catholicism is strong. They equate Mary with the Holy Spirit.

I have seen Catholics kneel before Mary, light candles, and pray. I have seen it done and no amount of apology will change that.

Answer 10

Yeah, but you gotta admit that if people don't actually think about the words, it DOES sound rather Olympian...

That's why I really don't like the Rosary. It's too easy to drop out and let the words flow, putting you in the position of the Pagans making 'many words', as Paul specifically forbade.