2007-09-23 15:40:23 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No.
+ Saints +
Catholics share the belief in the Communion of Saints with many other Christians, including the Eastern Orthodox, Anglican, Episcopal, and Methodist Churches.
The Communion of Saints is the belief where all saints are intimately related in the Body of Christ, a family. When you die and go to heaven, you do not leave this family.
Everyone in heaven or on their way to heaven are saints. You, me, my deceased grandmother, Mary the mother of Jesus, and Mother Teresa.
As part of this family, you may ask your family and friends here on earth to pray for you. Or you may also ask the Blessed Virgin Mary, Saint Andrew, or your deceased grandmother in heaven to pray for you.
Prayer to saints is communication, not worship.
+ The Blessed Virgin Mary +
"Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with you" (Luke 1:28)
"Blessed are you among women,
and blessed is the fruit of your womb" (Luke 1:42).
In Luke 1:48, Mary prophesied: "From henceforth all generations shall call me blessed."
A question for Christians who take the Bible literally: Do you call Mary "blessed"? If no, why?
The Hail Mary prayer simply recites Bible passages (the Word of God) and asks Mary to pray for us:
Hail Mary Full of grace, the Lord is with you. (These are the words the angel Gabriel said to Mary, a Bible quote.)
Blessed are thou among women and blessed is the fruit of your womb, Jesus. (This is Mary's cousin Elizabeth's greeting, another bible quote.)
Holy Mary, (The angel Gabriel said she was full of grace and Elizabeth said she was blessed.)
Mother of God, (the Bible says Mary is the mother of Jesus Christ, God the Son)
Pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death. (A simple request to pray for us.)
Amen.
For more information, see the Catechism of the Catholic Church, section 2673 and following: http://www.usccb.org/catechism/text/pt4sect1chpt2art2.htm
+ With love in Christ.
2007-09-23 16:22:30 · answer #1 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Mary is a non-divine, human creature, and anything she did was accomplished according to the grace that God provided to her.
But since Mary is the most perfect human creature that God ever made, and she faithfully dedicated her life and her existence to the service of both God and man, we recognize her contribution, and we celebrate her success (and ours), while we continue to offer true worship to God alone.
This is part of what Catholics understand to be true about the Blessed Virgin Mary:
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]
2007-09-23 16:44:06 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Mary was a young virgin that god used to bring the Messiah.
She didn't stay a virgin:
Matt 12:46-50
Matt 13:53-58
Mark 3:31-35
Not the "mother of god":
No scripture calls here that.
2007-09-23 15:57:21 · answer #3 · answered by robert p 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
We ask Mary to pray for us much like you would ask other people to pray for you. This does NOT constitute worship. People that spread that garbage have no inside understanding of the "Body of Christ" and so they do not appreciate Mary as their Mother like we do.
2007-09-23 16:13:46 · answer #4 · answered by Midge 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1. Read a book on Catholicism and find out that Catholics do not worship Mary.
2. Go back to your church and ask them why they lied to you.
2007-09-23 15:44:43 · answer #5 · answered by Pangloss (Ancora Imparo) AFA 7 · 5⤊ 1⤋
No, Catholics do not worship Mary. We give her the utmost respect as the mother of Jesus, but she is not God, nor could she ever be God.
2007-09-23 15:43:13 · answer #6 · answered by Church Music Girl 6 · 6⤊ 1⤋
they put her before Jesus when praying to God, They ask her to pray for them to God making her a intercessor, when the bible says there is only one intercessor between God and men, that is the man Jesus Christ. So catholics are sincere but they are sincerely wrong. so when you pray to someone or thing you are indeed worshiping that person or thing.
2007-09-23 16:00:29 · answer #7 · answered by eagle 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋
No this is a common myth aboout the Catholic faith. It is untrue.
2007-09-23 15:45:20 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 0⤋
NO! we do not worship Mary, we may pray to her but we not worship her
2007-09-23 15:44:11 · answer #9 · answered by Angel Eyes 5 · 6⤊ 1⤋
we worship god and jesus and mary
at least i do
2007-09-23 15:50:34 · answer #10 · answered by kam* 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋