Catholics and Protestants: Do you think it is right to pray to Mary, or through Mary to Christ and God? - "Why Protestants Don't Pray to Mary" by Philip Schaff (The Prayer - hzrn.com

Please state your thoughts and if you're Catholic or your denomination.
Thank you so much! I just want to know people's opinions and biblical backup. : ) God bless.

It is not right to pray to Mary or through Mary to Jesus and God.

Yes, it's perfectly fine.

No where does the Bible say we cannot ask others to pray for us, actually we are encouraged to do this by St. Paul in 1 Timothy 2:1-5 (a continuation of the person's post above me).

Here's the whole passage:

I urge therefore, first of all, that SUPPLICATIONS, PRAYERS, INTERCESSIONS and THANKSGIVINGS be made for all men; for kings, and for all in high positions, that we may lead a quiet and peaceful life in all piety and worthy behavior. This is GOOD and AGREEABLE in the SIGHT OF OUR SAVIOR, who wishes all men to be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth. For there is one GOD and one Mediator between GOD and men, himself man, Christ Jesus."

As you can see, if someone actually tells you the entirety of that passage, we are urged to be intercessors for each other.

God is the God of the living, not the dead. We know that those who have passed from this world and enter into Heaven are freed from the sinful urges we have here. As their souls are white and pure, their prayers are more powerful due to their sinless state in Heaven. Thus, we ask those in Heaven to pray for us and to intercede on our behalf.

Mary is our mother just as she is Jesus' mother and she does have a bit more pull than others as the Mother of God, who would follow His own commandments to honor thy mother and father. It doesn't mean we get everything we pray for or ask for, but she certainly intercedes on our behalf and always has.

For example, John 2: 3-5, Mary intercedes on behalf of the guests and hosts for Jesus to give them more wine, his first miracle. From the very beginning she has interceeded on our behalf.

We know that there is only one Mediator between God and man, but there is nothing in the Bible against intercession or prayer for intercession. Even Jesus speaks of the rich man begging to Abraham for intercession in Hell (also showing that it is okay to ask those in Heaven for their help, not just those on earth).

http://home.inreach.com/bstanley/mediate...

Yes. Mary is our most powerful intercessor. Do not people ask their living friends and relatives to pray for them? How much more powerful, then, is the intercession of God's own Mother, who loved Him perfectly during her life on earth, and to whom He remains obedient in heaven. Mary can pray to God more effectively than you or I ever could.

"Why Protestants Don't Pray to Mary" by Philip Schaff (The Prayer ::
Mary, therefore, in the Catholic view, stands entirely alone in the . of the ancient church Mary conceived the Logos (Verbum) through the ear by the word of the angel. . Why pray to someone who wouldn't seem to even know who you are, Later Christ clarified his teaching to pray to God the Father by saying
http://www.prayerfoundation.org/why_protestants_dont_pray_to_mary.htmHOME

The Holy Rosary is an extremely powerful prayer when prayed from the heart, when each Hail Mary is prayed with love and childlike simplicity. (Many will testify to this--St. John Vianney, St. Padre Pio, Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta, etc.)

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They worshiped Mary. They worshiped the Pope. They were a cult. Christ founded ONE Church for ALL mankind. God has graced me through prayer and the teachings of the Church I pray that you open your heart and learn about the Catholic Faith. Do not fall to the folly of men who think they can do it better.
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If a king invites you to have dinner with him, this is a great honor. However, if he calls a gathering of the entire kingdom, and proclaims your greatness in front of them so that they may praise and honor you too, this is an even higher honor. In the same way, Jesus, our King, wishes to honor His mother by making her loved and venerated by all. Jesus was so grateful to the woman who poured an expensive ointment over His Head that He proclaimed "In truth I tell you, wherever in all the world this gospel is proclaimed, what she has done will be told as well, in remembrance of her." (Matthew 26:13) If such is His gratitude for this woman's one act of kindness, imagine then, His gratitude for His mother's entire lifetime of love (Mary's "yes" to God ("Be it done to me according to thy word") despite what it would cost her, her pregnancy at a time when she was not yet married and thus her humiliation before St. Joseph and her acquaintances, her nursing of the Son of God, the way she lovingly held and caressed the Divine Child, the clothes she knitted for Him, the meals she prepared for Him, all that she suffered upon seeing her innocent Son so brutally tortured and murdered, etc.)

God is infinitely happy. He has no need of human praise, so He lets Mary be our Vessel of Devotion.

The fifteen promises of Mary to Christians who recite the rosary:
1. Whoever shall faithfully serve me by the recitation of the Rosary shall receive signal graces.
2. I promise my special protection and the greatest graces to all those who shall recite the Rosary.
3. The Rosary shall be a powerful armor against Hell, it will destroy vice, decrease sin, and defeat heresies.
4. It will cause virtue and good works to flourish; it will obtain for souls the abundant mercy of God; it will withdraw the hearts of men from the love of the world and its vanities and will lift them to the desire of eternal things. Oh, that souls would sanctify themselves by this means.
5. The soul which recommends itself to me by the recitation of the Rosary, shall not perish.
6. Whoever shall recite the Rosary devoutly, applying himself to the consideration of its sacred mysteries, shall never be conquered by misfortune. God will not chastise him in His justice, he shall not perish by an unprovided death; if he be just, he shall remain in the grace of God and become worthy of eternal life.
7. Whoever shall have a true devotion for the Rosary shall not die without the Sacraments of the Church.
8. Those who are faithful to recite the Rosary shall have during their life and at their death the light of God and the plenitude of His graces; at the moment of death, they shall participate in the merits of the saints in Paradise.
9. I shall deliver from Purgatory those who have been devoted to the Rosary.
10. The faithful children of the Rosary shall merit high degree of glory in Heaven.
11. You shall obtain all you ask of me by the recitation of the Rosary.
12. All those who propagate the Holy Rosary shall be aided by me in their necessities.
13. I have obtained from my Divine Son that all the advocates of the Rosary shall have for intercessors the entire Celestial Court during their life and at the hour of death.
14. All who recite the Rosary are my sons, and brothers of my only Son, Jesus Christ.
15. Devotion to my Rosary is a great sign of predestination.

Our Lady has 117 titles. She selected this title at Fatima: "I am the Lady of the Rosary."

St. Francis de Sales said the greatest method of praying IS- Pray the Rosary.

St. Thomas Aquinas preached 40 straight days in Rome, Italy on just the Hail Mary.

St. John Vianney, patron of priests, was seldom seen without a rosary in his hand.

"The rosary is the scourge of the devil" -- Pope Adrian VI

"The rosary is a treasure of graces" -- Pope Paul V

Padre Pio, the stigmatic priest, said: "The Rosary is THE WEAPON"

Pope Leo XIII wrote 9 encyclicals on the rosary.

Pope John XXIII spoke 38 times about Our Lady and the Rosary. He prayed 15 decades daily.

St. Louis Marie Grignion de Montfort wrote: "The rosary is the most powerful weapon to touch the Heart of Jesus, Our Redeemer, who so loves His Mother."

Yes there is nothing wrong with it.

People of other religions like to insult the Catholic Church for the fact that we pray to Saints and also say we dont pray directly to Jesus when we do.

I pray alot directly to Jesus, but then wondered with all the religions praying to him, would it be faster to deliver my messege another way?
The Catholic Church prays to Saints in asking that they deliver there prayers which other religions take in and insult.

I often say I dont care what religion you are Christian, Luthern, etc. Isnt it a sin to be insulting anyone for believing in the Lord Jesus or any of his Saints? Amen.

Nothing wrong with praying through Mary. . .

Mary is our Mother and Queen of the New Davidic Kingdom
John 19:26 - Jesus makes Mary the Mother of us all as He dies on the Cross by saying "behold your mother." Jesus did not say "John, behold your mother" because he gave Mary to all of us, his beloved disciples. All the words that Jesus spoke on Cross had a divine purpose. Jesus was not just telling John to take care of his mother.

Rev. 12:17 - this verse proves the meaning of John 19:26. The "woman's" (Mary's) offspring are those who follow Jesus. She is our Mother and we are her offspring in Jesus Christ. The master plan of God's covenant love for us is family. But we cannot be a complete family with the Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of Christ without the Motherhood of Mary.

John 2:3 - this is a very signifcant verse in Scripture. As our mother, Mary tells all of us to do whatever Jesus tells us. Further, Mary's intercession at the marriage feast in Cana triggers Jesus' ministry and a foreshadowing of the Eucharistic celebration of the Lamb. This celebration unites all believers into one famiy through the marriage of divinity and humanity.

John 2:7 - Jesus allows His mother to intercede for the people on His behalf, and responds to His mother's request by ordering the servants to fill the jars with water.

Psalm 45:9 - the psalmist teaches that the Queen stands at the right hand of God. The role of the Queen is important in God's kingdom. Mary the Queen of heaven is at the right hand of the Son of God.

1 Kings 2:17, 20 - in the Old Testament Davidic kingdom, the King does not refuse his mother. Jesus is the new Davidic King, and He does not refuse the requests of his mother Mary, the Queen.

1 Kings 2:18 - in the Old Testament Davidic kingdom, the Queen intercedes on behalf of the King's followers. She is the Queen Mother (or "Gebirah"). Mary is our eternal Gebirah.

1 Kings 2:19 - in the Old Testament Davidic kingdom the King bows down to his mother and she sits at his right hand. We, as children of the New Covenant, should imitate our King and pay the same homage to Mary our Mother. By honoring Mary, we honor our King, Jesus Christ.

1 Kings 15:13 - the Queen Mother is a powerful position in Israel's royal monarchy. Here the Queen is removed from office. But now, the Davidic kingdom is perfected by Jesus, and our Mother Mary is forever at His right hand.

2 Chron. 22:10 - here Queen Mother Athalia destroys the royal family of Judah after she sees her son, King Ahaziah, dead. The Queen mother plays a significant role in the kingdom.

Neh. 2:6 - the Queen Mother sits beside the King. She is the primary intercessor before the King.

Christ is the only mediator between God and man.
1 Timothy 2:5

Yes.
Blessed Mother is the queen of heaven as designated by her son Our Lord and savior Jesus christ, and as documented by St. John in the book of the apocolypse. she conformed her life 100% to God's will and thus is a model for all women.

Hail Mary full of grace
Our Lord(God) is inside you
Blessed are you among women
and blessed is the fruit of your womb, Jesus
Holy Mary
MOTHER OF GOD
pray for us
sinners
now and at the hour of our death
amen