Any Catholics Out There?
Im not being rude or anything just want to know why Catholics pray to Mary. Can you tell me at least some passages in the Bible really claim that we should offer our prayers to Mary Coz from what I've read so far The Bible tells us to believe in God in Jesus and Jesus sais nobody can go to the Father except through me and not say or mention Mary anywhere, as in prayer and faith is concerned. Can you explain this for me, and like I said, I'm not being rude I really want to know so please do not answer rudely, you do not know or do not have anything to say please spend wisely to other questions, thank you
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Mary is Sacret and holy. ask all the saints and angels. they have heard from God
A service is not Catholic (for lack of a better word) pagan and people seem to do here … the service is very similar to a Protestant service, believe it or not.
And really, who cares!?
Sorry if I offend anyone, but here is a non-Catholic-begging to assume that anyone but God is, at best, a complete and utter loss of time, and at worst blasphemy
Praying to Mary is idolatry. I am not a Catholic, but my mother is .. She also said that the saints pray because God can not handle all the prayers and relay them to God when you have the time to listen ….. Ridiculous right?
The Catholic position on this is that Mary is not worship in their own right, but as God chose her to be the mother of Christ, we appeal to her to talk to Jesus on our behalf. Similarly prayers are petitions to the saints to intercede for us. Hope this helps.
Ascoli-seems that some people need to do their homework. Good point. As a Catholic, or Christian, do not pray to Mary.
Thanks for not asking your question sharply as some people tend to do here. We Catholics do not worship Mary. We pray that your intercession. It's like asking a friend to pray for you. The same applies to the saints. Mary is the Mother of God and Mother of us all. Because she is the Mother of God, she would have to be without sin, right? Do you have more sense now? We hope this response helps!
The miracle of water into wine is a good example of why we should intercede through Mary.
Mary is a saint. All Catholics can pray to a saint.
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Catholics share the belief in the Communion of Saints with many other Christians, including Orthodox, Anglican, Episcopal, Methodist and Church.
The Communion of Saints is the belief that all saints are intimately related in the Body of Christ, a family. When one dies and goes to heaven, do not go to this family.
Everyone in heaven or on their way to heaven are saints. You, me, my late grandmother, Mary the mother of Jesus, and Mother Teresa.
As part of this family, you can ask your family and friends here on earth to pray for you. Or you can ask the Blessed Virgin Mary, St. Andrew, or his late grandmother in heaven to pray for you.
Prayer to the saints is communication, not worship.
+ + The Blessed Virgin Mary
In Luke 1:48, Mary prophesied, "From now on all generations will call me blessed."
A question for Christians who take the Bible literally: Do you call Mary "blessed"? If not, why?
The Hail Mary prayer simply recites passages from the Bible (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 that the angel Gabriel told Mary, a biblical quotation.)
Blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. (This is the cousin of Mary, Elizabeth's greeting, another quote from the Bible.)
Santa Maria, (The angel Gabriel said he was full of grace and Elizabeth said it was blessed.)
Mother of God (the Bible says that Mary is the mother of Jesus, God the Son)
Pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death. (A simple request to pray for us.)
Amen.
+ With love in Christ.
Scripture says that we are all saints, and PRA and for each other .. so if a Catholic Christain or not die hat means we are not saints !!!!!!! i dont think so. so that the note on why we can not ask them to pray for us Holy Mother of Mercy FLL verse of Scripture blessed among women although ect oops another Scripture, in fact, they are doing is calothics ask all saints like you and me to them so intersede for a Catholic
I know of no hyphen indicates Mary should be worshiped, but a saint and my grandmother tells me that it is easier to deal with a woman in this sentence sometimes. I am of the belief that every prayer made a saint also be heard by God, and he (she / unisex) do not see this as a false idol worship. Sorry I can not say a specific reason for praying to Mary or not, prayer is a personal thing that some people would rather talk to a woman. I pray when I do.
I pray to Jesus, God and Mary, all special r
Mother Mary is the chosen one who God chose the mother of Jesus, is not that reason enough?
Before answering your question, let me say that the Bible is the only infallible guide to Christian doctrine and practice. You will not find a Bible verse that says explicitly or implicitly.
Moreover, the Bible says that the Church founded by Jesus Christ is the only infallible guide to Christian doctrine and practice. I will not explain now because this would deviate from his question.
Now, to answer your question. After reading this material and you still have questions, we are happy to answer them.
The Fathers of the Church teaches that Mary was a series of distinctive blessings in order to make it a more appropriate mother for Christ and the prototypical Christian (follower of Christ). These blessings included her role as the New Eve (corresponding to Christ's role as the new Adam), her Immaculate Conception, her spiritual motherhood of all Christians, and her Assumption into heaven. These gifts were given to her by the grace of God. She did not win, but he possessed, however.
The key to understanding all these graces is Mary's role as the new Eve, the Fathers proclaimed so forcefully. Because she is the new Eve, she, like Adam, was born immaculate, as created the first Adam and Eve immaculate. Because she is the new Eve, she is the mother of the New Humanity (Christians) and the first Eve was the mother of mankind. And, because she is the new Eve, who shared the fate of the New Adam. Whereas the first Adam and Eve died and went to dust, the new Adam and Eve stood up physically in the sky.
Of particular interest in the following quotations from the Fathers are those that speak of Mary's immaculate nature. We will all one day was immaculate (sinless), but Mary, as a prototype for Christian, received this grace early. God granted freedom from sin to make it a suitable mother for his Son.
Even before the words "original sin" and the "Immaculate Conception" was defined, early passages imply the doctrines. Many works mention that Mary gave birth to Jesus without pain. But the pain of childbirth is part of the punishment of original sin (Genesis 3:16). Thus, Mary could not have been under sanction. By the grace of God, was immaculate in anticipation of her Son's redemptive death on the cross. The Church therefore describes Mary as "the most excellent fruit of redemption" (CCC 508).
The Ascension of Isaiah
"[T] he report on the child abroad was disclosed in Bethlehem. Some said, 'The Virgin Mary has given birth before she was married two months. "And many, he said," She has not given birth, the midwife has not risen to it, and we heard no cries of pain ' "(Ascension of Isaiah 11 [AD 70]).
Odes of Solomon
"So the Virgin became a mother with great mercies. And she worked and gave birth to the child, but no pain, because not occur without purpose. And did not seek a midwife, because they took her to give life. He gave a strong man with the will of … "(Odes of Solomon 19 [AD 80]).
Justin Martyr
"[Jesus] became man by the Virgin so that the course was taken by disobedience in the beginning through the agency of the snake could also be the same course which would be presented. Eve, a virgin and undefiled, conceived the word of the serpent and bore disobedience and death. But the Virgin Mary received the faith and joy when the angel Gabriel announced the good news that God's Spirit would come upon her and the power of the Most High will overshadow her, so that the Holy of being born of her, is the Son of God. And she replied: "Let me according to thy word" [Luke 1:38] "(Dialogue with Trypho the Jew 100 [AD 155]).
Irenaeus
"Consequently, then, is the Virgin Mary to be obedient, saying, Behold, Lord, your servant, be it unto me according to your word." Eve, however, was disobedient, and, while still a virgin, not obey. Just as it was then still a virgin, but had Adam for a husband in Paradise were both naked but not ashamed, because, having been created recently, were unaware of the procreation of children, and was must first come to maturity before beginning to multiply-having become disobedient, was made the cause of death for her and the entire human race, so also Mary, betrothed to a man but nevertheless still a virgin, obedient, was the cause of salvation for himself and all mankind …. Thus, the knot of Eve's disobedience was untied by Mary's obedience. What the virgin Eve had bound in unbelief, the Virgin Mary loosed through faith "(Against Heresies 3:22:24 [AD 189]).
"Then the Lord manifests to reach their own things, and was maintained by means of that creation which is supported by itself. He was making a recapitulation of that disobedience that have occurred in relation to a tree, through the obedience that was upon a tree [ie, the cross]. In addition, the original deception was to end the deception, why this virgin Eve (which was already betrothed to a man) was unfortunately misled. That this would be annulled was announced with satisfaction through means of truth by the angel to the Virgin Mary (who was also [espoused] to a man )…. So if Eve disobeyed God, yet Mary was persuaded to be obedient to God. Thus, the Virgin Mary might become the advocate of the virgin Eve. And so, as the human race was reduced to slavery to death by a virgin, so it is rescued by a virgin disobedience. Virgin has been balanced in the opposite scale by virginal obedience. For in the same way, the sin of the man who created the first amendment received by the correction of the First begotten "(ibid., 5:19:1 [AD 189]).
Tertullian
"And again, lest I leave my argument on behalf of Adam: Why Christ called Adam by the apostle [Paul], if the man was not of that earthly origin? But even advocates of reason to this conclusion, that God recovered his image and likeness of a procedure similar to that in which it had been stolen by the devil. It was while Eve was still a virgin that the word of the devil crept in to erect a building of death. Also through a virgin to the Word of God was introduced to create a living structure. Thus what had been devastated by this ruin sex for sex's sake reestablished in salvation. Eve had believed the serpent, Mary believed Gabriel. What is the one destroyed by believing, the other by believing, set straight "(the flesh of Christ 17:4 [AD 210].
Pseudo-Melito
"If only I could get to go through the power of your grace, who has appeared right to your servants who, like you, having overcome death, do not reign in glory, so that should lift the body his mother and take it with you, rejoicing in heaven. Then said Jesus [Salvador]: 'Get under your will' (the passage of the Virgin 16:2-17 [AD 300]).
Ephrem the Syrian
"Only you and your mother are more beautiful than the others, because no blemish in you nor your mother spots. Who of my children can compare in beauty to these? (Nisibene Hymns 27:8 [A.D. 361]).
Ambrose of Milan
"Mary's life must be for you a pictorial image of virginity. His life is like a mirror that reflects the face of chastity and the form of virtue. Here you can find a model for his own life … Showing what to improve, what to imitate, which cling to "(The Virgins 2:2:6 [AD 377]).
"The first thing that lights burning in learning is the greatness of the master. What is the greatest [of teaching by example] that the Mother of God? What more glorious than she whom Glory Itself chose? What more chaste than she who had a body without contact with another body? Why should I mention his other virtues? She was a virgin not only in body but in mind, who stained the sincerity of its disposition of any deception, which was humble in heart, grave in speech, wise in mind, sparing of words, studious reading, supporting no hope in uncertain riches but in the prayer of the poor, the intention at work, modest in speech, the custom of not treating God as a man, but the judge thought, to harm anyone, have good will towards all, to stand before their elders, not to envy their equals, to avoid boastfulness, to follow reason, to love virtue. When did the pain of their parents, even with a look? When did you agree with its neighbors? When will despise the lowly? When should avoid the needy? "(ibid., 2:2:7).
"Come, then, and look for their sheep, not through its employees or laborers, but do it yourself. Lift me up bodily and in the flesh, which has fallen in Adam. Lift me, not over Sarah, but of Mary, virgin not only undefiled but a virgin whom grace had intact, free from every stain of sin "(Commentary on Psalm 118:22-30 [387]).
Augustine
"Our Lord … He was not against men, as it took the form of a man or women, for a woman born. There is also a great mystery here: that just as death comes to us through a woman's life is born through a woman, the devil, defeated, tormented by every character, male and female, as lived happily in the defection of both "(Christian Combat 22:24 [AD 396]).
"That a woman is a mother and a virgin, not only in spirit, but even in the body. In the spirit, is the mother, not your head, who is our Savior himself from everyone, including herself, are rightly called children of the boyfriend, but clearly is the mother of us who are its members, because the love she has cooperated so that the faithful, who are members of that head, might have been born in the Church. In the body, in fact, she is the Mother of that very head "(Holy Virginity 6:6 [AD 401]).
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"Having excepted the holy Virgin Mary, for which, because of the honor of the Lord, I have no doubt when it comes to sins, how we know what abundance of grace for overcoming sin total was conferred upon her, who merited to conceive and carry one in whom there was no sin? "So I say, with the exception of the Virgin, if they have met all holy men and women when they were living here, and were asked if they were without sin, what is supposed to have been his response? "(Nature and Grace 36:42 [A.D. 415]).
Timothy of Jerusalem
"Therefore, the Virgin is immortal to this day, as he had lived in their transport to regions of the Assumption" (Homily on Simeon and Anna [400 AD]).
John the Theologian
"[T] he Lord said to his mother:" Let your heart rejoice and be glad, for all the favors, all that has been given to you by my Father in heaven and me and the Holy Spirit. Every soul who asked his name not be ashamed, but shall find mercy and comfort and the support and confidence, both in the world that now is and what is to come, in the presence of my Father in heaven ' "(The Falling Asleep of Mary [AD 400]).
"And from that moment everyone knew that the naive and beautiful body had been transferred to paradise" (ibid.).
Gregory of Tours
"The course of this life have been completed with Mary Most Holy, which will now be called from the world, all the apostles gathered from their various regions to her house. And when he learned that he was about to take on the world, who watched along with her. And behold, the Lord Jesus came with his angels, and taking his soul, gave more than the angel Michael and withdrew. At dawn, however, the apostles joined his body in a coffin and laid in a tomb, and she kept waiting for the coming of the Lord. And here, once again the Lord was with them, the holy body having been received, sent to take on a cloud in heaven, where now, rejoined to the soul, [Mary's body] rejoices in the elect of the Lord and is in the enjoyment of the good of an eternity without end "(Eight Books of Miracles 1:4 [AD 584]).
"But Mary, the glorious Mother of Christ, who is believed to be a virgin before and after she gave birth, has, as noted above, was translated into paradise, amid the singing of the choirs of angels , where the previous Lord "(ibid., 1:8).
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Peace and every blessing!
We ask Mary to intercede for us as it did at the wedding at Cana (John 2:3-11), and asked him to pray to God for us because the Bible says: "pray for one another" (James 5 16).
I think you mean Catholics do not you?
Do you realize that there is a difference between Catholics and Catholics?