Question For Catholics and Christians?
First, let me say that no offense to this question, nor to dispel my belief and I'm not trying to dispel his own, I'm just asking an honest question.
Why Catholics (and please forgive me if I'm writing Stero, I know nothing about Catholicism) pray to Mary?
I know some will say ask Mary to intercede for them such as to pray for them as Christians would ask his pastor to pray for them.
I'm confused about this subject and would like clarification of Christians and Catholics.
If Catholics are Christians, I am sorry again to the writing, as I said that I am rather basically ignorant of the Catholic religion.
Thank you and God bless
- This question is for Christians, please. Catholics Welcomed.
- Question about Catholics and Protestants.
- What is the difference between Catholics and Christians?
- Is it true that non-Catholic Christians can not understand that Mary is not adored, worshiped only.
- What is your opinion of Catholics call themselves Christians?
I think he did very well for yourself. YES, NO Catholics pray for Mary to intercede on their behalf, simlar to the way many of us ask our friends, family, and pastors to pray for us. Like others, we also pray to Jesus directly.
Asking someone to pray for us, not our relationship with Jesus dillute or diminish its role as mediator. In fact, if you think about it logically … reinforces it. Instead of just praying to myself .. I have both, you and I pray for the same topic … both people, believing that Jesus can help us. As ACTIONS amplified and faith.
The idea is deeply rooted in Scripture .. despite what many non-Catholic Christians (AKA Protestants) will tell you. Even in the Old Testament, we see the righteous men of God, praying to the angels to ask God for help. There's even a verse saying no to bullshit the guardian angels of young children .. because being in the sky .. these angels "always see the face of God" - as in.. going to tell God what he has done. Obviously I'm paraphrasing … but that's the basic message.
Also we see Mary intercede for people at the wedding at Cana. Jesus turns water into wine … Why? YEP, because his mother asks why …. no other. So he respects it, although it is human and God.
There are countless verses saying that we are all brothers and sisters in Christ. That some of our brothers and sisters were raised. The verses make clear that we are still connected to people who have died because of our Spiritual Father .. GOD.
The apostles not only emplore to pray for our brothers and sisters .. but our enemies too.
The Earth, continue to struggle with sin … those in heaven and have found value .. for not only found them worthy of salvation, but they are not struggling with sin, like the rest of us … Right?
So putting all these verses and ideas .. and you realize that we must pray for each other, we are still family spiritually speaking, even if they are dead, and it is better to pray for us, then those who are already in heaven? and finally .. omnipotence of God is that if people wanted to hear us in heaven .. certaintly that could allow them to?
I am a Christian but not Catholic, I also wondered the same thing, because many Christians do not pray to Mary and told me this. They pray to Mary because she is the mother of the gods and they believe she is the person closest to God. They believe they can pray directly to God as well as other Christian denominations to go to the next best thing to pray to God for them
I think that Catholics can respond better than non-Catholics.
Yes, you're right - we ask the intercession of Mary. We believe it is a prayer warrior, so to speak, and one of the first disciples. We also believe in the communion of saints - which means just because someone dies does not mean they are no longer part of the body of Christ.
And yes, Catholics are Christians.
No, we can pray to God and the saints. I know its hard to understand (although I have problems. In addition, many Catholics and Orthodox do not understand this well which leads to idolatry). But we should not pray to saints, worship and ask for intercession. I can not explain better. I mean, many would say, why not just skip the middle man and pray to God? Well, I ask, why not skip a priest and pray to God themselves?
I have formally asked the managers of "Yahoo Answers", which had a question about "Catholics pray to Mary" is published increasingly, they're coming to shoot myself in the head. "The rest of you please help in this task? Thank you very much …
we ask Mary to intercede directly with God on our behalf, as we ask our friends and family here on earth to pray for us. If you would like to discuss the Catholic Church but would be more than happy to discuss with you in private
That's good.
Catholics do not pray to Mary. We just ask her and the rest of the saints, pray for us.
I hope that helps!
you're right - Catholics pray to Mary to ask her to intercede for them and offer prayers to God;)
Catholics are Christians.
Christians do not have your pastor to intercede for them.
God hears everyones prayers.
As many have already said we are in communion with those in heaven and earth the Church triumphant from a family where death is a separation, but a continuation of the Church in Heaven.I not remember the verses, but Christ is represented as our high priest standing at the altar, but my favorite example is the prayer of Lords, where it says your will be done on earth as in the last Heaven.And holy of the Blessed Virgin were simply following its proclamation in the Gospel of Luke where it says that hence forward all generations will call me blessed.Here is a site where you can read in the teachings of the Fathers of the Church …. http://www.newadvent.org/ … Thank you kindly …
The ancient Christian tradition true - sorry about the text - all worship the Virgin Mary. Indeed, even Martin Luther, the founder of Protestantism singing hymns to the Mother of God.
There are several reasons why:
1) Christ first public miracle at Cana in Galilee (John 2) was at the behest of the Mother of Christ. Which is another way of saying, your _intercession_ with her Son on behalf of the couple and their guests.
2) God's Holy angels visited - as we know from the Scriptures that only visited the righteous before the Lord. (Abraham, Jacob, etc.)
3) The angels praised and announced Mary's holiness and grace with God
Luke 1:28 And the angel came to her and said, Hail, that art highly favored, the Lord is with thee, blessed art thou among women.
Luke 1:30 And the angel said: Fear not, Mary, for thou hast found favor with God,
4) Something unusual all still prophesied from the beginning of time has been met Mary through their acceptance of the Will of God - to redeem the rejection of the will of God that was the sin of Eve.
[The first prophecy of Mary and salvation through it]
Genesis 3:15
I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; to crush your head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
[Another prophecy]
Isaiah 7:14
Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and have a child, and shall call his name Immanuel.
[The prophecy fulfilled!]
Luke 1:35 And the angel answered and said: The Holy Spirit will come upon you and the power of the Most High will overshadow thee: therefore also that holy to be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.
[Acceptance of the will of God by Mary]
Luke 1:38 And Mary said, Behold the handmaid of the Lord unto me according to thy word. And the angel departed from her.
5) At a time when the Holy Spirit was given to the world (that happened at Pentecost), Elizabeth, Mary's cousin said these words!
Luke 1:41:45
41 and pass that when Elizabeth heard Mary's greeting, the babe leaped in her womb and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit:
42And she spoke with one voice, and said, Blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb.
43And whence is this to me that the mother of my Lord should come to me?
44For, behold, as soon as the voice of your greeting sounded in my ears, the babe leaped in my womb for joy.
45And blessed is she that believed: for there shall be a representation of the things he was the Lord.
6) The Mother of God and then responded to Elizabeth - esp. note V48, V50, V55,
Luke 1:46-55
46And Mary said: My soul magnifies the Lord,
47 and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior.
48For he hath regarded the lowliness of his handmaid, behold, from henceforth all generations will call me blessed.
49For who is mighty has done to me great things and holy is his name.
50And his mercy is on those who fear him from generation to generation.
51He has shown strength with his arm, he has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.
52He is the mighty from their seats, and exalted the humble.
53He has filled the hungry with good things, and the rich he hath sent empty.
54He has helped his servant Israel, remembering his mercy;
55As he spake unto our fathers, to Abraham and his descendants forever.
7) HISTORY: How many times to the Mother of God interceded in a visible and unambiguous Christians over the millennia?
- In many wars against the Christians, how often the Mother of God appears and expel the enemies of Christ and the servants of Christ?
- Or do miracles through the sacred images of her? Google "Kursk Root Icon" and see how more than 700 years, the Mother of God has been with the servants of his son and God. or the icon Iveron Mother of God "
- O avoided disaster either spiritual or physical conduct of countless believers
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If I be so bold your question is not so much about the Virgin Mary, whom everyone counts! But the veneration of saints and prayers of intercession for us sinners on earth.
This question really should be asking. Why the Christian Church must accept the prayers of the saints and their intercession with God for two thousand years, yet have chosen not to?
Have not you read that "The prayer of a righteous man avails much." James 5:16. Who is more righteous than those he has chosen to glorify God through miracles, both in the flesh and after physical death?
Or that God is not dead but alive
Mark 12:27
He is not God of the dead but the God of the living: ye therefore very wrong.
Luke 20:38
Because he is not a God of the dead but of the living: for all live unto h
Catholics were the first Christians. We ask Mary and the saints to pray for us and with us. We do what the Bible says to do. We were the first based on the bible of the church that the Bible was compiled.
The Bible directs us to make use of those in heaven and ask them to pray with us.
Thus, in Psalm 103, we pray, "Bless the Lord, you his angels, that the powerful who do his word, listening to the voice of his word! Bless the Lord, all his hosts, his ministers that do his will "(Psalm 103:20-21). And in Psalm 148 we pray, "Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord of the heavens, praise him in the highest! Praise him, all his angels, praise him, all his army "(Psalm 148:1-2)
Not only praying heaven with us, also pray for us. In Revelation, John sees that "the elders [the leaders of the people of God in heaven] fell down before the Lamb, each holding a harp and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints" ( Revelation 5:8). Thus the saints in heaven offer to God the prayers of the saints on earth.
Angels do the same: "[an] angel came and stood at the altar [in heaven] with a golden censer, and was given much incense to mingle with the prayers of all saints upon the altar of gold before the throne, and the smoke of incense rose with the prayers of the saints from the hand of the angel before God "(Revelation 8:3-4).
Jesus himself warned us not to mess with young children because their guardian angels have guaranteed intercessory access to the Father: "See that you despise not one of these little, because I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father in heaven. " (Matthew 18:10).
Because he is the only God-man, Jesus is the only mediator between God and man (1 Tim. 2:5), but this does not mean you can not or should not ask our fellow Christians to pray with us and for us (1 Tim. 2:1-4), including Christians in heaven, who had already completed his sanctification, because "[t] he prayer of a righteous man has great power in its effects" (James 5 16).
Catholics do not differentiate between the living (on earth) and the dead (those who left) members of the Body of Christ (the fullness of the Church.) The fullness of the mystical Body of Christ is located at the junction of all Santos, past and present, from below and from above in the sky.
In view of the foregoing, it is undeniable that those who are called to heaven, Mary, still alive in the spirit in the Kingdom of God that coexists with our world. Since some non-Catholics pray for their deceased parents, grandparents or other biological relatives, with these dear people took to intercede with God on their behalf, Catholics pray through Mary to Jesus, taking advantage of its position as the Blessed Mother of God.
This action affirms the Catholic and divinely inspired prophetic passage found in the Holy Bible, which states: "Certainly, from now on all generations will call me blessed." [Lk. 1:47] All the generations could not call Mary blessed if she did not actively participate in the progressive Divine Plan continues to unfold before our eyes.
In fact, all generations have called the Blessed Virgin, including this one, because she has never failed to intercede for the world, his endless advocacy for miracle cures and other favors.
Catholics are Christians first and original. Christians do not usurp the name of Catholic Christians, but in reality they were in protest of the Church founded by Christ in his place.
First, it is wrong to say that the practice of praying for others is unfounded Biblical Scripture teaches us a life of prayer for others, it is part of God's commandment to love one another.
(2 Corinthians 5:8 DRB), but we are safe and have a willingness to be absent in the body and be present with the Lord.
The Catholic Church teaches that it is absolutely necessary for one to seek the intercession of the saints for salvation. The Church teaches that prayer to God is necessary for salvation for all believers. For a Catholic who would be a mistake to ignore the liturgical worship offered to God in the days of feast of Saints and prayers to ask for her intercession.
The Communion of Saints is an ancient church dogma and is registered in the Apostles' Creed. It simply says that the faithful because of his relationship with Christ is alive, even after the death of his flesh and worship with us. For us, the Church is composed of the Church Militant which represents all believers live their hope in the flesh.
(Phi 2:12 DRB) Therefore, my beloved, (as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence), with fear and trembling work out your salvation.
(Phi 2:13 DRB) For it is God who worketh in you both to will and carry out, according to his good pleasure.
This is the Church who are suffering and those who are temporarily in need of further purification of sin so they can enjoy God's presence.
(2MA DRB 12:46) Therefore, it is a holy and a wholesome thought to pray for the dead, who are free from sins.
Finally, the communion of Saints consists of those who have won the race:
(Phi 3:14 DRB) I press toward the mark, the prize of the supernatural vocation of God in Christ Jesus.
Their immortal souls are in heaven in God's presence:
(Rev 5:8 DRB) And when he opened the book, the four living creatures and the elders fell down before the Lamb, each one of them harps and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.
The universal current that connects all of God's creation is His love that we made at our baptism in our path to sainthood. This is not emotional, but a desire placed in us by the Spirit of God remains a desire for other people than ourselves and that love extends even to our enemies. This is really a love that comes only from God and is an alien and meaningless to those who have not received God's saving grace. This desire in our souls do not end with the death of our flesh, but continues in eternity where the saints through her intercession in prayer, encourage us in our career and help us to endure until the union with God.
I think some people of faith who do not understand the Communion of Saints, somehow I think that asking saints to pray for us is to withdraw our love or our trust in God. It is indeed impossible, if you really love as God commands and has given us the grace to understand, not to pray to those we love and yet we expect them to return the same love that we pray for ourselves and present our prayers to God .
In Christ
Fr Joseph
Just as devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus is just a form of devotion to the adorable person of Jesus, so is the devotion to the Sacred Heart of Mary, but a special form of devotion to Mary. To that, strictly speaking, it is possible that the devotion to the Heart of Mary, the attention and homage of the faithful must be directed to the physical heart itself. However, this in itself is not enough, the faithful must read therein all that the human heart of Mary suggests, is the symbol of expression and the vivid memory: the inner life of Mary, her joys and sorrows, her virtues and hidden perfections, and, above all, her virginal love for her God, her maternal love for her Divine Son and her maternal love and compassion for sinners and miserable children here below. The consideration of the inner life of Mary and the beauty of her soul, without thinking of her physical heart, does not constitute our devotion, and even less what the review Heart of Mary merely as a part of her virginal body. The two elements are essential to the devotion, like the soul and body are necessary for the constitution of man.
All this is sufficiently clear in the explanations given elsewhere (see DEVOTION TO THE HEART OF JESUS), and if our devotion to Mary not to be confused with our devotion to Jesus, on the other hand it is equally true that our worship of Heart of Mary is, as such, analogous to our worship of the Sacred Heart. It is, however, necessary to indicate some differences in this analogy, the better to explain the Catholic character of devotion to the Heart of Mary. Some of these differences are very marked, while others are barely perceptible. Devotion to the Heart of Jesus is especially directed to the Divine Heart as overflowing with love for men, and presents this love to us as despised and outraged. In devotion to the Heart of Mary, on the contrary, it seems that attract us above all is the love of this Heart of Jesus and God. His love for men is not overlooked, but not so obvious nor so dominant. This difference is related to another. The first, an act of devotion to the Sacred Heart is love willing to respond to the love, devotion to the Heart of Mary is not the first act, so clearly in this devotion, perhaps, the study and imitation held as important place as love. For, while this study and imitation are impregnated with filial affection, devotion is presented with any object visible enough to arouse our love, that is, on the contrary, naturally awakened and increased in the study and imitation. Therefore, strictly speaking, love is more the result that the object of devotion, the object is rather the love of God and Jesus better by joining Mary for this purpose and by imitating her virtues. It also appears that, although in the devotion to the Heart of Mary, the heart has an essential role as symbol and sensible object, does not seem as prominent as in devotion to the Heart of Jesus, we think that instead of the thing symbolized, of love, virtues, feelings and inner life of Mary.
While praying to the saints back to the earliest days of Christianity and is shared by Catholics, Orthodox and other Eastern Christians, Anglicans and even some (3 / 4 of Christians on Earth) is attacked by many Protestants (only 1 / 4 of Christianity)!
The Church is a communion of saints.
Just as we ask each other on Earth to pray for each other, we ask the saints in heaven to pray for us.
The Bible leads us to ask those in heaven to pray with us. Thus, in Psalm 103, we pray, "Bless the Lord, you his angels, that the powerful who do his word, listening to the voice of his word! Bless the Lord, all his hosts, his ministers that do his will "(Psalm 103:20-21).
And in Psalm 148 we pray, "Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord of the heavens, praise him in the highest! Praise him, all his angels, praise him, all his army "(Psalm 148:1-2).
Not only praying heaven with us, also pray for us. In the book of Revelation, we read: "[an] angel came and stood at the altar [in heaven] with a golden censer, and was given much incense to mingle with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar before the throne, and the smoke of incense rose with the prayers of the saints from the hand of the angel before God "(Revelation 8:3-4).
And those in heaven offer to God our prayers are not angels but human beings. John sees that "the elders [the leaders of the people of God in heaven] fell down before the Lamb, each holding a harp and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints" (Revelation 5:8 ). Basically, as this passage shows: The saints in heaven offer to God the prayers of the saints on earth.
The early Christians called on the saints to pray for us:
Hermas
"[The pastor said,]" But those who are weak and slothful in prayer, hesitate to ask anything from the Lord, but the Lord is full of compassion, and gives without fail to all who asked. But, [Hermas,] having been strengthened by the holy angel [you saw], and obtained from him such intercession, and not be lazy, why do not you ask the understanding of God and receive from him? "(3:5 Pastor: 4 [year 80]).
Methodius
"Hail to thee for ever, Virgin Mother of God, our unceasing joy, because I turn to you again. You are the beginning of our party that are its middle and end, the pearl of great price which belongs to the kingdom, the fat of every victim, the living altar of the Bread of Life [Jesus]. Hail, you treasure the love of God. Hail, you fount of love the Son of Man …. You shone, sweet gift to give Mother, with the sunlight that shone with the excruciating fires of a more fervent charity, giving birth at the end that was designed for you … making manifest the mystery hidden and unspeakable, invisible, the Son of the Father, the Prince of Peace, which was a wonderful way to be less than all littleness "(speech of Simeon and Anna 14 [AD 305]).
"Therefore, we pray [ask] you, most excellent of women, who glories in the confidence of his honor to the mother, that continually keep in memory. Holy Mother of God, remember us, I say, that make our boast in you, and in August hymns celebrate the memory that will live forever and never fade away "(ibid.).