Do you pray to Mary?

Question

As the Bible tells us that we can't even praise God when we die, do you expect that she hears your prayer?

Answer 1

I pray to Jesus because I know that he

hears me when I pray. Mary can't hear

me when I pray and no where in the bible

does it say that we should pray to or for the dead.

Answer 2

we can't praise God when we die? what about all those martyrs who have washed their robes in the blood of the lamb, who praise God in the book of revelations?

The word "pray" ( in greek and latin, of course) has been around longer than christianity, and it's basic meaning is 'ask."..(consider Shakespearean English, "I pray thee, sir.....". No idolatry there!)

so, just as I ask my fellow Christians who are still alive to pray for me, I ask mary to pray for me.  And as we tend to be drawn to exemplary Christians, rather than tepid ones, to ask them for their prayers,  it is natural to me to ask the one of whom the bible says "all generations will call me blessed" for her prayers and help.

Answer 3

Its says in scripture that you should not pray to anyone in HEAVEN or on the earth or under the earth apart from the living GOD.

Jesus was also Marys savior aswell as ours as she quotes "my soul doth magnify the Lord and my soul rejoices in god my SAVIOUR".

she did say all generations shall call me blessed but it in no way gives the go ahead for us to pray to her she was blessed as she was chosen to bring up the son of God.

Answer 4

Yes I do. The Mother of Our God is my Mother too.

Answer 5

If Moses and Elijah can show up to talk to Jesus long after their deaths (Matthew 17:3), and if Abraham and the rich man can be chatting it up in the afterlife (Luke 16:19-31), Mary can hear my prayer.

Answer 6

No, I don't because Jesus is my mediator and petitioner before God, the only way to Heaven, not his mother (who, though remarkable, was still only human)

Answer 7

We are only to pray to God through Jesus (for Christians).  Mary is an earthly mother with a wonderful heart, but nothing more.  

Answer 8

Yes, I pray to our Lady because since I have started praying to Her, I find myself yearning to know Christ and worship Him more and more. I find myself awe struck at creation (all of us) and completely wowed by Her perfection. I adore Her for giving to the world Her only Son, She is His Mother. He loves Her and made Her perfection in human nature and the nature of the Eternal an example for us lowly people to follow. She is Blessed among women. She said yes to God not once but through out Her whole life. With out Her co-operation there would have been no Jesus Christ on Earth, no perfect Sacrafice for the Eternal Salvation of mankind and really with out Her bringing forth the Only Begotten of the Father we all would be in darkness and forsaken. We owe it to Her to praise Her name and give all our Worship, Honor and Glory to the Eternal Father, His only Begotten Son and Their Holy Ghost, without whom we would have no light and no virtue. To pray to Her is to pay homage to our Almighty and Eternal Creator. To pray to Her puts Christ in our Hearts and souls. To pray to Her gives us strength and courage of conviction to stand up for the Divine who gave His human life for the betterment and Salvation of mankind (what my faith calls me to do here everyday). When we insult Her, we insult Him. When we disrespect Her we are disrespecting Him. He denies Her nothing, because of Her we can all be saved through the precious blood of the Divine Son of the Eternal Father.

Why wouldn't you pray to Her?

Pray the Rosary and receive the Sacraments for the glory of God in the Highest.

Answer 9

No

Answer 10

where does it say that we cant praise God once we are dead?

and no i dont because she is not God, she was a mortal, she may of been Jesus' mother but she's nothing compared to the almighty

Answer 11

I used to pray to Mary, but got less results than I got from God. So, I dropped both of them and watch the Tonight Show instead.

Answer 12

No. I don't pray to anyone.

Answer 13

do you expect that she hears your prayer?

what do you say to a question like this?

scary that anyone thinks the answer might be yes, truly and utterly terrifying

Answer 14

Oooh, that Buybull is perty smart, ain't she?  Telling you sheep that you can even praise god when you die...figer that!

Answer 15

Remember that Catholics pray to Mary, not worship her.

Answer 16

No, but I think she is a lovely image.

Answer 17

Only on Holy Days of Obligation. Then I pray for Intercession: 'Hail Mary, Full of Grace, the Lord is with Thee. Blessed art Thou among Women, and Blessed is the Fruit of Thy Womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, Pray for Us in the Beginning and at the hour of our Death......'

Actually I gave up praying like this a long time ago, but some still do.

Answer 18

Didn’t Jesus tell us,

"After this manner therefore pray ye:

Our Father which art in heaven,

Hallowed be thy name.

Thy kingdom come.

Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread.

And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.

And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil:

For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever.

Amen."

Matthew 6:9-13 and similarly Luke 11:2-4

The instruction is pray to God directly.

Scripture clearly states -

1 Timothy 2:5  

For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;

So praying to Mary is of no avail.

Besides which, as others have rightly pointed out.  

Mary died.  

There is not Biblical evidence to refute this fact.  

It is only the cooked up tradition of some churches that declares otherwise.  

Ecclesiastes 9:5  tells us

For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.

Praying to Mary is a waste of time and effort.  

Answer 19

I don't pray to any imaginary beings... including this "god" you speak of.

Oh,... and that "Jesus" guy... he's dead too.

Answer 20

can you tell me where it says in the bible we can't praise God when we die..not being patronising,a genuine q..and yes i do pray to the virgin Mary

Answer 21

Yes, missy, I KNOW she hears my prayers. And so do all those thousands from Fatima and Lourdes who have been cured and found the truth.

Answer 22

No, no one but God.

Answer 23

Praying to Mary is wrong, she was human so to pray to her is giving the status of being a God. The bible says that we must only pray to God.

Answer 24

Imagine the torture she must endure being bombarded by all those prayers.  

Answer 25

seems a few of you need to read that bible of yours especially pastor a or should i say pastor f

Do Those in Heaven Pray for us

Not only do those in heaven pray with us, they 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 he was given much incense to mingle with the prayers of all the saints upon the golden altar before the throne; and the smoke of the incense rose with the prayers of the saints from the hand of the angel before God" (Rev. 8:3-4).

Fundamentalists often challenge the Catholic practice of asking saints and angels to pray on our behalf. But the Bible directs us to invoke those in heaven and ask them to pray with us.

Does the Bible Invoke those in Heaven to pray for us

Thus, in Psalm 103 we pray, "Bless the Lord, O you his angels, you mighty ones who do his word, hearkening to the voice of his word! Bless the Lord, all his hosts, his ministers that do his will!" (Ps. 103:20–21). And in the opening verses of Psalms 148 we pray, "Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord from the heavens, praise him in the heights! Praise him, all his angels, praise him, all his host!"

Jesus himself warned us not to offend small children, because their guardian angels have guaranteed intercessory access to the Father: "See that you do not despise one of these little ones; for I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven" (Matt. 18:10).

Because he is the only God-man and the Mediator of the New Covenant, Jesus is the only mediator between man and God (1 Tim. 2:5), but this in no way means we cannot or should not ask our fellow Christians to pray with us and for us (1 Tim. 2:1–4). In particular, we should ask the intercession of those Christians in heaven, who have already had their sanctification completed, for "[t]he prayer of a righteous man has great power in its effects" (Jas. 5:16).

"But not the high priest [Christ] alone prays for those who pray sincerely, but also the angels . . . as also the souls of the saints who have already fallen asleep

Rom 6:3-4

Or are you unaware that we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were indeed buried with him through baptism into death, so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might live in newness of life.

Col 2:12

You were buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the power of God, who raised him from the dead.

Pray at all times in the Spirit, with all prayer and supplication. To that end keep alert with all perseverance, making supplication for all the saints, the saints, and also for me, that utterance may be given me in opening my mouth boldly to proclaim the mystery of the gospel, for which I am an ambassador in chains; that I may declare it boldly, as I ought to speak" (Ephesians 6:18-20).

"First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all men, for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life, godly and respectful in every way. This is good, and it is acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth" (1 Timothy 2:1-4). But doesn't the Bible says Jesus is the only Mediator between God and man?

A: Yes, it does; in 1 Timothy 2:5 ("For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus"), but we just quoted the four verses immediately preceding this one, and you will remember that in them Paul said: "I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all men."

So the fact that Jesus is the one Mediator between God and man does not prevent other people from acting as intercessors. And we know intercessory prayer certainly does not displease God, for in the same passage we just cited, Paul tells us: "This is good, and it is acceptable in the sight of God our Savior

I am sometimes stunned at how people can hop up and down about what Paul says in 1 Timothy 2:5 and yet miss the subject of intercessory prayer, which is not only the topic of the preceding four verses, but the segue into the discussion of Jesus' unique Mediatorship.

Second, he is the only Mediator between God and man because he is the Mediator of the New Covenant, by which we obtain salvation. This sense of his unique Mediatorship, however, does not prevent other people from being mediators in a parallel sense, for Moses is described as the mediator of the Old Covenant (Galatians 3:19-20), just as Jesus is the Mediator of the New Covenant (Hebrews 8:6, 9:15, 12:24; note that the Greek word used in the Galatians and Hebrews passages, mesites = mediator, is the same as in 1 Timothy 2:5). However, since the Mosaic covenant is now defunct, that leaves Jesus as the only covenant Mediator today.

"But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust" (Matthew 5:44-45)

The unique Mediatorship of Christ thus no more prevents our brother and sister Christians in heaven from praying for us than it prevents our brother and sister Christians here on earth from praying for us. It is intercessory prayer in both cases

In fact, the saints in heaven are even more suited to this than living Christians (the saints on earth) because they have undivided devotion toward God. Here on earth we are afflicted with lethargy, distractions, difficulty in concentration, and lack of fervor in prayer, but in heaven none of these are the case. Our brothers and sisters in heaven are the perfect prayer warriors, having been freed of the distractions of the body.

For example, consider the following verses and the concern they show those in heaven having for what happens on earth:

"Then one of the elders [who represent the hierarchy of the people of God in heaven] addressed me, saying, 'Who are these, clothed in white robes, and whence have they come?' I said to him, 'Sir, you know.' And he said to me, 'These are they who have come out of the great tribulation; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb" (Revelation 7:13-14).

"[A]nd they [the elders] sang a new song, saying, 'Worthy art thou to take the scroll and to open its seals, for thou wast slain and by thy blood didst ransom men for God from every tribe and tongue and people and nation, and hast made them a kingdom and priests to our God, and they shall reign on earth'" (Revelation 5:9-10).

"Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, 'The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ [this tells us these are the voices of humans], and he shall reign for ever and ever'" (Revelation 11:15).

"And the twenty-four elders who sit on their thrones before God fell on their faces and worshipped God, saying, 'We give thanks to thee, Lord God Almighty, who art and who wast, that thou hast taken thy great power and begun to reign. The nations raged, but thy wrath came, and the time for the dead to be judged, for rewarding thy servants, the prophets and saints, and those who fear thy name, both small and great, and for destroying the destroyers of the earth'" (Revelation 11:16-18).

"And I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, 'Now the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Christ have come, for the accuser of our brethren [this indicates it is a human voice] has been thrown down, who accuses them day and night before our God. And they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, for they loved not their lives even unto death. Rejoice then, O heaven and you that dwell therein! But woe to you, O earth and sea, for the devil has come down to you in great wrath, because he knows that his time is short!'" (Revelation 12:10-12).

After this I heard what seemed to be the loud voice of a great multitude in heaven, crying, 'Hallelujah! Salvation and glory and power belong to our God, for his judgments are true and just; he has judged the great harlot who corrupted the earth with her fornication, and he has avenged on her the blood of his servants.' Once

How do you know the saints in heaven are praying for us

"And Onias spoke, saying, 'This is a man who loves the brethren and prays much for the people and the holy city, Jeremiah, the prophet of God'" (2 Maccabees 15:14).

What makes you think the saints can hear our prayers?

A: The very verses we just quoted. It goes without saying, for example, that our guardian angels are aware of what we are doing. It is their job to guard us, after all, so we can be sure they know what we are doing and when we are asking them to pray for us.

And in the same way, when we read of the saints in heaven offering our prayers to God in the form of incense (Revelation 5:8, 8:3-4), we know they are aware of our prayers.

Remember: Most of the saints don't have physical bodies right now. They furthermore don't have physical prayer request cards or physical incense or anything like that. This means that when they are pictured as presenting God with our prayers, they are not physically presenting him with our prayers, so they must be mentally presenting them to him. But if they are mentally presenting our prayers to God then they must be aware of our prayers.

Answer 26

Yes I Do, It's called INTERCESSION we ask Mary and Saints to pray for us just like you would ask a family or friend to pray for you. We pray DIRECTLY to God and Worship God alone not Saints or Mary!.

And it is Bibilical here you have some referance,Thus, in Psalm 103 we pray, "Bless the Lord, O you his angels, you mighty ones who do his word, hearkening to the voice of his word! Bless the Lord, all his hosts, his ministers that do his will!" (Ps. 103:20–21). And in the opening verses of Psalms 148 we pray, "Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord from the heavens, praise him in the heights! Praise him, all his angels, praise him, all his host!"

Not only do those in heaven pray with us, they also pray for us. In the book of Revelation, John sees that "the twenty-four elders [the leaders of the people of God in heaven] fell down before the Lamb, each holding a harp, and with golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints" (Rev. 5:8). Thus the saints in heaven offer to God the prayers of the saints on earth.

Angels do the same thing: "[An] angel came and stood at the altar [in heaven] with a golden censer; and he was given much incense to mingle with the prayers of all the saints upon the golden altar before the throne; and the smoke of the incense rose with the prayers of the saints from the hand of the angel before God" (Rev. 8:3–4).

Catholics and Orthodox Worship God and God alone

Mary is not dead 'she is no longer in this World' but she is in Heaven. I will give you one easy example that is even in the KJV. When Elijah and Moses appeared to Jesus were they dead?, NO!. We do pray directly and Worship God but we ask the Saints and Mary for intercession ' For them to pray for us'.

Answer 27

What's the point when you can go directly to God?    I say skip the middleman, ahh . . . middlewoman.

Answer 28

No: She is dead.

Answer 29

I pray to Jesus because Mary is not my god. God is my God and He is my judge

Answer 30

I have been known to pray to Mary.  I'm not Catholic, but when I go to Catholic mass I pray to Mary because it's part of the mass, and it feels fine.

I really don't understand all the fuss about idolatry, or about praying to saints who have died.   I mean, I understand the theological arguments used, but I'm not convinced by them.

Sometimes I think protestants make a big deal out of it because they want to say that catholics are wrong.  But I really don't think it's a big deal.  I just can't bring myself to believe in a God who cares as much as humans seem to about "sound doctrine".  

Answer 31

No, I don't.

Jesus told us to pray to His Father, not to his mother.

Mary has not heard one single prayer from one single Catholic, ever.  No Catholic Saints has heard one single prayer either.

Anyone who knows Latin and who watched the Pope's funeral on TV knows that Catholics pray to and worship Mary.

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