Asking Saints to Pray to Mary

[Milestone]

I’ve read that praying to the Blessed Virgin is more efficacious than praying directly to God because she is much closer to Him than we are, but if that’s the case, then would asking another saint to pray to Mary for us be even more efficacious?

 

[brad90956]

Why not go directly to God through Mary? All my prayers to God go through Mary’s Immaculate Heart so she can purify, embellish and multiply them. She takes out all of the impurities and self love.

I am not knocking or criticizing praying to the Saints, but going through Mary is the best path, but not the only path, to Jesus.

 

[JurisPrudens]

I’ve read that praying to the Blessed Virgin is more efficacious than praying directly to God because she is much closer to Him than we are, but if that’s the case, then would asking another saint to pray to Mary for us be even more efficacious?

It is not correct to say that “praying to the Blessed Virgin is more efficacious than praying directly to God”. Every prayer, ideally, should be BOTH directly to God and to Mary and other saints.

Imagine Yourself at trial; not an American style one (with juries), but a Continental style trial, where the Judge takes the decision. And imagine You have an team of the best lawyers in the world. There is a main lawyer - Mary, Who is perfectly qualified for any case. There are lawyers and attorneys for every particular field of law Your case involved, whom You consult from time to time. And Your adversary is the devil. Now, all Your motions will be addressed to the Judge, but, at the same time, You make every single one of them after the consultation with Your lawyers, so that they could formulate Your speeches and motions in a correct way.

 

[CactusVsBaloon]

Well I’m not to hung up or devoted to hagiography, but on the other hand I’m very marian in my Catholicism.
I feel all to often that people mix the blessed mother with regular saints to be honest.
Mary is so so much more than just another saint.
She is the human tabernacle of Christ, she said yes to the new convent, she is indeed the highest human being in history.

She is to be venerated and glorified as the mother of all nations.
She is the new Eve, the one that instead of rebelling said “may it happen according to thine will.”.

While she is the queen off all creation and of heaven and earth and thus high above she is also our mama.
We are called to cling to her in our difficulties and share our life Werth her botg joy aswell as sorrows.

We are called to always seek mother Mary as she is the co-redemrix her yes were crucial for Gods Salvatory plan to succeed.

The relationship between Christ and his mother is also very intimate and close.
Remember how her steadfast faith in him pursued him into starting his mission at the wedding in Cana.
She is of GREAT importance to our Lord.

If she ask and begs for her children (that being us) we consider such intersession to be very influential and powerful.
I believe that the plee of Mary may change someone’s status from goat to sheep.

It’s not a one way relationship with Mary you know.
The more we include her, the more we venerate her and the more we devote ourself to her the more she loves us, hence the more she’ll pray for us.

The world is wicked and I for one are sure that her intersession is crucial for this falling world.

 

[Todd977]

I’ve read that praying to the Blessed Virgin is more efficacious than praying directly to God because she is much closer to Him than we are, but if that’s the case, then would asking another saint to pray to Mary for us be even more efficacious?

Seems like a logical conclusion. After all, Scripture says, “The prayer of a righteous man has great power in its effects.” (James 5:16b) And, you can’t get more righteous than the saints in heaven who have been made perfect. Not only is enlisting their assistance efficacious but, like enlisting the assistance of our fellow Christians on earth, it also increases the mutual love between the members of the mystical body of Christ. As they say, The more the merrier.

 

[Katherine438]

I always say a rosary to Mary before I pray to Jesus … my hope is that she will fix my prayers and petitions so that they are more pleasing to her Son.