Do you pray more to our Blessed Virgin Mary than our King Jesus? POLL

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I’m guessing you (the original poster) are not Catholic, or poorly catechized…otherwise, how hard is it to realize when we pray to the BVM we are praying to Jesus through her…do you not ask friends to pray for you or your intentions? When we pray to Mary, we are asking her to carry our intentions to her Son.
 
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semper_catholicus said:
Mary is the safest, easiest, shortest, and most perfect way of approaching Jesus.” St. Louis de Montfort
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Intercession of prayer on behalf of Saints and Mary is helpful, and has been taught the last 2000+ years by the Catholic Church.

But I really get concerned when people say that they only pray to Mary, and think she’s the only door to Jesus only. This, in my opinion is idolizing Mary above Jesus. Theologically, I’ve never read the CC having this doctrine. Please correct me if I’m wrong with the Catechism of the CC.
 
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Hereiam said:
I’m guessing you (the original poster) are not Catholic, or poorly catechized…otherwise, how hard is it to realize when we pray to the BVM we are praying to Jesus through her…do you not ask friends to pray for you or your intentions? When we pray to Mary, we are asking her to carry our intentions to her Son.
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Yes I do pray to Mary’s and ask intercession of prayer as well as to the Saints, the same way I’ve asked people here to pray for me. When I get in deep prayer through out the day though, where the rubber meets the road, I pray exactly how Jesus taught us to pray. “Our Father, who art in heaven…”
 
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EvangelistVictor said:
I pray exactly how Jesus taught us to pray. “Our Father, who art in heaven…”
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So, you don’t pray to Jesus, you only pray to the Father? I thought that (praying to Jesus) was the who rationale behind your poll.

Doesn’t Paul tell us to offer prayers in the name of Jesus, so whatever Saint or person of the Holy Trinity they are offered to, they are prayers to Jesus.
 
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Hereiam said:
So, you don’t pray to Jesus, you only pray to the Father? I thought that was the who rationale behind your poll.
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Jesus and the Father are one. Praying to the Father is praying to Jesus. The Trinity. This is the mystery of our faith.
 
SeriousQuestion said:
I think a good way to think of it is to say that Mary goes to Jesus instead of us going to Him.
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This sounds like you’re not praying to Jesus when praying to Mary, but the Church teaches that when we pray to Mary, we are actually praying to Jesus. We’re just asking Mary to, “talk to Jesus for me, please!”.
 
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I pray the LOTH (Office of Readings, Lauds, Terce, Sext, None, Vespers, and Compline). On the other hand I pray all four sets of Mysteries of the Rosary which includes meditating on the mysteries of the Godhead. The Divine Mercy chaplet is about the Father and the Son. It is not a contest.
 
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We pray to Jesus that He grant us HIs mercy. We pray to the Virgin Mary to ask her to pray to Jesus that He grant us His mercy.
 
This is what I mean.

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The dogma of the Holy Trinity
253 The Trinity is One. We do not confess three Gods, but one God in three persons, the “consubstantial Trinity”.83 The divine persons do not share the one divinity among themselves but each of them is God whole and entire: "The Father is that which the Son is, the Son that which the Father is, the Father and the Son that which the Holy Spirit is, i.e. by nature one God."84 In the words of the Fourth Lateran Council (1215), "Each of the persons is that supreme reality, viz., the divine substance, essence or nature."85
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2674 Mary gave her consent in faith at the Annunciation and maintained it without hesitation at the foot of the Cross. Ever since, her motherhood has extended to the brothers and sisters of her Son "who still journey on earth surrounded by dangers and difficulties."28 Jesus, the only mediator, is the way of our prayer; Mary, his mother and ours, is wholly transparent to him: she “shows the way” (hodigitria), and is herself “the Sign” of the way, according to the traditional iconography of East and West.
 
MichaelP3 said:
This is something I cannot understand. Jesus is GOD. He knows your heart and everything else. How can any other “entity” make Him understand or think differently about anything including a prayer? “More acceptable” is taking away His understanding in the first place away. It’s not like the person who prayed changed. So why would God change?
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Speaking of Mary as an “entity” makes her sound like some kind of alien from another planet. She’s the Mother of Jesus Christ, and Our Holy Mother, so please, be little more respectful in the tone you use towards her.

In case you are unaware of the position that Mary holds in the Kingdom of God, then you might want to do a little research into the role of the Queen in the Davidic Kingdom. The Queen was the mother of the king (not his wife) and was given charge over addressing some of the issues of the people who would come to ask for the king’s aid. She would take those things to the king, who might not always have time to listen to every request. She would often make recommendations based on the details of the request, or the person asking. Typically, the king would trust her judgement on the matter and grant her request.

In light of that fact, how can you not understand the role of Mary, the Mother of the King of Heaven? It’s not rocket science.

(edit) When she says “more acceptable”, she means that because Jesus has such a strong love and reverence for His Mother, if she asks Him for something, He is more inclined to say yes to her request because of the very special place that she holds in His Heart.

How do you feel about your Mom? Is she special to you? If someone else wanted you to do them a favor (maybe a friend), wouldn’t you be more inclined to do it for them if they asked your Mom to ask you for them?
 
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I feel when I am praying to St. Mary I am also praying to Jesus so I answered both. I do pray rosary fairly often so that would bring me to Jesus through the heart of Mary but both hear my prayers because they are united in heaven.
 
I have to agree with the people who were a bit taken aback about the subject and the implications of the poll. I also chose not to answer, because I don’t really “keep score”, since I consider Jesus and Mary to both be on the same team.

Catholics do not believe that we have to go through Mary to get to Jesus, but it most certainly helps to ask His Mom to help us to get His attention, especially if we get the feeling He might not be listening to us. I’m not really saying that’s what happens, but that it might just feel that way sometimes.

I pray to all of the above, Jesus, Mary, the Father, the Holy Spirit and the angels (especially St. Michael) and many different saints. How I pray and who I pray to depends a lot on what the circumstances and conditions are at the time. I pray every day, and many times a day, for my family and friends, for the Church, for the Pope, for the whole world. I typically focus on their spiritual well-being (especially their salvation), then for their physical needs. Once in a while, I might even pray for myself. 😉
 
My organized prayer is more Marian centered (besides the Rosary, which takes me fifteen minutes to get through- my only organized prayer is private Compline in the evening, which only takes me a few minutes in comparison). However, my “spontaneous” prayer is God centered.
 
Mary - more so -
She’s just so much sweeter - of an interceder - for me.
At mass - after the rosary - it’s all God, the Father…Jesus, the noble interceder.
 
The beginning prayers contain a humility troparion where the help.of Virgin Mary is invoked. Actually it is said even “so we can be redeemed through you (to Thetokos).” So every time I seriously pray Mary is called in too. For quick help I mostly call for Jesus. But lately I also called Mary and the result was I was more self-centered and can concentrate easily.
I have a scrupule about cheating when calling Mary. So God is the Father and sometimes He says no so…going to ask for His mother’s help is like trying to really get what I want. I reserve it for special times like something I seriously want as a yes from God.
Not judging anyone who primarily asks Mary to help, that is just me wary of abusing her or not being strong enough to have faith after God said no to me already.
 
I use the After Mass Prayers contained in the '62–the three Aves, the Salve Regina, the Oratio Sancte Michael (all in Latin), followed by the prayer of St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Augustine etc.
All of these prayers are saturated with grace!
As far as Marian prayer, I don’t freestyle. I can’t improve upon the Ave Maria, the Salve Regina, and the Angelus.
 
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