Getting through Mary to get to the Father

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When I was in catechism a few years ago, the deacon said that in the book of Kings there is a verse saying that “you need to get through Mary to get through to the Father.”

Also, in the Rosary’s Glorious mysteries, Mary is crowned as Queen of Heaven.

Can you help me find this verse?
 
When I was in catechism a few years ago, the deacon said that in the book of Kings there is a verse saying that “you need to get through Mary to get through to the Father.”
There is a precedent for someone (Adonijah) who thought they might not get a fair hearing from a Davidic king (King Solomon) directly to instead ask the king’s mother (the queen-mother) (Bathsheba) to intercede with the king on their behalf in 1 Kings 2:13-25. The king’s mother (Bathsheba) did intercede for them (Adonijah) but the results in that particular case weren’t very good. Jesus is a Davidic king. Thus, it is not surprising that the deacon would think that the Virgin Mary’s intercession, as King Jesus’ queen mother, might be helpful.
 
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When I was in catechism a few years ago, the deacon said that in the book of Kings there is a verse saying that “you need to get through Mary to get through to the Father.”

Also, in the Rosary’s Glorious mysteries, Mary is crowned as Queen of Heaven.

Can you help me find this verse?
There is no verse in the Bible saying that “you need to get through Mary to get through to the Father.”
 
There is no verse in the Bible saying that “you need to get through Mary to get through to the Father.”
Agreed.

OP, there is support in Kings and other OT books for the idea that the mother of the king is the Queen. This was common since the kings often had multiple wives.

This is why Mary is the Queen of Heaven. Simply because of her role as Jesus’ mother, not because she is divine or equal to God in any way. Jesus has elevated her because of His great love for His mother, and has given her to us as our Blessed Mother.

We can have no fear of approaching God with our requests, but we also ask for Mary’s help and intercession because Jesus loves to grant her requests. He also loves to send us graces through Mary.
 
The Mother of the King is his Queen.

Mary’s role as Queen is because, amongst the Hebrews, who had multiple wives and multiple concubines, the Mother of the King is his Queen. So if you look through all the Hebrew Kings, you know exactly who each one’s mother is, whether or not you happen to know who his wives or concubines were.

If you look at Bathsheba, in the Old Testament (in the Book of Kings), she was Queen because her son was Solomon— not because she was David’s wife. (In other words, she was Queen during Solomon’s reign, not during David’s reign.)

As was mentioned above, Adonijah (one of David’s other children) asked for Bathsheba to intercede for him with Solomon. If you recall what he asked for, he asked to marry someone from David’s harem, whose purpose had been to keep his bed warm, but he had never had intercourse with her. Taking possession of the (former) king’s concubines was one way of declaring your intent for the throne. Which was why it ended the way it did for Adonijah.

So, Bathsheba is one “type” for Mary, just as Eve was— a type being something in the Old Testament that prefigures something in the New Testament. Just like how the manna in the desert prefigures the Eucharist, or circumcision prefigures baptism, or how Joseph in the Old Testament prefigures Joseph in the New Testament, or how Abraham’s sacrifice prefigures Jesus’ sacrifice, or whatever. But the difference between Bathsheba and Mary is that Bathsheba requested something contrary to the will of Solomon because she had promised Adonijah she’s ask for whatever he wanted— but Mary never requests anything contrary to the will of God.
 
Mary helps us “get to the Father,” she’s not an obstacle we need to “get through.”

The point of the OT example is to show the special intercessory role of the mother of the King.
 
Mary helps us “get to the Father,” she’s not an obstacle we need to “get through.”

The point of the OT example is to show the special intercessory role of the mother of the King.
Yes, that’s probably what the deacon was aiming at.

I venture to say this: no one needs to go through Mary to get to the Father, the Son, or to the triune Godhead. On the other hand, no wise man should ever turn up his nose to a good word from our Lady or her helpful directions–me, I’ll take all the help I can get!
 
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When I was in catechism a few years ago, the deacon said that in the book of Kings there is a verse saying that “you need to get through Mary to get through to the Father.”

Also, in the Rosary’s Glorious mysteries, Mary is crowned as Queen of Heaven.

Can you help me find this verse?
Not to come against any Deacon of our CC, but maybe he was a bit misinformed.

We ask Mary and the Saints to interced for us, asking them to pray to Jesus on our behalf. But even our Blessed Mother goes through Jesus. Jesus is the door, and the only door to the Father, for He and the Almighty are one.

Jesus told the world this!

St. John 14:6 Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (RSVCE)
6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father, but by me
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And there really doesn’t have to be a verse. Tradition will teach us that about Mary.
“To Jesus through Mary”.
 
Esther is similar to the story in Kings.
 
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