How and why to pray through Mary?

[GailMac]

What a lovely trip! Praise God and thank Him for the blessings of being able to go on a pilgrimage! You must be excited! May St. Christopher watch over you and yours while traveling.

Peace,

Gail

 

[guanophore]

Do you consider the doctrine-practice of paryer to Mary revelation?

Some of it is.

Why would that matter to you? You have made it clear that you don’t believe those who have passed on before us can hear our prayers, or answer them. You have made it clear that you believe all the Marian doctrines and practices are “speculations of men”. You have stated that, whatever you don’t see in the Bible is not binding. Why whould you ask such a question? What do you hope to accomplish here?

 

[viper78912]

with due respect, could you lease give the Scripture reference?Thanks.Denis
So if St. Paul can ‘pray’ --not just for the living, but for ‘those who have fallen asleep’. . .for and with ‘others’ than God. . .since the end result of the prayer is always ‘to’ God ultimately. . .

 

[CoboltBlue]

Last year I learned that the priest will take 3 steps back from the altar during the Eucharistic Prayers at every Mass to make room for the communion of saints. They join us everytime the Mass is celebrated.
There is no mandate that a person must pray to the saints. The way to look at this, however, is that they are alive. When we ask them to intercede it is the same as when we ask a good friend.
I like the description that Louis de Montfort gives. Think about a child who has a gift, perhaps a flower (a dandelion) that he wants to give as a gift. Mary will put that flower in a vase and carry it on a tray to her Son.

+++This is totally out of control!!!No where in G od’s word does he say Mary hears prayers and interceeds. ONLY Jesus has the power to interceed for us. Mary IS DEAD. This is putting Her in a position she does not have and can not possibly do since she died. She is at rest waiting with the others until her son returns to receive us the living into heaven. These are fairy tale stories. They have no connection to God and HIs holy word. They are made up by the church and people simple think they make them feel good so they buy into them. The church is telling lies! The church still uses its original pagan practices anytime it fits their traditions and laws…legalism…white magic…Idolatry!!!

Jesus calls those who are baptized in Him and Him in them… born again and His saints. The saints while alive can pray intercessory prayer with anyone who asks them to pray for them. But once you die–fall asleep —you may still be known as Jesus’s saints but you are at rest…you do not answer prayer.
AND YOU DO NOT RETURN TO THIS EARTH IN ANY FORM…
If you believe there are spirits around an altar then they are the spirits of satan… no person dies and their spirits (which are at rest with God…see Eph.) returns to the earth !
Totally insane to think this is true. Satan is laughing because people buy anything the church says because they say only it can save you…ONLY YOU CAN SAVE YOU by getting out and reading God’s word …not the writings of the church in your bible that have tradtions, dogmas, etc. added to them. But a real bible.

 

[CoboltBlue]

Some of it is.

Why would that matter to you? You have made it clear that you don’t believe those who have passed on before us can hear our prayers, or answer them. You have made it clear that you believe all the Marian doctrines and practices are “speculations of men”. You have stated that, whatever you don’t see in the Bible is not binding. Why whould you ask such a question? What do you hope to accomplish here?

If you are stating that God’s word alone is not enough then you are listening to your church too much. They also believed that in the Council of Trent and that is where they started adding their own take on scripture and telling its people what they have to believe in scripture and what not to believe. By them adding Mary and all the junk they attribute to her (she is dead!) they did this outside of scripture and long after the Apostles had ended their teaching and the books were complete.
If you believe in new day revelation then the Mormans must be ok with their teachings and the Jw’s too…they add to what God said in his word and they insist they had revelations after the fact…Anyone can say any thing and call it as being from God. But that does not make it so or make it right. God must be laughing himself to peices to hear such jokes passed off as truth.

 

[Always_For_Him]

CobaltBlue,
You are not following the teachings of Christ as He gave them to the apostles that have been understood and believed by Christians for 2,000 years now. You are not following the teachings, beliefs and understanding of Scripture as understood and taught by the apostles and as understood and lived by all Christians for over 1500 years before Luther and the other Reformers taught their beliefs and interpretations and founded new Churches. You are following/believing in the teachings and traditions of man. Those teachings and beliefs began 500 years ago in the founding of New Churches. These are NOT the original teachings or the teachings of Christ. You have to research the history. It is ALL written down for you to be able to learn for yourself. You are believing what your Church/your pastor has taught you. There are too many different beliefs out there. Your only hope is to research it for yourself to try to prove our teachings wrong and your Church’s/pastor’s as correct. If you study the ECF’s, and Early Church Writings, you will learn the Truth that the Catholic Church has known and taught all along.

 

[CoboltBlue]

Gail, it’s the least I can do for our Blessed Mother who has been offended too often by cold and indifferent hearts. I’m flying to Akita, Japan on Monday on a 6 day pilgrimage at the convent of the Handmaids of the Holy Eucharist in Yuzawadai in honour of Our Lady of Akita. The culminating point will be on the 15th, the Feast of the Assumption of Mary. There’s going to be a big celebration there starting at 7pm with Mass. It was on the 15th of August 1549 St. Francis Xavier set foot on Japan as a missionary. I’m going to offer up my pilgrimage in reparation for all the offences committed against the Immaculate Heart of Mary. And I’m going to pray especially hard for JA4, imploring Our Lady’s pardon. Of course, I will keep everybody’s private intentions in mind, and I will ask Our Blessed Mother to bless and watch over our Forum. Let peace reign! God bless you.

Pax
Good Fella

Mary adortion is Idolatry. Praying to a dead person! And idolizing her…that is wrong. If only you put as much attention on Jesus and took him off your crosses…He is alive and well and seated at the right hand of God the Father and is the only intercessor to our paryers that we have. He still performs miracles today of healing…HE is the one who went to the cross and hung on a tree and died. HE is the one who died for our sins and not His mother. His blood was spilled to cover our sins. Not his mothers.
This is a church tradition, dogma they have added to keep people interested in a church that other wise was loosing people…Mary is not alive…she is not that little ‘white’ girl. She was of the blood line of David and they were darker in skin color…so was Jesus.
The Apostles and Jesus never told us to put Mary in this place of adoration. She was a normal woman, she was married, she had other children…she sinned just like the rest of us.
She died and her spirit (alone) went into heaven (3rd heaven) to be with God.
Dead people do not hear prayers. Dead people can not answer prayers. Satan laughs every time you pray to Mary because they are empty prayers. They never reach heaven. You have to pray through Jesus and God. They are alive and well.

 

[GailMac]

Dear CoboltBlue -

It is very unwise to come to a Catholic website and start blaspheming Mary, the Saints and ultimately God. It is also unwise to call our devotions idolatry. Perhaps your speil would be better reserved for those of your kind who appreciate such tirades. Out of control indeed! If you are genuinely unhappy about things Catholic then stay away from Catholics.

Peace,

Gail

P.S. Read the Book of Revelation before determining that no one in Heaven but God prays.

 

[Des]

If you are stating that God’s word alone is not enough then you are listening to your church too much.

Anyone who actually believes that books written 2000 or more years ago under a couple different languages and cultures who honestly thinks that God’s great divine plan after he had died was to pass these written texts along from generation to generation of people without the capability of reproducing it in mass abundance really needs to give their head a shake.
Yes, this idea is so great that it’s never once commanded to the Apostles in the written text you hold so dearly to. The Apostles should have been busy writing ‘EVERYTHING’ they learned in explicit detail and in many different languages of both the present and the future so as to not cause confusion with the Word of God that would inevitably create divisions amongst you that you all know so well.

GOD’s WORD IS BOTH ORAL AND WRITTEN and it gets tiring seeing people like you limit it to just the written. It gets tiring reading people like you who some how think that their book speaks to THEM on a personal basis everytime they pick up the Scriptures. Case in point. YOU INTERPRET. God’s word is all up to how you do this. If done correctly, THEN it’s God’s word. But who are you to think that you’re special enough to do it better than the rest of us then preach to us what it’s saying. If you’re fallible, then either stay mute or stop preaching your own dogmatic dribble. You’re making yourself out to be your own infallible little pope my man.

Try a little test. Open your Bible, go lay down on your bed, close your eyes and tell us if it speaks to you. Bet it doesn’t. Why because again, it’s words that you need to read, study the culture, the languages of Latin, Greek and Aramaic just to get to the root of the real meaning behind it which leaves another little dilemma. God also expected His many ‘Bible alone’ followers over the first millenium to not only obtain the Scriptures that were tough to duplicate, read them when many were too illiterate to do this, but to likewise be Biblical scholars with the proper tools and brains to investigate the true meanings of the words in the foreign languages of which they originated. Remember now. It’s created for all you individual popes out there so each and everyone of you must be able to provide this for themselves.

Totally illogical, unbelievable and absurd is what it is.

 

[jean8]

Fortunately we are not limited to the part of God’s Revelation of Himself that is found in the Scripture.

What brings you to CAF, jean8?

What does that mean “split the post”?

It is much easier to read the dialogue when quotes are used, and when they are interspersed with the reply. Maybe you will get used to it if you are here long enough?

quan,
What brings me to CAF? I like Catholics and I’m always interested in learning new things.
How about you?

God bless,
jean8

 

[jean8]

Anyone who actually believes that books written 2000 or more years ago under a couple different languages and cultures who honestly thinks that God’s great divine plan after he had died was to pass these written texts along from generation to generation of people without the capability of reproducing it in mass abundance really needs to give their head a shake.
Yes, this idea is so great that it’s never once commanded to the Apostles in the written text you hold so dearly to. The Apostles should have been busy writing ‘EVERYTHING’ they learned in explicit detail and in many different languages of both the present and the future so as to not cause confusion with the Word of God that would inevitably create divisions amongst you that you all know so well.

GOD’s WORD IS BOTH ORAL AND WRITTEN and it gets tiring seeing people like you limit it to just the written. It gets tiring reading people like you who some how think that their book speaks to THEM on a personal basis everytime they pick up the Scriptures. Case in point. YOU INTERPRET. God’s word is all up to how you do this. If done correctly, THEN it’s God’s word. But who are you to think that you’re special enough to do it better than the rest of us then preach to us what it’s saying. If you’re fallible, then either stay mute or stop preaching your own dogmatic dribble. You’re making yourself out to be your own infallible little pope my man.

Try a little test. Open your Bible, go lay down on your bed, close your eyes and tell us if it speaks to you. Bet it doesn’t. Why because again, it’s words that you need to read, study the culture, the languages of Latin, Greek and Aramaic just to get to the root of the real meaning behind it which leaves another little dilemma. God also expected His many ‘Bible alone’ followers over the first millenium to not only obtain the Scriptures that were tough to duplicate, read them when many were too illiterate to do this, but to likewise be Biblical scholars with the proper tools and brains to investigate the true meanings of the words in the foreign languages of which they originated. Remember now. It’s created for all you individual popes out there so each and everyone of you must be able to provide this for themselves.

Totally illogical, unbelievable and absurd is what it is.

Colbalt blue,
Are you an artist?
GOD’s WORD IS BOTH ORAL AND WRITTEN

Where is the Oral? Where does one hear this oral Word? Are you referring to sermons?

God bless,
jean8

 

[jean8]

Mary adortion is Idolatry. Praying to a dead person! And idolizing her…that is wrong. If only you put as much attention on Jesus and took him off your crosses…He is alive and well and seated at the right hand of God the Father and is the only intercessor to our paryers that we have. He still performs miracles today of healing…HE is the one who went to the cross and hung on a tree and died. HE is the one who died for our sins and not His mother. His blood was spilled to cover our sins. Not his mothers.
This is a church tradition, dogma they have added to keep people interested in a church that other wise was loosing people…Mary is not alive…she is not that little ‘white’ girl. She was of the blood line of David and they were darker in skin color…so was Jesus.
The Apostles and Jesus never told us to put Mary in this place of adoration. She was a normal woman, she was married, she had other children…she sinned just like the rest of us.
She died and her spirit (alone) went into heaven (3rd heaven) to be with God.
Dead people do not hear prayers. Dead people can not answer prayers. Satan laughs every time you pray to Mary because they are empty prayers. They never reach heaven. You have to pray through Jesus and God. They are alive and well.

Mary’s body died ,but her spirit is at home with her Son. We will all be united body and soul at the end of the age. do you believe this?

God bless,
jean8

 

[CoboltBlue]

Colbalt blue,
Are you an artist?
GOD’s WORD IS BOTH ORAL AND WRITTEN

Where is the Oral? Where does one hear this oral Word? Are you referring to sermons?

God bless,
jean8

I did not write the post that you posted this under…CoboltBlue…and yes I am, is there a problem?

 

[CoboltBlue]

Anyone who actually believes that books written 2000 or more years ago under a couple different languages and cultures who honestly thinks that God’s++++excuse me, but God is not dead! my little man++++++ great divine plan after he had died was to pass these written texts along from generation to generation of people without the capability of reproducing it in mass abundance really needs to give their head a shake. +++Try shaking the dust out of yours and stop putting God’s HOLY Word down as if it means nothing and the great church of Babyalian is the best of the best!!!+++++++++
Yes, this idea is so great that it’s never once commanded to the Apostles in the written text you hold so dearly to. The Apostles should have been busy writing ‘EVERYTHING++++++’(my little man they did not write the way we do now. They passed everything along story after story. Which is better then just giving it to the almighty pope and saying you tell us oh great one what it says and we will bow down and follow without asking any questions or going through the Holy Spirit who can guide us to the truth becasue he indwells us if you have taken the time to ask Jesus into your cold and stony heart…he will come and he will show you light and the trueth and past and steer you away from a pagan church full of idolatry+++++++++++++
++++++(???they learned in explicit detail and in many different languages of both the present and the future ???++++++so as to not cause confusion with the Word of God that would inevitably create divisions amongst you that you all know so well. ++++God said His word is like a double edged sword and it will divide family against family++++++++++

GOD’s WORD IS BOTH (+++ORAL)++++??? AND WRITTEN and it gets tiring seeing people like you limit it to just the written. It gets tiring reading people like you who some how think that their book speaks to THEM on a personal basis everytime they pick up the Scriptures.++++++It sure does!!!++++++ Case in point. YOU INTERPRET++++NO the Holy Spirit who is God living insdie of my heart does+++++++++Says so in God’s word but the RCC church probably deleated that part so you really probably don’t understand how to interpret through God and the Holy Spirit and must be lead by that other little man, the pope++++++. God’s word is all up to how you do this. If done correctly, THEN it’s God’s word. But who are you to think that you’re special enough to do it better than the+++??? rest of us???I thought you had to listen to the pope so who are you to critize my listening to God and the Holy Spirit to let the word speak to me and guide me?+++++++++++ then preach to us what it’s saying++++if you knew what it was saying you would not be listening to the pope+++++++++. You’re making yourself out to be your own infallible little pope my man.++++hardly! But I do listen to God and I don’t rely on a mortal man to tell me what to think, what to pray, or how to confess my sins, or to pray to dead people or worship Mary or wear scapulars for protection…maybe a four leaf clover would do just as well+++++++++
Sorry this got rude but I only answered back to your rude statement and name calliing.

Try a little test. Open your Bible, go lay down on your bed, close your eyes and tell us if it speaks to you. Bet it doesn’t. Why because again, it’s words that you need to read, study the culture, the languages of Latin, Greek and Aramaic +++Hebrew++++ to the root of the real meaning behind it which leaves another little dilemma. God also expected His many ‘Bible alone++++YES.The Bible Alone…God knew what is was saying and He never said for a mortal man to call himself infaliable and add his take to it++++++++’ followers over the first millenium to not only obtain the Scriptures that were tough to duplicate, read them when many were too illiterate to do this, but to likewise be Biblical scholars with the proper tools and brains to investigate the true meanings of the words in the foreign languages of which they originated.+++And of what other means do you, Oh elevated high one, propose the Bible should have come down to us by???++++++++++++++I took of your little popes,your one is more than enough for the world to handle.

Totally illogical, unbelievable and absurd is what it is.

!!!I give it back to you and thanks for your very uninformative post!

 

[CoboltBlue]

Mary’s body died ,but her spirit is at home with her Son. We will all be united body and soul at the end of the age. do you believe this?

God bless,
jean8

Her spirit flew back to God when she died and it is at rest -sleep there. Yes we will be given a body similiar to the ones we have now but without any brokeness or disease, and united with our spirit.

 

[CoboltBlue]

Anyone who actually believes that books written 2000 or more years ago under a couple different languages and cultures who honestly thinks that God’s great divine plan after he had died was to pass these written texts along from generation to generation of people without the capability of reproducing it in mass abundance really needs to give their head a shake.
Yes, this idea is so great that it’s never once commanded to the Apostles in the written text you hold so dearly to. The Apostles should have been busy writing ‘EVERYTHING’ they learned in explicit detail and in many different languages of both the present and the future so as to not cause confusion with the Word of God that would inevitably create divisions amongst you that you all know so well.

GOD’s WORD IS BOTH ORAL AND WRITTEN and it gets tiring seeing people like you limit it to just the written. It gets tiring reading people like you who some how think that their book speaks to THEM on a personal basis everytime they pick up the Scriptures. Case in point. YOU INTERPRET. God’s word is all up to how you do this. If done correctly, THEN it’s God’s word. But who are you to think that you’re special enough to do it better than the rest of us then preach to us what it’s saying. If you’re fallible, then either stay mute or stop preaching your own dogmatic dribble. You’re making yourself out to be your own infallible little pope my man.

Try a little test. Open your Bible, go lay down on your bed, close your eyes and tell us if it speaks to you. Bet it doesn’t. Why because again, it’s words that you need to read, study the culture, the languages of Latin, Greek and Aramaic just to get to the root of the real meaning behind it which leaves another little dilemma. God also expected His many ‘Bible alone’ followers over the first millenium to not only obtain the Scriptures that were tough to duplicate, read them when many were too illiterate to do this, but to likewise be Biblical scholars with the proper tools and brains to investigate the true meanings of the words in the foreign languages of which they originated. Remember now. It’s created for all you individual popes out there so each and everyone of you must be able to provide this for themselves.

Totally illogical, unbelievable and absurd is what it is.

Dear CoboltBlue -

It is very unwise to come to a Catholic website and start blasphemying++++ THE POPE AND THOSE WRITING THE WORD AT THE COUNCIL OF TRENT ARE THE ONES WHO ARE BLASPHEMING BY CHANGING AND ADDING TO GOD’S WORD. AND NOW BY PUTTING MARY ABOVE JESUS AND GOD…AND THAT IS IDOLARTRY! CALLING HER THE THRONE OF GRACE!!! WHAT DO YOU THINK FATHER GOD THINKS OF THAT ONE? ++++
I DON’T SEE YOU DEFENDING THIS IDEA OF CALLING HER THE THRONE OF GRACE AND NOT BEING IDOLATRY AND BLASPEHEMYING.
Mary, the Saints and ultimately God. It is also unwise to call our devotions idolatry. Perhaps your speil would be better reserved for those of your kind who appreciate such tirades. Out of control indeed! If you are genuinely unhappy about things Catholic then stay away from Catholics. +++Can’t I am married to one and was one myself for over thrity years until God opened my eye and move me and our children out===all born again. Praise the Lord. And someone has to point out the faults of the church and how it is mis-leading its people+++++
May Father God open your eyes and set your heart on fire to want to know his Son and ask him into your heart in a whole new way…JOHN 3 born again! The only way is through the Son to the Father to see heaven…Not through a pope

Gail

P.S. Read the Book of Revelation before determining that no one in Heaven but God prays.

 

[fellowChristian]

CoboltBlue–

Are you not a Bible believing Christian?

**John 14:11-12 **

11"Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me; otherwise believe because of the works themselves.

12"Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do, he will do also; and greater works than these he will do; because I go to the Father.

Who believes in Jesus more then the Mother?

Jesus was created by the Holy Spirit in the womb of Mary. The flesh and blood come from His mother. She is His flesh and blood.

**Luke 1:35 **

The angel answered and said to her, "The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; and for that reason the holy Child shall be called the** Son of God**.

Who is the mother?

Luke 1:43
"And how has it happened to me, that the **mother of my Lord **would come to me?

Elizabeth says it is Mary.

Do you believe that Jesus is God?

Do you believe that Mary is His mother?

Then Mary is the Mother of God.

How do you treat the Mother of our God?

And in John 2 Jesus allows His mother to intercede for the people on His behalf, and responds to His mother’s request by ordering the servants to fill the jars with water.

 

[Always_For_Him]

CobaltBlue,
You are so deeply entrenched in your Churches teachings that you can’t see the forrest for the trees. Believe whatever you want. Just so you know, your beliefs didn’t exist until 200-500 years ago when man changed teachings and interpretations and founded their own Churches and traditions. Our teachings, belief in the Communion of Saints and probably everything else you hate about the Catholic Church was understood, believed and practiced by ALL Christians for over 1500-1800-2000 years before your man-made beliefs and traditions were ever thought up. So, keep your blinders on or take them off, just stop espousing your beliefs of what you think is right and wrong with the Catholic Church because it is blatantly apparent that you don’t know what you are talking about and steadfastly believe in teachings and traditions of man. The things you are saying weren’t taught by Christ. They were thought up and taught by man on his own. Jesus didn’t give authority to anyone but the apostles and their successors. So, if you are following the teachings and traditions of man, then you ARE NOT following the teachings of Christ. He left His Deposit of Faith with the Early Church which IS the Catholic Church. We have the documents and written historical proof to prove it. So, why don’t you research it. Until then, don’t say anything at all if you can’t be respectful and most importantly, knowledgable about what you are talking about.

 

[RachelsAlumni]

Mary adortion is Idolatry.

So when you say you adore your mother, you adore your wife are you guilty of idolatry?

there are 2 definitions given for the word adore:

1 : to worship or honor as a deity or as divine
2 : to regard with loving admiration and devotion

With regards to the Blessed Virgin Mary Catholics “regard her with loving admiration and devotion” or revere her. Our loving admiration and devotion towards her is our human attempt to honor, love & revere her in the way God has so honored her and elevated her above all women in choosing her to carry out His plan of salvation.

Praying to a dead person!

1. She lives through her assumption into heaven. She is the example of the resurrection Christ’s faithful will experience at the end of time when we all will be united body & soul.
2. It is biblical to pray to the Saints:

All through the Old Testament there are examples of people (Abraham, Moses, the prophets) praying for the benefit of others; and of honor given to angels (Joshua 5:14; Daniel 8:17). In the New Testament we read “The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective” (James 5:16, NIV). Who is more righteous than one who has achieved their place in heaven? …The saints are alive in heaven as 1 Corinthians 15:22 tells us and Revelation 5:8 tells us that the prayers of the saints are offered to God. The saints are God’s masterpieces and what artist would say “Don’t look at my works, pay attention only to me?” We give honor to God by praising His accomplishments. scborromeo.org/glad/c9.htm

If only you put as much attention on Jesus and took him off your crosses.

Do you have a problem with acknowledging His sacrifice on the cross? You want to separate Him from His passion? On the one hand you want to take the emphasis off of Christ’s Passion on the Cross, but criticize for not paying enough attention to Christ’s Passion on the Cross and somehow taking Christ off the cross is giving more attention to His passion?

And who says we don’t put more attention on Jesus than on Mary? The *only reason *we adore Mary as our mother is because she is the mother of Christ. Were it not for Jesus Mary would be completely unkown to us. To borrow a phrase from Mark Shea If Catholics honor Mary too much, exactly how do we Evangelicals honor her “just enough”?

He is alive and well and seated at the right hand of God the Father

We don’t have to deny His passion to also believe in His resurrection.

…she is not that little ‘white’ girl. She was of the blood line of David and they were darker in skin color…so was Jesus.

what is your point? who cares what color her skin was?

The Apostles and Jesus never told us to put Mary in this place of adoration.

Actually God has commanded us to adore Mary. She is our mother and the mother of Christ. Jesus gave Mary as mother to His beloved disciple John at the foot of the cross. Why would He do this? Why, if He had brothers? Why wouldn’t we honor the mother of God as He Himself has?

She was a normal woman, she was married, she had other children…she sinned just like the rest of us.

You really think the mother of God, the woman chosen above all women by God to carry out His plan of salvation, the woman overshadowed by the Holy Spirit, the womb that was the living tabernacle of the Son of God, was just a normal, average and sinful woman?

Satan laughs every time you pray to Mary

No doubt Satan laughs everytime he influences someone to attack Mary, the mother of God, and her children for loving her.

"17 And the dragon was angry against the woman: and went to make war with the rest of her seed, who keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.’’ ~ The Apocalypse Of Saint John, Chapter 12

 

[vee8]

Mary adortion is Idolatry. Praying to a dead person! And idolizing her…that is wrong. If only you put as much attention on Jesus and took him off your crosses…He is alive and well and seated at the right hand of God the Father and is the only intercessor to our paryers that we have. He still performs miracles today of healing…HE is the one who went to the cross and hung on a tree and died. HE is the one who died for our sins and not His mother. His blood was spilled to cover our sins. Not his mothers.
This is a church tradition, dogma they have added to keep people interested in a church that other wise was loosing people…Mary is not alive…she is not that little ‘white’ girl. She was of the blood line of David and they were darker in skin color…so was Jesus.
The Apostles and Jesus never told us to put Mary in this place of adoration. She was a normal woman, she was married, she had other children…she sinned just like the rest of us.
She died and her spirit (alone) went into heaven (3rd heaven) to be with God.
Dead people do not hear prayers. Dead people can not answer prayers. Satan laughs every time you pray to Mary because they are empty prayers. They never reach heaven. You have to pray through Jesus and God. They are alive and well.

Revelation 12:1, “And a great portent appeared in heaven, a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars…” Let’s see. There’s a woman…she’s in Heaven…and she has a crown on her head. I could be wrong, but I don’t think it’s the maid! No! It is the true Queen of Heaven, Mary, the mother of the male child who is to rule the nations. We do not worship Mary, we honor her, just as Jesus honors her. So, there is absolutely nothing wrong, from a scriptural point of view, in calling Mary the Queen of Heaven, and in honoring her just as Jesus honors her.

If you love Jesus and Jesus loves His Mom why cant you show her respect too? Are you a Christian? Yet attack your Lord`s Mom to whom He and even the angels show respect makes me question your religion because hate for Mary only comes from one place & one demon.