Is Mary able to be in multiple places answering multiple people at once?

[jasonconners7]

It seems with so many people praying to Mary and talking to her she would have to have special abilities to be able to keep up with it all do you believe Mary can communicate with multiple people and be in multiple places at once?

There’s billions of catholics and many talk to Mary so I am just curious.

Maybe people don’t expect Mary to answer or something the way my grandmother spoke about Mary was that she answered and she seems to talk to me is that even possible?

 

[twf]

Our Lady, like her divine Son, now has a glorified body… she now sees God face to face and thus is, in many ways, like God. So yes, by the grace God has given her, I imagine she can be in multiple places at once and hear multiple prayers at once.

 

[Vico]

It seems with so many people praying to Mary and talking to her she would have to have special abilities to be able to keep up with it all do you believe Mary can communicate with multiple people and be in multiple places at once?

There’s billions of catholics and many talk to Mary so I am just curious.

Maybe people don’t expect Mary to answer or something the way my grandmother spoke about Mary was that she answered and she seems to talk to me is that even possible?

God can make prayers known to saints and angels can communicate with mankind. Multi-location is an attribute assigned to a glorified resurrected body, however “the fact of Mary’s death and subsequent resurrection is uncertain. We cannot say, therefore, that they are included within the scope of the definition of Pope Pius XII.” 6

6. We do, however, find commentaries on the Constitution in which it is maintained that the death and subsequent resurrection of the body of Mary are included within the scope of the definition. Cf. for example, B. Garcia Rodriguez, C.M.F., La razon teologica en la constitucion ‘Munificentissimus Deus,’ in Ephemerides Mariologicae, Vol. I, 1951, p. 46 ff.

Mary’s Death and Bodily Assumption by Lawrence P. Everett, C.Ss.R., S.T.D.

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[Beryllos]

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Mary, being a saint in heaven, is not restricted by time and space as we are in this life. If God wills it, she can hear all prayers to her.

 

[Todd_Easton]

I think the Virgin Mary and the other saints in heaven hear our prayers indirectly through angels acting as prayer-messengers. The English word “angel” is from the Greek word for messenger. Everyone or at least every Christian has a guardian angel. I imagine them hearing our prayers on earth, ascending to heaven and communicating our prayers to whomever in heaven they are addressed in an orderly manner. Of course, this assumes that angels can ascend to heaven and communicate the prayers very, very quickly before returning to us and the saints in heaven can similarly process those prayers very, very quickly.

Here are a few Bible passages that seem to support the idea that angels sometimes act as prayer-messengers:

And [Jacob] dreamed that there was a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven; and behold, the angels of God were ascending and descending on it! (Genesis 28:12)

And so, when you [Tobit] and your daughter-in-law Sarah prayed, I brought a reminder of your prayer before the Holy One… I am Raphael, one of the seven holy angels who present the prayers of the saints and enter into the presence of the glory of the Holy One. (Tobit 12:12,15)

And another angel came and stood at the altar 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. (Revelation 8:3-4)