Your spiritual thoughts on praying to Mary

[jesusmademe]

Laudetur Iesus Christus!
If anyone would like to talk with me me they seldom go to my mother (or father) first, before talking to me. It could happen that a person who like to talk with me go to anonther person first.
If anyone wanted a relationship with me I would never tell them to speak with my parents unless it was to marry the person.
This is why I find praying to Mary a bit weird at times. How do you deal with this in your prayers?

 

[Francis]

@jesusmademe

If anyone would like to talk with me me they seldom go to my mother (or father) first, before talking to me. It could happen that a person who like to talk with me go to anonther person first.

What if your a King? and will you be available all the time or any where ? and visited by ordinary people ,well it’‘s easier to speak to a Queen Mother, who is loving and caring ,like wise speaking to a Father who is strict is difficult and a mother is more easier to speak and approachable’, dont you think?, since she knows well the mood and the situation and prepare a nice dinner for your Father,and she knows well when to approach and request, or recommend your request and desires to you Father ,more or less in your favor

It could happen that a person who like to talk with me go to anonther person first.
If anyone wanted a relationship with me I would never tell them to speak with my parents unless it was to marry the person.

Yes in that case they can meet you too ,unless your too busy and not present when they need you the most, so they can or rather meet your parents.and if your parents request you any thing, will you as a good son or loving daughter eager to fulfill their desires? of your parents

This is why I find praying to Mary a bit weird at times. How do you deal with this in your prayers?

Pray to Her ,try praying the Rosary and request her intercession and find for your self how quickly and perfectly your request is granted as she did it in the wedding of Cana

Think again what if your a baby ? will any one be able to approach you directly ,will they not first ask or request your parents first? God Bless

 

[Elf01]

Laudetur Iesus Christus!
If anyone would like to talk with me me they seldom go to my mother (or father) first, before talking to me. It could happen that a person who like to talk with me go to anonther person first.
If anyone wanted a relationship with me I would never tell them to speak with my parents unless it was to marry the person.
This is why I find praying to Mary a bit weird at times. How do you deal with this in your prayers

Not great analogies but when trying to convince your parents to let you do something did you ever go to the one you felt would be the most likely to say yes hoping they’d convice the other or tell one news they wouldn’t want to hear so that they could pass if on and hopefully the other parent would have time to calm down.

Also Jesus is not just a person. If you want to speak to Donald Trump you are not likely to be able to do so in person.

 

[jesusmademe]

I don’t personaly pray to Jesus as a king. Kings are often too distant even if they are good kings.
But here’s the interestung stuff: the mother is the queen and the son is the king. The father is ussualy the king.
When I ask Priests to pray I do so because they can say Mass. I pray to Mary because I am supposed to…but its a bit weird sometimes.
I have a hard time talking to the mother of my friend before I go him/her. Thus I dont pray to Mary so I can meet Jesus the friend. I pray to her for other reasons.
It does makd sense yo ask Joseph to talk with the infant child. You know what Joseph prayer I am refering to.

The rosary is a way for us to look at Jesus with Mary. I would not really try this with someones mother.

Why would anyone ever tell me: go to my mother? I would find that a bit weird.
Is Jesus’s relationship with his mother differeny from our relationship with our mothers?

On the other hand Jesus gave us his mother. What are we then? Her children? Thus Jesus is our brother? She is the mother of the Church?

How do you meditate on this in your daily life?

 

[Tis_Bearself]

The Blessed Mother is my mother too. Christ gave her to me and to all of us.

I like to talk with my adopted mother Mary. I ask her to say hello to my bio mother who is now in Heaven. And I ask her for a lot of other things.

If other people have some problem with talking to their adopted mother, then that’s their problem, not mine.

 

[MariaChristi]

…On the other hand Jesus gave us his mother. What are we then? Her children? Thus Jesus is our brother? She is the mother of the Church?

How do you meditate on this in your daily life?

DearJesusmademe,

Yes! Jesus gave us His Mother!!! This is significant for all of us. Yes! We are then her children, and this too is significant for all of us. God sent His Son born of a woman, Immaculate Mary of Nazareth who said “Yes” to Him and by the power of the Holy Spirit brought forth Jesus to live and die for us all.

Yes! Jesus is our Brother because God willed Him to be born of a human mother and thus take to Himself our human nature that He might suffer and be for us a Saviour. He is our Brother, Son of God and Son of Mary. He is the Word made flesh Who dwelt among us teaching, revealing God in all He said and did. Mary pondered all He said and did in her heart and thus is a Model for us.

Yes! Mary is Mother and Model for the Church. We speak to her as Jesus did in love for her Whom God loves. We hear Jesus say to us:

Behold your Mother

By God’s Grace we meditate on all that God’s Word tells us, especially in the Gospel of Luke but in all the Gospels and even in the Old Testament we see how God prepared to save us in Genesis 3:15 –

I will put enmity between you and the woman,
and between your offspring and hers;
They will strike at your head,
while you strike at their heel

Jesus gave Mary to us from His Cross and when we meditate on His words, we do well to be helped by St. John Paul II who wrote that the words were not meant just for John the beloved disciple but for all of us and we learn from John to take Mary, not just into our home (as it has been translated) but into our lives. St. John Paul II pointed out that the Gospel of John written in Greek does not include the word “home” in Jn. 19:27 The Greek words literally translated mean “the disciple took her into his own”. St. John Paul II explains this means John took Mary into his life, into his very being, which gives us a far deeper meaning into St. John Paul II’s Papal Motto, “Totus Tuus” meaning “All Yours” (taken from St. Louis de Montfort’s treatise on "True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin".

When I meditate on Mary I cannot think of her without thinking of Jesus and in fact the Holy Trinity. God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, chose Mary to be Mother of Jesus and our Mother that we might learn what wonders He works in a human person who gives ALL to Him. Hope that helps a bit.

 

[Todd_Easton]

I suggest you read Pope St. Pius X’s 1904 encyclical On the Immaculate Conception (Ad Diem Illum Laetissimum), especially the following:

1. It cannot, of course, be denied that the dispensation of these treasures is the particular and peculiar right of Jesus Christ, for they are the exclusive fruit of His Death, who by His nature is the mediator between God and man. Nevertheless, by this companionship in sorrow and suffering already mentioned between the Mother and the Son, it has been allowed to the august Virgin to be the most powerful mediatrix and advocate of the whole world with her Divine Son (Pius IX. Ineffabilis ). The source, then, is Jesus Christ “of whose fullness we have all received” ( John i., 16), “from whom the whole body, being compacted and fitly joined together by what every joint supplieth, according to the operation in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in charity” ( Ephesians iv., 16). But Mary, as St. Bernard justly remarks, is the channel (Serm. de temp on the Nativ. B. V. De Aquaeductu n. 4); or, if you will, the connecting portion the function of which is to join the body to the head and to transmit to the body the influences and volitions of the head - We mean the neck. Yes, says St. Bernardine of Sienna, “she is the neck of Our Head, by which He communicates to His mystical body all spiritual gifts” (Quadrag. de Evangel. aetern. Serm . x., a. 3, c. iii.).

 

[KevinK]

And I ask her for a lot of other things.

Do you believe she has the power to physically intervene in your life or only act in an intercessory manner with God?

 

[Todd_Easton]

The faithful departed have been known to do more than just pray for us. Did not dead Samuel prophesy Israel’s defeat by the Philistines and the impending death of Saul and his sons? (1 Samuel 28:19) Did not dead Elisha raise a dead man to life through contact with his relics (bones)? (2 Kings 13:21)

Concerning Samuel, Sacred Scripture says:

Even after he had fallen asleep he prophesied
and revealed to the king his death,
and lifted up his voice out of the earth in prophecy,
to blot out the wickedness of the people. (Sirach 46:20)

And, concerning Elisha, Sacred Scripture says:

As in his life he did wonders,
so in death his deeds were marvelous. (Sirach 48:14)

 

[catholiclala]

I struggle with this to be honest. I love to pray the Rosary but am still confused by it.

 

[Vico]

Laudetur Iesus Christus!
If anyone would like to talk with me me they seldom go to my mother (or father) first, before talking to me. It could happen that a person who like to talk with me go to anonther person first.
If anyone wanted a relationship with me I would never tell them to speak with my parents unless it was to marry the person.
This is why I find praying to Mary a bit weird at times. How do you deal with this in your prayers?

Catholics affirm the Communion of Saints and pray for one another (living or dead). St. Paul directs the faithful to pray for one another. (2 Thess. 3:1, James 5:16)

Rev 8 (The Seventh Seal)

3 And another angel came, and stood before the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given to him much incense, that he should offer of the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar, which is before the throne of God. 4 And the smoke of the incense of the prayers of the saints ascended up before God from the hand of the angel.

 

[midori]

Mary never asked for anything that was contrary to God’s will, right?

So it must have been God’s will to perform the Miracle at Cana as Jesus’ first public miracle.

And yet, when she pointed out, “They have no wine,” his response was, “What does that have to do with me?”

So, even though it was in conformity to God’s will that the miracle be performed, if she had said nothing, were there any indicators that he would have done anything?

 

[Tis_Bearself]

Do you believe she has the power to physically intervene in your life or only act in an intercessory manner with God?

Of course she only acts in an “intercessory manner with God”.
Isn’t that sufficient? Our Blessed Mother has a direct hotline to the Almighty.

Having said that, if God wishes to delegate a task to her, such as protecting her children, or fighting off Satan, then God can certainly do this the same way he delegates tasks to the angels.
It’s up to God, he has the final say, and Mary and me are both fine with that.

 

[steve-b]

Laudetur Iesus Christus!
If anyone would like to talk with me me they seldom go to my mother (or father) first, before talking to me. It could happen that a person who like to talk with me go to anonther person first.
If anyone wanted a relationship with me I would never tell them to speak with my parents unless it was to marry the person.
This is why I find praying to Mary a bit weird at times. How do you deal with this in your prayers?

You’re talking about intercession

I pray the Rosary daily (asking for Mary’s intercession). Having been to the holy land and visiting all the holy places, I can pray (walk) the 20 mysteries of the rosary and revisit all those places I visited every time I pray…

And

all THAT when we think about it, started with Mary saying YES to the Angel. YEP, that’s what the plan was. Jesus didn’t come to us directly. He came to us through an angel’s request, through Mary and Mary saying YES… That’s the definition of intercession.

Now we turn that around and go to Jesus through His Mother Mary.

So in extension, just thinking out loud

If I asked you to pray for me, and you said back to me, No…pray to God yourself, don’t ask me to do it for you, knowing what we know, would that be the right way to think or the right response?

 

[Tis_Bearself]

Mary never asked for anything that was contrary to God’s will, right?

So it must have been God’s will to perform the Miracle at Cana as Jesus’ first public miracle.

God’s will was also for Jesus to do this in response to Mary mentioning it, in order to illustrate to humankind the way Mary can intercede.

 

[midori]

One helpful thing to remember is that there are multiple types of prayer: Petition, Adoration, Contrition, and Thanksgiving.

You don’t need to tell Mary, “Tell God he’s awesome.” Or “Tell God I’m sorry.” Or “Tell God thank you for me, okay?” Those sorts of prayers stand on their own feet and go straight to God, as they should. So when you say, “If someone wants to build a relationship with me, they go straight to me—” yeah, there’s a lot in common at that level of analogy. Someone who wants to apologize to you won’t apologize to your mom or your best friend. (Or maybe they might, to see if you’re not angry enough for them to apologize to your face.)

But when you get into Petition territory— that’s when we start looking for people to come to our aid and add their backing to our request. So if you want to borrow $1,000 from someone, are you going to ask them cold, “Hey, I need $1,000. How about it?” Or are you going to feel them out through their friends and relatives first, so that it doesn’t come as a surprise?

But any relationship where the communication is 100% Petition territory— I want, give me this, change that, do this for me— is not a healthy relationship.

 

[KevinK]

Our Blessed Mother has a direct hotline to the Almighty.

Is that at variance from what we mortals have?

 

[Francis]

King for just an example ,but their are kings in history who really helped the people materially and spiritually. Jesus the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords is very close to us.

Mother Mary is your spiritual Mother and of all of us ,as John 19:26 When Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple whom he loved standing near, he said to his mother, “Woman,(addressing as the Women of Genesis 3:15 the New Eve our Mother Mary) behold, your son!” 27 Then he said to the disciple, “Behold, your mother!”( its a commandment Exodus 20:12 “Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long(Eternity ) in the land (Heaven)which the Lord your God gives you).And from that hour the disciple took her to his own home(His heart, the Church, for all human race for Eternity).Hebrews 11:16 (Mother Mary emphasized here Revelation 21:2 And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem (Mother Mary)

1 Corinthians 6:17 But he who is united to the Lord becomes one spirit with him. so did Mother Mary suffered spiritually martyrdom like many saints who had stigmata even more than all the humans because she was united with Jesus on the cross.

Heavenly Father has done great things for Her, He has brought down rulers from their thrones and lifted up the lowly(Mother Mary ) Jesus, He did the will of the Father and fulfilled His promise ,His mission,role,did He not? Jesus said it is Finished only then, He fulfilled and finished His most important mission of His life, the will the Father, by entrusting Mother Mary to the Church. Women behold your Son . “Behold, your mother!” ere Jesus is also mentioning whom to obey, Its a commandment ,lets Obey and finish our mission by doing the will of God.God Bless

The rosary is a way for us to look at Jesus with Mary. I would not really try this with someones mother.

Jesus is not only saying to John but to you and me too and all of us “Behold, your mother!”

What are we then? Her children? Thus Jesus is our brother? She is the mother of the Church?

Yes she is our spiritual Mother as the Heavenly Father has given us Genesis 3:15 I will put enmities between thee(satan) and the woman(Mary), and thy seed (wicked people )and her seed: (Jesus and we Christians)she (Mary) shall crush thy (satan) head, and thou shalt lie in wait for (Mary)her heel. Revelation 12:15 Then from his mouth the serpent poured water like a river after the woman(Mary), to sweep her away with the flood. 16 But the earth(+ Christians to love Mary) came to the help of the woman; it opened its mouth and swallowed the river that the dragon had poured from his mouth. 17 Then the dragon was angry with the woman, and went off to make war on the rest of her children(Christians), those who keep the commandments of God and hold the testimony of Jesus. Hope you come to realize the Truth.

 

[Dan_Defender]

It is not either or. You can talk to both. Jesus said to enter Heaven we should be like children. Picture yourself as a child and Mary, your mother, holding your hand and leading you to Jesus.

 

[Justin_Mary]

I pray to Mary because I am supposed to…but its a bit weird sometimes.
I have a hard time talking to the mother of my friend before I go him/her. Thus I dont pray to Mary so I can meet Jesus the friend. I pray to her for other reasons.

Here’s my understanding. 1st, I think a vocation is a task we were meant to do. A purpose we were created for. Mary’s purpose is to bring Jesus to us. I say “is” because she is very much alive.

Through you, we drink from the wellspring of salvation O Blessed Virgin Mary.

Whether we know it or not, whether we acknowledge it or not, if we know Jesus, if we speak to Jesus we speak through Mary. Just like our prayers in the Mass are to God the Father through the Church, our prayers to Jesus are through BVM.

We are to follow Jesus. Like Him we should humble ourselves, enter Mary as a new creation. While His flesh took form in her womb, our spirits are formed in her, in His image.