Where did people get the idea to pray to Mary?

[KenAllan]

I AM GUILTY OF PRAYING TO MARY!!!!!!!!

I was born and raised in the Catholic Church back in the 1950's. I was taught that after confessing our sins to a Catholic Priest i had to Pray the Hail Mary over and over and over again to be totally forgiven for my sins. I remember as a child of five years old in a pew on my knees repeating the Hail Mary over and over again.

So do not pee on my leg and say its raining.

Many a time in my youth i prayed to Mary for help. In fact it was mandatory at the Catholic Church that we children had to Pray to Mary everyday.

Fortunately God called me out of the Catholic Church when i was 20 years old and ever since not once have i ever Prayed to Mary, not even once.

 

[Depleted]

Where are these catholics? I have two families of them all the ones I have known pray to Mary

When I was born again and remained in the Catholic Church, I stopped praying to Mary. Maybe your family just isn't born again yet. I'm still praying for mine too. (Oh, and I left that church a few years after, but there are Catholics who are born again.)

 

[crossnote]

Anywho, Jerome got some stuff wrong...
I would imagine he mistranslated stuff about Mary too. And for some reason the RCC has chosen that translation (The Vulgate) as THE translation they stick to even after the debate has been long over that Jerome missed on occasion.

Not demonic. Typical human booboos mixed with stubbornness!

You really imagine that Jerome could be so far off on that one? How could it possibly be especially him doing a decent translation on

For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; KJV
(1Ti 2:5)

[1Ti 2:5] For there is one God, and one mediator of God and men, the man Christ Jesus:
(Douay Rheims)

 

[PilgrimPassingThru]

My RCC in-laws have little altars set up with an image of Mary on it so they can remember to seek her assistance.

For the cause of Christ
Roger

Yeah, neither mine on my side or my husbands have any of those, which Im glad for because I heard rumors of their concrete idols coming to life somehow , bleeding, crying tears, or moving their eyeballs around and Im so not into that kind of thing. Its just creepy.

 

[Depleted]

You really imagine that Jerome could be so far off on that one? How could it possibly be especially him doing a decent translation on

For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; KJV
(1Ti 2:5)

[1Ti 2:5] For there is one God, and one mediator of God and men, the man Christ Jesus:
(Douay Rheims)

I was thinking more along the lines of mistranslating "Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with you. Blessed art thou among woman" part into overdoing what the angel said to her and elevating her above all other womenz folk.

 

[Tintin]

Mystery Babylonian religion. Nimbrod's wife Semiramis, it's who the catholic church alludes to when they pray to Mary. Very sick and twisted stuff. She's on the Starbucks logo and the source of the mermaid mythology as the myth is Nimrod found her in the sea as a creature. She ran an old time brothel. This rabbit hole goes deep and to strange places.

Nimrod never had a wife called Semiramis (they didn't even live in the same millennium!) and a lot of the Mystery Babylon stuff is absolute bollocks. But I can't help thinking, as I look around, that the worship of Mary is a 'Christian-ized' remnant of the mother goddess worship practiced by much of the ancient world (especially in the Near East).

 

[mystdancer50]

Blessed among women, not above women.

Hence the "twisting Scripture" part of my post.

 

[ZacharyB]

From Satan through the RCC and EOC.

 

[MikeHenderson]

Mary was Blessed BUT all those who follow Jesus are Blessed MORE than Mary!

Luke 11:27-28
[SUP]27 [/SUP]While Jesus was saying these things, one of the women in the crowd raised her voice and said to Him, “Blessed is the womb that bore You and the breasts at which You nursed.” [SUP]28 [/SUP]But He said, “On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God and observe it.”

Even Jesus said we True Christians are BLESSED!

Therefore we are ABOVE Mary!

 

[notuptome]

The RCC has created and perpetuated the myth that Mary is more approachable than Jesus. While none of us by our own virtue is worthy to approach God the very reason Jesus came in the likeness of sinful flesh was to reconcile us back to God.

Jesus blood made complete atonement for our sin. Jesus through the blood atonement reconciled us back to the Father. We are now told to boldly approach the throne of God.

The RCC will never allow it's people to be free to serve God apart from them.

For the cause of Christ
Roger

 

[Mec99]

Catholicism today is not about serving God, its all about Mary being a god and serving Mary instead.

The Catholics teach and actually believe since Mary was the Mother of Jesus that Jesus HAS to do everything she commands Him to do. The Catholics believe if Jesus says no to them, that Mary can force Jesus to say yes instead.

The Catholics actually believe and teach that Jesus has to obey His Mother.

This teaching is straight from Satan.

 

[God4me]

all the Catholics i know pray to the Father just like me.

i guess a better question would be where do people get these ideas that Catholics pray to multiple gods?

The Catholic church came from a pagan church who believed in many gods, hence the many gods to whom the Catholics pray to. So you can see that the RCC still has pagan beliefs.

 

[God4me]

They use this as support...

And when they wanted wine, the mother of Jesus saith unto him, They have no wine.
(Joh 2:3)

so the first act of mediation.

You have overlooked the fact that Jesus rebuked Mary, for trying to intercede.

 

[JaumeJ]

The notion that is is proper and good to pray to Mary comes from the same folks who recommend praying to saints, but not just ansy saints, no, only to the saints appointed by the pope.

There is but One God and One Mediator between man and God.....He happens to be God........Jesus Christ, amen.

 

[Zmouth]

If a man and his wife are one flesh, then Mary and God must have been married, then if you pray to Mary then you are praying to the Father, and if they weren't married then wouldn't that mean that all children are legitimized regardless of the marriage status of the parents. I heard that the Pope had questioned the validity of Catholic marriages last week but I didn't get to hear the whole story.

 

[JaumeJ]

No, this idea is perverse, absolutely perverse.

If a man and his wife are one flesh, then Mary and God must have been married, then if you pray to Mary then you are praying to the Father, and if they weren't married then wouldn't that mean that all children are legitimized regardless of the marriage status of the parents. I heard that the Pope had questioned the validity of Catholic marriages last week but I didn't get to hear the whole story.

 

[Bestil_Andno]

Where did people get the idea to pray to Mary even tho it's not in the bible?

Hey Living,

You've got some answers from others...but they aren't very good, true, or accurate.

Here is a link to a better answer:

Praying to the Saints | Catholic Answers

Take the time to read it and it least you'll have a better understanding of why some people pray to Mary and the Saints.

God bless.

 

[Tintin]

If a man and his wife are one flesh, then Mary and God must have been married, then if you pray to Mary then you are praying to the Father, and if they weren't married then wouldn't that mean that all children are legitimized regardless of the marriage status of the parents. I heard that the Pope had questioned the validity of Catholic marriages last week but I didn't get to hear the whole story.

Sometimes, I really wonder why you bother.

 

[JaumeJ]

Praying to anyone or anything other than to God is blasphemy, pure and simple. The RCC may publish a library of misleading apostasy, but not one iota of truth will change.

Mary, the most blessed woman, would be the first to teach this. Pray to God in the name of the Man Who died to teach you so, His mother would second this were she not sleeping.

 

[PilgrimPassingThru]

John 2:5 His mother (Mary) saith unto the servants, Whatsoever he saith unto you, do it.

Just as with the marriage in Cana, if he told them how to do something else like pray (and it was not unto her) I believe she would stand by him and say the same thing as she did there.

Whatsoever he saith unto you, do it.