A few points concerning Mary, the mother of the child Jesus.
1. She knew she a woman of low estate, making her a sinner in need of a savior (Luke 1:48). As believer-priests, we do not pray to sinners we pray for sinners.
2. God the Father is the one who had begotten His Son, with no mention of Mary (Heb 5:5). She was only to bear the child and look over him until He was ready to do His Father's business (Luke 2:49).
3. Mary was a vessel, highly favored and chosen 'among' women and not 'above' women (Luke 1:28,42).
4. In (John 2:4) Jesus refers to Mary as 'woman' and also at the cross in (John 19:26).
5. In (Matt 12:48 -50) Jesus is told that His mother and brothers were outside wishing to speak to Him, and He said 'Who is my Mother or brother, but those that do the will of my Father'. (that seems to be a bit unkind toward his mother) The bacground to this scene is that Mary had heard that her son, Jesus, was beside himself (crazy) and they came all the way from Nazareth to take Him back home.
6. Mary was not a high priest, Christ is our High Priest (Heb 3:1, 5:5).
7. We pray in the name of the Lord (not Mary) in John 5:14.
8. In (John 16:26) Jesus said that when He goes back to the Father that, 'Ye shall ask in my name...and I will pray the Father for you'.
9. The Spirit maketh intercession for the saints (Romans 8:26).
10. Christ ever lives to make intercession for the saints (Rom 8:34, Heb 7:25).
* Others referred to Mary as the mother of our Lord (Luke 1:43), but there is no record in scripture that Jesus referred to her as such. Mary, even with child, refered to Him as 'God my Saviour' (Luke 1:47). Mary was favoured, chosen among women, to be the earthen vessel that would bear the Saviour of all mankind. She understood her place, her calling and pondered these things in her heart. She was a loving mother to all her children, even to her son, Jesus, at the cross, but never became anything else in the eyes of God or fellow believers. Any esteem that we give to her outside what the scriptures testify is outside and beyond the calling that God had given to her and should be rejected as such, no matter what the denomination or religion.