Posted by marcos on December 17, 2002 at 10:17:46:
In Reply to: HEY BILL! posted by Father Mulkahey the Prodestant Priest on December 16, 2002 at 17:53:19:
: : : Here was an article recently published in the TORONTO STAR which I thought was cool in regard to Protestants and Mary. Check it out!
: : : Bill
: : Some good stuff here. Thanks!
: In all seriousness with this question Mr. Rodgers, please explain how Mary heres people when they pray to her. If there is something I am missing here for the past 17 years I would like to know, Thanks FM
~I know this question was directed at Bill, and I'm the one that said before "ask Bill", and I still
say that. However, I decided I will put my simple 2 cents here, nothing theologically profound, no
Mariology debate; just to say that for me, first of all, I am uncomfortable with saying that I or people pray to Mary. For me personally, I can only understand it and accepted it as this:
I am asking or people are asking Mary to intercede (meaning pray) for me or us. And this means she
is interceding to Jesus on my or our behalf. Since I believe she is heaven as one of the very first
Christians, whether she was all sinless or not, or whether she had other children after Jesus or not,
and then she can intercede for me with great power because she is there with Jesus. And of course, she is not the only one that can do this, but all the saints in heaven can, remember we have a
cloud of witnesses interceding for us (I don't remember the source of this scripture now, I'm in a hurry). And so in the same way with all other saints, I wouldn't accept that I'm praying to them, but
that I'm asking them to pray for me/pray for us, I can dig that. Oh, and the same goes for the
saints down here, remember there's the saints in heaven now with Jesus, and the saints down here on earth still, the Christians made holy and righteous by the blood of the lamb. I can ask them to pray for me too.
Well, perhaps Mary has a special place in this because she is Jesus' mother, and was very close to Him on earth probably, (as Steve actually talk about the Sunday before last), and probably continues
to be very closely to Him in heaven.
men, I gotta go.