Hi! I'm Patrick Ginty, and welcome to Catholic NC TV, in this installation of
Google's Most Searched Questions: Catholic Edition. In this episode, we're
going to be looking at the #1 and the #6 most asked questions
about Catholics on Google. They are "Why do Catholics pray to Mary?", and, "Why do
Catholics worship Mary?" The first thing we need to clarify about Catholics and
their prayer to Mary, is that question #6 should not even exist. We do NOT
worship Mary. We only worship God. We are monotheists. Mary, the saints and everyone
else are not God. Only God is God: the Holy Trinity: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
So number six, let's just get that out of the way. Let's get to the real question:
"Why do Catholics pray to Mary?" We already know that it's not worship so we know
we're not being idolatrous, we're not putting gods before God. Mary is not a god
to us. But why do we pray to her? First of all, you have to understand what our
prayer actually includes. It includes praise, it includes petitioning Mary, and
it also includes honor. The reason we do this, and the reason that it's not sinful
and it's not against our Christian faith, is because we already do all these
things with human beings here on earth! We praise people all the time! I just
went to my kindergarten, my girl's kindergarten graduation, and they gave
her a diploma, and everyone clapped and everyone praised her for getting such
good grades in kindergarten. Praising other humans is not against our faith!
Also, let's look at honoring. You know, we are actually told in the ten
commandments to honor our mother and to honor our father. And so honoring other
human beings, that's also not against our faith. And then asking for intercession,
petitioning the Blessed Virgin Mary, it's another thing that we also do here on
earth all the time! I'm a sinner! I am very far from being where I'm supposed
to be as a Christian, and I people to pray for me all the time, and
people ask me to pray for them all the time! This is a very Christian thing to
do! And this is what we do with Mary. The next thing you might say is, "Hey, but
Patrick, you know, you're talking about people on earth; Mary's dead! So why can
you do all those things with someone who is dead? That's what makes it wrong!" And
I'll just say this: first of all when you say Mary is dead, you have to remember
that as Christians, we believe that even though we die, we are still alive in
Christ; that we are with him in heaven, especially if we are "saved", if we've
accepted Christ, if He's living in us, and we die in a state of grace. And so, even
Romans 6 talks about Christ being alive in us, us being alive in Christ. My
question to you is: is Mary more dead, or is she more alive? Was she more alive
here on earth, or is she more alive now that she's fully with Jesus Christ in heaven?
and if she's still alive in Christ in heaven, then we can treat her as any
other human being on earth! Honoring, praising, and asking for
petition. The second imagery that we can use for people who are in heaven, but
that are still alive in Christ, is John 15, where Jesus says, 'I am the vine and
you are the branches', and then he talks about us as the ones who produce the
fruit. I ask you one question about that, too. Mary who is in heaven with Jesus, is
she, all of a sudden, cut off from the vine? Is she no longer a branch? Can she
and the people that are in heaven no longer produce fruit? And if you say
that they can't, show me where that's in Scripture. What we know about heaven and
the people that are in heaven is this: St. Paul says, 'Eye has not seen, nor ear
heard. It hasn't even entered into the heart of man what God has prepared for
those who love Him.' We believe that the people that are in heaven are still
united to us in Christ. They help us because they want us to be there with
them. It's not against Scripture. It's not against Christianity. It's not against
our faith. It's something that Jesus wants for us, and that's why we pray to Mary.
I'm Patrick Ginty, and from all of us here at Catholic NC TV, may God bless you and
Your families.
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