Mary in the Bible
There
are some that say that the Bible really says very little about Mary.
However, that is quite contrary to the truth. There are actually a lot
of references to Our Lady. For some of these references, you have to do a
little bit of digging.
Let’s
start at the beginning of the Bible. She is first mentioned in Genesis
3:15, as the Woman whose offspring (Jesus) will crush the head of the
serpent (Satan).
Do Catholics pray to Mary
Do Catholics “pray to Mary”. Yes and no. Because we are “surrounded by a vast cloud of witnesses” it is best to say we pray “with” the saints. They are our prayer partners, and as the Blessed Virgin Mary is the Queen of that army of prayer warriors she is the primary saint with whom we pray.
We have to remember who Mary is. Mary is a totally unique person. She is the one human being chosen to offer her flesh to be taken by the Son of God. No other human being has this intimate relationship with God–that he entered her womb, took her flesh and was as close to her as any son could be to a mother. The church has rightly recognized therefore that she is “higher than the cherubim, more glorious than the seraphim”. If we pray with the saints we pray most gloriously and powerfully with her.
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