[A. Pole]

Why pray to mary? She's dead as a doornail! People won't meet up with the rightous dead until it's their turn, or the rapture. Mary can't hear you. She's dead. Remember?

No, She is not dead. God of Abraham, Isaak and Jacob is God of the leaving and not of the dead. If the beggar could be carried after the death to be at the Abraham's bossom (Luke 16:22) and if the criminal who died on the cross was welcome in the heaven, you think that Blessed Mother of Jesus would be denied at least the same?

[concerned about politics]

No, She is not dead. God of Abraham, Isaak and Jacob is God of the leaving and not of the dead. If the beggar could be carried after the death to be at the Abraham's bossom (Luke 16:22) and if the criminal who died on the cross was welcome in the heaven, you think that Blessed Mother of Jesus would be denied at least the same?

"When you pray, pray like this......Our FATHER , who art in Heaven , Holy be THY name.......

"No one gets to the father but THROUGH ME."

I'm sorry. I can't find mary prayers in the Bible either, nor the order to do so.

*sigh*

[AmericanDave]

A lot of people forget that Jesus descended into Hell, and released the souls there during the resurrection..... because of life after death.... So Mary 's spirit is alive.