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As a Mom it is much deeper for me.

She suuffered at the foot of the cross as a human Mother and as a Mom myself who knows a lifetime of having been through that suffering and pain.

I can lift it all up to the Mother of God who carried a much greater amount of pain.

Militia Immaculata!

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So do I have this right? You pray to Mary because you think she 1)hears your prayers, 2)better understands your pain, and 3)can intercede in heaven with God on your behalf.

That contradicts Scripture.

Only Jesus is mentioned in Scripture as our Mediator.

1Timothy 2:5 For [there is] one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;

It is Jesus who has bourn our pain and carried our sorrow.

Isaiah 53:4,5 ¶ Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.

But he [was] wounded for our transgressions, [he was] bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace [was] upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.

It is Jesus who has established a new covenant as our high priest.

Hebrews 8:1,2,6 ¶ Now of the things which we have spoken [this is] the sum: We have such an high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens;

A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man.

But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.