Incoming!!!!
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My very simplistic understanding is that Mary birthed, nurtured God in human flesh coming to humanity to deliver the New Covenant. In essence Mary was the arch of the New Covenant.
Meditating on this I find is stunning and beautiful.
Just as folks ask for prayers from others within God’s kingdom, asking the company of heaven to pray for us seems reasonable to me.
Hebrews 12:1 refers to that cloud of witnesses surrounding us. I take this as the invisible kingdom of all those who have gone before us...the company of heaven.