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To: Forest Keeper
When I ask my friends to pray for me, it is not because I believe that their wills match God's Will. Coupled with the "Queen of Heaven" business, it really does not appear that Mary's intercession is anything like asking a friend to pray for us at all.

That is why the intercessionary prayers of Mary are much more effective. "The prayer of a righteous man are truly effective". Why? Because God's will be done. When a person prays that God's will be done, it is more likely that his prayer will indeed be answered. Thus, since Mary's will is perfectly united to her Son's, we have a powerful intercessor.

7,513 posted on 06/01/2006 6:52:38 AM PDT by jo kus (There is nothing colder than a Christian who doesn't care for the salvation of others - St.Crysostom)
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To: jo kus
"The prayer of a righteous man are truly effective". Why? Because God's will be done. When a person prays that God's will be done, it is more likely that his prayer will indeed be answered. Thus, since Mary's will is perfectly united to her Son's, we have a powerful intercessor.

Then if there is a pecking order of effective prayer (the righteous get what they want more so than the less righteous), does Mary also discriminate on whether she will pray to God on behalf of less righteous people? I mean, if Mary prays for everyone equally, then that is a skirt around the original rule. Any bum could pray to Mary and get the same result as a righteous man. However, if Mary DOES discriminate, like God does, then why bother going to Mary in the first place if you wind up in the same place? She would be of no special advantage then (if she discriminated).

7,668 posted on 06/03/2006 5:26:46 AM PDT by Forest Keeper
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