“Mary is with God. God is with us.”
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Mary is with god in spirit, but her body is in the soil of the Earth. - She cannot hear a prayer, although perhaps God reveals some prayers to her.
I dearly hope that he keeps the embarrassing heresy of the Catholic prayers from her; they surely would cause her pain!
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Actually, the RCC teaches that Mary didn’t die but was what they call *assumed* up into heaven; like the Ascension but she was taken up unlike Jesus who took Himself up.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assumption_of_Mary
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02006b.htm
Regarding the day, year, and manner of Our Lady’s death, nothing certain is known. The earliest known literary reference to the Assumption is found in the Greek work De Obitu S. Dominae. Catholic faith, however, has always derived our knowledge of the mystery from Apostolic Tradition. Epiphanius (d. 403) acknowledged that he knew nothing definite about it (Haer., lxxix, 11). The dates assigned for it vary between three and fifteen years after Christ’s Ascension. Two cities claim to be the place of her departure: Jerusalem and Ephesus. Common consent favours Jerusalem, where her tomb is shown; but some argue in favour of Ephesus. The first six centuries did not know of the tomb of Mary at Jerusalem.
The belief in the corporeal assumption of Mary is founded on the apocryphal treatise De Obitu S. Dominae, bearing the name of St. John, which belongs however to the fourth or fifth century. It is also found in the book De Transitu Virginis, falsely ascribed to St. Melito of Sardis, and in a spurious letter attributed to St. Denis the Areopagite. If we consult genuine writings in the East, it is mentioned in the sermons of St. Andrew of Crete, St. John Damascene, St. Modestus of Jerusalem and others. In the West, St. Gregory of Tours (De gloria mart., I, iv) mentions it first. The sermons of St. Jerome and St. Augustine for this feast, however, are spurious. St. John of Damascus (P.G., I, 96) thus formulates the tradition of the Church of Jerusalem:
I would be interested in hearing more of your thoughts concerning the blessed feeling pain and embarrassment.
I'm also interested in your suggestion that the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who called himself 'the Truth', would hide the truth from the blessed and would not strengthen the blessed to bear the truth with equanimity.