To: metmom
Every prayer to Mary is one less prayer to God. Okay. Prayer is a commodity which comes in limited and measurable amounts. So if I pray to Mary, I am depriving God of prayer.
I say otherwise. I say whether I pray to God, to any of the individual persons of the Trinity, or ask Mary for her prayers, or ask you for your prayers, I am always praying in the Spirit, and the Spirit in me.
Prayer is not a measurable thing to be meted out in quanta. It is entering into the presence of God, being drawn by God into the life of the Trinity and the perpetual self-giving of each of the persons of the Trinity to each other.
2,201 posted on
07/26/2010 10:38:47 AM PDT by
Mad Dawg
(O Maria, sine labe concepta, ora pro nobis qui ad te confugimus.)
To: Mad Dawg
It matters WHO is being prayed to.
2,203 posted on
07/26/2010 10:46:11 AM PDT by
metmom
(Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
To: Mad Dawg
ALL THE MORE REASONS TO
INSURE
THAT THE FOCUS IS EXCLUSIVELY ON FATHER, SON, SPIRIT
ONLY.
2,210 posted on
07/26/2010 10:52:54 AM PDT by
Quix
(THE PLAN of the Bosses: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2519352/posts?page=2#2)
To: Mad Dawg
Prayer is not a measurable thing to be meted out in quanta. It is entering into the presence of God, being drawn by God into the life of the Trinity and the perpetual self-giving of each of the persons of the Trinity to each other.
Very well put! The idea that praying to Mary "deprives" God in any way is tantamount to saying God is a finite being with limited power. The whole idea that God would be offended by someone asking His Mother to intercede is ridiculous. As you said, we're all praying in the Spirit, and He is infinite and omnipotent.
2,238 posted on
07/26/2010 12:49:35 PM PDT by
Deo volente
(God willing, America will survive this Obamination.)
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