If we are to model ourselves after Jesus Christ and imitate His life by doing what He did while He was alive, would praying to Mary be something we would do?
Well, Jesus did not pray to Mary. And He says to pray to our Father.
He told His disciples to wait after He ascended. And His mother was there with them praying > Acts 1:12-14. Jesus told them to wait in Jerusalem, and there is where they were praying. I see that Mary was obeying Jesus, by waiting there with them all, and praying. I can see that she was obeying Jesus, by praying.
And our Apostle Paul tells us to pray . . . "for all the saints", in Ephesians 6:18. So, all the obedient are commanded to pray for "saints". So, if Mary is obedient, I suppose she does not need to be asked to pray for God's children.
And we are called "children of God", in 1 John 3:1, by the way.
So, if Mary obeyed this, praying for God's children, who is the Mary who is being asked to pray for "sinners" . . . while God's people including Jesus' mother are directed to pray for "all the saints"?
Of course, God's word does say to pray for any and all people . . "first of all" . . . 1 Timothy 2:1-4. And Jesus says to love enemies and pray for ones who treat us badly. So, sinners do not have to ask us to pray for them; so why would the real and obedient Mary need to be asked to do what we are all commanded to do? We ourselves need to be doing whatever we might ask Mary to do, possibly
And I notice that when John is on the prison island seeing the vision of Heaven, in the book of Revelation, he does not mention seeing Mary on the throne.
So, the real Mary wants our attention to Jesus, I can see, and to how God wants us to pray > "first of all", we have in 1 Timothy 2:1-4. So, spending a lot of time asking her to do praying . . . when I suppose she already would know what God expects her to do . . . I suppose we need to use our time to do the praying which we are commanded to be doing.
