Many Christian churches teach that it is wrong to pray to Mother Mary and saints because it is a form of idolatry. Anyone who prays to Mother Mary and saints never consider them as God or a replacement for God. Let me explain this the way God did.

We ask other people to pray for us. Specifically, we ask those whom we feel have a “special connection to God” to pray for us like priests, nuns, pastors, prayer groups, etc. It’s the same when we pray to Mother Mary and saints. We are asking them to pray for us, asking them to use that “special connection” to God to obtain graces for us.

So, if the argument to be used in saying that praying to Mother Mary and the saints are wrong because only Jesus is our only “mediator” with God, then neither should we ask anyone to pray for us and neither should anyone pray for anyone else.

As God said: What do you think those in heaven do? They just flit and fly? If the salvation of man is important to Me, then it is important to everyone in Heaven.

On understanding the teaching of “Jesus as our only mediator”:

We are all to serve as God’s priest, be it here or earth or in Heaven. What is a priest? A priest is a mediator between God and His people, or even more broadly, the world. As God said, our (man’s) purpose is to bring the world closer to Him. Jesus is called the high priest, the “mediators or all mediators”.

The teaching of “Christ as our only mediator” can cause confusion. So I asked God to explain.

God’s answer:

Meaning: Jesus is true God and true man. As, Jesus, God fulfilled the role of both. As true man, He showed us who we truly are and fulfilled the role as a mediator between God and His people, a role that the apostles continued to carry out after Jesus' death.

As God, He fulfilled the kind of mediation only He can give – Salvation- for it is only through Jesus that we can be reconciled with God.

We cannot save people, only Jesus can do that. Thus, as mediators between God and His people, we bring others closer to Jesus Christ, so He can save them. The same holds true for Mother Mary and saints. When one prays to any one of them, they bring us closer to Jesus Christ. For every grace that we receive through them, our faith in God grows.

There is a misguided belief that Mother Mary and saints can obtain graces for us that God would otherwise not grant. This is completely false. Everything that they obtain on our behalf is something that God is willing to give us.

Question: So, why is it that they (Mother Mary, saints and angels) can obtain the grace and we can’t?

God’s answer:

They have what we lack - faith. And, it is faith that connects us to God. I once asked St. Joseph: “St. Joseph, what can you obtain for us?” St. Joseph said: “The infinite graces of God.”

'Lord,' he said, 'take pity on my son: he is demented and in a wretched state; he is always falling into fire and into water. I took him to your disciples and they were unable to cure him. ‘

In reply, Jesus said, 'Faithless and perverse generation! How much longer must I be with you? How much longer must I put up with you? Bring him here to me. And when Jesus rebuked it the devil came out of the boy, who was cured from that moment.

Then the disciples came privately to Jesus. 'Why were we unable to drive it out?' they asked. He answered, 'Because you have so little faith.