📖 SCRIPTURES TO STUDY
 

• Luke 1:28 — Gabriel's greeting to Mary

• Luke 1:38 — “Let it be done to me according to your word.”

• Luke 1:42 — “Blessed are you among women.”

• Luke 1:48 — “All generations will call me blessed.”

• Luke 20:38 — God is God of the living

• John 2:1–11 — Mary and the Wedding at Cana

• John 19:26–27 — “Behold, your mother.”

• Acts 1:14 — Mary praying with the early Church

• 1 Corinthians 12:12–27 — The Body of Christ

• 1 Timothy 2:1–5 — Intercession and Christ, the one Mediator

• James 5:16 — The prayer of the righteous

• Hebrews 12:1, 22–24 — The heavenly assembly

• Revelation 5:8 — The prayers of the saints

• Revelation 8:3–4 — Prayers offered before God

📚 CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH

📖 CCC 956 — The intercession of the saints

📖 CCC 963–975 — Mary, Mother of Christ and Mother of the Church

📖 CCC 970 — Mary's role and Christ's unique mediation

📖 CCC 971 — Devotion to the Blessed Virgin

📖 CCC 2618 — Mary's intercession at Cana

📖 CCC 2673–2679 — Prayer in communion with the Holy Mother of God

 TOPICS DISCUSSED
 

• Do Catholics actually worship Mary?

• What is the difference between prayer, veneration, and worship?

• Why pray to Mary when we can go directly to Jesus?

• Does asking Mary to pray for us contradict 1 Timothy 2:5?

• Is praying to Mary the same as communicating with the dead?

• Are Mary and the saints actually “dead”?

• Can Mary hear millions of prayers?

• Why does the Catholic Church honor Mary so highly

• What happened at the Wedding at Cana?

• Where does the Hail Mary come from in Scripture?

• Is the Rosary “vain repetition”

• Why do Catholics kneel before statues of Mary?

• Why is Mary called the Mother of God?

• What does “Queen of Heaven” mean?

• Did Jesus give Mary to Christians as a spiritual mother?

• And most importantly: Does Mary compete with Jesus—or point us toward Him?