Thank you for your courage in volunteering to answer questions!!!!
I've got one for you. Someone told me " to Jesus through Mary" is "bad theology" eg we don't have prayers to Mary before mass etc.I asked a priest and he said " it's a given." and I agree with that especially if the church has always taught that Our Blessed Mother is our advocate, mediatrix of all graces. ( the latter is really a hard concept to get across).
First, we don't have prayers to Mary during Mass (generally, though one can say a Hail Mary after the prayers of the faithful) because the focus of Mass is the Eucharistic sacrifice; i.e.: "Do this in remembrance of me" (Jesus to the Apostles at the last supper).As to it being "bad theology", hardly. The concept of "To Jesus through Mary" is based in two factors, the first being the communion of saints and the other is the brotherhood we share with Christ with God as our Father and Mary as our Mother. Flowing through this all, we can come to understand why Mary is termed mediatrix of all graces. She was conceived, born, and lived a life without sin. She was the only fully human, unlike Christ who was fully human and fully divine, to do so. Were it to be "bad theology", the person would be discounting Mary's place in the way that God chose to manifest himself on earth as Christ. Mary said "yes" in a way that allowed salvation history to progress, without that "yes" there is no telling where we would be as a human race.
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