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If Mary is so important why is she not mentioned in Scripture after Acts Chapter 1.14 ?. Except for one time in Romans which may or may not be the mother of Jesus, the name Mary is not even found in the NT after Acts. In fact other than passages about the Birth of Jesus Mary is mentioned just a few times. We are told to honor our father and mother. Jesus said he was to bring Honor to His Father but he never tells us to honor His mother. I am not interested in what the writings and traditions of men have to say on this subject only what The Bible has to say.

St. Paul informs us that, united in Christ, we "make joy complete by being like-minded, have the same love, being one in spirit and purpose" as Him (Phil. 2:1-2). Our Lord Jesus Christ obeyed the Commandments of the Lord, and in fact came to fulfill the old law (Matt. 5:17-18). Therefore, it follows, He was and is obedience to the fourth commandment: He honors His Blessed Mother. In imitation of the Lord -- in being like-minded, in being one in spirit and purpose -- we also should honor His Mother. And certainly we should never denigrate her, or fail to give her due credit for special grace the Lord gave her in choosing her to be the Mother of His Son. Such a failure would be a dishonor.

The logic is fairly simple, if we lay out the three premises upon which we surely agree:

Premise 1: One of the Ten Commandments is to honor thy father and mother.

Premise 2: Mary is the Mother of the Lord, Jesus Christ.

Premise 3: Jesus obeyed the Ten Commandments.

Premise 4: St. Paul commands us to be like Christ -- being one in spirit and purpose.

Based on the above premises, we can conclude, first, Jesus honored His Mother. We know this because of Premises 1, 2 and 3. We also can conclude, based on the addition of Premise 4, that we are also to Honor Mary, Christ's Mother, because we are informed Scripturally that we should be united with Christ in spirit and purpose. If Christ's honors His mother, then being united in spirit and purpose with Chirst, we should honor Her as well. This is basic logic, founded in Scripture. Not everything in Scripture is explicit, as we know with regard to the Trinity. But with a little exposition, the truth can be seen to be very clear.

Mary does show up in the New Testament after Romans 16:6. See Revelations 12:1-5, 17.

Revelation 12:1-5, 17 refers to the Nation of Israel — which is made especially clear in 12:17.

And I think your leap of logic is a little faulty. If Jesus tells us to forgive our enemies, then you would naturally conclude that we are to forgive HIS enemies and not OUR enemies. Just as you conclude that we are to honor HIS parents and not OUR own.

Now, maybe you can make the point a little better — maybe. But the premises you laid out are a little faulty.

Now, I hold Mary with great respect. And once I fall on the ground and worship the Father and Son, I cannot wait to meet her and Joseph in heaven! And then I would love to spend a lot of time with the Apostle Paul.

But, if you are going to argue that she should be prayed to (or through) — then I find precious little in scripture that would account for that.

However, I am not Catholic — and personally, even if you could pray to Mary — I wouldn’t as the Father and Jesus are so much greater than Mary, that it wouldn’t even enter my mind to pray to her.

” Except for one time in Romans which may or may not be the mother of Jesus, “the name Mary” is not even found in the NT after Acts”

Rev 12
1 A great and wondrous sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head. 2She was pregnant and cried out in pain as she was about to give birth. 3Then another sign appeared in heaven: an enormous red dragon with seven heads and ten horns and seven crowns on his heads. 4His tail swept a third of the stars out of the sky and flung them to the earth. The dragon stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth, so that he might devour her child the moment it was born. 5She gave birth to a son, a male child, who will rule all the nations with an iron scepter. And her child was snatched up to God and to his throne.

Still don’t see the name Mary.