#12568 Are Prayers to Mary Problematic? Miracles and Salvation - Tom Nash
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🗓️ 30 January 2026
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
“Are prayers to Mary problematic?” This question opens a discussion on the significance of prayers like the Hail Holy Queen and the Act of Consecration to Mary, especially in light of concerns about scandal. Other topics include reconciling free will with God’s prophets, the Catholic view of salvation, and the nature of miracles in relation to scientific laws.
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Questions Covered:
- 01:02 – There are two prayers to Mary that we get calls about, and wanted you to talk through them here, and also see if Catholics should stop saying these prayers if they cause too much scandal. Hail Holy Queen and the Act of Consecration to Mary
- 12:42 – How do you reconcile free will with the prophets sent by God?
- 21:05 – I’m in RCIA. The Catholic view of salvation seems fragile. Why would missing a holy day of obligation cause me to go to hell?
- 29:49 – Do miracles need to break the laws of science or can they break only the laws we don’t understand to be considered miracles?
- 42:00 – Did Mary have children?
- 51:27 – How do I distinguish between venial and mortal sin to a protestant?
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| 0:34.6 | Hi, Tom Nash. |
| 0:35.6 | Hey, good to be with you, Sian, the Ganswers audience. I got an opening question for you. Okay. That, um, actually, people, |
| 0:42.3 | a couple of people have called about this lately. So I, I, we put it all together into one |
| 0:45.8 | question about Mary. And I want to see what, what you can come up. Because there's two prayers |
| 0:50.7 | to Mary that we do get a lot of calls about. Okay. And one of them is the Hail Holy Queen. |
| 0:59.0 | Yep. |
| 0:59.8 | And some of the language there, you know, our life, our sweetness, and our hope. |
| 1:04.2 | And then the other one is Louis de Montfort's consecration to marry. |
| 1:09.6 | And what's specifically about that? Basically basically I turn over everything to you. |
| 1:15.0 | Yeah, and she's my queen. |
| 1:16.5 | Yeah, but then I, you know, I consecrate my eyes, my will, my everything to you. |
| 1:21.5 | This, I got to say, to a lot of people sounds like idolatrous language. |
| 1:27.0 | And I even talked to somebody today who's a Catholic, a convert to the Catholic faith, |
| 1:32.0 | said, this gave me trouble, man. |
| 1:33.2 | When I first saw this Louis de Montfort prayer, this gave me trouble. |
| 1:36.3 | So help me with this. |
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