From Evening Prayer of the Saturday before Advent Sunday through to Evening Prayer of the Presentation (2 Feb)
Mother of Christ! hear thou thy people’s cry,
Star of the deep, and portal of the sky!
Mother of him who thee from n othing made,
Sinking we strive, and call to thee for aid:
Oh, by that joy which Gabriel brought to thee,
Thou Virgin first and last, let us thy mercy see.
From the first Sunday of Advent until Christmas Eve:
- V. The Angel of the Lord declared unto Mary
R. And she conceived by the Holy Ghost.
Pour forth we beseech Thee, O Lord, Thy grace into our hearts, that we to whom the Incarnation of Christ, Thy Son, was made known by the message of an angel, may, by His passion and cross, be brought to the glory of his Resurrection; through the same Christ, our Lord. Amen.
From First Vespers of Christmas until the Presentation:
- V. After childbirth, O Virgin, thou didst remain inviolate.
R. O Mother of God, plead for us.
O God, Who by the fruitful virginity of blessed Mary, hast given to mankind the rewards of eternal salvation: grant, we beseech You, that we may experience her intercession for us, by whom we deserved to receive the Author of life, our Lord Jesus Christ, Your Son. Amen
I am deeply concerned at this praying to Mary, in addition she is no way the mother of God, she was only the bearer of Jesus’ physical body. Why are you promoting such unbiblical ideas?
“The Son, which is the Word of the Father, begotten from everlasting of the Father,the very and eternal God, of one substance with the Father, took Man’s nature in the womb of the Blessed Virgin of her substance: so that two whole and perfect natures, that is to say, the Godhead and manhood were joined together in one person never to be divided, whereof is one Christ, very God, and very Man”
Article 11 of the Thirty Nine articles of the Church of England
Mary is called the Mother of God because Christ is God.
We can speak to her because God is not the God of the dead but the living. e.g.Jesus spoke with Moses and Elijah.