Pertanyaan yg sama, mengapa kita sering minta didoakan juga oleh Pendeta / romo / pelayan doa / orang tua / saudara / dsb?
Biasanya akan ada pertanyaan lanjutan: Maria kan sudah meninggal, ga bisa dimintai tolong utk mendoakan.
Jawabannya: dalam iman apostolik yg kami warisi dari jaman Gereja Perdana, i.e. dari para rasul itu sendiri (bisa dibuktikan dari Alkitab, atau jika study Alkitab dianggap kurang kuat, bisa juga dibuktikan dgn ditelusuri bukti2 historik), kami mengimani bahwa para kudus yg telah paripurna termasuk Maria tetap hidup di dalam hadirat Allah selayaknya malaikat yg mengetahui semua hal yg terjadi di bumi, bahkan lebih hidup dari kita2 yg ada di bumi ini, sesuai janji Tuhan Yesus sendiri.
Jadi minta tolong didoakan Maria dan para kudus lainnya itu tidak beda dengan minta tolong didoakan saudara2 kita di bumi ini, dan juga tidak mustahil karena berkat jasa2 dan pengorbanan Kristus, Gereja duniawi dan Gereja surgawi tetap bersatu di dalam Satu Roh yang sama.
Doa rosario kepada Maria menurut tradisi gereja Katolik itulah yang menurut saya tidak Alkitabiah sebab mengandung janji janji yang hanya bisa dilakukan oleh Tuhan saja bukan otoritas Maria :
15 Promises of Mary to Christians Who Recite the Rosary Uniting Christians of all Religions
Given to St. Dominic and Blessed Alan
+Imprimatur: Patrick J. Hayes, D.D., Archbishop of New York
1. Whoever shall faithfully serve me by the recitation of the rosary, shall receive signal graces.
2. I promise my special protection and the greatest graces to all those who shall recite the rosary.
3. The rosary shall be a powerful armour against hell, it will destroy vice, decrease sin, and defeat heresies.
4. It will cause virtue and good works to flourish; it will obtain for souls the abundant mercy of God; it will withdraw the hearts of men from the love of the world and its vanities, and will lift them to the desire of eternal things. Oh, that souls would sanctify themselves by this means.
5. The soul which recommends itself to me by the recitation of the rosary, shall not perish.
6. Whoever shall recite the rosary devoutly, applying himself to the consideration of its sacred mysteries shall never be conquered by misfortune. God will not chastise him in His justice, he shall not perish by an un provided death; if he be just he shall remain in the grace of God, and become worthy of eternal life.
7. Whoever shall have a true devotion for the rosary shall not die without the sacraments of the Church.
8. Those who are faithful to recite the rosary shall have during their life and at their death the light of God and the plentitude of His graces; at the moment of death they shall participate in the merits of the saints in paradise.
9. I shall deliver from purgatory those who have been devoted to the rosary.
10. The faithful children of the rosary shall merit a high degree of glory in heaven.
11. You shall obtain all you ask of me by the recitation of the rosary.
12. All those who propagate the holy rosary shall be aided by me in their necessities.
13. I have obtained from my Divine Son that all the advocates of the rosary shall have for intercessors the entire celestial court during their life and at the hour of death.
14. All who recite the rosary are my sons, and brothers of my only son Jesus Christ.
15. Devotion of my rosary is a great sign of predestination.
http://www.fatimaconference.org/15promisestochristians.htmShalom