11/6/2025 Currently, I’m writing a book, or trying to, on the teachings of Teresa of Avila, the Catholic Saint of Spain from the 1500’s. There’s a passage that struck me as one where I wanted to communicate, to crack down on the belief held incorrectly that Mary, the mother of Jesus, is a channel through which we can receive God’s grace. It’s the shed blood of Jesus that enables us to speak to God, and through that same blood have peace with the Father. Please read this excerpt, and know that Jesus’ blood is enough!

In the writing (of First Dwelling Place, Chapter 2, Point 12) Teresa incorrectly then remarked that we are to request and invoke Jesus’ mother Mary, and the saints to intercede for us. I don’t agree with her on that note, but she said enough good around it that I kept what I could. She is speaking from what she experienced, and though it’s easy for us to keep leaning back on Scripture, (hopefully), going back to it, the Scriptures were not nearly as accessible as in Teresa’s era. Where Teresa did make mistakes, I believe it was due to lack of knowledge about Mary’s mother being accessed through what might be considered “spiritism” now. She had no malice in her though, I do believe! In the critiquing of the Marianism doctrine, I still honor Teresa, for she is one of the only women who ever articulated anything like what I felt like was correct considering the in’s and out’s of moving with God in seasons of varying closeness.


“I am the gate. Whoever enters through me will be saved. They will come in and go out, and find pasture” (John 10:9). Regarding the idea of the need not being present to talk to Mary, Jesus’ mother, Scripture says: “For there is one God and one mediator between God and mankind, the man Christ Jesus”(1 Timothy 2:5). (One should refuse to venerate Mary as a saint, because it is unbiblical, and dangerous in regards to spiritual warfare, with demons posed as familiar spirits). It is biblically inconsistent to pray to anyone departed to help us other than Jesus. King Saul used a witch to summon Samuel from the dead, and God granted no success there. That is basically the idea of trying to God or His message, by way of a saint, rather than taking the correct way of just simply praying to God. That shows an idea of someone prayed to, and considered “holy” like Samuel. So we should note from the lesson of Saul and the witch of Endor in 1 Samuel 28:7, that praying/communing with departed spirits apart from God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit is dangerous and close to, if not, condemnable!  So, presently, the need to communicate with Jesus’ mother is not present. Again, in light of Mary-worship, in John’s record, it is plain: “Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me” (John 14:6). Mary’s name is not in that verse, nor in John 3:16. God is our ultimate guard. His Son Jesus gave His precious blood to appease God’s wrath, and its the blod “that speaks a better word” on our behalf. “And to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel” (Hebrews 12:24). I wager that we cannot communicate with Mary because the blood of Mary was not spilled on our behalf. Also, it seems that blood shed from the atoning sacrifice for our sins is what makes peace with God covenant-wise to cover the penalty for our sins. Therefore, it is foolish to think that a matriarch even as good as Mary could cover that void of our sins! But again – to all my Catholic brothers and sisters – I want to reiterate: we have Jesus in common! I would not even know what it is to be a Christian if it were not for the innumerable Catholic and Protestant saints and all the Saints, that have paved a holy way. Thank you, God, for having mercy on us; and we are blessed that we can learn and be protected by Your wisdom. “Walking in the Spirit”, which is the Christian’s goal seen in Romans 7 and 8, means we can walk above spiritual confusion from unclear or absent teaching about demonic entities.