This is why I consider the “Hail Mary” prayer to be very dubious... You’re not supposed to pray to anyone but God.
Especially when they justify it as saying that she some how can ‘intercede for us’ - meaning, I guess, that she has an ‘in’ with The Big Guy, being his baby-momma and all...
Plus tweaking the Maryanists is all kinds of fun- you get so many un-Christian comments directed at you.
“For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.” 1Timothy 2:5,6
“My dear children, I write this to you so that you will not sin. But if anybody does sin, we have an advocate with the Father—Jesus Christ, the Righteous One.” 1 John 2:1