As a protestant who sends his kids to the catholic church and catholic school (because of the entire pro-homo mainstream protestant dominations), the entire Mary veneration thing is kind of odd.
I get the idea of Mary being the mother/bearer of Jesus, and the idea of praying to a saint for intersession, (that is pray for them to pray for us), but sometimes it goes a wee bit over the top. I mean they do not do the same with Paul, Peter and James.
I seem to recall JC telling us to pray to the father. Certainly the vernation of Mary is not in the Bible, nor is she a redeemer, and JC specifically says once he went by-bye the father was sending the Holy Spirit, which was apparently visible to the early fathers, or at least its presence was.
Not that Protestants don’t have their own wacky ideas, disagreements, strange doctrine that make me shake my head. To be even handed the Bible says to nether add or subtract form scripture and what did Luther do, he dropped 6 books. Oh, Vey. Heck I am sure I have at least a few things wrong and misunderstood, to err is human. Not bashing Catholics, just find that particular aspect in the Roman and eastern orthodox church kind of strange.
You send your kids to the Catholic Church? Do you go with them?