You say redundant "Hail Mary's", don't you? You can try and justify the RC Cult, but it is based on man-made constructs, not on Scripture. It is at odds with so much Scripture, that it has become like rat poison.
Matthew 6: ...7 And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words. 8 Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.
Rat Poison = 90% food, 10% of stuff that kills you DEAD!
Just because it has so well established itself, does not add to its credibility. Satan has been around far longer than the RC cult, and has succeeded in perverting the truth so that men and women will worship the creation, rather than the Creator. Nowhere in Scripture do you find the foundations for your cult, without changing the Truth of what is written.
Paul wrote to the church at Rome. It was full of itself just like the Roman Catholics of today.
Romans 8: 1 Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, 2 because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death. 3 For what the law was powerless to do because it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to be a sin offering. And so he condemned sin in the flesh, 4 in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. 5 Those who live according to the flesh have their minds set on what the flesh desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires. 6 The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace. 7 The mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so. 8 Those who are in the realm of the flesh cannot please God.
