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How many Catholics pray, or have prayed the following: "Hail Mary, full of Grace, the Lord is with Thee. Blessed art Thou among women & Blessed is the fruit of Thy womb, Jesus. Hail Mary, Mother of God, Pray for us sinners, now and at the time time of our Death. Amen." If this is not praying to Mary, what is? Mary WAS a great woman! But she is NOT God and she is dead. It is blasphemous to pray to anyone but Jesus!

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Just wanted to explain the HAIL MARY... It's 2 part prayer...the first part..in the BOLD are the words of the angel Gabriel when he announced that Mary was to be the mother of JESUS......Hmmm reciting a Bible Verse..blasphemous?? Probably not, unless you know something I don't about reading the Bible..

The second half is a petition to MARY to pray for us sinners NOW and at the hour of our death hmmm I can't think of a better saint to pray for me at my death..especially if I'm not in any condition to pray...(for example) maybe hitting a tree at 40 miles per hour...I will be stone dead in 7/10 of a second! Not much time to pray I suspect.

Another problem with fundamentalism...and I'm sure our Lord loves you just as much as he does any Catholic or ANY Human for that matter... Everything you believe is based on TIME...Remember time doesn't exist in eternity...does it...? hmmm think about that.. and when Jesus died on the cross..IN ETERNITY which is where GOD is right now..isn't he?... God is seeing his SON die RIGHT NOW ..remember HE sees the beginning from the end... so...as HIS SON dies for our sins, he sees us..(Humanity) all die at the exact same time... all he sees is JESUS dying for our sins..

Guess what..he also sees ALL of HUMANITY rising at the exact same time... hmmm quite profound..but also quite CATHOLIC because people who die before us are prayed for because we...IN GOD"S "TIME" are all dying together... Unless you think HE is looking at HIS Rolex.