[N3WBI3]

your "two thoughts" or should I say two cents are wrong, inaccurate, false, erroneous and all wet.

One was scripture, they other was my experience growing up Catholic. One may be wrong on the whole (my experience) the other is the Devine..

[socialismisinsidious]

if you grew up a true Catholic then you would know that we do not pray to saints or to Mary ('pray' as in worship or 'pray' as to the Redeemer) but that we talk to Mary via prayer and ask for intercessions

if you attended mass as a Catholic then you couldn't have been paying attention b/c the Hail Mary is not said at every mass and actually is rarely said at mass

[Mrs. Don-o]

I have to clarify here that we Catholics certainly do pray to Mary and the angels and saints, and to all the citizens of heaven! We even pray to people on earth.

Will you please say a prayer for me?

There! I just prayed to you, too!

What we don't do, is adore Mary or the angels or saints. We don't give them the worship that is due to God alone. They are creatures, fellow servants. They, like the rest of us, pray to Him because He is the supreme source of all that is good. We depend upon God alone for our existence; and Christ alone is our savior.

Blessed Mary --- and blessed FReeper friends -- please pray for me!