Sooooo, if one doesn’t pray to Mary they are ANTI Jesus???
Quite the opposite! I pray DIRECTLY TOO Jesus. Protestants have a direct line!
Do you receive the Body and Blood of Jesus like He told you to??
I have news fo you: us Catholics pray to the Lord God Almighty. I pray to Him every day.
According to the Catholic Cathechism, the Lord’s Prayer, given to us by Jesus Christ, is the foundation and starting point for all prayer.
In practice, when praying my own personal prayers, I start with the Our Father prayer. That is the KEY prayer in all of Christendom, because Christ Himself gave it as an example of proper prayer.
The Communion of Saints is a doctrine that all of God’s people are still with each other, although some of them are passed on to God’s Kingdom. The Catholic (and Orthodox, and Coptic and some Protestant Churches) feel it is just fine to ask them to pray with you, to join in your prayers. The Church feels that their prayers, added to your own, can help you.
The Church never teaches that they are substitutes for The Most Holy Trinity. They are servants and messengers of God who can assist you with your needs.
AMEN!
And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them... Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word" -- John 17:9-10,20"I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine.
For those with ears to hear.