Pray means ask. A prayer is a request. Directing our requests to Mary for her intercession is described in shorthand as “praying to” her.
It was said that Catholics are asking Mary to pray for them or with them, not one sign of that in the prayers I posted ..that was my point..they were asking Mary to do something for them or offering themselves not to Christ, but Mary
Once again there is not one iota of proof that the dead can hear prayers to them said all over the world at the same time,,that would make them omnipresent and that is an attribute of God