[Dr. Eckleburg]

Your crass defense of praying to dead people and the Scripture you mangle to try and support it does more than any post I could make to show the paucity of your argument.

Mary is dead. She is in heaven. She was a simple Jewish girl who was graced by God to carry the Christ child to term.

She was a sinner, just like you and me, born in sin and dead in sin, forgiven those sins by Christ's work on the cross.

The blasphemy that Rome has surrounded her with is ungodly. Repent of it.

[Judith Anne]

Mary is dead. She is in heaven.

Wait -- ?

[Hieronymus]

She was a sinner, just like you and me,

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While Mary is the first to proclaim that she is in need of Christ as a Savior (Luke 1:47), I would not say that she is just like me. I for one have not had an archangel appear to me lately and proclaim me to be full of grace, but perhaps it has happened to you. I have never heard of another Catholic having such an experience. Maybe it is common among Calvinists, though my mother, who is a convert, never mentioned it.