Please do not project your error into Catholic teaching. Catholics do not worship objects or created beings. Your presumptions and protestations to the contrary only reveal your error.
It is said that Eskimos have many words for snow because snow plays such a role in their lives. Similarly, the French officially recognize 400 distinct types of French cheese grouped into eight categories 'les huit familles de fromage'. Even fly fishermen have many dozens of names for specific types of lures. That you can muster only a single word for prayer tells me all I need to know about your prayer life.
Peace be upon you.
“It is said that Eskimos have many words for snow”
Actually, the Inuit (not “Eskimo”) have exactly two words for now. One for snow in the air, and another for snow in the ground. They simply add on other words to modify it, kind of like “wet snow” in English. It’s these kinds of unthinking generalizations that makes your abuse of prayer and worship possible. We must look to the details, not to what people assert are mysteries which are really just contradictions and fables.
Prayer to a spirit being in heaven is, in every instance, prayer to a deity, since it requires a deity’s powers in order to hear, understand and answer. Furthermore, prayer in the scripture is always to God, and therefore, to pray to a creature is to give to them the honor that God has specifically asked us to give to Him. Mary is not our ‘strong hold’ or our help in heaven. It is God, who asks us to pray to Him freely and unreservedly.