[annalex]

Revelation 22:8-9

Correct, as the Catholic church teaches both in Revelation and today, we should worship God alone. The question was whether we should pray to angels, not worship angels.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thank you for your comment, dear annalex, and for your encouragements dear sister and brothers in Christ!

annalex: Correct, as the Catholic church teaches both in Revelation and today, we should worship God alone. The question was whether we should pray to angels, not worship angels.

I have heard about that many times, of course, on the Religion Forum. And I have also heard many times on the forum, the wording of prayers to Mary and other heavenly beings.

Sadly, the adjectives used to describe the difference in the nature of a petition by object - dulia, hyperdulia and latria - are not demonstrated to my reading by the actual words used in many of those petitions. Indeed, I doubt that good intentions are enough in proximity:

And all the people brake off the golden earrings which [were] in their ears, and brought [them] unto Aaron. And he received [them] at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These [be] thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.

And when Aaron saw [it], he built an altar before it; and Aaron made proclamation, and said, To morrow [is] a feast to the LORD. - Exodus 32:3-5

For that reason, I would never risk it.

[Elsie]

Correct, as the Catholic church teaches both in Revelation and today, we should worship God alone.

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Mary is the all holy one:  "By asking Mary to pray for us, we acknowledge ourselves to be poor sinners and we address ourselves to the 'Mother of Mercy,' the All-Holy One," (CCC 2677).

Devotion to Mary:  "The liturgical feasts dedicated to the Mother of God and Marian prayer, such as the rosary, an "epitome of the whole Gospel," express this devotion to the Virgin Mary," (CCC. 971).

Pray to Mary:  "Mary is the perfect Orans (pray-er), a figure of the Church. When we pray to her, we are adhering with her to the plan of the Father," (CCC 2679).

 

Mary is worshipped:  "...when she [Mary] is the subject of preaching and worship she prompts the faithful to come to her Son..." (Vatican Council II, p. 420). See quote in Context

 

No Better way than to look to Mary:  "After speaking of the Church, her origin, mission, and destiny, we can find no better way to conclude than by looking to Mary," (CCC 972).

 

"so no man goeth to Christ but by His Mother," (Vatican Website:  Encyclical of Pope Leo 13th on the Rosary, Octobri Mense, Pope Leo 13th, 1903-1914).

 

Mary brings us the gifts of Eternal Life:  Mary, "...by her manifold intercession continues to bring us the gifts of eternal salvation...(CCC par. 969).

 

Mary made atonement for the sins of man:  "...Mary, by her spiritual entering into the sacrifice of her divine son for men, made atonement for the sins of man and (de congruon) merited the application of the redemptive grace of Christ.  In this manner she cooperates in the subjective redemption of mankind."  (Fundamentals of Catholic Dogma, Ott, page 213).