[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.

[annalex]

I would never risk it.

Look at how you read the scripture. Mary is like a golden calf? Please try to apply reason when you read.

As to the exact wording and object of prayer, I, too, prefer some prayers to others and pray the prayers I like. As many explained on this thread, the prayer to Michael is well suited for our age especially, and I plan to incorporate it in my Holy Rosary routine. Your mileage may vary, as the saying goes. but remember that proper worship of God necessitates praying in the company of saints and angels for we are in the same Holy Church with them and we are told to pray in groups as well as alone.