All due respects to your mom, but like my mom who is in Heaven also, neither one can hear our prayers.
Besides, catholics go way beyond asking Mary to "pray" for them. Ya'll pray to Mary. And please don't say you don't as there are too many examples to prove otherwise.
You gratuitously contradict me, so I gratuitously ignore you. You provide absolutely not a shred of evidence that a Christian in Heaven cannot pray or hear requests for prayers, even though a Christian in Baltimore CAN.
The idea that people in Heaven are unaware of us on earth is just plain moronic. Read the Book of Revelation. The blessed in heaven offer prayers for their brothers and sisters on earth.
when it comes to Mary, you gratuitously make the same old, same old accusation: Namely, that we Catholics secretly are taught, behind closed doors and drawn curtains, to worship Mary. The thousands of textbooks, catechisms, conciliar declarations, papal declarations, saying that Catholics DO NOT worship Mary have all been published in an attempt to deceive Protestants. SECRETLY, Catholics are taught the OPPOSITE of what is in ALL Catholic catechisms, etc.
Riiiiight.
How do you know who can or cannot hear us in Heaven? That’s your opinion, but you cannot presume to know exactly what occurs there.