[rabidralph]

I suppose it's also a foible to ask Mary to pray for us, on our behalf...but don't we tend to also ask other people to pray for us?

I ask living people to pray for me, not dead ones.

[Petronski]

She is not dead.

[Dr. Eckleburg]

I ask living people to pray for me, not dead ones.

Amen. We are told to pray for each other, and we are told to pray to the Triune God alone.

Ah, for the world of difference between two prepositions. 8~)