Time spend praying to Mary is time spent not praying to God as Jesus commanded us to do.
Adoration given to her is adoration not given to God, in defiance to the clear command of God here...
Exodus 20 2 “I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
3 “You shall have no other gods before me.
4 “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. 5 You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the LORD your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, 6but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.
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Putting anything before God or going to God through anybody else is putting another god before the Almighty God, Creator of the universe.
Catholics say they don’t worship Mary but they attribute to her characteristics of God and relate to her as they relate to God. The prayer, or whatever it is that caww posted above, is an excellent example of the kind of nonsense Catholics have built up around Mary.
In light of that, it cuts into their credibility when they deny they worship her.
Unfortunately, you don’t know what you’re talking about.
If anyone were to kneel before me, light candles and plead for me to facilitate their requests, I'd tell them to stop worshiping me.