We are commanded to pray for one another. Do you also remember how Jesus taught the disciples to pray??
“...our Father”
We are also taught by scripture, by Jesus, that we are to ask in His name. The Father, The Son, The Holy Spirit. The Triune God.
Where’s the command to pray to anyone else? Mary can’t hear you. St. So-and-So can’t hear you—only God is omniscient and omnipresent.
Why waste time praying to Mary (and you are praying, by the way—how else could you claim she hears you) when it’s God who demands we pray to and worship him alone ?
Yes, I’m well aware of the Our Father prayer, and we pray the our father whenever we wish.
“Where’s the command to pray to anyone else?”
I’m not sure why the syntax is so difficult. We pray only TO Christ. We are commanded to pray FOR one another as brothers and sisters in Christ, as are the Saints in Heaven. This means that Mary is called to pray FOR us just as we are called to pray FOR one another.
You are correct that God demands we pray TO him alone.