So when I ask you to pray for me that is prayer?
Beating around a bush is for those who need to. It’s common knowledge Catholics/THE POPE all pray to Mary. And I know from personal experience - so any tantrums that Catholics don’t are really silly.
How do you know that Mary or any other human that has gone to Heaven can hear your prayer? If millions of people on Earth are asking her to pray for them, can she hear them all? If so, wouldn’t that require her to be omnipotent or omnipresent?