What we do Not do is make an idol of her...pray to her...bow down to her...or call her equal to the savior in any way shape or form. Nor do we call her "the Holy Mother Of God'... as if God needed a mother.
Further, we do Not set aside celebrations adoring her, or build idols of her of all manner of mans imaginations and then adorning her in all manner of dress and attire to march thru parades as the pagans did. That we do not do nor should we.
I thank God that he showed me that catholic rituals so often oppose what Jesus himself said we are not to do. ..no images nor idols, nor are we to bow before them or pray to them...let alone make them so that people make idols of them.
You are wrong in your accusations against protestants...and as much in your ritual and practice of elevating Mary above that of our Savior. In doing so you have dethroned Christ's rightful place as central to the body of Christ.
Behind every deficient Mariology is a deficient Christology.
They “ask for her blessing”? So they push Christ aside and ask Mary? I call that blasphemy.
This has never been and never will be a part of Orthodox teaching by the One True Church and anyone who says or implies that it is taught is either deliberately denying the facts they can easily find and have been told or is lying to try and convince others of the untruth they want to spread as part of their propaganda campaign that aids their attacks on Christ Himself, not Mary.
have a nice day