You wrote, “Catholics dont pray to Mary either. Instead, we ***ask her*** to pray for us, and to pass our needs on to her Son.”
So, you don’t “ask” God for anything? Or you define “prayer” as something besides communicating with God?
Goodness, the linguistic gymnastics you go through to try to say that you “pray” to God but don’t “pray” to Mary ...
Maybe one day you’re come to your senses and reject the twisted doctrines of the corrupted Roman Church and instead embrace Christ’s Church. Yes, that’s offensive. Because the corrupted doctrine you’ve accepted is very offensive.
Let's try math then...
1,200,000,000 Catholics world wide.
800,000,000 awake 400,000,000 asleep at any one time.
if 1% of the awake ones (8,000,000) 'ask' Mary for help, and it takes, say, 10 seconds to pray..
that means that 80 million seconds of prayer are headed Mary's direction every day.
24 hours times 60 minutes times 60 seconds equals...
86,400 seconds per day.
Therefore Mary has to handle approximately 1000 'requests' per second!
Purty good fer someone NOT 'devine'!