But taking after their head, what a word means is autocratically defined by the Romans. RCs will argue that asking an angel things in a vision is prayer, but even bowing before, beseeching, and making mental supplications to Mary in Heaven is not praying. Just asking, as if there was a difference in the words themselves. (Gen. 26:7; 32:29; Ps. 122:6)
It is not only praying, but praying to Mary much as to God, as she is not seen, and hears infinite amounts of mental prayer, which are made to her as to a goddess whose power is all but unlimited, incalculable, inconceivable, so that she seems to have the same power as God, the greatness of the power which she wields over one who is God cannot be conceived, whose requests cannot be refused but are like commands to God [so conformed to His will], the dispenser of all he possesses, surpassing in power all the angels and saints in Heaven, the whole world being filled with her glory, of immeasurable greatness, enjoying a special place among the Godhead, the holy City of God, the sanctuary and resting-place of the Blessed Trinity, whom the Holy Spirit only acts by and where only he may enter, and thru whom all blessings and graces come, and who merited bringing forth Christ, having authority over the angels and the blessed in heaven, having the power and the mission of assigning to saints the thrones made vacant by the apostate angels who fell away through pride, to whom all the angels in heaven unceasingly call out to, prostrating themselves before her, begging her as a favour to honour them with one of her requests, thru whom sometimes salvation is more quickly obtained than if we invoked the name of the Lord Jesus, and who cannot honor her to excess (just not worshiped, and which of course is clearly understood and evident by her devotees who engaged in prostration before her and making request to her like as to God). http://peacebyjesus.witnesstoday.org/MarySC.html#ascriptions.
 'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone, ' it means just what I choose it to mean, neither more nor less.'
'The question is,' said Alice, 'whether you can make words mean so many different things.' 'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master - that's all.' |