[annalex]

I would never risk it.

Look at how you read the scripture. Mary is like a golden calf? Please try to apply reason when you read.

As to the exact wording and object of prayer, I, too, prefer some prayers to others and pray the prayers I like. As many explained on this thread, the prayer to Michael is well suited for our age especially, and I plan to incorporate it in my Holy Rosary routine. Your mileage may vary, as the saying goes. but remember that proper worship of God necessitates praying in the company of saints and angels for we are in the same Holy Church with them and we are told to pray in groups as well as alone.

[Alamo-Girl]

Mary is like a golden calf?

Huh?

Let's look at that passage again with emphasis:

And all the people brake off the golden earrings which [were] in their ears, and brought [them] unto Aaron. And he received [them] at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These [be] thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.

And when Aaron saw [it], he built an altar before it; and Aaron made proclamation, and said, To morrow [is] a feast to the LORD. - Exodus 32:3-5

Calves are not evil. Mary is not evil.

The glory which was due to God for bringing them out of Egypt they instead gave to their "image" of gods and worse they felt it was perfectly ok to celebrate/worship God in front of the "image."

For me, the bottom lines from that passage are:

1. Give God the glory, don't give glory due to Him to anyone or anything else.

2. Don't imagine anyone or anything to be like Him.

3. Don't insult God by celebrating or worshiping Him in proximity to either of the above two abominations.