Who worships the saints?
Be bold, Name names Do I worship Mary?
Does Mrs. Don-o, sitetest, salvation, steelfish, RitaOK, NYer?
You'll have to ask yourself:
How much time do I spend talking to a dead person?
Catholics, all Catholics. By very fact that she is given the title "queen of heaven".
The answer if you want to know, and aren’t flailing to injure, is found in your understanding of the word and act of “worship”, and the difference between worship and veneration of Mary— Mary, who changed the world. She changed the world to the favor of God as ever powerfully as Eve changed the world against God. The actions of these two women, both known well by God, who titled them both and called them with His mouth, “Woman”, thus, tells us of their monumental effects on mankind. The curse and the blessing for man through all ages.
Eve, our human mother, did from the tree in the Garden, deliver her children of mankind over to sin and rebellion, from their beginning.
Mary, our spiritual Mother of Christ, stood under a different tree, at the Crucifixtion, and delivered her children of mankind over to salvation, before her eyes— first through her fiat and obedience to the Blessed Angel Gabriel, and then in the Nativity bearing her son for our benefit, Jesus, making her Mother of us all, who are the children of God ever after who believe in Him, repent and go and be baptized, to follow Him in loving obedience.
There you have it. Eve and the New Eve. Birthing Sin unto generations against Birthing Salvation for generations.
Mary. Worthy of veneration? I should think so. But to worship dear Mary would be to replace our Lord, with her? Who do you know that does that? Who would want to do that?
Mary is not God. Her exemplar virtue was humility and obedience and love for God.
I believe you misplace what you see, in the bending of the knee, bringing her flowers, lighting candles, paying respects and uttering prayers for her intercession, as worship. It is not worship. It’s more like a birthday party with fit behaviors of joy and love, appreciation, and relationship with Mary. She hears my prayers as you would, ie., if you were in a good mood, but she is located near the Throne of God and has His ear on my behalf, because she is Woman and Mother, who intercedes with her son for me.
She intercedes with her son, who is with the Father. She intercedes not between Man and God, but between man and Jesus her son, on my behalf. As you would do, for me. It is then Jesus who intercedes between man and God.
Worship begins as a matter of understanding, (even the caveman has that spark for understanding the Maker of the Universe), and also then from the knowledge and wisdom of God, brought first by the Prophets and more so by God the Son.
God is the Maker of the universe. Mary birthed the new people of God, through Jesus and his believers. (The Jews therefore, are now the people of God, the Chosen ones, only as they become Christian, in the holy nation, the Church Christ built for the people of God).
The natural human response in the people of God to Mary is found in great love of Mary, and understanding her love for her children, who are identified by their marks of salvation, in their Baptism, their Confession of repentance, their Confirmation in receiving our Lord, their loving obedience to receiving the Sacrament of the Eucharist of the Body and Blood, faithfully on the Christian Sabbath.
It is outside of the Church that there is great stirring against Catholics to make a competition between Mary and God, using a false argument to begin with.