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It’s not like God is too busy to hear my prayer.

I think it's kinda like a spiritual spam filter.

My ISP gets rid of most all the junk that is flying my way; trying to clutter my in basket; so that I can deal with the important stuff; so these undead saints can toss the chaff out that wouldn't get answered anyway.

Ya gotta remember these saints just work in the mailroom; the Executive Secretary works REALLY close to the throne...

Let's try some easy math:

There are approximately 1.2 billion Catholics world wide;

If merely 1% of them 'ask' Mary for help just once each day;

that means that 12 million separate prayers are headed Mary's direction every day.

Given that there are 86,400 seconds per day... (24 hours times 60 minutes times 60 seconds)

...that means that Mary has to handle approximately 139 'requests' per second!

Purty good fer someone NOT 'divine'!

There are approximately 1.2 billion Catholics world wide;

If merely 1% of them 'ask' Mary for help just once each day;

that means that 12 million separate prayers are headed Mary's direction every day.

Given that there are 86,400 seconds per day... (24 hours times 60 minutes times 60 seconds)

...that means that Mary has to handle approximately 139 'requests' per second!

Purty good fer someone NOT 'divine'!

When you write high-performance software, like a database server, you need to take into account that the activity is not spread evenly, but will only total to such an amount. What we'd see would be slower volume certain times of day, as well as bursts where the volume was greater.

Mary's burst rate would have to be capable of a quite a bit more throughput to ensure that no prayers were "dropped", i.e., missed altogether, during peak prayer hours.

Of course, my database server can't understand the semantics of the text of prayers, so my database server would pretty much be relegated to giving a response not unlike a fortune cookie, e.g., "good luck with that".

Of course, RCC laiety generally say that Mary is not divine, so she would not be responding to the prayers. I guess she would theoretically be functioning as sort of a message forwarding service, having some sort of interface to Jesus Christ, where she simply dispatches the prayers to Jesus. Since she is theoretically "interceding" on behalf of the person praying, she would have to take the time (a millisecond or so, perhaps, to allow for 500 or 1,000 prayers per second during peak hours) to consider each prayer and decide how much she wants to add in her own emphasis, i.e., how much of her "influence" with Jesus Christ she wants to use to promote him granting the request(s) of each praying RCC person. The whole idea is really starting to sound like a modern-day Frank Capra movie, no ?