[Faith Presses On]

“Then I would combine all the stacks into one, and say that represents the honor accorded to all God’s creatures (including your mom and dad); and the honor accorded to God is (here I would raise my hand up, up, up) is so high it would go through the ceiling and the roof, and up above the clouds, and then up to the moon (depending on how much the child knows about the dimensions of the Universe) and then so high nobody could reach it, because the honor of God is infinite.”

To me in practice though it seems like Catholics give Mary close to if not the same honor they give to God. From the link I posted:

“Mary is so good. She’s all-loving; she’s all-tender. When you spend time with her and talk to her, pray to her, she has a way of bringing joy and goodness and taking away the sadness.”

[Mrs. Don-o]

"To me in practice though it seems like Catholics give Mary close to if not the same honor they give to God."

Aha! That's it! Right there is the erroneous view, because no matter how much honor is given to Mary, it can never be that infinity of adoration which is God's alone.

Paul says "Give honor to those to whom honor is due" --- but among humans, there are gradations of honor. I'm speaking of a human level: the honor given to your mother is greater than that to your auntie, the honor given to an intern is less than that given to an emperor, etc.etc.

But the honor given to God is greater, not just in degree, but in kind.

Infinity is not just the greatest number: it is not a counting number at all. It can't be used for computation. Infinity minus "n" is still infinity. Infinity + "n" is still infinity. Infinity minus a bazillion is still infinity; and if you could take the number of all the particles in the Universe (adding up all the electrons, etc) and multiplied that number by itself, it wouldn't even count as a calculable fraction of infinity.

It's not

Mary:God::a little bit:a whole lot

It's

Mary:God::a little bit:∞

ANY WHAT'S MORE, it's not "Give all honor and glory to God, except (say subtracting) what you give to His angels and saints (including Mary)" , but it's

"GIVE ALL HONOR AND GLORY TO GOD!
ALL! HONOR! AND! GLORY!"

Because what we give to them, we give also to Him. It is not subtracted from Him. It goes "through" them as through an amplifier, and is reduplicated to Him. It's not subtraction, it's multiplication.

"Behold, all generations will call me (Mary) blessed" and then, instantly, "The Mighty One has done great things for me, Holy is His Name."

My soul MAGNIFIES the Lord."