[Elsie]

The Blessed Mother is not a deity and Catholics do not worship her.

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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'!

[ADSUM]

You certainly realize that the Blessed Mother passes on the requests to her son, Jesus, with her prayers. Jesus does the heavy lifting.

You could pray the Rosary daily for the conversion of sinners which could save many of your friends from Hell.

And if you really wanted to worship God the Father you could join Jesus at Mass to be part of his sacrifice on the cross that is offered to God the Father. Or if you really wanted to get close to Jesus and talk to Him spend an hour in front of the Blessed Sacrament. It could change your life.