Why is that?
You are a mother, right? How can you not recognize that the person chosen by God to bring Him into the world is a special and distinct honor, even among the other saints?
Did I not state that she was honored by God?
As for prayer to saints, this is just an area where we disagree. As I've said many times before, we do not view the Christian community to be composed of two, seperated halves, the dead and the living.
Well do what you like. I will still comtinue to honor and respect Mary for what she did but I won't pray to her or her statues. Did I tell you that that statue with the cushioned alter has a vase and people are placing flowers there now? The whole place makes me uncomfortable. Just a suggestion but the next time you pray to Jesus why don't you ask him how he feels about you praying to Mary, his mother?