Do you pray more to our Blessed Virgin Mary than our King Jesus?
@EvangelistVictor , you ask , “Do you pray more to our Blessed Virgin Mary than our King Jesus?”
I pray to the Virgin Mary each day .
But “prayer” to the Virgin Mary , who is a creature , is on a completely different level to that of “prayer” to Father , Son and Holy Spirit , who are God .
With full respect for my mother Mary , I have no hesitation in saying that she needs to be kept in her place .
As the Fathers of the Second Council of the Vatican taught with regard to Mary , " For no creature could ever be counted as equal with the Incarnate Word and Redeemer. Just as the priesthood of Christ is shared in various ways both by the ministers and by the faithful, and as the one goodness of God is really communicated in different ways to His creatures, so also the unique mediation of the Redeemer does not exclude but rather gives rise to a manifold cooperation which is but a sharing in this one source.
"The Church does not hesitate to profess this subordinate role of Mary. It knows it through unfailing experience of it and commends it to the hearts of the faithful, so that encouraged by this maternal help they may the more intimately adhere to the Mediator and Redeemer.
"This most Holy Synod deliberately teaches this Catholic doctrine (the cult of the Virgin Mary) and at the same time admonishes all the sons of the Church that the cult, especially the liturgical cult, of the Blessed Virgin, be generously fostered, and the practices and exercises of piety, recommended by the magisterium of the Church toward her in the course of centuries be made of great moment, and those decrees, which have been given in the early days regarding the cult of images of Christ, the Blessed Virgin and the saints, be religiously observed. But it exhorts theologians and preachers of the divine word to abstain zealously both from all gross exaggerations as well as from petty narrow-mindedness in considering the singular dignity of the Mother of God. Following the study of Sacred Scripture, the Holy Fathers, the doctors and liturgy of the Church, and under the guidance of the Church’s magisterium, let them rightly illustrate the duties and privileges of the Blessed Virgin which always look to Christ, the source of all truth, sanctity and piety. "
