Where should the Blessed Mother be?

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I’m starting in my veneration of the Blessed Mother Mary.
One question though. Where should my love for the Virgin Mary stand?

I know God is the one I should love the most, but should I love/venerate the Virgin Mary as much as I do my parents/friends or more than parents/friends, or less?

What is the general rule of thumb of where The Most Blessed Mother should stand in relation to my parents?
 
You won’t ever love her more than Jesus does. She is more you mother than your birth mother and/or the mother who raised you also all Marian devotions are intended to draw you to Christ not her. If you find one that seems like it is too Mary centered ask because there might be Old Testament points it is trying to make. Just ask a lot of questions if you get concerned.
 
If I can make a suggestion Father Donald Calloway’s Under the Mantle is an easy and enjoyable read and will help you understand Mary.
 
I would say love her more than you love any other creature, venerating Our Blessed Mama Mary is really just a way of showing her your appriciation
For her never ending intercession on our behalf.
She Allways answer us when we call on her and she loves each and one of us greatly becouse we’re her children given to her by Our Lord Christ himself.

At least I like to show how much I appriciate her and love her that’s why I pray to her, sing her name, cry out to her if Im sad and why I like to put flowers at my Mary Statue to honor my sweet Mom.

Sorry that I started ranting…

To sum up I myself love my parents and wouldn’t have changed them with any other parents if I could, but my love for mama Mary is something totally different, I mean wherever I go I know she will be walking with me and she is Allways there to watch over me.
So it wouldn’t be a fair comparison really and why don’t we just love them all without the need to compare our love for them? Just saying…

Yours in Jesus and Mary
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OP: You get three new words today!

Dulia (veneration of saints)
Hyperdulia (veneration of Mary)
Latria (adoration / worship to God alone)

From here:
catholic.com/tracts/saint-worship

“As the terminology of Christian theology developed, the Greek term latria came to be used to refer to the honor that is due to God alone, and the term dulia came to refer to the honor that is due to human beings, especially those who lived and died in God’s friendship—in other words, the saints. Scripture indicates that honor is due to these individuals (Matt. 10:41b). A special term was coined to refer to the special honor given to the Virgin Mary, who bore Jesus—God in the flesh—in her womb. This term, hyperdulia (huper [more than]+ dulia = “beyond dulia”), indicates that the honor due to her as Christ’s own Mother is more than the dulia given to other saints. It is greater in degree, but still of the same kind. However, since Mary is a finite creature, the honor she is due is fundamentally different in kind from the latria owed to the infinite Creator.” "

and:

" Another attempt to make clear the difference between the honor due to God and that due to humans has been to use the words adore and adoration to describe the total, consuming reverence due to God and the terms venerate, veneration, and honor to refer to the respect due humans. Thus, Catholics sometimes say, “We adore God but we honor his saints.” "
 
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I would say love her more than you love any other creature, venerating Our Blessed Mama Mary is really just a way of showing her your appriciation
For her never ending intercession on our behalf.
She Allways answer us when we call on her and she loves each and one of us greatly becouse we’re her children given to her by Our Lord Christ himself.

At least I like to show how much I appriciate her and love her that’s why I pray to her, sing her name, cry out to her if Im sad and why I like to put flowers at my Mary Statue to honor my sweet Mom.

Sorry that I started ranting…

To sum up I myself love my parents and wouldn’t have changed them with any other parents if I could, but my love for mama Mary is something totally different, I mean wherever I go I know she will be walking with me and she is Allways there to watch over me.
So it wouldn’t be a fair comparison really and why don’t we just love them all without the need to compare our love for them? Just saying…

Yours in Jesus and Mary
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On your last quote, it’s not necessarily that I want to compare the love, but whether if I do venerate/love the Blessed Mother more than my own parents, would this be a sin? Is it just that I love the Blessed Mother more than my own biological mother?
 
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