Who are we petitioning rosaries to?

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This may seem like a silly question, but when we offer the rosary for an intention, to whom are we offering it? Are we offering it to God or to Mary?

I thank you in advance for your answers!
 
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We are offering to God, but we are asking Mary to bring our prayers to him.
 
Ad Jesum Per Mariam - To Jesus, through Mary.
The Church teaches that Mary is our mediatrix with Jesus, and Jesus is our mediator with God the Father. So any prayer offered to Mary doesn’t stop at her, but goes to Jesus.

We can think of it as offering it to Mary who immediately takes our prayers and our intentions to Jesus. Those of us who do Marian consecration give ALL of our prayers to Mary, not just rosaries, with the intention that she will take them all to Jesus.

Alternatively we can think of it as our prayer going straight to Jesus, but we also ask Mary to specially present our prayers to him.
 
Offering to Mary is really the same thing as offering to God
 
nope. What I meant is that Mary and God are not opposite one another, so to speak. Its not God OR Mary, rather its God AND Mary. Which is why its not right to say “Why love Mary? We should only love God!” She follows Him and serves Him perfectly, they are not against each other. Also, prayers said to Mary or any other saint always end up at God’s feet. So when we pray to Mary, we ultimately are praying to God. I think it was St Louis de Montfort who said “Jesus came to us through Mary, so we must go to Him through her.”
 
Correct.
Mary is the spouse of the Holy Spirit, and she follows God’s will perfectly at all times.

If you give a prayer to Mary then she will ALWAYS apply it in accordance with God’s will, Always.
 
Mary is the spouse of the Holy Spirit??I

does Saint Joseph know about this?
 
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Yes. That was St. Maximilian Kolbe’s conclusion, and it was endorsed by Pope Paul VI and of course St. Maximilian is a saint today.

It is a key part of some Marian consecrations such as the 9-day Militia Immaculata consecration and “33 Days to Morning Glory”.

It is explored in detail in St. Maximilian’s writing entitled,

“Who Are You, O Immaculate Conception?”

which he completed 2 hours before being arrested by the Nazis and taken off to Auschwitz where he was later killed.
 
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Well, i’!! Admit it sounds all wrong for me, but having never heard this before I will have to go read on the subject…
 
Thank you everyone for your replies. Very much appreciate everyone taking the time to answer my question.
 
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