Jesus gave us the Our Father and God thru Elizabeth and the angel Gabriel gave us the Hail Mary....I think it's pretty clear that GOD wants us to pray those two prayers.
Respectfully asked:
How do you reconcile the difference between Christ’s explicit instructions on how to pray when comparing a greeting the Gabriel/Elizabeth said to Mary? Is this an implicit direction that God, thru Paul, John or Peter, instructed us to pray to the saint by the greeting extended to the saints at the chruches in their epistles? No disrespect intended or “catholic bashing” I’m just trying to understand the Catholic point of view in layman’s terms.
I look forward to your thoughts.
Blessings.
PM