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Wrong. You go straight to the Big Guy yourself - that is how HE wants it.

John 14:6 Jesus answered, I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

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Exactly! But there is NO Mary involved is what I was responding to.

WE who are 'in Christ' go directly to The Father. As Jesus taught those who believed HIM, Our Father Who art........