[DuncanWaring]

In the context of “praying to Mary”, the word “pray” simply means “ask” or “request”.

I’ve seen a half-century-old book on how to write an application for a US patent. The example application contains many occurrences of the word “pray”, as in “Applicant prays that the USPTO grant a Letter of Patent for the invention herein disclosed”.

Does that mean the patent attorney worships the Patent Office?

Of course not.

And the fact that Catholics use the word “pray” to describe requests of Mary likewise does not mean we worship her.

[ravenwolf]

And the fact that Catholics use the word “pray” to describe requests of Mary likewise does not mean we worship her.

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I can except that and what about the idea that she is in heaven which is what i tend to believe and why would we believe she is in heaven.

In other words is Mary and many other saints in heaven because we are living in the last day, the day that Christ is lifting us up or is she and other Saints there because of a special resurrection in which i do not believe?