Then there is no reason to pray to her if she is not in any way a mediator.
Worship is giving glory to God, no? Do we not give God glory by praying to Him?
See, I do not pray to my brother who is alive. Why would I do that if he were to die?
It would be turning him into God.
The safer play is to pray directly to the Lord Jesus Christ (Which is what Scripture shows us).
I said to you that it is CLOSE to necromancy. Yet, "spiritualism" which is a general term for communicating with the dead is associated with mediums, and necromancy, etc.
Well, as a devout Catholic reconverted to the faith, I thought that of a very nice woman I knew who talked incessantly of Mary but it seemed to me, not of Jesus (other than the normal invocations to God and, more specifically, to the respective, divine persons of the Holy Trinity. However as time has passed and I learnt more, I'm not so sure now, but am more inclined to believe what a saint or spiritual author stated, namely, that you cannot honour Mary without, so to speak, automatically honouring God, and that, duly, even more.
However, I must say that I do think a bond of love and understanding with Our Lady is a special gift given only to the Catholic and Orthodox churches, and maybe to a few 'oddbod' mavericks. But scripture itself mentions her only briefly most of the time, and that, almost in passing. Although she seems permanently in the limelight compared with St Joseph !
Yet, it's all there if we reflect, as we should, on the utterly, utterly extraordinary role played by Our Lady as a mere creature who gave human birth to the God who had created her (!) (and who suffered with him so closely in his sorrows and final agony), together with the billions, perhaps trillions of, not stars or even constellations, but galaxies in our universe - and that only in the limited part of the universe our very high-tec telescopes can reach.
However, in their arguments, many of our Protestant posters seem to make no allowance for personal knowledge directly-infused by the Holy Spirit, such as precisely this personal knowledge of the family-type role played among us by Our Lady, the saints and even the Holy Souls in purgatory. And yet it is the Holy Spirit who coordinates the strands of our intelligence all the time, when we are 'thinking straight'.
Catholics teach Mary is co-redeemer along with Christ.
In Matthew 11:11 Jesus said, "Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist: notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he."
Now, according to Jesus, who is the greatest?
Is it Mary? No. It is John the Baptist who is the greatest.
Okay. You say she is a queen. You have a rosary and hail Marys. You have statues of her everywhere and we see many Catholics bow down to statues of her. Come on now. Who are ya kidding?
I remember when I was a kid. I remember talking with a childhood friend of mine who said he prayed to Mary and it was so good. I told him to pray only to God. This was long before I accepted Jesus as my Savior. But I knew enough about prayer in my liberal Christian home to know that you pray to God alone. I told him to pray to God. But he didn't want to do that. Mary was more effective for him in his prayers. So yes. Mary can take the place of God. Don't kid yourself.