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Romans 8:26
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26 In the same way, even the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know how to pray as we should, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with sighs that cannot be put into words.

It is true that Mary like us is a creation. I am thinking, The Holy Spirit brings the name of the one praying with her to her mind and She need only pray Amen. The Holy Spirit fills in the details.
 
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Exactly.
 
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pretty much
 
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I choose not to dwell on the "mechanics" of mysteries.

What makes sense to me is the love-centric explanation provided by Dumitru Stăniloae. I apologize for the poor translation:

"Jesus Christ is the Son of God and He was born as a human, and yet not according to the regular natural laws. He was born exceeding the blind laws of regular human birth and, because of that, He was able to be without sin and He was able to die, not for His sin, but for our sins. Otherwise, His Cross would have no purpose. Therefore, logically, by rejecting his birth of a Virgin, we also reject the value of the Cross. We see the value of the Cross by the fact that He is not a mere man who is born normally according to the blind laws of this existence, but He is the Son of God who became incarnate of the Virgin Mary. And if she is the body through which He obtained the body which He transfigured and resurrected, then He could not allow her body to rot, spoil and become corrupt the way it happens to the bodies of the other humans. If He is resurrected, He wanted to provide proof that we will also be resurrected, but especially and foremost, she will be resurrected. We will be resurrected in the end, when the entire nature of this world will change, all the laws of this world will change... But He wanted to show that not only He - as the Son of God made human - is resurrected, but that also someone from among humans is certain to be resurrected, a representative of humankind, and specifically the one from whom He got his blood, His body, His human life...

It is intrinsic to Orthodoxy to never present the Mother of the Lord separate of Christ, as it occurs in the West with the Madonna paintings. She is always linked to Jesus Christ. This is because she is the closest one to Him. Who can be closer to her Son than a mother? He became the Son of a mother. He loves a human mother, just like we love our own mothers. He listens to her prayers, just like we listen to what our mothers ask of us. And her heart throbs for everything His does. [Since] He came down in order to love us, to be crucified for us... it is [then] not possible for her not to love us as well... It is not possible for her not to suffer for our misfortunes as He does... It is not possible for her not come to our aid just as He does... But all her power proceeds from Him alone... He is the Saviour. She is only the one who, by virtue of her relationship with Him, receives the power to help us through adversity and hardships. This is why it is good to pray to her as well, as the Church does and the faithful do, asking her not for salvation, but rather to be delivered from adversity."
 
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