Growing up with a lot of people with diverse beliefs, mainly protestant, I have heard many misconceptions about how the Catholic Church, most especially about the role of Mary and the Saints in the Church. What I used to here from my protestant friends is that the Catholic Church holds Mary to an equal stature as Jesus and that Catholics worship the saints as some sort of mini gods.
I am here to say that these two things are not true. First, while Catholics do hold Mary to a very high regard as the mother of God, she is not equal to Jesus. Since Jesus is fully God, no one, including Mary, can be greater. Instead of worshiping Mary we venerate her with the respect that the mother of God deserves.
Likewise, Saints are not worshiped. Saints are also held to high regard. Many protestants think that when we address saints in prayer that we are praying to the saints as mini gods. Instead we are asking for their prayers because we believe that they are in an especially close place with God. The same applies with Mary when we ask for her intercessions.
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