Simple. Mary told us to do What Jesus tells us to do.

You don't do what Mary says either Jesus says COME to Him.

Which one is it?

You see it is precisely this sort of convenient contradictions that confuse people. So how is it that you became confused? Or is your contradiction intended in order to give you an escape route?

People will hold you to your words from time to time and this is one of those times.

Have you lived your entire life with the ability to pull a rip cord anytime a conversation gets uncomfortable? If so, I encourage you to take a stand one way or another. Dancing your entire existence on the high-wire dividing right and wrong may be comfortable but it only teaches you one thing, to set up an escape route. You dont ever really learn what it means to stand for anything for the right reasons whether your stand is right or wrong.

But I can't help but notice that many questions are asked of Catholics and as a Catholic I have tried my best to answer when asked. Out of the many times I have spoken up about a non Catholics understanding of how a Catholic prays, not once, nit a single time has a non catholic ever answered why they ask a friend or family for their prayer if they consider this action as intercession and therefore sin.

I ask again. Why do non Catholics ask friends or family for help in prayer if they are adamant that this is a sin?