Bonnie
Super Member
I know perfectly well what you are talking about.If you don't see it as Catholics see it, it's difficult to explain. Again, it's kind of like as a child calling out to your mother, it doesn't mean you disdain your father or other members of your family. Sometimes you might have a special connection with someone in the family.
In the first place, Mary is not our motner. In the second place, we are not talking about children in an earthly family calling out to their earthly moms for help, when they are hurt, or need something. Those mothers are alive upon this earth, same as the children. And we do not worship our mothers, or call them "only hope for sinners." JPII's first instinct was to call on Mary for help in a life or death situation. But God tells us to call on HIM in time of trouble, Doesn't He? That HE is a very present help in time of trouble--isn't He?
You explanation is a feeble attempt to justify the unjustifiable. Sad.