Many Catholics (including Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, and the Assyrian Church of the East) will "venerate" Mary and the saints by praying to them. However, the Bible commands us to pray to God and to God alone. There is not one scripture that says to pray to anyone else. Prayer is an act of worship …
Roman Catholic and Orthodox Faith Examined and The Apocrypha “The Jewish canon, or the Hebrew Bible, was universally received, while the Apocrypha added to the Greek version of the Septuagint were only in a general way accounted as books suitable for church reading, and thus as a middle class between canonical and strictly apocryphal (pseudonymous) …
