Asking Mary and the Saints to Pray for Us Rather Than Going Straight to God: An Introductory Explanation

HELP!!!!! I have been seeing devotions to Mary lately, everywhere I turn. I've been reading a book I've had for a year, True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, by [St. Louis] de Montfort. . . . I honestly am wondering where the belief is -- that the Holy Spirit dwells in me as a Christian, that I have been forgiven and belong to God, that I have direct access to Jesus who loves me and wants me to talk to him and wants to be intimately with me? And the Montfort book says that it's better to go to Jesus through a mediator because it's more humble . . . -Read More: