Do you want to continue telling me what we Catholics are doing, despite our objections, because you want to believe we pray to others like we do to God? Would you want me to continually tell you what you believe or do as a protestant, even after you express your objections, and explain why you don't do this or that?
Well, from a family of Catholics I know when they would pray to say... St. Anthony
After loosing something the following...
St. Anthony, perfect imitator of Jesus, who received from God the special power of restoring lost things, grant that I may find
[name the item] which has been lost. At least restore to me peace and tranquility of mind, the loss of which has afflicted me even more than my material loss. To this favor, I ask another of you: that I may always remain in possession of the true good that is God. Let me rather lose all things than lose God, my supreme good. Let me never suffer the loss of my greatest treasure, eternal life with God. Amen
Is this praying to him as a deity? No... but not far from praying as one might to Jesus.
A novena to St Francis of Assissi
Glorious Saint Francis, who voluntarily renounced all the comforts and riches of thy home to follow more perfectly the life of poverty and abnegation of Jesus Christ:
Obtain for us, we pray, a generous contempt of all things in this world, that we may secure the true and eternal things of heaven.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. Amen.
OR
O glorious
Saint Francis, who during the whole course of thy life continually wept over the passion of the Redeemer, and
labored most zealously for the salvation of souls: Obtain for us, we pray, the grace of weeping continually over those sins by which we have crucified afresh Our Lord Jesus Christ, that we may attain to be of the number of those who shall eternally bless His supreme mercy.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. Amen.
OR
O glorious
Saint Francis, who, loving above all things suffering and the Cross,
merited to bear in thy body the miraculous stigmata, by which thou becamest a living image of Jesus Christ crucified: Obtain for us, we pray, the grace to bear in our bodies the mortifications of Christ,
that we may merit one day to receive the consolations which are infallibly promised to all those who now weep.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. Amen.
Finally, for now....
Because you feel that you cannot approach the throne of God or His Son... our only savior you need intercession?
Holy Mary, Mother of God. Pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death, Amen.
How about for protection...
We fly to your protection, most holy Mother of God; please listen to our petitions and needs, and deliver us from all dangers, ever glorious and blessed Virgin Mary.
I'll stop with one final comment.
You go to confession to receive absolution.... and for your penance you are told, based on your confessed sins how many OUR FATHERS and HAIL MARYS to pray. Among other things.....
So... no matter what.... Mary IS called upon for absolution.....BY NAME. NOT HER SON JESUS