With so many feasts of Mary and the saints, aren't the saints being put ahead of Jesus?

🔥The question: “If even the Mass is offered in a saint's name, are we worshiping that person instead of God?”

🛡️The Church's answer: The center and the Lord of every liturgy is the Triune God. The Church remembers Mary and the saints not in order to worship them as God or to set them in competition with Christ. In Mary she looks at the most excellent fruit of salvation, and on the days of the martyrs and the saints she proclaims the fruit the Passover of Christ bore in their lives. The saints do not hold people to themselves; they become examples of a life going to the Father through Christ.

Even the everyday phrase ‘a saint's Mass’ does not mean offering the sacrifice to a saint. With the prayers and the readings of that day the Church gives thanks to God, asks the saint's intercession, and prays for grace to imitate what they received. A saint's feast can never obscure Sunday and the center that is the Paschal Mystery, nor take the place of the adoration owed to God.

🧐If they press further: “Can I keep my favorite saint's feast more grandly than a Sunday if I want to?” — the liturgical calendar has an order of precedence among Sundays, solemnities, feasts, and memorials, and rules for when they fall together. Personal devotion is precious, but it doesn't stand in for the order of the public liturgy, so we follow the calendar of the place and the directions of the Church.

✨In one sentence: “A saint's feast isn't a day for worshiping a saint as God; it's a day for rejoicing in the fruit the Passover of Christ bore in one person, and praising God for it.”