Is it ok to pray to Jesus? Or should we only pray to God the Father?

Q: In the Lord’s Prayer, Jesus appears to guide us to direct our prayers to the Father. However, I often hear Christians praying directly to Jesus. Is this wrong? Is it a misunderstanding of the Trinity?

The great Christian tradition in prayer has usually followed the theological view that we pray “to the Father, through the Son, in the power of the Spirit”. It’s a helpful formula, and there is a kind of logic to it. However, the logic seems to disappear fairly soon as we see various instances of people praying directly to Jesus, not just to the Father, in the New Testament…