Common Sense for a Convert

[Linoge1]

I have converted my Faith to the Holy Catholic Church of God. It is funny to me the closed mind view of many of my previous Baptist Faith. I was taught that you can not pray to Saints and the Blessed Virgin Mary because they can not hear you in heaven, only God can. But that in just a common sense view is unbiblical, where in the Holy Scriptures does it tell us that “Christians stop praying for one another”? I am yet to find a verse that states that. It is common sense that Christians would increase there prayer life when they go to heaven because they are perfect and in the presence of God. Our goal here is to serve God perfectly, we can not reach that status of perfection until we get to heaven, but you better believe that a perfect Christian would be praying fervently for lost souls and his or her brethren and sisters in Christ down here on this world. The Holy Father continues to open my eyes to these great things that it says in the Bible. I thank you God for granting mercy on my soul and opening my eyes to your glory and blessed be the Virgin Mary and the faithful Saints of your Church. Praise God!

 

[Erich]

Welcome home, and welcome to these fora!

 

[Lief_Erikson]

That’s wonderful!

My favorite scriptures for grasping the Communion of Saints are the ones referring to the Body of Christ. Here’s my personal favorite:
1 Corinthians 12:

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As a body is one though it has many parts, and all the parts of the body, though many, are one body, so also Christ.
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For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, slaves or free persons, and we were all given to drink of one Spirit.
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Now the body is not a single part, but many.
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If a foot should say, “Because I am not a hand I do not belong to the body,” it does not for this reason belong any less to the body.
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Or if an ear should say, “Because I am not an eye I do not belong to the body,” it does not for this reason belong any less to the body.
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If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole body were hearing, where would the sense of smell be?
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But as it is, God placed the parts, each one of them, in the body as he intended.
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If they were all one part, where would the body be?
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But as it is, there are many parts, yet one body.
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The eye cannot say to the hand, “I do not need you,” nor again the head to the feet, “I do not need you.”
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Indeed, the parts of the body that seem to be weaker are all the more necessary,
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and those parts of the body that we consider less honorable we surround with greater honor, and our less presentable parts are treated with greater propriety,
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whereas our more presentable parts do not need this. But God has so constructed the body as to give greater honor to a part that is without it,
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so that there may be no division in the body, but that the parts may have the same concern for one another.
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If (one) part suffers, all the parts suffer with it; if one part is honored, all the parts share its joy.
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Now you are Christ’s body, and individually parts of it.

Here’s the part that applies to the Protestants on Earth, when they dismiss the intercession of their brothers in Heaven:

The eye cannot say to the hand, “I do not need you,” nor again the head to the feet, “I do not need you.”

The Scripture says “that there may be no division in the body, but that the parts may have the same concern for one another.” If one part suffers, all parts suffer . . . and so Jesus cried out to Saul, “why are you persecuting me?” Jesus is in Heaven, in everlasting bliss, and yet He felt the pain of His Body on Earth!

Those in Heaven feel the pains of their brothers on Earth, and their brothers on Earth are badly mistaken, according to Scripture, to say to the part of the Body in Heaven, “I do not need you.” For the Body, according to Scripture, is all wholly one.

 

[Linoge1]

Verse 25 really spoke to me as well, by saying “…but that the parts may have the same concern for one another…” which explains that each and every person in the church including the Saints have the “Same” Concern! Praise be to God and Blessed is the Virgin Mary, our Mother and the Mother of Jesus Christ.

 

[Lief_Erikson]

Yes, exactly . I love the logical implications of this passage.