How Do The Saints Hear All Our Prayers

[bitznbitez]

The question of how does a single saint hear all our prayers is a common one. I was reading “The Mystical City of God” and in the opening chapters the Venerable Mary Agreda gives a description of her experiences as a mortal while in vision. She describes a temporary state in vision where she enters closer to God than she has ever been, beyond the phsyical realms of the body etc. She still experienced strong limitations in what she could sense of the Divine. Whatever state she experienced, those of the Saints would be much greater, as they are not limited being made perfect already.

NOTE: While this work is published under an imprimatur at the moment it has been disputed at other times. My fascination is the mechanism for this awareness in her own explanation which would also apply in an even stronger way to those who have entered into an even fuller closeness to God.

The net is that as we enter into closer and closer union with God, beyond our bodies, we see and sense differently. Its a function of being united with God.

The Mystical City of God Vol. I
Blessed Mary of Agreda

Page. 40

1. This is the light, which at one and at the same time enlightens, raises to fervor, teaches and reprehends, chastens and enlivens, calls and deters, warns and compels, makes clear the distinction between good and evil, discloses the hidden and the profound, the length and the breadth ( Eph. 3, 18 ); which reveals to me the world, its state, its inclinations, its deceits and the lies and fallacies of its lovers and clients. Above all, it teaches me to despise the world, to tread it under foot and to raise myself to the highest Lord and Governor of the universe. And in his Majesty I see and learn the ordering of all things ( Wis. 7, 17 ), the power of the elements, the beginning, the middle and the end of time, its changes and variations, the onward course of the years, the harmony of all creatures and their innate qualities; all the secrets of men, their acts and their thoughts; how far they stray from the Lord; the dangers in which they live and the errors of their ways; the states and governments, their curtailed existence and their great instability, their beginning and their end, the true and the false principles which guide them. All this is learnt and seen distinctly in God through this light, even as far as pertains to the separate individuals and circumstances. But as soon as the soul descends to a lower condition and a more ordinary state, wherein it must make use only of the substance or acquired habit of this enlightenment and cannot enjoy its full splendor, this exalted knowledge of persons, of conditions, and of the secret thoughts before described is more circumscribed and limited. In this lower state I perceive only so much as is necessary to avoid danger and fly from sin, and to feel true compassion with other persons, though at the same time I am not permitted to speak clearly with any one about that which is revealed to me of their evil state.

Just something I ponder…

 

[TEPO]

Well, its not like their ears work the same as ours do. I believe we live in a two-dimentional universe and that souls enter a multi-dimentional state once they shed their bodies… If a soul is in heaven, that soul is even more in Gods likeness than we might imagine. The catechism says those in heaven are in friendship with God. That says a lot.

…For me, the concept of string theory and quantum physics lead us to a clearer understanding in this direction, although there are many secularized people who avoid this area of science because of these reasons.

 

[bitznbitez]

…If a soul is in heaven, that soul is even more in Gods likeness than we might imagine. The catechism says those in heaven are in friendship with God. That says a lot…

That does say a lot…

 

[North_of_Nod]

For me, the concept of string theory and quantum physics lead us to a clearer understanding in this direction, although there are many secularized people who avoid this area of science because of these reasons.

That is a really good point.

 

[InLight247]

The answer to the OP’s question is that saints have union with God; therefore, they hear our prayers in union with God, as much as God allows them.

 

[Ed_Silvia]

Just something I ponder…

If you continue reading you will learn that she describes at least 3 levels of beatific vision and what you included seems like the lowest level where she experienced a lot of infused knowledge. Our Lady experienced this level many times during Her life on earth according to the good sister.

As mentioned the Saints are on the highest level like Our Lady and they can actually be intimate with the whole world at the same time similar to God.