How do you ask a Saint to pray for you?

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i often wonder if i’m doing it right. do you petition God and ask the Saints to also pray for you? that’s what i do.
 
xmydreamsfadex said:
i often wonder if i’m doing it right. do you petition God and ask the Saints to also pray for you? that’s what i do.
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What they said 🙂 Your own words are fine… you don’t need to worry that you are doing it wrong, you really can’t make a mistake!

I often address the Saint in prayer to take what I’m praying about and lay it at the feet of Our Father, or Mary… or something to that effect.

Or use one of the more formal intercessory prayers which can usually be found by either typing in the name of the Saint and the word prayer in a search engine or using a holy card with the prayer to my favorite Saint on it.

An example of a prayer to a Saint:
ewtn.com/devotionals/novena/stann/st_ann.htm
 
You can just ask the Saint you are praying to, to make your prayers holy, and to take them to the throne of God and strengthen them with his/her intercession, to pray with you and for you that your prayers will be heard by God.
 
I think kind of a nice way to pray to the saints is to spend some time getting to know them a little bit better. Try reading a book written by or about the particular saint you want to pray for you. I read Story of a Soul, and I really like to pray to St. Therese. In fact, tonight I am starting a novena.
 
paramedicgirl said:
You can just ask the Saint you are praying to, to make your prayers holy, and to take them to the throne of God and strengthen them with his/her intercession, to pray with you and for you that your prayers will be heard by God.
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Let me get this straight. It takes a saint to make your prayers holy. So you are saying that when the Our Father, The profession of faith are recitied they are not holy; only when some one else who is in the chain of evidence as to the original sin can make my prayers holy?
 
I pray to St. Paul, St. Jude and St. Peregrine particularly. I have some nice prayer cards that I got at a local Catholic bookstore. I pray the prayers on the cards, and I also ask the Saints to pray for me in my own words. I also pray the Rosary, so I ask Blessed Mary to pray for me. The Saints are our best friends in Heaven, so it is great to ask them for our help in times of need.🙂 🙂
 
EDUCE_1 said:
Let me get this straight. It takes a saint to make your prayers holy. So you are saying that when the Our Father, The profession of faith are recitied they are not holy; only when some one else who is in the chain of evidence as to the original sin can make my prayers holy?
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First of all, you really can’t take the posts of any member here as official Catholic teaching. So while one poster, while responding to someone who is obviously Catholic, might use a particular phrase, it does not mean that this is what the Church teaches. It may just mean that the poster isn’t trying to explain Church doctrine to a non-Catholic, but rather communicate something to another Catholic. Sometimes it gets tiring to always be “on guard” and to phrase things in a way that won’t offend or “set-off” non-Catholics.

Secondly, paramedicgirl never once implied that any prayer not “helped out” by a saint isn’t holy. You have made that illogical connection.

So to help you get things straight:
  1. It does not take a saint to make our prayers holy.
  2. When the Our Father and Profession of Faith are made, they are holy prayers, with or without the prayers of saint joining them
Asking someone who has demonstrated great faith and holiness in his life to pray for us, to guide our prayers, to help us draw closer to God is something that all Christians do.
 
EDUCE_1 said:
Let me get this straight. It takes a saint to make your prayers holy. So you are saying that when the Our Father, The profession of faith are recitied they are not holy; only when some one else who is in the chain of evidence as to the original sin can make my prayers holy?
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That’s not at all what I am saying! How can you possibly think that? What I mean is that saints, who are in heaven, are close to God, and enjoy sanctity that we have not achieved. So when we ask them to intercede for us, they strengthen our prayers with their holiness, and help us to gain the graces that we seek because of their special friendship with God.
 
Cari said:
First of all, you really can’t take the posts of any member here as official Catholic teaching. So while one poster, while responding to someone who is obviously Catholic, might use a particular phrase, it does not mean that this is what the Church teaches. It may just mean that the poster isn’t trying to explain Church doctrine to a non-Catholic, but rather communicate something to another Catholic. Sometimes it gets tiring to always be “on guard” and to phrase things in a way that won’t offend or “set-off” non-Catholics.

Secondly, paramedicgirl never once implied that any prayer not “helped out” by a saint isn’t holy. You have made that illogical connection.

So to help you get things straight:
  1. It does not take a saint to make our prayers holy.
  2. When the Our Father and Profession of Faith are made, they are holy prayers, with or without the prayers of saint joining them
Asking someone who has demonstrated great faith and holiness in his life to pray for us, to guide our prayers, to help us draw closer to God is something that all Christians do.
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Thank you, Cari. Just one thing I might add - your state of grace has much to do with the holiness of your prayer.
 
paramedicgirl said:
Thank you, Cari. Just one thing I might add - your state of grace has much to do with the holiness of your prayer.
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Good point. I find that I sometimes have to call on St. Michael to help me get to Confession, for example - which is a sure sign that I need to go!!
 
paramedicgirl said:
Thank you, Cari. Just one thing I might add - your state of grace has much to do with the holiness of your prayer.
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Also the worthiness of the prayer. As our priest one joked in a sermon, God once decided to just answer all prayers. So many people had prayed to win the Lottery that they only got twenty pounds each, and a riot ensued.
 
How do I ask a saint’s intercession? Usually, on the fly and loudly, as in, “Help St. Whoever! Now! Please!”
 
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