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If someone mortally sins, does God stop helping him or her? Does he hear their prayers?
 
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Graces are abundantly poured out for people to take, but they have to accept them. It doesn’t matter what the sin is, as long as the sinner turns to God, and accepts the mercy that is constantly available, for anyone willing to accept it.
 
People can only turn away from sin with help from God, so it must be that God continues to provide opportunities for grace and conversion.
 
This is the beauty of confession and why we should confess regularly. Don’t allow yourself to stay in the state of mortal sin.
 
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Perfect contrition is the best kind of contrition which is that motivated by love rather than fear. Thus, sorrow over sins that is motivated by love of God is perfect contrition, while sorrow over sins that is motivated by fear of punishment is only imperfect contrition.
 
If we formulate like this:

Does God hear and eventually answer the prayers of someone who is in unrepanted mortal sin? Given that his prayer is for another sin, or something else/someone else, than his mortal sin?

Of course we can say yes, God is almighty. But can we have a more concrete answer?
 
What kind of loving and merciful God would He be if He didn’t? God would not give us stones for food, even if we trespass against Him. His love is eternal and unconditional.
 
theCardinalbird said:
If someone mortally sins, does God stop helping him or her? Does he hear their prayers?
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The Apostle James says, “You ask but do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.”

So even if we aren’t in a state of mortal sin, our prayers don’t have the effect we wish. So it’s always better to pray through your patron saint, your guardian angel, or best of all, our Blessed Mother.

An added benefit of turning to the Queen of Heaven is that she knows what you really want/need & she’ll ask for that for you. She perfects our prayers.

However, in a state of mortal sin you’re not disposed to receive the graces asked for.
 
There’s a lot of stuff in your post that’s slightly off, here.
Justin_Mary said:
The Apostle James says, “You ask but do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.”
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What does this have to do with anything? We don’t know what the OP is praying for. He could be praying for the health of his dying grandfather or for the help of Jesus in turning away from his mortal sins. Either case is not asking “wrongly, to spend it on your passions.” Quoting some Bible verse out of context not only is unhelpful here, it makes zero sense.
So even if we aren’t in a state of mortal sin, our prayers don’t have the effect we wish.
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??? The only effect we can reasonably wish for, from a prayer, is that Jesus hears the prayer. Jesus is going to hear the prayer regardless of whether we’re in a state of mortal sin or not. So our prayer will always have the effect we wish in that regard.
In terms of whether we get what we pray for, that’s a matter of God’s will. So while we can hope to gain what we asked for, us getting it or not doesn’t have much to do with our being in mortal sin or not. He might grant the request even if we’re in a state of mortal sin…or not grant the request even if we’re living a saintly life in a state of grace.
So it’s always better to pray through your patron saint, your guardian angel, or best of all, our Blessed Mother.
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Again, not the Catholic teaching on prayer. It is fine to pray to God/ Jesus directly and we should do that at all times.
We see praying for the intercession of Mary and the saints and angels as providing extra help, not as a requirement that we always pray through them because asking Jesus directly is not going to work.

Please don’t propagate this idea that “it’s always better to pray through a saint or Mary” (or a priest etc) because this is a wrong idea that many Protestants have about the Catholic faith, and we don’t want to be encouraging it. It’s just wrong.
An added benefit of turning to the Queen of Heaven is that she knows what you really want/need & she’ll ask for that for you. She perfects our prayers.
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This statement above about Mary is correct, and is one reason we ask her to pray for us and help us.
However, in a state of mortal sin you’re not disposed to receive the graces asked for.
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Depends on what you mean by “grace”. If you are talking about merits/ benefits etc then it’s true you don’t get them while in mortal sin. However, if you go confess and are absolved and enter the state of grace, then the merits should flow in then.

If, on the other hand, you are talking about the grace to get out of your sinful state and grow closer to God, then you would certainly be disposed to get that push, that inspiration from God.
 
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Catechism
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  • Sanctifying grace is an habitual gift, a stable and supernatural disposition that perfects the soul itself to enable it to live with God, to act by his love.
  • Habitual grace , the permanent disposition to live and act in keeping with God’s call, is distinguished from
  • actual graces which refer to God’s interventions, whether at the beginning of conversion or in the course of the work of sanctification.
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Remember that Jesus died for us while we were still in our sins.

Pick yourself up, brush yourself off, head to confession and keep moving!❤️

The spiritual life is a marathon and not a sprint.
 
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Please don’t propagate this idea that “it’s always better to pray through a saint or Mary” (or a priest etc) because this is a wrong idea that many Protestants have about the Catholic faith, and we don’t want to be encouraging it. It’s just wrong.
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I truly believe praying through saints is always better.

Well, I believe our prayers are carried to God through the Saints. They are answered through the Saints (Saints/angels). When we pray “directly” to God, Saints & angels carry our prayers to God.

Praying to a particular Saint just demonstrates humility imo. True humility strengthens our prayer.
 
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You’re free to believe that if you like, and it’s okay for you to pray that way. But to be clear, it’s your personal opinion and choice, not a teaching of the Church that you have to pray through Mary or a saint.

St. Louis de Montfort would no doubt agree with you that it’s always better to pray through Mary.

However, there’s nothing stopping us from praying directly to God or Jesus. A lot of Protestants think the Catholic Church teaches that we can’t go to Jesus directly, so we need to guard against giving the impression that the Church teaches us that.

I personally prefer to do both - go to Jesus directly and then also ask for the intercession of Mary and the saints. That way I have covered all bases.
 
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I personally prefer to do both - go to Jesus directly and then also ask for the intercession of Mary and the saints. That way I have covered all bases.
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I agree with you. It is not either/or but both/and. Having said that, maybe what Justin Mary is getting at is that there seem to be more healing miracles through history granted through intercession of saints than directly from Christ. That may be a mystery.
 
No.
It does have bad effects, but God still hears you. In fact, it has been said that prayer is brought on by God’s prodding.
 
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Yes of course. And in all honesty I can say from my own experience I have received miracles from praying directly and through intercession. So I am not biased either way.
 
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