Complicated, no?At mass sometimes I here the priest ask for Jesus’s intercession. It doesn’t make much sense to me. All the parts of the holy trinity are all powerful and perfect. So why would Jesus being all powerful ask the father for something, especially since he’s perfect they would both make the same decision anyways.
There is only one God, but the members of the Godhead are three distinct persons. How they interact is mostly a mystery to us, but we are given glimpses in the Bible. We know that Jesus prayed to the Father when he was on earth. And we know that now he is at his right hand interceding for us on our behalf. How great is it that we have Jesus and the Holy Spirit both working for our good.26Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words. 27And he who searches hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because[f] the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.
They are 3 distinct persons.Jesus pray to the Father constantly when He was on earth.One may ask the HS to pray to God the Father.At mass sometimes I here the priest ask for Jesus’s intercession. It doesn’t make much sense to me. All the parts of the holy trinity are all powerful and perfect. So why would Jesus being all powerful ask the father for something, especially since he’s perfect they would both make the same decision anyways.
This is a good point Konnor that I didn’t catch the first time I read your post. The answer is pretty cool.So why would Jesus being all powerful ask the father for something, especially since he’s perfect they would both make the same decision anyways.
Acts 10:38 tells us:The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor.
And in Matthew 12:28, Jesus sayshow God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power. He went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.
Philippians 2 says this:But if it is by the Spirit of God that I cast out demons, then the kingdom of God has come upon you.
Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus,[a] 6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7but made himself nothing, taking the form of a servant,** being born in the likeness of men. 8And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. 9 Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, 10so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.**
So Jesus, as God, is all powerful, but he isn’t just doing his own thing. The members of the Trinity work in concert and perfect unity.
the Mass is the ultimate prayer of worship offered by Christ, to the Father, through the Holy Spirit. The priest stands in the person of Christ when he offers Mass and consecrates the Eucharist so the prayers and invocations are in that spirit and to unify his action and offering with Christ. The prayers of the people and responses similarly join us in the offering. Spend some time with the Eucharistic prayers especially looking for that Trinitarian language and you will see the evidence much more clearly,At mass sometimes I here the priest ask for Jesus’s intercession. It doesn’t make much sense to me. .