Trusting intentions to obscure saints

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Does anyone else do this? When I want some undivided attention for some important prayer intention, I have a tendency to invoke the prayer of some obscure local saint of a place I read about. I figure if nobody else is bothering to pray to them anymore, they might have more time to devote to my petition, whereas St Anthony or St Therese, for example, have a lot more demands on their time! 😛

I know this is probably pretty silly, and anthropomorphises the Heavenly court too much, but is there any harm in it? Anyone else do the same?
 
Why didn’t I think of this?

Oh wait, come to think of it, I DID do this once. Well, sort of. I once had a very big crisis and felt that my prayers to, “all the usuals” was probably not getting sufficient attention. So I prayed for a saintly prayer partner to help me out and came up with St. Dominic. Not that he isn’t a great saint, but from what I’ve read, he wasn’t particularly interested or suited to my particular issue. I kept saying, “no, not that saint, no way…” But his name kept coming up. I even had an old icon painted by some desert Monks in NM that I had purchased purely for its artistic merits. So what the hey.

So St. Dom it was, and I consoled myself by thinking he might be intrigued enough to help me out as nobody else in my situation had ever appealed to him for his assistance.

Besides, the whole thing was quirky and funny, which is exactly what is often lacking in pious situations. And I truly believe our God has a rocking sense of humor. And it also gave me a respite from my problems to laugh about my strange choice of prayer partners.

Later, another Catholic told me that we don’t choose saints at all, they choose us! So go figure. In any case, I do feel I’ve become closer to St. Dommy and that’s pretty cool.
 
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Besides, the whole thing was quirky and funny, which is exactly what is often lacking in pious situations. And I truly believe our God has a rocking sense of humor. And it also gave me a respite from my problems to laugh about my strange choice of prayer partners.

Later, another Catholic told me that we don’t choose saints at all, they choose us! So go figure. In any case, I do feel I’ve become closer to St. Dommy and that’s pretty cool.
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HA!! I SO agree with you. He did like parties and gatherings. With some reservation - I wouldn’t want to offend anyone - I often translate how He would respond in conversation into today’s language when discussing such things…
I am still waiting on my saint to talk back, tho. Don’t who (s)he is…
 
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