Why do we pray to them?

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Hey guys,

When explaining Mary to a friend, I had a brain meld (due to an earlier conversation on the Pope) and am currently at a loss memory wise. I just need a valid reason why we don’t go directly to God. It’s very frustrating due to I try to pray my Rosary everyday, and I love our Mother and our heavenly brothers and sisters. For the life of me I just couldn’t come up with why we don’t go directly to God. Please help…

in Christ
 
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Amateis:
Hey guys,

When explaining Mary to a friend, I had a brain meld (due to an earlier conversation on the Pope) and am currently at a loss memory wise. I just need a valid reason why we don’t go directly to God. It’s very frustrating due to I try to pray my Rosary everyday, and I love our Mother and our heavenly brothers and sisters. For the life of me I just couldn’t come up with why we don’t go directly to God. Please help…

in Christ
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It’s late. Get a good night’s sleep.

In the morning when your brain is refreshed, pray directly to God. Ask for the Holy Spirit to guide you while you read:

Catholic Answers: Mary and the saints

Peace in Christ…Salmon
 
You can pray directly to God (the ‘Our Father’), but let’s understand that we do not pray to Saints or wordship the saints. We pray with the Saints.

Revelation 5:8
“Now when He had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the lamb, each having a harp and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints”

You may have noticed that when Catholics pray, they might end the prayer in asking a ‘saint to pray for us’. The Saints in heaven can hear our prayers. When we ask them to pray for us, they are actually passing our prayers to God thus they are interceeding for us.

In the context of Relevation 5:8, we cannot send our prayers to God via the post office because prayer is not a physical thing. So, when we ask the Saints to pray for us in heaven, they are passing our prayers to God by non-physical medium such as saying the prayers in heaven or mentally offer the prayers to God (just like how the incense raises into the air, the prayers raises to God)
 
A very simplistic answer, sometimes the simple ones are the best, is that when we pray for a saint’s intervention we have multiplied our prayers by two.

It goes like this. God hears our original prayer. By asking a saint to prayerfully intervene we are asking for their prayers as well, we now have two souls praying. Why saints? Because we know that they are in heaven with God, so we know with certainty that they are close to him. It is like asking your friends to pray for you. Your not asking them to pray in your place, you want them pray along with you.

I hope this helps.

God Bless.
 
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Amateis:
Hey guys,

When explaining Mary to a friend, I had a brain meld (due to an earlier conversation on the Pope) and am currently at a loss memory wise. I just need a valid reason why we don’t go directly to God. It’s very frustrating due to I try to pray my Rosary everyday, and I love our Mother and our heavenly brothers and sisters. For the life of me I just couldn’t come up with why we don’t go directly to God. Please help…

in Christ
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Go directly to God, :ehh: JESUS said no-one comes to the Father but through me, so how can someone say go directly to God, Mary and the saints intercede for us, like Mary went to Jesus at the wedding feast at Cana.
Aso when you say the Rosary, do we not say the Our Father
,the Apostles creed, Fatima Prayer,Glory be to the Father,I believe,Hail holy queen ?
This is a spirtual war and we need a spirtual weapon, THE ROSARY.:tiphat:
 
Everyone accepts the concept of praying for one another. Why, because it works.

In the NT, Jesus worked “signs and wonders” to show that he had the power he claimed to forgive sin, etc. All the miracles attributed by the saints are gifts given by God to those saints to convince us of their “friendship with God”. I pray to saints because it works and I believe God wants us to do so. Yes I pray to Father, Son and Holy Spirit directly, individually and together.
Just pray, pray, pray.
 
We do pray directly to God. Mary and the Saints pray directly to God. We pray directly to God TOGETHER!

The same as if you asked your Pastor or friend to pray for you. All of you are praying directly to God. Together.

Catholics just don’t happen to discrminate in their requests between people who are in the here and now and people who are in the presence of God.

dream wanderer
 
Thank you everyone for your simple replies. The reminders really helped. Somtimes a person can try to do too much on their own and forget the basics…Let go and Let God.

God bless! 👍
C. Amateis
 
James 5:16
Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective.
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When reading James, we could ask ourselves the same question. Why would we be asked to pray for each other? Why not just go directly to God?

The answer is given in the second half of that verse. The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective.

Who is more righteous than the saints who have preceeded us into heaven? Their prayers are a powerful voice to the Throne as we join in prayer WITH them to the Father.
 
I wonder how many Catholics actually get stumped by this. I did and I posted my own question.

My thread should add to this thread.

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