Catholics: Why do pray to Mary and the saints?
When the Bible says "Thou shalt have no other gods before Me." Exodus 20:3
- What, pray to the saints? The Bible directs us to invoke those in heaven and ask them to pray with us.
- Why do Catholics pray to the saints and to Mary?
- Why do Catholics pray to the Virgin Mary and other saints When God is the only one who can help U?
- Catholics pray to Mary and the saints for intervention. Why is it that the Saints Prayers Receive?
- Why do Catholics pray to Mary and the saints and Bow Before Statues?
HO HUM!
Sorry, this question has been asked a million times, but I respectfully ask you for.
…. The answer is NO. That is a misconception.
Some Catholics, the majority (I do not) ask the Virgin Mary as Mother of God (and whether you believe Jesus is God, then Mary is the Mother of God) to intercede for them ….. saying "Holy Mary Mother of God Pray for USA sinners now and at the hour of our death. "She is not called upon to save us, that is destined to interecede.
The Bible speaks about the saints intercede for us. I personally, maybe because I am an adult convert, respect Mary as the chosen one to carry out our salvation, as a mother, as the first Christians, and all I had (one pregnancy out of wedlock, then watching her die child. .. I can not imagine). She deserves respect and is holy.
The Church teaches that to honor Mary, are in honor of her Son Jesus. This is especially him.
… He told me to attend Mass every week, and not the funeral services at the funeral home. Never heard saying the rosary and listened to all that are very rarely there, except for days of celebration, Stations of the Cross and Mother Christmas, of course!
Mary and the saints are not gods. They are the saints, which means they are now in heaven. We pray to them to ask for her intercession with Christ Lord. While we pray to God, we ask our friends and family praying for us and we may the souls in heaven to pray also for us. They have a much more personal relationship with God, being there with him at all times.
Verse of Scripture that the state is telling his people that God is a god statue, a tree is no God, other men are not God, the sun is a god, etc.
We (Catholics) do not worship Mary and the saints. We honor and respect for what they did on earth. Like when we lose a loved one and presume that they are in heaven and talk to them, ask for guidance and tell them you love them. Do not see them as a god, just a soul with the Lord and talk (pray) for them.
I hope this helps. God bless you!
Hi,
Much the same reason Christians ask their television evangelists or ministers and congregations to pray by themselves and sending the prayer cloths and anointed oil ministries.
Also Mary, when sending your prayers do not take away my money to throw on the request and my prayer in the dump as Bob Tilden ministry made.
Cheers,
Kelly Michael
Share the view of Catholics in the Communion of Saints with many other Christians, including Eastern Orthodox, Anglican, Episcopal and Methodist Churches.
The Communion of Saints is the belief that all saints are intimately related in the Body of Christ, a family. To die and go to heaven do not let this family.
Everyone in heaven or on their way to heaven are saints, you, me, my grandmother died, Jesus' mother Mary, Mother Teresa and Pope John Paul II.
As part of this family, you can ask your family and friends living here on earth to pray for you. Or, you can also ask the Blessed Virgin, Saint Andrew, or your deceased grandmother who live in heaven to pray for you.
Prayer to the saints in heaven is simple communication, not religion.
Ask others to pray for you if your loved ones on Earth or their loved ones in heaven is always optional.
For more information see the Catechism for the Catholic Church, section 946 and following … http://www.usccb.org/catechism/text/pt1s
In love with Christ.
hi,
food for thought …
Romans 8:26 Likewise the Spirit also helps in our weakness. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes with groanings by MAKES U.S. you can not pronounce.
Romans 8:27 Now He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit [is] that He makes intercession of the saints in accordance with [the will of] God.
Romans 8:34 Who [is] the conviction? [It is] Christ that died, and furthermore is also risen, is that even at the right hand of the God who also intercedes for you.
The Catholics do not worship Mary and other Saints. Catholics do not have other gods than the God of the Bible. I hope that clarifies your misunderstanding.
We ask Mary and the saints to pray over us, and we ask someone you know to pray to you, whether you feel the need. Simple as that. If I had to ask myself who pray, because I felt bad for something that is not what you worship now? You would not be an idol or a god that you are now? In the same way we ask Mary to pray for us when we need. Jesus does not hear your own mother?
Do not pray to, the request for her intercession.
With respect to the dead little, have eternal life as they have been taken in the sky. Ergo, not dead.
Any other myths I can answer for you?
However, it is curious, yes we are Christians, in fact we are the first Christians.
If the Pope is the head of our church, the greater among equals of the bishops (the bishops)
If the Bible is the Catholic priesthood sound.
If reconciliation is a good thing.
If we do not rely solely on the Bible. Since we put together, we know that does not include everything we wanted. The Bible is the greatest source, but it's not the only source of understanding of our faith.
Not that I do not allow women to be priests.
If we really know what they are getting on with our own thing and not celibacy was not the cause of sexual molestation.
We have Peter and Paul.
The rosary is a good thing.
Yes we believe in the real presence and transubstantiation.
No you could not take the Eucharist to us if not one of us.
No you can not divorce and marry without an annulment.
Baptism is important, indeed.
We love the Jewish peeps.
Not the Pope is a Nazi.
And, yes, we like to sing and drink and party. We are so cool.
Josh,
As Christians we all believe in eternal life right?
When I ask you to Pray for my sake, you may ask, since you can get on the phone or email each other and I can say "please, Josh Pray for Me" Do you not think that one person pray for holy you are better than praying for you a sinner?
O.K. stay with me, because we believe in eternal life, and the saints are not dead, people are greatest saints of our Virgin. How else can request your intervention on our behalf to her son instead of your Prayer for this?
Is the difference pray and worship. We Worship only God, we ask the saints to intervene on our behalf through prayer.
Is no different to you to ask your pastor to pray for you.
Why you want to say we have no friends in the land? Do not be silly, and that is just nonsense.
I suggest you do what he did, invenstigate questions find out what Catholics believe and why. Led me to the Catholic Church after 20 years of study, this was one of my many questions.
God bless and peace
I'm not Catholic and so I do not pray to Mary and saints, but I do not believe that Christians should discuss things like that. I believe that Catholics and Protestants have the same basic and essential is the belief that Jesus our Lord and Savior and that is what is important! Am sure there are misinterpretations of the Scriptures in both fields, but again, I will honor God in all our decisions and, therefore, to believe that all saved! Praise God for His love, grace and mercy!
Do not believe that Mary and the saints to be God in any form. They are not "gods before God and after God, or anywhere in relationship to God.
Saints are people like you and me, people who love Christ and love Him and serve. But they are in heaven, having received the gift of eternal life that Jesus promised us all. In heaven, those "good and loyal servants" have been "in charge of many things," Jesus said in Matthew 25.
Therefore, we ask the saints - living with Jesus and still praying for God's will is done, on earth as in heaven - to pray with us and ourselves. We do not think miracles saints - think Jesus performs miracles in response to prayers from the saints.
Because Mary and the Saints are Christians and other Christians have asked Christians to pray for intercession from the first day. Do not ask others for you to pray? O pray for others? If it's OK for me to ask to pray for me, why would not be acceptable to ask the mother of our Lord and Savior to pray for me? Oh, and please say "is dead." Jesus said "who believed in me, never die." Catholics believe it. Really?
GODS ARE NOT !!!!!
Just because we go from this world to another does not imply that they are no longer part of the body of Christ. Believe in the Communion of Saints, meaning that we can still talk with them even when they have gone from this world.
Activities pray with them, yes, but it means to pray "request" is not synonymous with worship. No place of Mary and the Saints of God above, nor have we ever.
Jesus spoke a parable, which killed two people, one goes to heaven and goes to Hell. The Hell in a shout, * prays to "Father Abraham" for relief.
Jesus says this is wrong and it also shows that prayer in heaven of gods does not mean they are or are placing them above God.
We know that we pray and we know that is God.
Where in the Bible does not say do not pray to anyone other than God? You will not find because it is not there, but there are many examples of prayers of intercession for others and others, which is what we ask the saints and Mary to do for us.
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Joshh: Do you ask people to pray for you? You are asking someone to pray for you. Yes, there is through the prayers of Mary to pray for us, but again, the sentence does not mean worship.
That is what Protestants misunderstand. Prayer is not worship. Prayer is to ask, so we are asking Mary and the saints to pray over us.
Mary and the saints are not gods and we have not gods. Please learn about Jesus in the true church of the Catholic Church, from reliable sources instead of the Catholics hate sites.
The Bible directs us to invoke in the heavens and ask them to pray with us.
Thus, in Psalm 103 we pray, "Bless the Lord, O ye his angels that, powerful as they begin to call, hearkening to the voice of his word! Bless the Lord, all his hosts, his ministers that do his will "(Psalm 103:20-21). And in Psalm 148 that read, "Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord of the heavens, praise him in the highest! Praise him, all His angels, praise him, all his host! "(Psalm 148:1-2)
Not only in the sky praying with us, but it also prays for us. In Revelation, John sees "twenty four elders [the leaders of God's people in heaven] will be down before the Lamb, each with harp and with golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints "(Rev. 5:8). Thus the saints in heaven offer to God the prayers of the saints in the land.
Angels do the same thing: "[An] angel came and stood at the altar [of heaven], with a golden censer, and was given much incense to mingle with the prayers of all saints to the altar of gold before the throne and the smoke of the incense rose with the prayers of the saints from the hand of the angel before God "(Rev. 8:3-4).
Jesus himself warned us not play with young children because their guardian angels have guaranteed access to intercession of the Father: "See that no one of these, to tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father which is in the sky. "(Matthew 18:10).
Because he is the only God-man, Jesus is the only Mediator between man and God (1 Tim. 2:5), but this in no way means that can not and should not ask our fellow Christians to prayer with us and by us (1 Tim. 2:1-4), including Christians in the sky, they have already completed their sanctification by '[t] he sentence of a man just has a great power in its effect " (Jas. 5:16).
I asked this question many times and I never could get a biblical answer.
when I ask my sister to pray for me because she is alive. in the book of Psalms statements "the dead can not hear" .. then why pray or ask someone who has died to pray for you?
So if Jesus is the only mediator between God .. and the man who did the string of all who come? by asking the "saints" to help ourselves and others?
We are a family in Christ in Heaven and Earth.
Our brothers and sisters who went to heaven before us are a different family. We are one family. Therefore, in the creed of the Apostles, who profess a belief in the Communion of Saints. " There is no "communion" No union. Loving people, whether on land or in the sky, covers the other beings, and this concern was reflected spiritually by prayers.
We are members of one body in Christ, our supernaturally each other to participate in the Eucharist.
Death does not separate the family of God and love of Christ. We are still united with each other, even beyond their death.
If the experience of the holy angels, and joy in heaven over our repentance, then it remains connected to us and we are conscious of our behavior.
We are surrounded by a great cloud of witnesses of the glory. La "cloud of witnesses" refers to the saints not just watching us from above, but we encourage our race to heaven.
We are called on to be saints. Santos was referring to both on land and the sky that are in Christ.
Deut. 5:8 - God's commandment "You shall not encumber an image" is entirely connected to the worship of false gods. God did not prohibit images to use in worship, but prohibits the images to be worshiped.
1:15 Col. - the only image of the God that Catholics worship is Jesus Christ who is the image "(Greek" Eikon ") of the unseen God.
"We believe in one God, Father Almighty, Creator of all things visible and invisible, and Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, begotten of the Father, who is only begotten from the substance of the Father, God from God, Light of Light, true God from true God, begotten, not made, of one substance with the Father … And in the Holy Spirit. "
God responds to our wishes and Mediation subordinates / intercessory prayer
1 Tim 2:1-2 - because Jesus Christ is only mediator between God and man (1 Tim. 2:5), many Protestants deny the Catholic belief that the saints on earth or in heaven can mediate our name. But before the teaching of Paul about Jesus as a "mediator," Paul urges supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be for everyone. Paul is therefore appealing for mediation from others, apart from Christ, the only mediator. Why?
1 Tim 2:3 - because this is a good mediation subordinated to God, our Savior. Because God is our Father and we are His children, God invites us to participate in Christ's role as mediator.
1 Tim. 2:5 - therefore, although Jesus is the only Mediator between God and man, there are many intercessors (subordinate mediators).
1 Cor 3:9 - God invites us to engage in the work of Christ because we are God's "fellow workers" and a family in the body of Christ. God wants his children to participate. The term used to describe the "colleagues" is sunergoi, which literally means synergists, or cooperators with God in matters of salvation. God does not need coworkers? Of course not, but this shows how much of Him as the Father loves his children. God wants to work with it.
Mark 16:20 - this is another example of how the Lord worked with them "(" sunergountos). God cooperates with us. His everlasting love, inviting our participation.
Rom. 8:28 - to God "in the works for good" (the Greek is "eis Agathon sunergei ') those who love Him. We work as subordinate mediators.
2 Corinthians. 6:1 - "working together" (the Greek is "sunergountes") with him, we do not accept his grace in vain. God allows us to participate at work, because it does not need our help but because He loves us and wants to exalt us in His Son. It is like the father who allowed his son to meet with him in carrying groceries into the house. The father does not need help, but invites the child to help to raise the child with dignity and love.
Heb. 12:1 - the "cloud of witnesses" (NEPhA marturon) which are surrounded by a vast amphitheater of the witnesses to land the race, and to participate actively encourage and we (runners) in the race for our salvation .
1 Peter 2:5 - we are a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices to God instructions. Therefore, under the head priest priests, but priests who participate in Christ's work of redemption.
Rev. 1:6, 5:10 - Jesus made us a kingdom of priests to God. The priests of Christ through intercession in the name of the People of God.
James 5:16, Prov 15:8, 29 - the prayers of the just (the Saints) have potent effects. That is why we ask your prayers. How much more powerful are the saints in heaven prayers, in which justice has been perfected.
1 Tim 2:5-6 - therefore, it is because Jesus Christ is the only mediator before God that we can be subordinate mediators. Jesus is the reason. The Catholic position thus gives more glory to Jesus. He is responsible for everything, but loves us so much He wants our involvement.
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I am looking forward to seeing the answer in this case. I grew up in the Catholic Church and no one can answer this for me.
We pray for their intercession, the exact manner in which calls to a loved one or friend to pray for you.
This is why it is not chirstains.
Chirstains love God, not Mary or Saints.
It should be interesting to see if anyone has any answers.
Exactly how asking a loved one or friend to pray for you. "
If so why ask Mary or a saint, because you don 't have friends to pray for you
Do you know that the Vatican is in Italy, 10,000 Catholics Itailians know that the Jehovahs witnesses each year. Do you know who are the biggest Religious Jehovahs Witnesses Secound in Italy? So why is that?
i wondered this too, and nobody can answer me, I really want to know what
paulcyp and to all who mentioned this: pray for others, not others. There is a big difference. Do you pray to Mary or Maria? Prayer by others for no other