Hey Catholics, do not understand some things?
My friend and I are emailing each other about religion. She is Christian and I am a pagan. She continues to say things that I do not know much about. For example, why ask the saints and Mary to pray for you? According to her, not because they are dead and can not answer prayers.
I do not really know why I'm talking about Catholics, and I told him that I am not the best person to talk about that. . . but anyway, if you can explain things to me, please.
- Why ask them to pray for you, even though they are dead?
-You 're not, for communication with the saints and Mary, communication with the dead? And how is that okay?
- How do you know that you can hear your prayers?
- Why believe in Purgatory, but it is not mentioned in the Bible?
Thanks in advance for your answers. 
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Hey Catholics, do not understand some things?
My friend and I are emailing each other about religion. She is Christian and I am a pagan. She continues to say things that I do not know much about. For example, why ask the saints and Mary to pray for you? According to her, not because they are dead and can not answer prayers.
I do not really know why I'm talking about Catholics, and I told him that I am not the best person to talk about that. . . but anyway, if you can explain things to me, please.
- Why ask them to pray for you, even though they are dead?
-You 're not, for communication with the saints and Mary, communication with the dead? And how is that okay?
- How do you know that you can hear your prayers?
- Why believe in Purgatory, but it is not mentioned in the Bible?
Thanks in advance for your answers.
Related posts:
- Hey Catholics, do not understand some things?
- Catholics? Can you help me understand this? ?
- Catholics … Can you answer a question for me?
- And Catholics pray to Mary, the rosary?
- Where Purgatory has been accepted (on paper) of the Catholic Church?
Santos + +
We 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. When it dies and goes to heaven, do not let this family.
Everyone in heaven or on their way to heaven are saints, you, me, my deceased grandmother, Mary, the mother of Jesus, 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 Mary, St. Andrew, or your deceased grandmother living in heaven to pray for you.
Prayer to the saints in heaven is simple communication, not worship.
And the prayer of the saints is not optional required.http: / / http://www.usccb.org/catechism/text/pt1s …
Purgatory + +
The concept of purgation is hinted in the Bible. Here are a couple of places:
"But if someone's work is burned up, it will suffer a loss, the person is saved, but only through fire." 1 Cor 3:15
"Thus the authenticity of their faith, more precious than gold which is perishable evidence, though by fire, may be praise, glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ." 1 Peter 1:7
Is it perfect now? Most people would say no.
Will it be perfect in heaven? Most people believe so.
Purgatory (or purgation) is the process of God's love changing our imperfect in the same land in the perfect in heaven. Depending on the amount of change required by different people, this may be a little easier or process. Everyone in purgatory is on its way to heaven. I do not think Mother Teresa of Calcutta had a very hard time of it.
Sources of the Doctrine + +
The Catholic Church not only the use of Scripture, the basis of the doctrine. The early Catholic church existed before and during the time the New Testament was written (by Catholics).
Catholics also believe that the Holy Spirit was guiding the early church (and is now rector of the church) to make the correct choice on things like
- The Holy Trinity (which is only hinted at in the Bible)
- Go to church on Sunday instead of Saturday (which is actually directly against one of the Ten Commandments)
- What books to include in the New Testament?
- How do our very imperfect on earth comes to be perfect in heaven?
This second source of doctrine is called Apostolic Tradition.http: / / http://www.usccb.org/catechism/text/pt1s …
+ With love in Christ.
Go to,
http://www.scripturecatholic.com
By the way they should know that only the body dies and goes to the grave, the soul and spirit return to God, to the souls in heaven we can ask for your prayers on our behalf.
Praying to saints and Mary is like asking a good friend of yours who is on the board of director general, who are like "teacher pets" for him to cut a break. "Hey, you know the Big Guy, could you put in a good word for me?"
The whole world lives in the soul. What you're thinking is "talk to the dead around a crystal ball" is not about that.
We can not prove you hear our prayers. Suppose that we are praying to win the lottery but you never do. Well, maybe that just means that no response. Suppose that the sentence that someone is in a snowstorm. A few hours later a cop show and said, "Wow I am surprised that I found, if not for____________"
We believe in Purgatory, because what we do! It is a place to purify our souls, if not perfect to go straight to heaven, but not bad enough to go to hell. People have prayed for those in purgatory, and some have appeared (through the grace of God) to be seen and to talk to someone. We have the words of the many saints (while they were alive and were not saints yet)
"Because if on the basis of Christ that have built not only gold and silver and precious stones (1 Corinthians 3), but also of wood and straw and stubble, what do you expect when the soul separates from the body? Could enter into heaven with your wood and hay and stubble gorge and therefore the kingdom of God, or because of these obstacles and still not receive any reward for their gold and silver and precious stones? Neither is right. It follows that you are committed to the fire will burn the light materials, for our God to those who can comprehend heavenly things is called a cleansing fire. But this fire consumes not the creature, but what the creature has himself built, wood and hay and stubble. It is evident that the fire destroys the wood of our transgressions and then returns to us the reward of our great works. "(P. G., XIII, col. 445, 448).
Furthermore, there is no faith.
In fact, the church has closed Purgatory. lol.
We pray to the saints, because prayer is no more mysterious communication. And Jesus says that our God is a God of life, not the dead. So what's wrong with asking older, more experienced saints to pray for us and our needs? Do not ask your friends to pray for you the earth? This is no different.
As to how we can hear, I guess it depends on whether the prayers are answered …
Jesus said everything there is to ask in his name can not remember the father granted him say mary or request on behalf of the saints.
Your friend seems to be insecure with their faith.
Although he was paid, that are sincerely open for discussion and knowledge.
Try this site: http://www.fisheaters.com/index.html
Peace be with you.
Jesus is alive. Catholics receive the body, blood, soul and divinity of Jesus. If Jesus is alive so are Catholics and they are not praying for the dead, but we are praying for people who live in heaven. These people are part of the Body of Christ here on Earth are also members. We pray to intercede for us with Jesus. Do not pray to save us, but only to intercede. The people here on Earth have no trouble saying yes "oh will pray for me so do not buy into that little to say" No intercessor between God and man, except Jesus "(though this is true ), but if that was true then why pray for one another? We pray to intercede for ourselves that the people here to intercede for others. They are our family. I do not think they understand because they only receive Communion during a symbol and not really Jesus because their ministers are not ordained Apostolically change the bread and wine into his body and blood.
The saints are alive and in heaven. By the grace of God that can hear our prayers and intercession. Purgatory is mentioned in the Bible, even if not used that word specifically. The Catholic Church was established by Christ and the teaching of an authority based on Scripture and tradition. Even the Bible says this. Nowhere in the Bible is not to say that the Bible is the only education authority, in fact, refers to the celebration of tradition teaches. Just some ideas for you and your friend to follow up.
It appears that your friend is not very familiar with the Bible. Many Protestants are not. Jesus specifically said that those who follow it "never die." Therefore, referring to the saints as "dead" are calling Jesus a liar. The Saints have been subjected to biological death but they are very spiritually alive, which of course is what Jesus meant. Which means they can do things spiritual - as a prayer. Christians have asked Christians to pray for intercession from the first day. Every Christian can pray in the name of anyone, regardless of where the Christian is living in now, on earth or in heaven.
God is the God of the living, not the dead.
We believe that all Christians are united to Christ in his mystical body. Christ is the living and true, and His Holy Spirit gives life to those who are one with him. Those who are Christ's body are interlinked so that when a Christian is, the whole body of Christ is too much (think of a mystical sense is not necessarily a physical sense).
Thus, like his Christian friend to ask another Christian community to pray for her, we ask those we know to be holy and have lived a life after praying to the Lord for us.
She may think that they are dead and can not hear, but it can deny that after death, Christians are living in the Lord and that through the union of Christ's body, led by the Holy Spirit to the saints interconnected and we can hear for ourselves.
Furthermore, the Church does not proclaim to anyone just to be a saint. There is actually a process that examines the sanctity of life and experience of two post mortem miracles that can only be attributed to the intercession of the saint said. For this reason, the Church believes that you can hear our prayers.
Purgatory, the real, is not mentioned in the Bible, but it is referenced. Christ mentions a forgiveness of sins after death when, speaking of the Unforgivable sin of blaspheming the Holy Spirit, tells us "who believe that the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven in this life or the life to come" ;. There are also several references to not being released until he has paid the full price "when it comes to punishment for certain sins. In 1 Maccabbees (deuterocanonical a book is not in the Protestant Bible) refers to the belief in the purgatory of the Jews 2 (BC).
Many people consider purgatory as a negative thing, but really the point of purgatory is the final purification of the soul to enter fully into the sky. Therefore, purgatory is a good thing because it means to be saved. It's just the attachment to sin to be purgative and final purification of the soul must take place so that one can enter heaven and see God face to face.
1) When you die, you cease existing. You are in heaven (hopefully). You ask the saints to pray for you so that, in a sense, is put in a good word of God. They are not gods - they are simply people that Catholics of admiration and respect.
2) Communication with the deceased? What's wrong with that first? Anyway, not talking to you, so it's a way, like the prayer to God, which is not a good human being.
3) Catholicism is a faith, darling.
4) Do you believe in the aircraft? Do you think there that really do fly? But … are not in the Bible, right? And Catholics do not take the Bible literally, unlike many Christians. Catholics believe that the Bible is a guide, inspired by God but written by men and therefore have defects. Many of the sacraments are not biblical, they are tradition dating back to ancient times. What is the harm?