Catholics, why pray to Mary and the Saints?
I want everyone to understand that I am not Catholic, so forgive me if I'm wrong about something you pray to the saints.
I want everyone to understand that I am not Catholic, so forgive me if I'm wrong about something you pray to the saints.
We ask Mary and the saints to pray for us in the same way that I ask you to pray for me. The saints are not dead, are alive in heaven with God. Mk 12, 26th-27th states "He is not God of the dead, but of the living." The saints are more alive than we are. They are free from all sin. Fillness enjoy the God who gives life presence. Flooded with the love of God, who care more about us than they did on earth. We know that the angels and saints to the prayers of the saints in the feet of God (Rev. 5:8, and Rev 8:3-4), support for the prayers for their intentions. The martyrs under the heavenly altar shouting for claiming the earth (Rev 6:9-11) showing that they are aware of and concerned with earthly affairs.
I hope this helps and thank you for asking in a kind and open manner. There are so many that show such hatred toward the Catholic Church, I do not understand because all worship the same God, just do a little different.
God bless,
Stanbo
We pray to the Blessed Virgin Mary and the saints to ask them to pray for us in our hour of need as well as asking our friends and family here on earth to pray for us when we will have difficult times.
You are very nice / cool. Catholics to pray because they believe that these saints and Mary can make their requests directly to God for them. Sort of an extra push so to speak.
To pray to Mary and the saints to pray to ask God for them.
Rob and other dear friends
thanx for wonderful that you have given explanations of our Mother Mary. Definitely going to pray and ask His Son Jesus to bless this abundently.
God bless each of us
Mary and the saints are seen in heaven with God.
If we ask them to pray to Jesus for us, who can intercede for us.
I will not give a theological response rate here, but I hope to accept a simpler explanation.
God created all things in relationship to humanity and foremost, we are a family and have a Father.
Jesus has made us co-heirs of the kingdom, all connected and all one in Him.
Saints are not dead, because Jesus promised eternal life to those who love Him and keep His word, and we believe that the Blessed Virgin and all the saints are with Jesus in his heavenly home.
They can help us here and make their prayers to God and that He can even delights in.
We see in Scripture how the angels lead the prayers of the faithful before the throne of God and thus believe that the saints are allowed to do so.
God bless.
Mary is our most powerful intercessor. No wonder his friends and family living to pray for them? How much more powerful, then, is the intercession of the Mother of God himself, the man who loved to perfection during his life on earth, and that He remains obedient in heaven. Jesus does not love his mother? Do not keep His commandments themselves (Honor your father and your mother)? Mary can pray to God more effectively than you or I ever could.
The Holy Rosary is a very powerful prayer when prayed from the heart, at each Hail Mary is prayed with love and simplicity of children. (Many attest to this - St. John Vianney, St. Padre Pio, Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta, etc.)
If a king invites him to dinner with him, this is a great honor. However, if he calls a meeting of all the kingdom, and proclaims your greatness in front of them so that they may praise and honor that it is also an even greater honor. In the same way, Jesus, our King, wishes to honor his mother, with her beloved and revered by all. Jesus was so grateful to the woman who poured an expensive ointment on his head that he proclaimed "Truly I tell you, wherever in the world this gospel is proclaimed, he has done as said so, in memory of her . "(Matthew 26:13) If this is your gratitude for this woman an act of kindness, imagine then, their gratitude for her mother for a lifetime of love (Mary" yes "to God (" Be it done to me according to your word ") despite what it would cost her, her pregnancy at a time when she was not yet married and thus her humiliation before St. Joseph and his acquaintances, her nursing of the Son of God The way we celebrated with love and caressed the Divine Child, the clothes that point for him, which prepares meals for him, all you had to see her innocent Son so brutally tortured and murdered, etc.)
We love and honor Mary only because God wants us to do so. He created his He is infinitely greater than her. She is totally dependent on him for his virtue, and its very existence. God is infinitely happy. He does not need the praise, so Mary can be our vessel Devotion.
God bless!