Why do Catholics pray to Virgin Mary and other Saints when God Is the only one who can help u ???

Question

God says in the Bible that there shall be no other god before him so why do Catholics pray to Saints and the Virgin Mary to help them ???

Answer 1

Here we go Again.

They are NOT prayed to, they are prayed through and with. In the prayer Catholics ask for their help, as a mediators. Suppose you want to meet with the Kind, can you just go directly to the Kind, walk into his house, and ask Him for what you want! No. Each Saint, is a patron of something. such as Patron of children, of lost causes, etc. If all we need is to go directly to God, then what was the need for God to send us so many Prophets, Saints, and other to aid us! think of that one!

I hope that was helpful. It is not to, but through them. OK!

Answer 2

The Catholics do err. Marian worship stems from pagan worship of Semiramis, an ancient demigoddess. When early Christianity, under the leadership of Emperor Constantine (the last pagan Roman Emperor), invaded other lands, they absorbed the local pagan traditions into their version of Christianity. These traditions have no basis in Scripture, and therefore should be abandoned. One cannot worship Mary, because she is dead, in the grave, and awaiting the return of her Son. She cannot answer anyone's prayers. The same goes for the saints of old. The only people who are in Heaven, according to the Bible, are God the Father, God the Son, the angels, the 24 elders, Moses and Elijah. (These last two were resurrected and were seen at the mount of Transformation by three of the disciples.) The Bible tells us that only Christ can intercede for us to God; not Mary and not any human saints. Priests also do not have the authority to forgive sins. Only Christ has that authority.
Some people are just too afraid to petition God directly, so they feel better asking Mary or Saints (who can't hear them anyway). But we are assured in the Gospel that we can come to Jesus anytime with our grievances, and we can ask Him in boldness to forgive our sins.

Answer 3

Before Jesus Christ died for our sins and opened the gates of heaven there were no saints in heaven. Therefore there are no Old Testament writings that would mention them.

Very few of the new Christians died before most of the New Testament was written. Therefore there is little in the Bible about asking saints to pray for us.

However the last book of the Bible does talk about the saints in heaven praying.

Revelation 5:8: Each of the elders held a harp and gold bowls filled with incense, which are the prayers of the holy ones.

Revelation 8:3-4: He was given a great quantity of incense to offer, along with the prayers of all the holy ones, on the gold altar that was before the throne. The smoke of the incense along with the prayers of the holy ones went up before God from the hand of the angel.

The Holy Spirit guided the early Church in many things not explained in the Bible including how does the Body of Christ (believers) on Earth relate to the Body of Christ (saints) in heaven. We are still one Body.

Catholics share the belief in the Communion of Saints with many other Christians, including the Eastern Orthodox, Anglican, Episcopal, and Methodist Churches.

The Communion of Saints is the belief where all saints are intimately related in the Body of Christ, a family. When you die and go to heaven, you do not leave this family.

Everyone in heaven or on their way to heaven are saints, you, me, my deceased grandmother, Mary the mother of Jesus, and Mother Teresa.

As part of this family, you may ask your family and friends here on earth to pray for you. Or, you may also ask the Blessed Virgin Mary, Saint Andrew, or your deceased grandmother in heaven to pray for you.

Prayer to saints in heaven is simple communication, not worship.

With love in Christ.

Answer 4

There have been many visions of the Virgin Mary!
As for praying to saints? One guy was so bold as to
suggest that that is the doctrine of the Nicolaitanes in Revelation that Jesus hates!

Answer 5

Because they believe (and are sadly mistaken) that the old testament and the law of Moses has been done away with. Plus Catholicism started candy coating paganism and idolatry during the fourth century AD and have been doing it ever since. They believe that they have the authority to turn the traditions of man into the traditions of God. Just blame it all on Roman Emperor Constantine.

Also praying to (or through) dead people is a sin. No matter how holy they were.

Answer 6

Try this.

You have a friend, highly placed. You need a favor. Your friend has better access to the person who can grant this favor. Wouldn't you ask, in the name of friendship, for their help in approaching that person and asking their aid for you?

We believe in the Community of Saints. The saints are human beings in heaven. Mary is the Mother of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, and by His will, our mother as well (See Paul and the Mystical Body of Christ).

Catholics are taught to respect and love Mary as Mother and the saints as our friends in high places (so to speak).

What more natural than you and your friends approach the Father together to obtain the favor you seek?

And this as well: don't you keep in contact with your friends? With your mother? We like to chat with Mary and the saints. Catholics are sociable types. We just recognize and enjoy a somewhat wider circle of friends than most people. We don't discriminate against people just because they're in heaven. We keep in touch.

Answer 7

I have spoken to Catholic associates of mine, and they seem to think that Mary, (they call her the Holy Mother) has some special connexion. I explained to them that that was for a period only - approximately nine months - and then that was that.

Jesus, Mary's son, said "no one comes unto the Father but by me." They read the bible and totally misconstrue God's word. If Jesus said so, and He is the second part of the Holy Trinity - God's Only Begotten Son, who is anybody else to say differently? As a matter of fact, they have added certain passages to the bible for their particular form of worship. It's insane!

I've said this before, if Mary could have helped anyone she would have helped Jesus when He was being beaten, ripped to shreds, hung on the cross, etc. I don't know any mother who stands by and not even throw herself on her child to cover him from harm. It is something inherent in mothers. We go crazy for our children.

Answer 8

The Virgin Mary and other Saints aren't "God(s)" so your reference to the Exodus 20:2-3 does not apply. Nowhere in the Bible does it say you are only to speak to the Lord. Talking to those who have passed on is not prohibited by scriptures. I know people who talk to deceased relatives. I know people who talk to Jesus and call out his name when they believe that Jesus and God are one in the same after the death of Jesus... why don't they just say "God"? in their prayers and in all references?

Answer 9

I was once told that a Catholic prays to the Saints in the hopes that the Saint will put in a good word for them with god and that they will convince god to help them.

Seems like a copout to me. If a god won't help you because YOU asked, then getting the Saints to beg for you is like getting mommy to go to school to stop the kids from teasing you. It's not going to work and it's childish to boot.

Answer 10

As a Catholic, I can tell you that the Virgin Mary and the Saints are closer to God's ears than we are down here on earth. We petition them to pray for us to God on our behalf, not TO them. What do you think that everyone does up there when they die? Sit on clouds and strum harps? They are praying and spending time in communion to God. We ask them to pray for us while they are up there, and we pray to God too. Sometimes, we need all of the help that we can get.