Do catholics worship saints?

Question

i just wanna know if they do

ok thanx for clearing it up for me

Answer 1

no.

Answer 2

I'm Catholic and no we don't worship saints... we worship God The Father, Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit. We venerate the saints and ask for their intervention with prayer. We ask for healing of the sick and suffering, faith for the poor in spirit, Hope for the hopeless... we pray for mercy for ourselves and others, we pray for peace and justice. We are Christians. We believe that the saints are closer to God's ear than we are, so by asking for their intervention with our worldly troubles and anguish they can help us towards a better relationship with God. It is believed by our faith that Christ has bestowed the ability to perform miracles on the saints. And before they can be called a saint , there has to be proof of these miracles. Such as, with Saint Bernadette at Lourdes... We do not worship statues or saints... :^))

Answer 3

The Bible (In Scirpture) explicity forbids praying to the physically dead and to spirits.

Catholics and Orthodox seem always to be praying to Mary and dead Saints and they are usually too quick to claim that Catholics do not pray to these dead people.

If that is true, why is the prayer known as the prayer of St. Augustine, prayer of Pope, prayer of St. Patrick and Hail Mary?

The Vatican may endorse praying to dead Saints, but God hates everything about Vatican because it is straight out of the pits of hell.

When the time comes for the sheep to be separated from the goats.

LEAVE ROME WHILE YOU STILL HAVE TIME!

Answer 4

They pray to saints to intercede for them with God -- to pass on the request. The Church teaches that the saints are in heaven, in the immediate presence of God, and as particularly virtuous individuals, they can help you get God's help (much as you may know an important person and ask that person for a favor on behalf of your friend who asked you to ask them).

In countries that used to be polytheistic, sometimes the old gods and goddesses became associated with a particular saint, so the practices can look a lot like worship -- people will pray to the saint (particularly Mary) with the idea that the prayer will be passed on to God. The common prayer to Mary (the Hail Mary) asks Mary to "pray for us now and at the hour of our death..." Mary's prayers are considered very powerful.

Also, certain saints are associated with particular areas -- like St. Jude is the saint associated with difficult or impossible causes (the saint of last resort, where you have no reason to be hopeful). St. Anthony is associated with finding lost items. Certain countries have certain saints that are their "patron saints" -- like St. Joseph is the patron saint of Poland and St. Patrick is the patron saint of Ireland. This has as much to do with national identity as it does with anything religious.

Answer 5

No, they worship God. They pray to saints to "put in a good word for them" to God. I'm not Catholic, but I asked a similar question, feel free to check it out.

Answer 6

Catholics worship no-one but the One True God Who founded our Church. Worship of anyone else would constitute idolatry, as is plainly stated in the Catechism of the Catholic Church, and is therefore absolutely forbidden by Catholic teaching.
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Answer 7

Officially, no; in practice, yes.

Catholics themselves will bore you with the hierarchial distinctions between saints, the Virgin, Jesus, Daddy and the Spook, and the devotional approach appropriate to each; non-Catholic Christians with an axe to grind will say things like "They pray to saints, and that's the same as worship." I submit that you can't rely on Christians of any denomination to tell you the truth about any denomination of Christianity, any more than you could rely on a political party to investigate itself on corruption charges.

It's a demonstrable fact that the feast days of the saints have merely replaced the old feasts of the pagan deities; in many cases even the name has been retained, in every case the character and attributes are the same. (So, of course, with all the "Christian" holidays, including Christmas and Easter.) Catholics, especially in rural European and Latin countries, approach these saints exactly as their ancestors approached the gods; they pray to them for the particular divine favors associated with each. If you ask the Pope, he'll say that of course the saints are not objects of worship, and most Catholics know they're supposed to say the same thing. Still, in practice, they do.

This makes Catholicism polytheistic; but the concept of Jesus as "Son of God" makes any denomination of Christianity polytheistic, so it's just a question of numbers.

Answer 8

No, Catholics DO NOT worship saints.

Catholics pray to Saints for guidance to intercede on our behalf with God.

Saints are like role models. They were 'regular' people like us who led lives guided by a deep faith. Many overcame obstacles and still retained their faith.

Those who say otherwise are mistaken.

Answer 9

We do not worship saints.

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 living here on earth to pray for you. Or, you may also ask the Blessed Virgin Mary, Saint Andrew, or your deceased grandmother living in heaven to pray for you.

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

And prayer to the saints is optional not required.

With love in Christ.

Answer 10

Absolutely they pray to saints and worship them have you ever noticed all the pictures and statutes in their churches then read the ten Commandments Ex 20 :3-5 that tells them not to do such things interesting is it not Gorbalizer

Answer 11

No, we honor them and we pray in communion with them
The communion of saints is the spiritual solidarity which binds together the faithful on earth, the souls in purgatory, and the saints in heaven in the organic unity of the same mystical body under Christ its head, and in a constant interchange of supernatural offices. The participants in that solidarity are called saints by reason of their destination and of their partaking of the fruits of the Redemption (1 Corinthians 1:2 &151; Greek Text). The damned are thus excluded from the communion of saints. The living, even if they do not belong to the body of the true Church, share in it according to the measure of their union with Christ and with the soul of the Church. St. Thomas teaches (III:8:4) that the angels, though not redeemed, enter the communion of saints because they come under Christ's power and receive of His gratia capitis. The solidarity itself implies a variety of inter-relations: within the Church Militant, not only the participation in the same faith, sacraments, and government, but also a mutual exchange of examples, prayers, merits, and satisfactions; between the Church on earth on the one hand, and purgatory and heaven on the other, suffrages, invocation, intercession, veneration. These connotations belong here only in so far as they integrate the transcendent idea of spiritual solidarity between all the children of God. Thus understood, the communion of saints, though formally defined only in its particular bearings (Council of Trent, Sess. XXV, decrees on purgatory; on the invocation, veneration, and relics of saints and of sacred images; on indulgences), is, nevertheless, dogma commonly taught and accepted in the Church. It is true that the Catechism of the Council of Trent (Pt. I, ch. x) seems at first sight to limit to the living the bearing of the phrase contained in the Creed, but by making the communion of saints an exponent and function, as it were, of the preceding clause, "the Holy Catholic Church", it really extends to what it calls the Church's "constituent parts, one gone before, the other following every day"; the broad principle it enunciates thus: "every pious and holy action done by one belongs and is profitable to all, through charity which seeketh not her own".