Will ur prayers answer if u pray infront of the grave of the former pope and the saint and the name of Mary
2007-08-04 22:31:48 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
hi amulet -i'm only the secnd catholic to asnwer at this time so i hope you were sincere in asking and wanting to obtain the reason why....
when i stood in rome before the tombs of the past popes or when i stand at the cemetery before my grandparents or best friends graves - yes i pray for them - for the happy repose of their soul - i talk with God and thank Him for the wonderful things they did or times we had and pray they are happy.
i will ask Mary and various other Saints who have died in honouring God and Jesus. even in the time of Christ, He choose disciples & apostles to assist in His mission. These people were human beings fully - unlike Christ who was truly God and truly Man. i can't be Jesus, i can never be Jesus/fully GOd. I can, however look to those who have come before me - also fully human - and who have lived exemplary lives for Christ and see - wow, (s)he could do it - so can i -- i too can live my life for Jesus Christ my Lord & Saviour.
Catholics do not believe in soul sleep - that everyone who has died since Christ died for us is asleep in their graves awaiting the second coming. we believe that once you die, as Scriptures tell us, you go and stand before the judgement of God where some sins may need to be forgiven and we will be tested by fire. we believe this happens immediately after death. In Revelations, there are passages about the saints under the altar waiting and ready- this IMO is Francis of Assissi, Mother Theresa, etc - the saints of God. We believe they are in heaven with God and continue to walk the path of service He put them upon. We pray that they interceed/pray for us also. It's just l ike asking your family or friends to pray for you -- when it comes to the power of prayer - the more the merrier!
one poster said we idolize these items - please, i hope you will understand that idolizing is thinking that that object itself can do something. we don't do that. sure i have pictures and icons in my home - some are relgious some are of my parents, family, relatives, etc. in the old days people didn't have cameras and those were the forms of art used to pay homage and thank God.
2007-08-05 00:32:31 · answer #1 · answered by Marysia 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Catholics share the belief in the Communion of Saints with many other Christians, including the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Oriental Orthodox Church, the Anglican Church, the Episcopal Church, and the Assyrian Church of the East.
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, Mother Teresa and Pope John Paul II.
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.
Asking others to pray for you whether your loved ones on Earth or your loved ones in heaven is always optional.
For more information, see the Catechism of the Catholic Church, section 946 and following: http://www.usccb.org/catechism/text/pt1sect2chpt3art9p5.htm#946
With love in Christ.
2007-08-05 12:43:58 · answer #2 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Question has been asked and answered about a thousand times. You even asked it before recently and I answered it then too. What answer would you like someone to give you?The problem with asking questions about "Catholicism" on YA is that you get a lot of ignorant, bigoted answers by so called "Christians" who are
1. Not Catholics and
2. know nothing about the Catholic faith.
Catholics do not pray to Mary or the saints. They ask Mary to pray for them, just as many Baptists and other sects ask their congregation to pray for them.
You can find more information on www.catholic.net
2007-08-04 22:37:44 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Jesus said, "I Am the Way and the Truth and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through Me." Going through these other intercessors just says they put Jesus in the same level as them when praying to the Father which is totally against Christianity.
2007-08-04 22:46:52 · answer #4 · answered by savedatlast 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
That is one of the false belief of the catholics .Mary, the saints and the pope are not God to pray into them.They are worshipping humans like them. Very false belief.They are not following the teachings of God in the bible.
jtm
2007-08-04 22:39:36 · answer #5 · answered by Jesus M 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋
No form of matter known to physicists can resist the cumulative force of all this gravity. It seems that the asteroid-size ball of neutrons would get squeezed not just into a smaller ball but into nothing, into a point called a singularity, or some other as yet undescribed theoretical entity.
2007-08-04 22:48:13 · answer #6 · answered by conundrum 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
My mother in law ( who is a catholic )said that God can't answer all those prayers , so they pray to who ever and they will forward those prayers to him when he has time . If he doesn't have the time now , when will he have the time ? Silly isn't it ?
2007-08-05 00:25:33 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Who was the first person to coin the word christian
2007-08-05 05:07:49 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In a word - deception, and oh yes, blasphemy
2007-08-04 22:35:41 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
Because they're idolitors?
2007-08-04 22:35:50 · answer #10 · answered by Doc 4 · 2⤊ 3⤋