Who's throwing a party? I guess Spain's civil war worked out well for you.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071025/ap_on_re_eu/spain_beatification
2007-10-25 08:27:53 · 15 answers · asked by lizardmama 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Genghis- Civilwar is right. I'm incredibly jealous. Just chalk it up to my list of deadly sins. I rejected those after I left the Catholic church.
2007-10-25 08:44:21 · update #1
C'mon Midge, you can be more creative than that.
2007-10-25 09:27:52 · update #2
Catholic Crusader- I may disagree with your final conclusion, but you did a magnificent job of backing it up. Made me pause for consideration.
2007-10-25 09:29:41 · update #3
After many years of living as a devout Catholic under the tutilage of the nuns, I can say with all certainty that I was most definitely taught to pray to saints. Isn't that what we're doing when we ask them to grant us favors? I have wholly repented for having ever done that. It is scripturally wrong.
2007-10-25 09:31:39 · update #4
Man, some of you really need to lighten up! I thought beatification was something to be celebrated if you ascribe to the catechism.
2007-10-25 09:34:37 · update #5
Maybe one or two of 'em could be the patron saint(s) of Yahoo! answerers.
2007-10-25 08:30:44 · answer #1 · answered by language is a virus 6 · 3⤊ 4⤋
If your not Catholic why do you care. Is your own life so empty and shallow that all you do is try to put others down and make them as miserable as you are ?
Those whom are true practicing Catholics might pray to one of those saints on your behalf. Me on the other hand would deem praying for you a complete waste of time
2007-10-25 15:35:03 · answer #2 · answered by Lt Col Killgore 2 · 3⤊ 3⤋
Catholics ask the saints to pray for them. They don't pray to the saints.
By the way, you are being very proud. Pride is a deadly sin.
2007-10-25 15:31:13 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 8⤊ 2⤋
Prayer is a "request". When we pray to those who have gone to heaven ahead of us, we are making a "request" of them. And what is that request? It is that THEY pray for US. Protestants do it all the time, but they limit themselves to making this request only of people still on earth. In this, the protestant view of the Church is very narrow. You see, Romans 8: 38-39 says: "neither death nor life... ...neither the present nor the future.. ..neither height nor depth, nor anything else.. ..will be able to separate us". The Family of God transcends death. We ALL LIVE IN CHRIST.
Hebrews 12: 22-24 says that as we approach God, Jesus and the angels, we also approach "the spirits of righteous men made perfect". In other words, THE SAINTS
BUT, can They Hear Us? One charge against us is that the saints in heaven cannot even hear our prayers, making it useless to ask for their intercession. However, this is not true. As Scripture indicates, those in heaven are aware of the prayers of those on earth. For example, in Revelation 5:8, John depicts the saints in heaven offering our prayers to God under the form of "golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints." But if the saints in heaven are offering our prayers to God, then they must be aware of our prayers. They are aware of our petitions and present them to God by interceding for us.
I invite people to read this information:
http://www.catholic.com/library/Praying_to_the_Saints.asp
Oh, the intercession of fellow Christians—which is what the saints in heaven are—also clearly does not interfere with Christ’s unique mediatorship because in the four verses immediately preceding 1 Timothy 2:5, Paul says that Christians should interceed: "First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all men, for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life, godly and respectful in every way. This is good, and pleasing to God our Savior, who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth" (1 Tim. 2:1–4). Clearly, then, intercessory prayers offered by Christians on behalf of others is something "good and pleasing to God," not something infringing on Christ’s role as mediator.
2007-10-25 15:33:39 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 3⤋
This is great news and well deserved, after all the blood of the martyrs enriches the church and has done for the past 2,000yrs.
2007-10-25 15:33:07 · answer #5 · answered by Sentinel 7 · 4⤊ 2⤋
My grandfather died in the spanish civil war you damn ignorant witch. I'm not catholic, but im betting your a fundie, if there was a heaven theyd deserve it more than you.
2007-10-25 15:32:25 · answer #6 · answered by STAR POWER=) 4 · 4⤊ 2⤋
We do not pray "TO" the dead,.. we pray "FOR" the dead,... that they be saved from sins and have eternal life with the Lord.... just as we pray "FOR" each other....
And with the Saints, we pray "FOR" their intercession, not "TO" their intercession....
Know the difference....
2007-10-25 15:37:52 · answer #7 · answered by coco_loco 3 · 2⤊ 3⤋
why would I seriously answer a question from someone named Lizard Mama?
2007-10-25 15:59:24 · answer #8 · answered by Midge 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Jesus said whatsoever you ask my Father in my name he will do it not saint this or that.
2007-10-25 15:34:05 · answer #9 · answered by parkituse j 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Pray FOR not TO!
2007-10-25 15:40:41 · answer #10 · answered by Rev. Kaldea 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋