I could pray to YOU, iscool, to intercede for me for salvation and grace, help and healing. Intercession is all that’s implied, and intercession is not a function of personal sovereignty.
With all due respect to Iscool, he/she can only pray to God on your behalf.
You can ask iscool to pray for you as they are a person here on earth and this would be in line with the examples we have in the NT; but you do not pray TO iscool; just as we do not pray TO Mary. Neither of the last two would be examples found in the NT.
Mrs. Don-o...We have all posted far to many times prayers to Mary from Catholic sites where the prayers to Mary are NOT for intercession, but for the divine services that only God can provide...
We have posted what John Paul 11 prayed to Mary, that she saved his life, that he gives his entire life to Mary...
The only thing that seems to be implied is, for example, when you pray to one of your saints to find your car keys is that the presumed connection between the saint and Jesus automatically gives that saint Godly attributes...