[metmom]

Catholics tell us that they pray to the departed and Mary and angels to ask them to pray to God for them.

But that’s not funneling a prayer to God through them. It’s praying directly TO them for them to ask God something.

So no way you can even begin to pretend that you are praying to God through them when you yourself admit you are praying TO them for them to intercede on our behalf.

[Mrs. Don-o]

If I ask you to pray for me, I am not worshiping you.

So now you know.

That is where so many of the commentators here go astray. They think pray = adore.

Or they make as if they don't need the prayers of the Communion of Saints, a.k.a Mystical Body of Christ.

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