[netmilsmom]

I think the confusion comes with the word, “Pray”.
I talk to the saints the same way I talk to my dead mother.

I have been asking St. Monica to intercede for me to Our Lord about my Goddaughter who turned Wiccan. Yesterday she called me and said she is joining a church. WooooHooooo!

It’s a “two people praying together” type thing.

[No.6]

“It’s a “two people praying together” type thing.”

I think for clarity’s sake it might be better if Catholics then referred to it as ‘praying with’ rather than ‘praying to.’

Praying ‘to’ means the object of the prayer is effecting the request of the prayer. Obviously Catholics do not believe that St. Whatever is himself manifesting divine power, but that St. Whatever might in turn petition Christ. So ‘to’ only, in my opinion, serves to confuse the manner among non-Catholic Christians.

Hopefully the above is stated in a fashion so as not to cause more dispute, since there IMO is already enough of that on FR.

[steve86]

I have been asking St. Monica to intercede for me to Our Lord about my Goddaughter who turned Wiccan.

Any ideas on which Saint I should enlist to pray for my Yale physicist brother who has begin to show interest in that Neo-pagan gutter scraper WreckHeart Troll (Eckhardt Tolle)? Would St. Monica be a good choice? Best wishes for your Goddaughter.