I don’t know whether or not saints in Heaven can intercede for me (or hear my request). I know that my buddy can hear me and can say a prayer for me, so I ask him. And just once - he hears me and gets it the first time, and I trust he does it. And I make sure to pray for him to.
If Mary can hear requests to “pray for us sinners,” she is getting billions of such requests a day, making for a somewhat long “to do” list. So my question is, how much more praying can she do that she is not doing already?
pray for him to = pray for him too
Spelling police, pray for me.
As to how much more praying can she do, I really like that question. It reminds me, somehow, of the 'orrible brat child calling last week to ask why Jesus told us to pray that God's will be done. "I mean, it's gonna be done anyway ...."
It seems to me that all Spirit- enabled, -assisted -whatever prayer sooner or later comes down to asking God that His will be done and asking Him to help us mean that. And that comes down to asking God to unite our wills with His. I suspect that somewhere in that process we quit counting our prayers.