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To: kittycatonline.com

You still fail to understand what Catholics believe about the communion of saints. When you go to church and pray with others, you are asking others to pray with you and for you. We believe that this praying can including asking saints and other holy men and women to pray with us and for us. Death does not end one’s ability to pray with others. Concern yourself with your own prayer life, please and not with ours.


9 posted on 02/21/2009 7:15:24 AM PST by marianrep
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To: marianrep

Believing something doesn’t make it true, and besides, you should be ready to give an answer for what you believe. (1 Pe 3:15) Telling me to go away isn’t exactly a compelling argument.

Praying together with fellow believers is not the same thing as asking a dead saint to intervene on your behalf.

With all respect to your Catholic faith, if these men of the past prayed to Jesus or to the Father for their needs, why shouldn’t you? You have the same access to the throne of grace, and indeed, Jesus, the perfect and ultimate final sacrifice for sins, has paid a price no man, regardless of their greatness, could ever better.


10 posted on 02/21/2009 11:01:04 AM PST by kittycatonline.com
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