Interesting. Thank you for posting that.
Catholics claiming that they only ask saints and Mary to pray for them is a total falsehood as can be seen by just those two prayers. There are many other listed online.
“Interesting. Thank you for posting that.”
Actually, MeganC, it was deceptive.
There are devotions that focus on one saint or another, and some people—including some Catholics—might think their expressions of such devotions to be a bit...ah, florid?
Despite this language, each and every Catholic who practices such devotion knows that the source of all power and all good is God: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
If I ask Saint Mary or Saint Michael the Archangel to obtain for me one grace or another, I am fully aware that only God can grant it. I just think that a request coming from the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God, is received more sympathetically than the same request coming from me.
Remember that the word “pray” just means “request,” in the English of the Bible. The works of Shakespeare are shot through with requests beginning, “Prithee...” Which means, “I pray of thee.”
But not praying as one prays to the only being worthy of worship, just requesting something of a mortal.
There are those who will not be convinced by the truth of this matter, who continue to insist that religious art is idolatry, and that Catholics are too stupid to understand the difference between praying directly to God (in whichever person of the Trinity) and asking a Saint to pray for us.
Weel, we ain’t thet stoopid. We dus unnerstand this difference.