I believe God has enabled them to hear me and that they can intercede for me before God for what I'm asking for. They themselvews cannot "grant wishes."
If so, why not pray to a dead relative who knew you and cared for you, instead of a dead person who died thousands of years before you and never knew you?
I do. It depends on the request. Sometimes you want to pray to someone who you knew was a great saint on earth who is somehow related to the issue, like maybe St. Ignatius of Loyola, the founder of the Jesuits, for a wayward Jesuit priest.
I do. It depends on the request. Sometimes you want to pray to someone who you knew was a great saint on earth who is somehow related to the issue, like maybe St. Ignatius of Loyola, the founder of the Jesuits, for a wayward Jesuit priest.
One of your fellow Roman Catholics says ya'll don't pray to departed relatives.
But another question....why would you? Don't Roman Catholics believe they are in Purgatory?
If so...who would they be talking to?
Why would God enable a dead person to intercede for you when He has already told you that His Son is the only intercessor and is seated at the right hand of the Father?