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To: PeterPrinciple

Have you prayed to Moses Lately? John the Baptist? Paul the Apostle? Elijah? King David?

At the end of most Catholic Masses,
We ask for the intercession of St. Michael the Archangel
to guide and protect us in our earthly battle.
During EVERY Mass we say the Our Father prayer- and recite The Nicene Creed too. Every time
And we have the Prayer intentions before Offertory-
Where we are praying for lots of things...
in the Eucharistic Prayer- we venerate, especially the glorious ever-Virgin Mary, Mother of our God and Lord, Jesus Christ, and blessed Joseph, her Spouse, your blessed Apostles and Martyrs, Peter and Paul, Andrew, (James, John, Thomas, James, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Simon and Jude: Linus, Cletus, Clement, Sixtus, Cornelius, Cyprian, Lawrence, Chrysogonus, John and Paul, Cosmas and Damian)
and all your Saints:
we ask that through their merits and prayers, in all things we may be defended by your protecting help. (Through Christ our Lord. Amen.)

So you'd be surprised- but we are Praying ALL the time...
The Mass itself is a Prayer to God- and a Thanksgiving of his Grace.

So yeah... we're a prayerful people...
and Moses and Elijah
might be the only folks we don't ask intercession of.
🙂

98 posted on 07/02/2023 11:57:10 AM PDT by MurphsLaw ("14 For the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”)

Moses and Elijah
might be the only folks we don’t ask intercession of.

Why not? They are pretty high on God’ list. Pretty close to Him. They know Jesus too.

101 posted on 07/02/2023 12:04:15 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)

If your earthly father was alive today, would you talk to him though others? you would do that only if you didn’t have a good relationship with your earthly father.

Again, Why would you pray to anyone other than the Father? Why not approach God Directly?

The Lord thy God is a jealous God.

WHY WOULD ANYONE ASK SOMEONE ELSE TO TALK TO GOD FOR THEM WHEN YOU CAN APPROACH HIM DIRECTLY?

CAN YOU ANSWER THAT?

You jump on tradition. That is why you don’t pray to Moses and Elijah, your tradition says otherwise.

If I was going to ask for intercession it would be Moses. He has proven to bend God’s ear. God said he trusted Moses, the only person he said that about.

123 posted on 07/02/2023 12:27:21 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)

So yeah... we're a prayerful people...

Then why hasn't your current pope croaked yet?

133 posted on 07/02/2023 12:34:36 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)

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