[rwfromkansas]

Okay, well, since the other thread is deleted, I will have to make a comment here.

Don't you see a difference between asking a friend to pray for you and asking a dead person to do so?

Unless Mary is sipping tea in your living room, you can't talk to her directly. And, since only Christ is a mediator, any petitions asking Mary to pray for you would not be heard by her since she can't hear them. No dead person can hear your prayers. Therefore, you can't ask them to pray for you since they won't hear it.

There is a big difference between asking a living person to pray for you and a dead person. One can hear and intercede for you by praying to the one true mediator Jesus Christ, and one can't because their spirit is in heaven unable to respond to your prayers because they are not designated to do so.

[Pyro7480]

Could you restore the Catholic doctrine thread so the flame-throwing debates don't take place?

[mike182d]

Don't you see a difference between asking a friend to pray for you and asking a dead person to do so?

What is the source of a person's life? Is it their body or soul? When their body dies, what happens to their soul? If their soul still "lives", how are they really "dead?"

[AppyPappy]

Any chance of getting you to table this discussion until later?

[mike182d]

I will withhold further comments as well :-)

[It's me]

Don't you see a difference between asking a friend to pray for you and asking a dead person to do so?

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Do you have a dead relative?

Have you ever "talked" to him/her?