Have you ever seen any biblical example of anyone doing that?
Unaware that he was an angel, Tobit and Tobias asked Raphael for assistance and when he told them what he was he also told them that he reminded God of the prayers they had made to Him.
Unaware that he was an angel, Tobit and Tobias asked Raphael for assistance and when he told them what he was he also told them that he reminded God of the prayers they had made to Him.
The line calling upon one person to pray for another (or others). In other words, the Catholic, by uttering such a prayer, is putting someone "in between" himself and God. This is known as "intercessory prayer" and it is very biblical, as the following passages from the New Testament show:
"Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving; Withal praying also for us, that God would open unto us a door of utterance..." (Col. 4:2-3 KJV 2) Here, St. Paul asks for prayers to be offered so that God will bless his preaching ministry.
"Brethren, pray for us." (I Thess. 5:25 KJV)
"But withal prepare me also a lodging: for I trust that through your prayers I shall be given unto you." (Philemon 1: 22 KJV)
Perhaps the most emphatic one is I Tim. 2:1-4: "I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men; For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty. For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour; Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth." (KJV)
As Mark Alessio points out elsewhere in this magazine, this passage immediately precedes the verse which reads, "For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus." Many Protestants cite this verse as if it refuted the principle of intercession (either "up to God" through saints, or "down from God" through the priesthood and sacraments), but they do this at the expense of the four preceding verses, which show that men’s interceding for other men is "good and acceptable in the sight of God."