The saints I ask to pray for me can respond via voice or email. :)
I like it....
Honestly, I don’t see the point in going to anyone but God with my requests. Asking another person to agree with me in prayer for something is not asking them FOR the thing.
Not to mention that He’s promised to hear and answer our prayer Himself. And it’s not like people are going to get something out of a saint or Mary that God Himself wouldn’t do for us. They’re not going to go contrary to His will, even if they could answer prayer.
I’ve encountered the mentality that they can or will do something for us that God won’t, as is evidenced in the concept that God cannot or will not refuse any request of Mary’s that she makes to Him. Therefore, they go to Mary, who they perceive as being more loving and motherly and less likely to say *No* and get the *Yes* from her and then God has to do it cause He can’t refuse her.
It reminds me of kids who play one parent against the other.