The prayers of the Church go directly to Christ, as our head. Even on earth, there are people who we trust to speak what we feel in our hearts, because they are more gifted. What you are denying implicitly is that Mary and the other saints are members of the Church. That they are can be our spokesman, because they are oblivious to us or unable to hear us.
Romans 8:26-27 26 Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words. 27 And he who searches hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.
Romans 8:34 Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who diedmore than that, who was raisedwho is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us.
What you are denying implicitly is that Mary and the other saints are members of the Church.
Not in the least. Show me where I said that if you think it.
That they are can be our spokesman, because they are oblivious to us or unable to hear us.
Yeah, that I'm denying. There is no Scriptural support for that at all. There is no indication that they can hear us, that they have the ability to answer those prayers.
They are redeemed men and women and not omniscient nor omnipotent.
And besides, nobody knows for sure if any of the men or women the RCC has canonized as saints are actually, really in heaven. It's only assumed they are because the church says so, but I don't see that there's any way of verifying it.