Simple: do the math-—
How many saints has the RCC created?
How many Catholics are on the earth today?
Around 600 or so
approx. 1,180,000,000
Therefore, each ‘saint’ has about 2 million souls they have to service.
Some of these ‘saints’ are not well known at all; so they get off a little easier I imagine; while other SAINTS have quite a reputation; so they probably get a lot MORE stuff sent their way.
If only one in a hundred Catholics send a prayer request to Saints CEntral Clearinghouse, that’s about 20,000 requests for help each day - per saint - on average.
833 an hour
14 a minute
about 4 seconds per request.
Yeah; I guess a saint could get all that done.
(Since there’s reported to be no night there; I guess they don’t need to sleep or any thing like that. It would just waste valuable time that they COULD be intercedeing.)
Around 600 or so approx. 1,180,000,000 Therefore, each ‘saint’ has about 2 million souls they have to service. Some of these ‘saints’ are not well known at all; so they get off a little easier I imagine; while other SAINTS have quite a reputation; so they probably get a lot MORE stuff sent their way. If only one in a hundred Catholics send a prayer request to Saints CEntral Clearinghouse, that’s about 20,000 requests for help each day - per saint - on average. [post 1196]
Well, there's yet another facet of the Catholic Church only acknowledging 600 "official" saints (give or take whatever the actual # is)
If "sainthood" is meant to be a common goal of the church...it's not turning out very many "grads."
Yeah, I know Jesus said "wide is the road that leads to destruction, and narrow is the way to life," but this approach is even worse than the Latter-day SAINTS quest for "sainthood"...who limit living eternally in God's presence to...
Those married in the Mormon temple...[there goes the singles; the divorced; all those married beyond Mormon temples]
...Those who have temple recommends...perhaps only 15% of worldwide Mormonism...[there goes the cafeteria and Jack Mormons + all church members beyond Mormonism...strange that a supposedly highly touted "family-oriented" religion has so few that it will actually "reconnect" living with Heavenly Father...Mormons say other religionists can live in heaven...just not in Heavenly Father's presence]
...and then beyond that, is the long list of commandments & additional "throw-in" requirements the Mormon missionaries never get around to telling their targets...
Mormons are only 1.7% of the U.S. population...so temple-recommend Mormons are only about a quarter of 1%...and that's this country...it's wafer thin in MOST countries...