“If you have ever asked your mother or one of your brothers or sisters to pray for you, then you have no basis for objecting to my asking Mary to pray for me. Mary is among the saints in Heaven, and Revelation tells us that the saints in Heaven pray for us who are here on earth.”
No book in Scripture ever says that “saints in Heaven pray for us who are here on earth.” It does not appear. It is a false claim.
I post this, under the impression that any self-described priest must have gone to some kind of seminary along the way. Yet your post makes a claim that doesn’t appear anywhere in inspired Scripture.
Read the book of Revelation.
There are many truths not mentioned in the Scriptures for the simple reason that nobody disputed them until much later.
Jews had been praying for the dead for centuries before Christ. Nobody questioned the validity of praying for the dead until the 15th or 16th centuries.
A practice that was common, if not universal, among the Jews would not have been questioned by the Jews who became Christians, or the gentiles after them, and therefore it is no surprise that there’s no discussion of the matter in the earliest Christian writings.
In order to sustain their condemnation of asking the dead for their prayers, many do not hesitate to argue, blasphemously, that the dead are TOTALLY DEAD—in soul as well as body. Just one more example of how Protestants, in their zeal to defame Mary, will deny the divinity of Christ, or, in their zeal to denigrate the saints in heaven, will deny that there is a heaven.
The notion that ALL revelation, and, indeed ALL RELIGIOUS THOUGHT, was committed to writing in the New Testament is an invention of the 15th- and 16th-Century schismatics.
Sola scriptura is an irrational, self-contradictory idea, for the simple reason that it is taught nowhere in Scripture. Sola scriptura is the “man-made doctrine” par excellence.