“prayers of the saints” possibly refer to those still alive here on earth.
If not, those saints would be in heaven, removed from the presence of sin, hence not concerned about anything we’re doing down here.
Just my take....peace.
Catholicism inculcates the notion that the priesthood of their religion bring The Christ right out of Heaven to be continuously crucified in the catholic mass, so it is no wonder the adherents to such a religion would look right past the Truth which your post so succinctly proclaimed. With catholiciism, dogma trumps the Truth proclaimed in the Word. And the magicsteeringthem just makes tiny changes to wording in the Bible, if need be to support the blasphemies (like the change in Genesis used to support Mariology).