[Salvation]

"Now, what was Christ's first miracle?"

Great point there.

However, I always use this story of The Wedding at Cana to illustrate the primacy of the Sacrament of Matrimony since it was Christ's first miracle, asking the Protestants why Jesus performed his first miracle at a wedding?

Also, it was at his Mother's prompting. So sometimes I use this passage to ask the Protestant, "If Jesus, indeed, did what His Holy Mother asked of Him, then why should we not believe that we could ask Mary to intercede for us also?"

They do not have answers to either question!

[RobbyS]

It depends on how theological they are. Some believe that our souls "sleep" until the Resurrection and so are "dead to the world" and all its troubles. Then there is the theory that our souls go straight to God and that we are so busy praising him that we ignore what is happening back on earth. But mostly this is just a flat rejection of Catholic devotion to the Saints, even by people who go to the graveyard and talk to their dead husbands.