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We believe asking each other for prayers is important, necessary and even commanded by God. We believe in the resurrection of the dead. These two ideas come together and guide us to understand that not only are we allowed to ask the saints to pray for us, we are required to do so.
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Read More »There are many more reasons we ask each other to pray, but I think we’ve got the point: We pray for each other all the time and rarely hesitate to ask others to pray for us. The issue for some appears to be a rather key tenet of Christianity: the resurrection of the dead. As Catholics, we believe in the resurrection of the dead. We believe that, through the life, death and resurrection of Jesus, there are people in heaven that we call saints. We believe they are alive and active and living in the presence of God in a way that we cannot yet do. Since we believe that, we ask them to pray for us. To be clear, questioning the prayers of the saints is a rather new thing in Christianity. In the first 1,600 years of our beautiful faith, the practice of seeking the intercession of the saints was not questioned and was a common practice. Some would even say it is a core practice of the Church. It is a relatively new thing that anyone is questioning it. The good thing about this new challenge to Christianity is that it is causing us to pause and look at the why. In so doing, we grow in thanksgiving for our faith. Let’s look at Scripture. Does Scripture forbid us praying to saints? Quite the opposite! There are a few places in Sacred Scripture that offer us some affirmation about asking the saints to pray for us, the most obvious being in the Book of Revelation. Check out Revelation 5:8: In this passage, the Apostle John has a vision of heaven. In that vision, he saw the saints in heaven holding our prayers in their hands and letting those prayers rise up to God! Beyond that, in Revelation 8:3-4, we see more images of the saints offering the prayers of the faithful to God. A bit earlier in this article, I wrote about how praying for each other unites us to each other. I invite us, in this moment, to see that the same principle is true when we ask the saints to pray for us. It is a beautiful and life-giving gift from God. In seeking to have our needs met, we also receive the presence of that saint’s pure, unfiltered love for God into our soul. When we ask a saint to pray for us, our prayers and needs place us firmly in their hearts, and their hearts firmly in ours. This blessed interchange is a gift that we should receive with joy.
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Read More »We believe asking each other for prayers is important, necessary and even commanded by God. We believe in the resurrection of the dead. These two ideas come together and guide us to understand that not only are we allowed to ask the saints to pray for us, we are required to do so. Ask the saints to pray for you – God commands it and we need it!
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