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Are Catholics required to pray to saints?
Catholics are not required to pray to saints, but it is a common practice in Catholic tradition to seek the intercession of saints for their prayers. This is based on the belief that the saints can intercede on behalf of individuals before God. Ultimately, prayer in the Catholic faith is directed to God, but saints can serve as intercessors.
How did aaron become a priest?
Aaron became a priest through a divine appointment by God. In the Old Testament, God selected Aaron, the brother of Moses, to serve as the first high priest of Israel. This appointment was part of God's plan for the organization and rituals of the Israelite priesthood.
Why do Roman Catholics pray 'with' a saint?
I am not Catholic, so I cannot say I am 100% sure this is correct. I myself do ask Saints to pray FOR me. Just like anyone else."Sarah will please you pray for me? I have the flu. Thanks.""Saint Sarah will you please pray for me? I have the flu. Amen."The difference is that one person was alive, and one person is alive.It would make sense to ask someone to pray for you who is very close to God. I would say that someone who is very close to God certainly knows how to pray for you. It is said somewhere in the end of Revelations that there were bowels of incense, which were the prayers of the saints. That is where the whole thing came from. Even if you choose not to ask saints to pray for you, you can certainly learn a LOT from them about your life with God. They are very loving people. Hope this helps anyone who reads.Catholics consider all those in a state of grace in the eyes of the Lord to be part of the Communion of Saints along with the saints in heaven - the Mystical Body of Christ. They are our intercessors in Heaven. They stand before the throne of God and know how to pray much better that we do here on earth. Can and do we pray directly to God? Yes we do. But, perhaps, we have a special favor to ask and we know a particular saint is a "specialist" in that area, such as St. Anthony helping to find lost items or St. Jude who is a specialist for hopeless causes. We can pray to them to "put in the good word for us" to Our Lord. It is no different that asking a close friend to pray for a special intention we might have. The only difference is we can see our friend but the saints we can not see. Sometimes it helps to pray directly to God and also to ask the help of a saint or saints..Catholic AnswerFirst of all, Roman is an epithet first commonly used in England after the protestant revolt to describe the Catholic Church. It is never used by the Catholic Church. .Secondly, Catholics believe in the "Communion of Saints", that means that everyone in the Church is connected in the Mystical Body of Christ. The Church sees itself as divided into three segments called The Church Militant (those of us still on earth), the Church Suffering (those in purgatory), and the Church Triumphant (those in heaven). Protestants have a very confused idea of what happens to a person when they die, I have hear some preachers who claim that all a person has to do is quit breathing, and they are in heaven treading the golden bricks of heaven's road. Others seem to think that the dead are in some kind of sleep until the end of the world, and Christ's return. Catholics believe that the saints are those who have died and are now in heaven with God, they are more alive and aware then you and I are who still see as through a glass darkly. They are with God, and just as we pray for others, the saints pray for those they love, so we ask for their prayers constantly.
Why are saints important to Catholics?
Saints are important because they make excellent roll models for us to emulate. They are also great intercessors for us before God. Here on earth, few of us really know how to pray for special favors. Saints, on the other hand, are experts at prayer and can help us to receive those requests that we might have to God. They are great allies.
Why do Catholics build churches in honor of saints and worship them?
To clarify, we do not worship anyone but God himself. We, a monotheistic religion do not worship someone that is under the rule of God, it is illogical. Saints did not do good things to be worshipped, they did good things because they wanted to serve God, to bring glory to his name. Their works weren't meant to bring attention to themselves, but to God, but they can't completely keep themselves humble once they have become canonized as saints.What appears to be worshipping saints is really just asking them to intercede for us2, and asking them to pray for us*. We also venerate and honour these saints as well, praising them but not worshippnig them.It has nothing to do with worshipping saints but honouring them and praying to God through them.---- *We know that we can pray directly to God, but this is a more humble way of praying to Him. Also, they are saints, they are close to the Lord so their prayers would be more powerful than ours, since they are in heaven, they already know how to perfectly pray to God.2 Pray to God through someone else. Kind of like asking someone to tell another person something. One exapmle of this is Moses, only he could talk to God so people would ask Him to tell God.
What is different about pentecoastal beliefs and the roman catholic church?
Catholics have to go to the priest, and the priest prays to god on there behalf. Whereas pentecostal people pray directly to God.
Do Catholics pray to statues?
No, Catholics do not pray to statues. Catholics pray to God, Jesus, and ask Saints to pray for them.
Were Catholics known for becoming consumed by the Spirit of God?
There are Catholics who are considered Pentecostal, although in the main, this is a protestant phenomenon.
Why do Catholics pray in a church?
I am a catholic and we pray in Church to show our respect to God
Why do Catholics have to go and pray to that Catholic priest for forgiveness?
Roman Catholic AnswerFirst of all, Catholics do not "go and pray to that Catholic priest" for forgiveness. They do go to confession to a priest and, if they are sincere, the priest absolves them from their sins, and gives them a penance. It is Our Blessed Lord who actually absolves the sin, through His priests. The reason that Catholics have to do this is because this is the way that God set it up for us. The protestant notion of asking God for forgiveness is okay as far as it goes, all Catholics do that everyday when they make their examen of conscience at the end of the day. But God further specified that to be forgiven, particularly from serious sin (mortal sin) one must go the priest. He mediated His forgiveness through His priests in the Old Testament and continues that in the New Testament.
What was the priest jobs in Egypt?
They Pray to god
What religions pray to saints?
The Catholics pray to Saints. They believe they are in heaven with God and pray on our behalf as well.
Can Catholics intercede with God without a priest?
Certainly, Catholics are required to intercede directly with God. The priest is there as God's chosen emissary. Normally, when God is speaking directly with a person, He is speaking through some means: the Bible, the priest, the Mass, etc.
Why should a priest pray to God?
To maintain a relationship with Him.
Do Catholics confess their sins to a priest?
Yes, but technically, we confess our sins to God through the priest.
Do Catholics pray to the pope?
Sure we pray for the Pope. He is the Head of God's Church and the Holy Father of the catholic people.
Why don't assemsbly of god believe catholics are christians?
Becaus Catholics aren't Christians. Catholics believe that you have to go through the High Priest to talk to God, they believe that you'll go to purgetory if you do something wrong you didn't confess, and they pray to the saints. Christians, on the other hand, don't believe they need to go through someone else to talk to God (Jesus took care of the sepparation), they believe that if you rely on Jesus to get to heaven then you will go to heaven (no pergetory), and they only pray to God because the saints are only human.
