how can millions of CATHOLICS pray to her everyday and have their prayers heard when GOD is the only one who is omnipresent?
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Answer:  Mary hears no ones prayers.  She's not God.  The Bible says "There is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus."  1 Tim 2:5\n\nJesus Christ is my intercessor. Heb. 7:25\nMary can mind her own business and stick to her knitting!
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Through prayer, Catholics are able to do many things. Some of these are as follows:\n\nAsk God for providing them for their daily needs\nAsk God forgiving their sins\nThank God for providing them with their needs or answering their prayer\nAsk God for Guidance/Help/Support\n\nThe above list can also be made in church or during catholic mass as you queried. During a mass there is a time where they are asked to pray for their personal intentions.\n\nTo summarize, praying and attending a mass makes it clear that Catholics believes that there is a Loving God that provides for his people, that heeds peoples requests and even forgives them when they are at fault.
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god is omnicient. he needs not to change his mind
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You need more than one person for a big prayer. OK, everyone close your eyes and wish real hard, we want a pony!!!
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Nope, He does't appreciate it! Jesus honored His mother, why shouldn't we? He said to imitate Him! Dishonoring His holy mother is not imitating Him! I don't get why they think we worship Mary when we tell them over and over again that we don't! \nWe pray to her because she is much closer to God than we are. If you can ask you friend to pray for you, why wouldn't you ask her to pray for you? She is the holiest person that ever lived!
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lets pray for her and all the others like her...
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It is called the Communion of Saints.  And those that believe do not die, they live forever with Christ (remember The Gospel of St. John 3:16?)\n\nWe pray to a Saint (someone who has lived a Holy life for God) and ask them to pray for us and with us to Jesus for His intervention.\n\nPsalm 103, we pray, "Bless the Lord, O you his angels, you mighty ones who do his word, hearkening to the voice of his word! Bless the Lord, all his hosts, his ministers that do his will!" (Ps. 103:20-21). And in Psalm 148 we pray, "Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord from the heavens, praise him in the heights! Praise him, all his angels, praise him, all his host!" (Ps. 148:1-2)\n\nNot only do those in heaven pray with us, they also pray for us. In Revelation, John sees that "the twenty-four elders [the leaders of the people of God in heaven] fell down before the Lamb, each holding a harp, and with golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints" (Rev. 5:8). Thus the saints in heaven offer to God the prayers of the saints on earth.\n\nLook at it this way?  Have you ever asked someone to pray for you?  It is the same thing, except we know that the Saints in Heaven are with God and see him.  Thus the prayers of the Saints are magnified when combined with our own.\n\nIt is also worth noting that a Saint has no power to do anything on his/her own.  Anything that happens because of the intervention of a Saint is done through the will and Power of God.
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Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with you. (These are the words the angel Gabriel said to Mary, a Bible quote.)\n\nBlessed are thou among women and blessed is the fruit of your womb, Jesus. (This is Mary's cousin Elizabeth's greeting, another bible quote.)\n\nHoly Mary, mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death. (The request to pray for us.)\n\nIt is the Scriptures inspired by God, not the Catholic Church, that positively states that God thinks of Mary so highly.\n\nThe person described by God in this way is just a little different from the rest of us. \n\nCatholics believe this difference is because she was conceived without the taint of original sin (the Immaculate Conception) and committed no personal sin.\n\nMary is, of course, not God. But just like any other saint in heaven or on earth (the Communion of Saints), she also can pray to God for us.\n\nWith love in Christ.
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Here we go Again.\n\nThey are NOT prayed to, they are prayed through and with.  In the prayer Catholics ask for their help, as a mediators.  Suppose you want to meet with the Kind, can you just go directly to the Kind, walk  into his house, and ask Him for what you want! No.  Each Saint, is a patron of something.  such as Patron of children, of lost causes, etc.  If all we need is to go directly to God, then what was the need for God to send us so many Prophets, Saints, and other to aid us! think of that one!\n\nI hope that was helpful.  It is not to, but through them.  OK!
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I will most certainly pray for you, sister.  Here's some advice. God molds and shapes us throughout life to make us into the saint he determined us to be. You are meant to lead and extraordinary life, however!\n\nan extraordinary life does not come through striving to be extraordinary. Radiating your Christianity does not come by striving to radiate.\n\nYou will be an extraordinary Christian saint if you love God and you obey Him no matter the cost. Begin to love Him in the small things and do His will and He will begin to give you bigger and bigger things. Just like the parable of the servant and the talents.\n\nRemember that the Holy Spirit is with you as armor through this journey. As a Christian you rest on the paradox of the cross, which allows you to be fiercely in love with the people of this world and yet fiercely determined to make this world better. That is the love that God gives us. We love enough to not be satisfied with the way things are.\n\nGod bless and peace be with you.
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Praying to Mary or any other saint is the same as asking a friend to pray for you. We Catholics believe that we are not divided. If your grandmother prayed for you while she was alive don't you think that she would continue to pray for you when she was in Heaven? That is how we feel about Mary. And yes all prayers are answered. At the cross Christ said to Mary and John "Woman behold thy son, son behold thy mother" that is why we believe Mary is the spiritual mother of all Christians.\nPax, Debra
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You can't make anyone believe anything. Pray for God to enter their lives and let the Holy Spirit take over. If they don't believe that God is real, then what do they believe?
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There is no god.\n\nErgo, things just happen.  Prayer means nothing-- there's nobody to pray to.\n\nDon't live a lie, stop believing in FAIRY TALES!
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Well, you would too if you created the ENTIRE universe!  But seriously, God doesn't have an ego, Satan does, and that's why God threw him out of heaven.   No words can properly explain to the fullest who God is, the only way someone can know who God is, is to have a relationship with Him.  My father is an atheist and he wanted my mother who is catholic to raise us without a religion.  So, I grew up knowing in my heart as a child that there was a God, but not having a religion structure to explain to me.  Well, God gave me dreams as a teenager, which eventually led me to get saved when I was 18.  And by the way, God DID appear to people, as Jesus, and will return again in the future.  God doesn't have an ego, He wouldn't have died on the cross and suffered for our salvation.  God loves us and wants whats best for us.  Satan is jealous of God and people because he can't be god, and he can't get saved like humans.  God won't forgive him so he's jealous that God forgives us, and satan tries to lead us down a path of destruction to hell.
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I am praying to One. I worship God, who is the Father, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit simultaneously.
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There is only the One, Who is called by many names in many ways, no one better or above another. Those who believe are blessed regardless of how they name the One, or what fashion they give devotion to the One; for there is nothing before and nothing after except the One, all else is an illusion, that never was and never will; only in this moment can you exist, then gone by and yet to be. Call God by any name you wish, God is, was, and shall be always the One.
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Because she wants to get the point across that they wporship God they dont just pray...they have a reason to be there..they could pray at home if they liekd but ti is important to worship your God at a holy place!