“ISN’T PRAYING TO MARY AND THE SAINTS BREAKING THE FIRST COMMANDMENT?”
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1. “QUESTION:
I was wondering about praying to Mary and to the saints. God gave us ten commandments and the first of those is ‘thou shalt not have strange gods before me.’
#TenCommandments #Bible
2. Is praying to Mary and the Saints not breaking that Commandment?
ANSWER:
The first Commandment as you rightly point out is about worshipping God and Him alone: True worship (as opposed to veneration or honour) does indeed belong to God alone,
#Christianity #CatholicChurch
3. and we should never worship man or any other creature as we worship God.
When we pray to Mary or to the saints, we’re simply asking them to help us, by praying to God on our behalf. We do not worship them. We do not make them God.
#God #prayer #VirginMary #saints #Catholics
4. While we live together on earth as Christians, we are in communion, or unity, with one another. But that communion doesn’t end when one of us dies.
We believe that Christians in heaven, the saints, remain in communion with those of us on earth.
#Jesus #CommunionOfSaints
5. So, just as we might ask a friend or family member to pray for us, we can approach a saint with our prayers, too. (From St Martin’s Messenger, Ireland)”
– This article was published in “Don Bosco’s Madonna” [#India], issue June 2013
#prayers #PrayForUs #EternalLife #Christian
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