Intercession
Faith Q&A › Metropolitan Youssef › St. Mary and the Saints
15 questions
- Since God is the Ultimate Mercy and He loves me more than any one else, including the saints and angels, why would I need to ask them to intercede for me?
- How are we to communicate with the saints? How do we identify the saint appointed by God to watch over us?
- Why do we commemorate the saints in the Liturgy? How do the saints intercede for us? Isn’t Jesus our only intercessor? Once we are in heaven, will not praising God be our…
- If you ask a saint, for example Saint Mary, to intercede on your behalf, but you say it silently, can she hear you? Or does it have to be out loud for her to hear you?
- I don't understand the concept of intercession of the saints. Could Your Grace explain it to me please?
- The Evangelical Lutheran Church's point of view concerning the saints can be summarized in the following points: All those who live in the faith of Christ are saints…
- Do the saints in heaven hear our prayers? Do they know our situation on earth; if yes, how; any biblical verse? Do they hear more than one prayer at once?
- Why do we pray to the blessed Mary or other Saints in heaven for help? We can pray to the Holy Spirit but we can't pray to the departed saints. We are not told by the…
- Do the departed saints possess attributes of deity? Do we have any single verse in Holy Scripture that teaches us to pray to the saints in heaven? The Holy Bible clearly…
- I have a number of points to make concerning the departed saints’ intercessory prayers: Are there any biblical evidences of the apostles praying to the saints and…
- I feel that I am ready to get married, but concerned because nobody has ever "asked about me," and I am now 26 years old. I wonder if it is because my parents are not…
- According to the Holy Book of Romans 8:34, is Christ an intercessor or a judge?
- How do I defend my Church's doctrine concerning the Intersession of Saints before those good, non Orthodox Christian friends, who claim that it is a form of idol worship,…
- Do we need to pray to the saints to intercede for us? Can't we talk directly to God?
- As a Coptic Orthodox, I finally understand "prayers and intercessions of the saints." It took me many years of confusion because many fellow Copts would tell me that I…
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