All you need is ask...

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In prayers, I always tell people who asks me about the difference in praying with the intercession of saints versus praying directly to God himself. I always tell them that we can/ or we should just actually pray directly to God. I did not mean to offend the Catholics who believes in the powers of saints and what they can do to help you with your prayer requests. But to shed light on this confusion, perhaps i can share what was told to us in our church regarding this... Praying to God is like asking for something from our parents. In this case we can say that God is our parent... and the saints are like our relatives, friends or other people. Say, we want something all we need to do as children of our parents is ask our parents for it, we always do that when we are children ourselves, asks for a new pair of shoes, toys, and so on... we ask our parents and tell them directly what we want. So that should be the same thing with our God, our father. All we need to do is ask - directly. and there is really no huge need to ask the saints, to help us with our prayers, for they are after all just like us. humans, made of flesh. Why ask others to help us ask our parents to give us our needs, when we know that God gave us the power to go to him directly as he consider us his children.