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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Asking a saint to pray for you or a particular request of yours is not any different from asking friends and family members to pray for you. Of course, we could all pray only for ourselves, but many people do pray for others and ask others to pray for them. Including those who are already in heaven in those requests for prayers is something some people like to do, but no one has to do this and the Catholic Church does not require the practice.

Prayer is a very personal thing. I know that my mother prayed for me regularly when she was alive, and I still ask her to pray for me now that she is gone. [b]Anyone in heaven is a saint[/b] and I hope, and pray, that my mother is in heaven now and is praying for me.

OP, do you understand that asking those in heaven to pray for us is the same as asking friends to pray for us? 
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his is not a belief of the Catholic Church.  There is a very grueling process for sainthood, including proof of 2 miracles performed by the would-be saint after death. [/quote]

The communion of the saints is Catholic doctrine.

"The communion of saints is the spiritual solidarity which binds together the faithful on earth, the souls in purgatory, and the saints in heaven in the organic unity of the same mystical body under Christ its head, and in a constant interchange of supernatural offices. The participants in that solidarity are called saints by reason of their destination and of their partaking of the fruits of the Redemption (1 Corinthians 1:2 — Greek Text)."[/quote]

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