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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I went to all girls catholic school with nuns. Regarding "go-betweens ":  isn't this also the purpose of praying to saints?  And Mary?  I understood Protestantism rejected that. [/quote]

I'm not exactly sure what the PP means by the term "go-between," but the purpose of asking Mary or the saints to pray for you is the same as asking the person in the pew next to you to pray for you.

As Christians, we believe that asking others to "storm heaven" with prayers on behalf of a particular petition will have the effect, we hope, of convincing God to help those we pray for. It doesn't matter whether the friends and relatives we ask to pray for us are here on earth with us or already in heaven, we feel the more prayers, the better.

When we ask Mary, the mother of Jesus, to pray for us, we say, "Holy Mary, mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death." In the same way that we ask those close to us to pray for us. I know that both my mother and my mother in law prayed for me and my family every day when they were alive, and I am just as sure that they pray for us in heaven, and I regularly ask them to pray for us and their ggrandchildren. 
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