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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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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Google "intercession of Saints" -- big difference between Catholicism and most Protestant churches.  Catholicism tends to have more intermediates (saints, priests) than Protestant churches.  
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Catholics believe in the Communion of Saints, in simple terms, meaning that we are all the children of God, as one community, whether here on earth or in heaven. Many Protestant churches believe in the same concept: I was at a funeral at an Episcopal church recently and the minister mentioned the concept during the service. He stated that the deceased was now with those who had gone before and would be able to pray for us in heaven.

You can ask your friend across the street to pray for you and you can also ask your friend who has already died to pray for you. You can also ask people who have died a long time ago who lived particularly admirable lives to pray for you. We are all part of the Communion of the saints and we can all pray for each other. 
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There is a meaningful difference between the communion of saints and the intercession of saints. Probably the proverbial "angels dancing on the heads of pins" for most non-Christians, but the belief in the possible intercession of saints is a significant difference between Catholicism (and Orthodox) and most Protestant faiths. [/quote]

So, are you saying that you don't think that most Protestants ever, when they are in prayer, ask their friends and relatives who have already died to pray for them? They don't believe that their friends and relatives in heaven are praying for them?
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