Questions tagged [communion-of-saints]
Questions regarding The communion of saints. This is the belief that there is a spiritual union amongst the members of the Christian Church, living and the dead, those on earth, in heaven, and, for those who believe in purgatory, those also who are in that state of purification.
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Do Roman Catholics believe Saints are omnipresent?
I understand that officially speaking when Catholics pray to saints, they are not supposed to really pray TO that saint, but rather are asking that saint to pray for them as you would ask any living ...
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Do those who pray to saints ascribe to them the quality of being able to hear many people at once?
I mean, there could be thousands of Orthodox Christians at this moment praying to, say, Saint Blessed Xenia of St. Petersburg, and there could probably be even more of Catholic Christians praying ...
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What is the basis of the teaching that souls in purgatory can intercede for the living?
Point 6 in the Our Sunday Visitor Article "9 truths about purgatory" is that souls in purgatory can intercede for us:
The souls in purgatory can’t do anything for themselves, but the Church ...
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Do the Roman catacombs confirm the early Church believed in the doctrine of the communion of saints?
Do the Roman catacombs confirm the early church believed in the doctrine of the communion of saints, which includes prayer for the dead, intercession of the saints, invocation of the saints, and the ...
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Who is the oldest Blessed?
Just a question that ought to have a concrete answer and be a good example for how the process of canonization works for my Religious Ed. class:
Who has been declared blessed for the longest period ...
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