Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: thompson@athos.rutgers.edu (Marge Thompson) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Prayer, and stuff Message-ID: Date: 30 Aug 90 04:33:58 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 35 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article kriz@skat.usc.edu (Dennis Kriz) writes: > In article vm0t+@andrew.cmu.edu (Vincent Paul Mulhern) writes: > > > [Question concerning why Catholics ask the angels and saints as well as > their brothers and sisters to pray on their behalf to the Lord Our God.] > > > >Hey, you...why don't you pray for yourself? > > > > When Catholics ask others to pray on their behalf, it is an expression of > humility. To the Protestant this may seem silly,.... > > dennis > kriz@skat.usc.edu To this Protestant, it is not nor has it ever seemed silly. In my Church, (Lutheran) we always pray for others. We don't ask the saints to pray for us - but we do pray for each other. In fact, we have a Prayer Chain and all of the people in the chain keep those names on the list until we are told to remove them. My husband had some serious surgery a few years back. The nite before his surgery, there was a Prayer Vigil at our Church for him and one other person who was seriously ill. To this day he remembers the feelings he had that evening - he said he knew he was going to be ok because he felt the power of the prayers. I was brought up a Lutheran and went to Catholic High School so I have a good background in each religion - I feel the power of prayer is what keeps me going - and when a friend or co-worker says he/she will keep me in their prayers, I feel it - and I know its being done! marge thompson