They are alive and can contact humans, although this is pretty rare. Icons are like windows to the saints. We pray to them for help and assistance, and they give it to us. They are in heaven. There is no death, only repose, or a kind of sleep. No one is extinguished, as in Buddhism. The soul lives forever.
They are alive and can contact humans, although this is pretty rare. Icons are like windows to the saints. We pray to them for help and assistance, and they give it to us. They are in heaven. There is no death, only repose, or a kind of sleep. No one is extinguished, as in Buddhism. The soul lives forever.
Why would anyone need to pray to anyone, but God!?!