It's like asking your friends to pray for you. The saints in heaven are considered our friends (and our spiritual family), and because the soul is eternal, they are more alive now than ever. Their prayerful intercession is even more powerful than the intercession of friends and family who are still living on earth. The taxonomy is:
The Church Militant = believers on earth
The Church Triumphant = souls (saints) in heaven
The Church Suffering = souls in purgatory, who will one day reach heaven
Of there are already saints in heaven then why does thesallonians tell us that Christ is coming back and raising the dead and psalms says there is no remembrance from the grave.
It's like asking your friends to pray for you. The saints in heaven are considered our friends (and our spiritual family), and because the soul is eternal, they are more alive now than ever. Their prayerful intercession is even more powerful than the intercession of friends and family who are still living on earth. The taxonomy is:
The Church Militant = believers on earth
The Church Triumphant = souls (saints) in heaven
The Church Suffering = souls in purgatory, who will one day reach heaven
Of there are already saints in heaven then why does thesallonians tell us that Christ is coming back and raising the dead and psalms says there is no remembrance from the grave.