The saints can't hear your prayers. They're dead and will not awake until Christ returns.
Placing a crown of roses on a statue of Mary is idolatry. I don't care if the Catholics use the term veneration to hide that.
Read your Bible and remember the words of Yashua-
Mark 7:7-9
7 Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
8 For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups: and many other such like things ye do.
9 And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition.
Compare that statement to the Roman Catholic Catechism.
Sacred Tradition and Sacred Scripture, then, are bound closely together, and communicate one with the other. For both of them, flowing out from the same divine well-spring, come together in some fashion to form one thing, and move towards the same goal.
As a result the Church, to whom the transmission and interpretation of Revelation is entrusted, "does not derive her certainty about all revealed truths from the holy Scriptures alone. Both Scripture and Tradition must be accepted and honoured with equal sentiments of devotion and reverence.
Yashua also said this-
Matthew 7:20
Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.
The coverup of pedophilia, the Vatican building that looks like a snake, Pope Benedict drooling over homosexual gymnasts without their shirts on, and the list goes on and on. Those aren't the fruits that scream the Gospel of Truth to me.
The saints can't hear your prayers. They're dead and will not awake until Christ returns.
Placing a crown of roses on a statue of Mary is idolatry. I don't care if the Catholics use the term veneration to hide that.
Read your Bible and remember the words of Yashua-
Mark 7:7-9
7 Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
8 For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups: and many other such like things ye do.
9 And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition.
Compare that statement to the Roman Catholic Catechism.
Sacred Tradition and Sacred Scripture, then, are bound closely together, and communicate one with the other. For both of them, flowing out from the same divine well-spring, come together in some fashion to form one thing, and move towards the same goal.
As a result the Church, to whom the transmission and interpretation of Revelation is entrusted, "does not derive her certainty about all revealed truths from the holy Scriptures alone. Both Scripture and Tradition must be accepted and honoured with equal sentiments of devotion and reverence.