Prayer To Saints Debate

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Last week during the last few minutes of class I asked the question “where in the scripture states that we could or should pray to saints to reach God”. I immediately went home and tossed this question back and forth in my head. Well let me explain how this question came about. During my young years of life I was Baptize and was practicing with my family the catholic beliefs. I continued practicing till I was maybe about 9 years old. At this point I started drifting away from the Church and used to see one of my Aunt worship or pray, I was not sure what exactly she was doing at that time, but she had many saints and there were many rituals. At the age of 15 my father was definitely not practicing anything my mother had started to attend a Pentecostal church where my other aunt was the Pastor. I witness some changes in my mother’s behavior and the one that I was most grateful for was my brother’s behavior. Now at this point in my life I met my beautiful wife that was brought up Catholic. My mother was trying to get me to attend her Pentecostal Church. My other aunt was still worshiping or praying or I am not sure but it was a lot of rituals going on at her house. At this point I asked my Aunt the pastor, “why does her sister my other aunt have statues with water, candles, money, candy and many more indescribable things in her home?”. The pastor’s response answer with some embarrassment obviously showing that her sister was trying to reach people on the other side like spirits to help her with accomplishing good or bad things , but I was not sure. I was trying to understand what was true from my wife’s Catholic point of view and at the same time my aunt and her rituals, and my pastor aunt. I grew more confused my wife explained that she was not praying to Mary or any other Saints but asking them to intervene and pray for us. According to her there is a difference
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