Ep 7 Praying to the Saints?

Fr. Ed Meeks 09-13-2023

[@lynnbogard3596]

I’m a cradle Catholic. I left the church for 33 yrs and have recently returned. I’m learning so much from you! Thank you for doing these.

[@mrsandmom5947]

❤️🙏✝️

[@janetotto796]

We are so Blessed with your wisdom. Thank you Fr Meeks.

[@petersexton5681]

Thank you father for these wonderful podcasts, I look forward each week to hear more about the faith, God bless you and keep you safe 🙏

[@milliedeevers7009]

Thank you Father Meeks, God bless you

[@janetgarwood3448]

Thank You Father Meeks for your wise explanation of the communion of Saint’s You make it so easy to understand God Bless You 🙏🙏

[@luisventura8753]

Thank you Father Meek. You are developing a homily bible dictionary for us with verses and chapters. Thank you. Blessings to you and your family!!🙏

[@tomd3075]

Wonderful. I now understand the communion of saints and the grace of prayers for their intercession.

[@HumilityisaVirtue]

Thank you so much Father, as we look forward to each presentation. I pray for our protestant brothers and sisters. The gifts are available, if only they would accept them. (Then again, this goes for many Catholics as well.)

[@nicholeblume2191]

Thank you so very much for your talk's they are wonderful God bless and keep you and yours

[@jdalpaos]

Thank you Father.

[@user-fk6vx6uu2p]

Thank you, this subject was on my mind earlier this week. How timely Peace

[@buddybrown8607]

God bless you father!

[@amymirocha7747]

Simple thinking, but very difficult to live out in a society of death. His children are weak, but He is strong. I can do all things through Jesus Christ! May we take this world as it is; not as we would have it.

[@Jaime-xy4gm]

tremendously interesting and compelling

[@cjg8803]

So grateful that you have continued your evangelization in these KZbin videos…God Bless Fr Meeks!

[@thomasmc7752]

Good clear thinking

[@bernieantkowiak258]

Thank you Fr. Ed! I eagerly await each of your weekly teachings! Even though most of the material is not at all new to me, you have a great talent for putting it together and presenting it in such a concise and logical manner that reinforces and enriches my own understanding of the topic, making it seem fresh, new, and exciting! What a great gift to be on the receiving end of your teachings! What a great gift to be Catholic!

[@lorriepellegrino5333]

Your gift of teaching is a blessing to us all. I’m praying for you Father Meeks.

[@francishopkins44]

Once again Fr Ed, you enlighten me with your every Word. You Edify me. I await, impatiently, for your Worfs. God Bless and keep you Safe from all Harm. 🕊🙏🏻🙏🏻🕊❤️

[@monikasolymos2396]

Thank you Father! Your perfect speech made me cry. So beautiful! Truly the word of God. Please never stop!

[@petersexton5681]

Beautiful, as always Father, God bless you and keep you safe 🙏

[@dianeb5339]

Amen ❤‍🔥​🙏

[@patrickdoyle8918]

Thank you 🙏

[@imrosieposie2010]

Thank you Father Meeks so great to relearn these important lessons. You made it easier to understand and awakened some of what I was taught years ago. THANK YOU ❤❤❤❤. Looking forward to next week!! ❤❤❤ also shared and saved!!❤️❤️🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@gertrude6737]

Thank you so much! I am always seeking understanding of our faith, and as a fallen away and returning Catholic, I desperately need these messages. I can't learn and know and understand everything by myself, and what you explain and how you explain it makes a profound difference to me. I am certain God has given you this gift for a reason! You must be reaching scores of others like me.

[@dominicmonaghan9887]

A very special and chosen priest of God. Uncorruptable in this life and incorruptible in the next. He has a profound affect on my faith.

[@Tia-ey1ow]

Thank you 🙏🏻❤

[@mrsandmom5947]

As someone who has Protestant friends and whom try to tell me I’m wrong.. I have learned to defend my faith much better by listening to your teaching

[@susanwilson4695]

Having recently lost my husband of 40 years, I have to hope in this.

[@DogBeast221]

The hope lies in the fact that, while the physical loss is painful, there is no spiritual separation. I have never understood the line of the wedding vows which states: “…til death do us part…”. You will be together again one Glorious Day. When I speak with my patients in preop who have recently lost their spouse, I ask their name and ask my patient if we may pray that they look over them and guide us through surgery. I have yet to see a medication more powerful than the Power of Prayer.

[@MikePasqqsaPekiM]

If you are Catholic, every time you take communion, you are communing with Jesus, and also with all those who have gone before us. Your beloved departed may be praying for you right this second! May he rest in Peace 🙏

[@sharonthompson8061]

Thank you for reminding us of the ‘family’ ‘body’ of Christ. Your explanations are easy to follow. 💕

[@califwoods]

Thank you Fr. Meeks. I pray that my friends who were lured out of the Catholic Church by false teachings or an immature understanding of Catholicism will come to see, by your teaching, that there is every reason “to come home” to the Catholic Church.

[@highstrangeness1824]

Amen.

[@viviannguyen9056]

🙏❤️🙏❤️🙏

[@RecoveringLiberal1984]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@tradcatholic]

Thank you Father Meeks, a true shepherd. God help your ministry.❤

[@mariethomas4703]

Thank you, Father Meeks. These are wonderful!

[@rosemarycosta4664]

Thank you and may God bless you🙏

[@user-tv1tf3lw8t]

Thank you Father!!! I look forward to your talks❤️

[@cindysofia]

These are great teachings!

[@nancygagne5905]

Father Meeks, this is one of the best explanations I've heard on "praying to the saints"! Unfortunately, because of Luther and all the other heretics, our protestant friends do not understand what it means to ask the saints to "intercede" for us!! God bless you, Father!! ❤🙏🙏🙏

[@kathywiens9852]

All of this gives me much comfort. Believing that those that I love so dearly who died as believers in the Faith are just a prayer away. It is a treasure just as Father says. I have a great devotion to the souls in purgatory, and will be very connected to them in prayer until my dying day. Oh what a great cloud of witnesses who will be waiting for us. Thank you Father Meeks🙏🤲🙏💕💝

[@paulcapaccio9905]

I look forward to these every weds.

[@marybailey6254]

Thank you Father Meeks. As always, your words are appreciated as we continue to learn and understand the Word🙏🏻🕊💖🕊🙏🏻

[@deesharp7677]

What does it mean…first born?

[@johnp.6043]

Asking for prayers is one thing, but asking the saints in heaven to do something supernatural for you is something else. Example You lost your car keys well, you pray to St.Anthony and by powers you find your keys and you give him praise and thanks and worship. ( where is that in scripture) 1Tim.2:5 For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; 6 Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time. In the Catechism it says that Mary is the cause for our salvation. Read acts 4:12 King James Version 12 Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved. This is contrary to scripture.

[@johnkolinofsky5574]

Nobody worships any Saint for finding their car keys or any other miraculous results like cancer going into remission. I suggest you listen to what the good Father is actually saying and in fact go back to his first podcast some six weeks ago. As regards Mary… At the announcement that she would give birth to "the Son of the Most High" without knowing man, by the power of the Holy Spirit, Mary responded with the obedience of faith, certain that "with God nothing will be impossible": "Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord; let it be [done] to me according to your word." Thus, giving her consent to God's word, Mary becomes the mother of Jesus. Espousing the divine will for salvation wholeheartedly, without a single sin to restrain her, she gave herself entirely to the person and to the work of her Son; she did so in order to serve the mystery of redemption with him and dependent on him, by God's grace: As St. Irenaeus says, "Being obedient she became the cause of salvation for herself and for the whole human race." Hence not a few of the early Fathers gladly assert. . .: "The knot of Eve's disobedience was untied by Mary's obedience: what the virgin Eve bound through her disbelief, Mary loosened by her faith." Comparing her with Eve, they call Mary "the Mother of the living" and frequently claim: "Death through Eve, life through Mary."

[@dominicmonaghan9887]

What a powerfully inspired response. You have deep faith, deep understanding.

[@MRizzio]

Thank you Father.