Does this happen to anyone else?

[Prncssmn7]

When I lose something or want to find something, I call on St. Anthony. Why is it that he answers me in 5 minutes...EVERY TIME! But if I do novenas to any other saint it takes them 9 days or more?

Am I the only one this happens with? If he's going to be my patron saint, maybe I should ask him to go find my ex...

 

[Elijah2]

Well I guess when you ask our Lord Jesus Christ for help, he will send His angels.

 

[Prncssmn7]

It's just odd. I do call on God (trust me, I have been a LOT lately). He's just not picking up right now. Guess it's not my time to have my prayer answered.

 

[Elijah2]

Be very wary of counterfeiting spirits, and deceiving and seducing spirits.

Be aware, beware and don't be unaware.

What you are talking about isn't Scriptural.

God picks up ALL THE TIME!

 

[WarEagle]

I guess the obvious question would be, why are you praying to the dead in the first place when the Bible forbids it?

 

[Prncssmn7]

Hmmm. I wonder if Jesus would have answered me this way...I doubt it. I am sure He would be much more understanding.

 

[vespasia]

St Antony?

Do you mean Antony one of the desert fathers?

Now if your catholic I have an understanding that they view those who have died in this world to be numbered amongst the living with Christ and thereby able to interceded to God just as they would ask their parish priest friend or family member to pray for them.
(The catholics I know here hold God in such enormous respect that for many of them going straight to God would seem to be disrespectful and if its really important they ask a priest or one of the saints who they consider to be living to pray for them on their behalf)

Sometimes God says yes, you will find what you have misplaced, sometimes he says 'no' and you will not and other time 'wait' and 'patience' and perhaps another will return or locate it for you.

For example 'Help me to pray as Antony prayed so that if it be Gods will I can find what I have put down and forgotten where I put it'

What you should not do is use this as a superstition in place of faith.

 

[WarEagle]

Hmmm. I wonder if Jesus would have answered me this way...I doubt it. I am sure He would be much more understanding.

No, actually, if you read the OT, Jesus comes down pretty hard on those who pray to the dead.

 

[snoochface]

People who have died are not omniscient, are they? They are not omnipresent either, are they? Those are qualities that belong to God alone, and not to anyone else, dead or alive, spirit or flesh.

So how can you pray to a saint, or any dead person, and have them hear your prayer? You might pray out loud, that might handle the omniscient issue, but it doesn't handle the omnipresent issue at all. There may be thousands of Catholics or other people praying to a particular saint all at the same time. How can a saint hear, and answer, all those people right at the same moment, or even five minutes later, when he/she is not omnipresent?

I think your prayers are not being answered by any saint.

 

[minister50]

Consider this Scripture:

(1 Timothy 2:5) For [there is] one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;