Is Praying to the Saints Biblical?

Veneration of the saints is one of the most misunderstood Catholic beliefs. To truly understand this belief, we only need to go to St. Paul in the Scriptures.

In his letter to the Colossians (Col 1:2,12) and Hebrews (Heb 12:3), St. Paul confirms the saints on earth (what we call the "Church Militant") and the saints in heaven (the "Church Triumphant"). During our earthly pilgrimage, we look to our brethren who have gone before us to heaven.

We remember them and find inspiration in their example and ask for their intercession to help guide us to our heavenly homeland. Although they have passed from this life, they are very much alive in heaven and can hear our prayers and intercede on our behalf (Rev 8:3-4).

This veneration is not worship— which belongs to God alone— but rather it is intercession and a calling of them to help bring us closer to God.

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[steinrock]

Dr. Hahn, you are a Blessing!!!
Love our Catholic faith!!!

[writtenwithseraph]

Thank you so much for your work, Dr. Hahn. Your explanation of Catholic beliefs helped me in my journey. After a year of exploring Catholicism, I signed up for OCIA yesterday. God bless.

[tonygville]

I Hail Thee Jesus Crucified for Granting me Life.
Viva Cristo Rey

[viniciusdatori]

Where can I find the full version of this video?

[richardkasper]

Pray the Holy Rosary daily and obtain that peace that defies understanding 🙏🏽💙🙏🏻💙🙏🏾

[Shawn-rk]

God bless you... and all my brothers and sisters in Christ, Let everything that has breath praise the Lord ☦️ 🙏

[nminekond]

Beautifully explained. How can we ignore the saints who have shown us the fruits of their labour in giving their all in loving God the Father through Jesus Christ His Son by the promptings of the Holy Spirit.

[MagdalenaIsaiah]

Dr. Hahn you are truly one of my "Spiritual fathers!" I need to hang a picture of you in my house and honor you right there with my parents and grandparents because it was your book "Rome Seet Home, " that gave me that final push when I was hesitating as I felt the call to become Catholic.

GOD had been gently nudging me to read it after I heard about it in a testimony from Mexican Actor and Director Eduardo Verastegui, but another voice said don't bother because it's probably by some "Catholic Idolator, " abd poor Eduardo who was born Catholic but clearly loves JESUS, can be easily fooled by such!"

You can't imagine my shock when I finally found out that you were a former Protestant like me, who converted to Catholicism😲❤😲

Bless GOD for you and all who hear the call and obey it! My Christian life has never been richer or better than in the last 4 years as I got started my journey into the Catholic Faith of our Fathers💙💙💙🙏✝️🙏💛❤️💛

[speakfreesaveamericanow]

We pray to the Saints for their intercession to speak to God on our behalf like we pray to the Holy Mother/Blessed Mother Mary the rosary she was Christ's Mother & never fell from Grace she is the Queen of Heaven & Earth she was born PERFECT meaning free from sin bc her mother & father were also sinless I forgot her father's name her mother is St. Rita they had her when they were elderly she became pregnant at the young age of 14 where she was visited by the Angel Gabriel so was St. Joseph ❤I could go on & on it's an amazing read in the older Catholic Bibles which I'm so blessed to have it's very large hardcover from 1928❤ Definitely nothing like the Catholic Bibles of today they were all charged with the 2nd Vatican Council 😢 THEY ARE VERY VERY DIFFERENT IT'S HEARTBREAKING 😢WHICH IS WHY THE CHURCH IS IN PURE CHAOS TODAY 😢 I cannot apologize for speaking the truth Christ made the Catholic Church no man had the right to change it ✝️ 🕊 time is ticking faster than you all can even imagine what is going to happen 😢May the Lord have Mercy on us all 😢especially here in America look around America is worse then Sodom & Babylon together he will not keep allowing it that's the truth if you read & see the signs in the weather, sky, sounds they are called birth pains in the original Catholic Bible even speaks about America if you understand parables 😢 So warning even 4 myself I'm a sinner too but I'm doing my best to fix my life I feel so much better don't care about $ I love Mass, praying, confession, & helping anyone I can above all I am so grateful for just being able to take a breath have my fingers, walking, seeing things we all take for granted 😢 God Bless you all & I pray for all people ❤ Put God 1st it won't happen overnight but it will happen 🙏

[yvettehernandez]

Thank you for this. I needed confirmation because I always pray to my grandfather and my father asking them for guidance as I also ask God and Jesus to help me. Thanks be to God for all the good saints.

[Hearts]

Thank you, Dr Hahn, great explanation.

[learn]

Human logic and philosophy into God’s Holiness

[IsaiahAKJV]

Tysm. What about the candles? Tysma!! Lord continually bless 🙏💓!

[Brett.Crealy-khsk]

Justifying the traditions of men and drawing others into your error.. there is no blessing for or through this false teaching!

[anordkiri]

You didn't Answer the Question... Are we supposed to pray to the saints who are in heaven now?

[stephaniedorothy]

But how do we know they can hear us? I thought only God could hear our prayers?

[myckl]

Dr Hahn explained it well - still i bet u the “protesters” will insist - “the bible says this that” - funny how quick to judge & ridicule yet they themselves not following the 2 instructions of Christ. They keep quoting end times, of the OT & Revelation yet ignoring the teachings or 2 commandments of Christ that we should be more focused on. Why contradict? Knowledge they say - knowledge was the tree that tricked our ancestors leading us to where we are….knowledge is not salvation….lets aim to follow Christ’s commandments.

[renlamomtsopoe]

I think the one in v2 and v12 are the same

[outsideview]

Why dont we have more scripture / writings from the other Apostles, especially the chief Apostles like Peter?

[BrianBenson-rcmu]

What's wrong with Vatican II? FAQs



1. What is wrong with the Second Vatican Council?

The Second Vatican Council taught doctrines which had been already condemned by the Church, and enacted disciplines which are contrary to the Church's teaching and constant practice.

2. What doctrines did it teach which were already condemned?

There are four major errors concerning: (1) the unity of the Church; (2) ecumenism; (3) religious liberty; (4) collegiality.

3. What false doctrine does it teach concerning the unity of the Church?

Vatican II teaches heresy concerning the unity of the Church, namely that the Church of Christ is not exclusively identified with the Catholic Church, but merely subsists in it. This heretical doctrine is contained principally in Lumen Gentium, and its heretical meaning is confirmed in statements of Paul VI and his successors, particularly in the 1983 Code of Canon Law, in the 1992 Statement concerning Church and Communion, and in the Ecumenical Directory.

It is contrary to the teaching of the Catholic Church, contained principally in Satis Cognitum of Pope Leo XIII, Mortalium Animos of Pope Pius XI, Mystici Corporis of Pope Pius XII, and in the condemnations of the "Branch Theory" made by the Holy Office under Pope Pius IX.

4. What false doctrine does it teach concerning ecumenism?

The teaching of Vatican II concerning ecumenism, which states that non-Catholic religions are a "means of salvation, " is overtly heretical. This doctrine directly contradicts the teaching of the Church that there is no salvation outside the Catholic Church, called by Pope Pius IX "a most well-known Catholic dogma." In addition, the ecumenical practices which have resulted from this heretical doctrine are directly contrary to Mortalium Animos of Pope Pius XI.

5. What false doctrine does it teach concerning religious liberty?

The teaching of Vatican II on religious liberty, contained in Dignitatis Humanae, nearly word for word asserts the very doctrine which was condemned by Pope Pius VII in Post Tam Diuturnas, by Pope Gregory XVI in Mirari Vos, by Pope Pius IX in Quanta Cura, and by Pope Leo XIII in Libertas Praestantissimum. The teaching of Vatican II on religious liberty also contradicts the royalty of Jesus Christ in society as expressed in Quas Primas of Pope Pius XI, and the constant attitude and practice of the Church with regard to civil society.

6. What false doctrine does it teach concerning collegiality?

The teaching of Vatican II concerning collegiality alters the monarchical constitution of the Catholic Church, with which she was endowed by the Divine Savior. The doctrine of Vatican II, confirmed by the 1983 Code of Canon Law, which states that the subject (the possessor) of the supreme authority of the Church is the college of bishops together with the pope, is contrary to the defined doctrine of the Council of Florence and of Vatican I.

7. What is wrong with the disciplines which have emanated from Vatican II?

The 1983 Code of Canon Law contains the heresy of Vatican II concerning the Church, mentioned above. It also permits sacrilege to the Blessed Sacrament, by approving of its reception by non-Catholics, which is a mortal sin, and permits communicatio in sacris (common public worship) with non-Catholics, which is a mortal sin. In addition, the Ecumenical Directory of 1993 permits ecumenical practices which have always been taught by the Church to be mortally sinful.

8. What does all this mean?

It means that Vatican II and its subsequent reforms have given us a new religion, a religion which is substantially different from the Roman Catholic Faith founded by Christ.

The reformers have substantially altered the three main components of religion: doctrine, worship, and discipline. The result is that the reformers are promoting a religion of ecumenism in place of the Roman Catholic religion, which has always taught that it alone is the one, true Faith, and that all other religions are false. The Vatican II religion teaches doctrines which have been condemned by the Church in the past. It has instituted rites and disciplines which are Protestant in nature.

As a result, the religion which Catholics find in their local parishes and schools, although in name Catholic, is a new, non-Catholic religion already condemned by the Catholic Church.

9. Could it be that you are merely giving a bad interpretation to Vatican II?

No. The heretical nature of this council is confirmed by:

the doctrinal interpretation given to Vatican II by Paul VI and his successors in their decrees, encyclicals, catechisms, etc.;
the series of abominations perpetrated by John Paul II against the First Commandment of God, in the form of ecumenical ceremonies which constitute false worship, even to pagan deities in some cases;
the alteration of the Sacred Liturgy in such a way that the Catholic Mass has been replaced by a Protestant supper service;
the tampering with the matter and form of the sacraments so that many of them, but most notably the Holy Eucharist and Holy Orders, labor under doubt or invalidity;
the promulgation of disciplines, especially the 1983 Code of Canon Law and the Ecumenical Directory, which approve of sacrilege against the Holy Eucharist and the Sacrament of Matrimony, and which demonstrate heresies concerning the unity of the Church as their theoretical basis;
the scandalous mockery made of the Sacrament of Matrimony by the granting of annulments for spurious reasons, constituting an abandonment of the sacred doctrine of the indissolubility of marriage;
the fact that John Paul II is in communion with manifest heretics, has openly declared himself to be in communion with non-Catholic sects, and has recognized an apostolic mission in schismatic and Lutheran bishops, all of which destroys the unity of faith. He has even kissed the Koran, which explicitly denies the Incarnation and the Trinity. He has also publicly prayed that St. John the Baptist protect Islam.