So what do you think about praying to Archangel Michael? Is it okay and is it the same for all the holy angels?
Catholics are often accused of praying to Mary and the saints, but Catholics actually admit to praying to Michael. Yet this seems to get little attention or controversy. A prayer to Michael was a standard part of the Catholic mass less than a century ago.
I don't do it, and I don't think it's necessary. But I'm part of the protty minority. If you're Catholic I'm sure it's fine though.
Don't take this the wrong way but I wouldn't pray to angels because my thinking is that why would I pray to the servants of Jesus? Literally.
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A prayer for intercession (to Mary, angels or any other saint) is not the same as a prayer of worship to God.
How does prayer work metaphysically in the first place? Is a prayer relayed to the Father or Jesus on Their thrones in Heaven by an angel or the Holy Spirit, or do the Father's omniscience and Jesus' limited omniscience render such intermediaries redundant, or is the use of such intermediaries practiced despite being redundant? Can angels read thoughts in general? Can demons?
I thought the Catholics claimed that despite appearances they didn't actually pray to the saints. Now you are saying that you(?) actually do pray to the saints, but it's okay because it's a specific type of prayer. Why not straight out admit to praying to the saints then? With Michael the prayer isn't even for him to pray for you but to use his own power to directly do stuff for you.
No. Only God can
No. Kabbalah-tier shit.
Angels aren't omnipresent, so prayers to angels or the Virgin Mary does not make ANY sense.
Can you imagine an angel or the Virgin Mary receiving all the prayers that they are getting right now ALL at once? They would be driven mad! And ANY adoration for the Virgin Mary turned into her own madness. There is NO point in foregoing God in prayer, direct them to him and him alone.
This depends completely on your language.
"To pray" in English has been used in a sense of asking humbly for a long time, and in certain languages it's still used as such (even though rarely).
The prayer you posted to St. Michael in my language reads "May God rebuke him, we beg you humbly" and while we use the same word for prayer to either saints or God, the first one is is referred to as "an appeal to intercession" while praying to God in itself is a form of worship not akin to what we could ever give a saint.