She prays for us.
Official Catholic teaching is that Catholics do indeed pray TO saints (for intercession, of course).
As a non-Catholic (former Catholic), I've defended Catholics on this point as to the reasonableness of the position. (I assume saints are indeed living and can hear us).
Where I differ with my Catholic friends is with respect to the efficacy of asking Mary or another saint multiple times to "pray for us." When I ask a friend to pray for me, he hears it the first time. I don't have to call him 100 times within the hour and keep asking him again. :-)
I assume saints are indeed living and can hear us
I don’t believe that is a defensible assumption. I believe the dead leave this space time continuum.
Well we ask, and she answers.
“When I ask a friend to pray for me, he hears it the first time. I don’t have to call him 100 times within the hour and keep asking him again.”
I think she likes it that way!
It is not that "Mary of another saint" does not hear it the first time or forgets the first time or any such human-like deficiency.
The repetition is pleasing to Jesus because He knows your mind is filled with prayer -- really special prayers in the case of the Rosary -- each and every time you say them, along with personal intentions. If you could make up a new prayer each time, well I guess YOU could do that. But Catholics have been told that certain prayers -- especially the Rosary -- are the ones that please God.